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Americans here saying that the world is a zero sum game and we Europeans should be doing the same back to the US govt as they do to us miss a few key points:
- we want to but cannot because we could not project that the country which convinced us to embrace our current political and economic system would abandon it and punish us for following
- saying the world is dog eat dog is a self fulfilling prophecy; after the 20th century in Europe was characterised by war, the post-war federation and economic cooperation has made intra European bloc war impossible. This is rightly considered a success in Europe, and explains why we tend not to see world matters as zero-sum. American education teaches war in a transactional economic way that does not resonate with our collective imagination, due to our own scars from war
It is easy (and partly fair) to blame the European bloc for a lack of organisation and foresight but in fairness, it was hard to imagine the US govt would act in a form of economic self-sabotage as a means of political pressure. And deterrents and preparation for the possible are not free. Hindsight is not an answer.
From Works in Progress, a media company promoting economic growth.
I'm sure a credible argument could be made in the opposite direction with a different case study - i.e. celebrating their own identity even if it bemuses international markets / imperialists (Japan and manga/anime for example).
Of course, it's an interesting study, but do all remember to resist the temptation to take too much from it!
can also vouch for Auxio - happy user of 5 years
I'm not convinced that your assumption that they are a very small portion of the population holds up, but I only have the same anecdotal evidence you likely have.
Gruber is not much of a details man - he helped invent Markdown (to be lauded) but ghosted its standardisation. I would be fascinated to hear Prod John MacFarlane of UC Berkeley's opinion on it all given he was heavily involved in the push to get Markdown standardised.
This point would be far more credible if browsers weren't in business to do what you claimed extensions are there to do.
I'd also argue that creating a full browser without a profit motive is more unrealistic than creating an extension and uploading it - for free - to a web store.
I mean they have a healthy dollop of US VC private investment, so good guys is off the cards - but in relative terms, they seem to follow the law, which in Silicon Valley is certainly not a given.
In general, we only really notice the animations that go wrong, like the ones that are too slow or get in the way, but when executed by the book (like the numbers material design published, or perhaps even slightly faster), they are a valuable way of communicating intuition for how to use the UI to a user.
But yes, I can understand the desire to remove them, or at minimum drastically reduce their visual impact for e-ink
Agree - small steps always positive here
Tailwind didn't happen by chance - it was the culmination of many other failed philosophies for addressing a problem with CSS when it gets large.
Centrally the problem is this: large CSS requires a lot of active effort to prevent it becoming spaghetti code.
Writing your own CSS can work in solo projects or small projects but Tailwind was designed for large projects, teams and developers with an irrational fear of CSS.
Because they were designed to be decentralised federations, atop the footballing body in each country. More generally, the US is the most capitalist country, whereas the rest of the world does automatically see capitalism as justified, superior or inevitable.
Lastly, football is a grassroots participation sport that is seen by its fans as more of a religion than a conventional act of entertainment. Of course, religion in the US is also often for-profit, but hopefully you get the point.
Put it this way - Europeans don't generally call themselves from "the West" in 2026 - it's an American geopolitical fantasy.
Imagine being more money hungry than EA - a company which makes billions from gaslighting children into gambling money on getting their favourite players.
Windows only for dev SDK simulator - not too sure many devs rockin Windows in 2026!
Like it! However Denmark and Sweden apparently aren't "connected"!
Which is fine of course, but would be nice if the rules made that clear!
As someone rejected in my maths application for Oxford - I echo this - twas a fair cop.