If you believe in their worldview, that actually makes sense. Biden had similar voter patterns not so long ago. If you truly believe that “your side” is the good one (irrespective of the objective reality), then voting for an idiot who will at least pull in some “good” people is perfectly reasonable.
I mean, we’re talking about a group who unironically believe that Harris is a communist dictator in waiting.
What frightens me about all of that is how many people don’t see through that bullshit. It’s so extremely obvious how full of shit these demagogues are, but millions of people applaud for that.
Here in Germany we had state elections. On the “anniversary” of the invasion of Poland ⅓ voted for an openly right-wing extremist party, and 10-15% for a party that basically claims to combine the national with the social, both parties are supported by Russia. It’s insane.
That’s the funny (or sad) thing with almost all of those free speech enthusiasts. They don’t want free speech, but exclusively freedom for their speech.
Of course, but most governments are allowed to mostly be sovereign.
Sweden or Australia play ball on their own, no need for a coup here.
The US tried to invade Cuba as well, and tried to kill Castro, several times. That’s ultimately why he did align with the USSR - choosing the bully that’s slightly more on your side.
That’s actually the really sad story here.
Every “experimental” regime was either toppled (Chile) or had to align with the USSR (Cuba) to survive. There was never a real attempt at democratic socialist politics without interference from superpowers.
You do consent often enough.
At least in Germany, there are at least two companies (Schufa and Experian) who will analyze your account data/money transfers to calculate a score.
Technically, this is legal because they claim to have a legitimate interest in the data and you do have to tick a checkbox.
Not even one generation, the entire runtime is not even 10 years, and you’d have to be in a rather small age bracket to get the full brunt of the “cultural” impact. My parents’ generation watched it, but it wasn’t really all that different from everything else for them.
It’s actually super interesting to see the fall of GoT. It fell into oblivion almost immediately after the last season finished.
The American way is to have children die of preventable diseases because they can’t afford healthcare or by school shooting.
One abortion for both cases or separate incidents?
Indeed.
What I find really interesting is that these exact people will complain about lack of freedom all day long, but want to enact local dictatorship that could take away every bit of freedom from them. It’s techo-turbo-slavery.
I wouldn’t even call it that. It’s a weird lack of a sense of scale combined with organizational hurdles.
They basically can’t estimate, how much resources a proper app would need and they don’t know how to manage teams to work on a common codebase. So they simply draw a diagram of the functionalities, spin out each block as a “Service”, assign that to a team and call it a day.
I’ve talked to several of them about this and I had to do very simple math directly in front of them to convince them. I’ve had to explain to a grown man, an experienced engineer, that 16 cores and 96gb memory are more than enough to handle a million simple inserts per day in a batch mode. He wanted to split the job into 4 services, each essentially running 10 lines of actual business logic, each using the resources mentioned above. Absolute madness.
Also, supersonic air travel already exists. It’s not a technical hurdle anymore and the Concorde was even profitable in her later years.
There’s a lot of research addressing the very real problems you pointed out and it seems plausible that they’ll at least be mitigated to a degree in the near future.
Hyperloop is a (vacuum) pipe dream. It sounds super cool, but the more you think about it, the less realistic it gets.
Guys like him are survivorship bias as a person. They think they owe their success to nobody and nothing but their own determination, while ignoring all of the lucky coincidences that made that possible. And ignoring all of those who worked just as hard, but did not make it. Instead they blame lack of success on personal failures and laziness.
So they want to abolish everything that could help those below them. They look at them with contempt. They will happily tell their own success story and their humble origins, but won’t even touch a minimum wage worker with a pole.
Maybe a niche issue, but “that doesn’t scale!” In the context of software development.
We’re writing software for usually very well defined user groups, but so many of the architects and seniors want to build a second Netflix, which costs 4 times as much as the simple solution and in the end usually isn’t even better, because those morons have no idea how to do that.
Currently, I’m in a project where I fought tooth and nail to avoid having a micro service architecture for a batch job that inserts less than a million entries per day.
It’s a cult and works on similar mechanics.
There’s a radicalization pipeline, where you slowly start with relatively small untruths, and over time it gets worse and worse. The farther you go, the harder it gets to admit to yourself that it’s all a lie. So they keep lying to themselves.
But these guys are just the paladins of incompetence, they are the multipliers. The vast mass of voters don’t believe everything, but they are consistently bombarded with shit. And some of it sticks, some narrative works on them, and they believe that.
That’s basically always the case for these “freedum” lovers or free speech stans. You’re free to do, believe, say and read whatever you want - as long as it’s exactly what we want you to do, believe, say and read.
That unfortunately means, you can’t play a lot of games. And for most people it’s practically unknowable what the installer is doing, they don’t expect a game to nuke their computer.
There needs to be accountability and a certain level of trust. Microsoft shouldn’t allow kernel drivers for crap like anti cheat.
And a whole lot of content that I frankly would have preferred not to have seen.
When you’re 12 and your parents have no idea what you’re doing, you’ll end up in very dark corners.