If your country cannot develop a digital economy on its own it's just its fault as a government for failing to provide the right ecosystem. If you like nanny states, centralized government and bureaucracy, you will be a customer forever. One should applaud the canadiot government for understanding at last they cannot pick a fight with the US and prevail. Not now, not ever. All the fictional talk about joining forces with the EU evaporated in a moment. In time, the EU will see the light too, despite all the posturing. If you pick a fight with the US you end up with your bones broken into pieces. Now and forever. Forget about Trump, he'll probably be a lame duck by midterm and we'll find someone saner to run the country - of course both parties must come to their senses and produce sensible candidates. You won't be dealing with Trump in a few years but you'll have to deal with the US forever, and you know deep in your heart that being part of the American World is the right choice. You don't want to burn with the BRICS and you don't want to be a landfill nation. There are no other options. You may not love America but your kids will. They will wear jeans, love all-American music, eat burgers, drink cola, salute the flag and be happy.

Should we take advice on work-related matters from someone who obviously does not have any clue what it's talking about and lives in his parents' basement jerking off his miserable life to terabytes of kiddie scat bestiality furry porn from Germany?

Amazing! Were you masturbating while writing this? I bet you feel all philosophical and cultured and dark and edgy and cool and yoo-ro-peon. Have you shoved a baguette up your ass yet? Do you dream of strutting on all fours on the streets of Amsterdam wearing a collar and a leather thong? When consciousness dawns on your obnubilated loserboy mind, do you ever consider that leaping from the tallest building in the block would be a fitting end for your useless existence?

"Europe" didn't invent the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee invented the basic principles and the CERN's page was the first one, but "Europe" (I imagine you refer to the european union) never capitalized on it and never followed through. Today europe has no "web giants", no search engines, nothing. Most of the continent is still behind in terms of digitization of public services, with eastern countries being the most innovative.

In order to "become a space power again" you need to have been a space power in the past, and it's not the case with europe. Arianespace is mostly an obsolete concept now, SpaceX and anyone following in their footsteps can launch more for less cost. European reacts after decades, and is left in the dust as a consequence. This is all right for the political class and the population who live by the "do not make waves, do not disrupt" principles. They still believe coal and steel will come back and all this modern madness will go away.

Yeah, LOL. Who? You, your imaginary girlfriend and your cat who has been dead for years and buried under stone in the cellar because you're too autistic to get its rotting corpse into the garden and properly bury it, hunh? When will you loserboy nerds finally realize that you're a tiny, minuscule, irrelevant, easily ignored minority nobody cares about? That your lifestyle is abhorrent to us all and that you're not shunned because you're some super-evolved next-stage human specimens but simply a bunch of maladjusted obsessed smelly abhumans that we (the Beautiful People) would rather ignore were you not so shrill and annoying? That you're universally despised? That we would all like nothing better than to throw you all into an incinerator and forget you even existed? Go ahead, boycott, scream with your infantile shrill little voice until you're hoarse, or someone decided they have enough, slap you across the face and defecate on your acne-ridden face while you're lying done oozing pus and yellowish blood from your nose. Go ahead. Loser.

Zionism has nothing to do with religion. In fact, it was founded by people who were mostly atheists. It states that Jews have a right to live in Israel and that only Jews decide their destiny - it's not in the hands of God as long as we're concerned with earthly matters. It was quite left-leaning at its beginnings. I'm fine with Zionism.

Islam is not the problem or we'd have a real big one in our hands, because there are more of a billion Muslims out there but surprise surprise, the vast majority does not want trouble.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is the problem: it's a shit government of shit people hell-bent on imposing shit ideologies upon everybody. It's the enemy of the Free World - and that is US - and that is the only thing that matters.

Now, shit lefto commie neckbeards can bicker and holler about the merits or lack of them of the Free World, but we don't care. It says a lot that you can protest against the US President all you want, and you can call for Netanyahu to be jailed all you want, and nothing will happen but if you happen to speak against the Islamic Republic (while in Iran of course) you will be imprisoned or killed.

Now, I have always been a supporter of free speech but when shit people who have never known anything but Western freedom enabled by Western weaponry and will of use it, start to chant in the streets about "globalizing the Intifada" and burning US flags, I say enough: rubber-bullet them into brain death, choke them with tear gas, drone strike them. You can WP or napalm them for all I care. The enemy within is more of a danger than the enemy without, which we can kill quite easily.

You don't like the West and the Western values? Fine. Give up your home. Give up your job. Give up everything. Get deported to shit muzzieland. See how well you do there. Losers.

... And?

You're an anomaly, a basket case, an irrelevance, a statistical nothing. The rest of humanity does not care about you and your preference and in facts it farts in your general direction only because it does not care where you are. If it would, it would fart up your nostrils.

Nobody cares what you do or like. Nobody. Ever. If you were ran over by a garbage truck now, nobody would care except the unfortunate sod who would have to scrape your remains from the truck. That's how unimportant you are.

Meanwhile the rest of us may be amused by the fact that we could watch reruns of French TV stuff but choose not to because they're bad. Embarassingly bad. It's just a lot of croissant merde du café des escargots scooped from the toilet and warmed over. But it's there.

Careful there. One should think that being arrested twice and having to notify your neighbours you're a sex offender should have taught you a lesson.

Alright, let's just say what everyone with a functioning brain (and not a shrine to Richard Stallman in their basement) already knows: Linux is a dead OS walking. And frankly, it's about time we stopped pretending otherwise.
Every year, it's the same song and dance. "This is the year of the Linux desktop!" Yeah, right. For who? The same ten guys who still think Gentoo compilation times are a badge of honor, and whose social lives consist solely of IRC channels dedicated to obscure kernel modules?

Let's be real. In a world where macOS just works and Windows, for all its faults, dominates literally everything that matters – gaming, professional software, hardware compatibility – what's left for Linux? A handful of servers nobody ever sees, and the desktops of people who enjoy pain.

The "Year of the Linux Desktop" has been happening since 1998, and guess what? We're still waiting. While the rest of us are playing AAA games, running Adobe Creative Suite, or just, you know, getting work done without compiling drivers, the Linux faithful are still troubleshooting Xorg, wrestling with Wayland, and bragging about how many lines of configuration they've memorized.

And don't even get me started on the community. It's a toxic cesspool of self-righteousness, gatekeeping, and "RTFM" responses from people who clearly have more time than sense. If you're not already a grey-bearded guru who built his first kernel from scratch on a 386, prepare to be shunned.

So, yeah. Linux. It's a dead end for anyone who actually wants to be productive, enjoy modern computing, or interact with people who shower regularly. It's an OS by neckbeards, for neckbeards, and the only thing it's winning is the award for most irrelevant platform in 2025. Time to unplug that ancient server, shave that neckbeard, and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
Flame on, freetards. You know I'm right.

(AI-generated because I have better things to do)

Why? A DoD job is just that, a job. I've done contract work in the defence sector, never felt ashamed on my way to the bank. The pay well and they pay on time. Even the NDAs are less ponderous than those in the private sector. Having to scavenge for your lunch from a dumpster, that would be embarassing, but not working for the DoD. Did they use my work to kill people? Maybe. I don't care.

Well, it's just your fault: you eat shitty food, you don't work out, you are a repellent sweaty fatso that can barely move on your thick stubby legs while your obscenely obese carcass, pale skin dripping with sweat and encrusted with potato chips crumbles shifts around in a grotesque imitation of wavelets on a mosquito-infested bog. Now and then one of the yellowish pustules that cover your diseased epidermis bursts and adds its infested load of filth to the puddles of malodorous sweat you leave on the floor like the trail of some abhuman bipedal snail. And you're not even 30.

Distribution is everything. There are people (or now mostly AIs) who prowl the interwebz for interesting IP that could be monetized. As it is now, they locate the author and work out a price.

There are interesting ideas that could be the basis for lucrative productions. At the moment the author stand to gain something. The shitboy's proposal would earn the author nothing. This is all right if you're a megacorp's little soldier, bootlicker, shit bitch. Are you a megacorp's little soldier, bootlicker, shit bitch? Do you furiously masturbate in a fetid pile of your own stale feces thinking of how much of a megacorp's little soldier, bootlicker, shit bitch you are?

Have you considered suicide? Because you should.

Experimental proof or nothing. And you can do it only once.

Ok, so 7 years after you wrote a novel on WattPad that had a little following a major studio can step in, make a movie out of your novel, earn billions and if you ask for a penny they can shit on your face? Just a hypothetic scenario of course, you couldn't form a sentence to save your life.

"AI" is a term that has long lost its original meaning. Aside from researchers, nobody really cares if "AI" is intelligent, what we care about is the results and those are very, very interesting. AI allows (with some caveat) to produce in minutes research and reports that would have taken hours if not days of work.

Granted, you have to check but you would have had to check with humans doing the heavy lifting - actually even more so. One could be pedantic and scream and holler foaming at the mouth that AI is not truly "intelligent" but so what? It's a term, it lost its original meaning pretty much like "hacker" did. Get over it. It means what it now means. It will be used again when a new technology that surpasses the current model comes about.

In the meantime, management has read the writing on the wall and has been downsizing and allocating resources more efficiently. A lot of departments that were tasked with generating reports and forecasts are being slashed to the bone: you don't need 20 people when it takes 2 persons. Yes, we will still have humans at the helm, just not that many. Competition in the job market is going to be very, very intense in the next years.

As for coders, AI can churn out code better than 99% of code-monkeys. In this case too we'll always have "star" programmers, but not everybody is going to be one. The rest will be sliced away like so much excess fat.

If you don't have REAL talent in this brave new AI-powered world, you may as well take a dive from the nearest tall building.