one reason this fake may work is because it is plausible. a riot/revolution would be much more in their style, and i doubt their military has enough social support or influence, but france is so fucked up that something along those lines is actually likely to happen at some point, and everybody knows it.

if you need to point to sleepwalking europeans that would be the germans right now. they're being fucked over just the same if not more, but are so in panic that they're paralyzed and even censor themselves. or the brits, those even chant the status quo's slogans.

the common theme for all of them though is that they externalize the problem: the danger or threat is russia, or china, or the fake news, or the far right, or ai ... anything but the rotten elites that have been fucking them over for decades.

when this pops it will be violent indeed. sad and dangerous times for europe.

the reason why it should not work is because it is very obviously a fake, and even then it would take mere seconds to factcheck, but for that you'd need people minimally educated in critical thinking and we don't seem to like that in the west, and that's facebook of all places so those crucial seconds will be spent reposting what probably was just meant as a joke. and ofc macron be macron: "these fake news are a vital threat to our society". what a cunt ...

i wish you merry christmas, reek, and a happy new year in which you hopefully finally manage to get a life. hope is the last thing to lose, right?

hey, but this is scalable algorithmics at scale!

they don't. i assume:

"aggregate income" is basically gdp, what the us produces as a whole, which has decreased in relation to the rest of the world.
"aggregate welfare" is basically buying power (income divided by prices), which has increased in the us.

so in a nutshell, the us economy has gotten less productive, but us citizens are in general better off. that's 1960-2020. sounds about right, but i wouldn't take that trend for granted if you factor in debt, rise in inequality and loss of global influence. i don't think that's sustainable (without violence).

linux doesn't need to challenge windows at all. choice is good. don't fix what isn't broken and stop confabulating nonsense.

well, that's really easy, honey: start with the default desktop your distro provides, it is guaranteed to be fully functional and you don't have to do a thing at all. eventually, if you like and whenever you feel like it, start exploring/testing others and keep the one that you like best. there's a whole world to explore and it's mostly really idiot proof. unlike the internet regarding "tech writers", sheesh" are these guys just so terminally bored or are they paid by the word without any supervision?

it's pirates, ye scurvy-ridden pox-bucket! yarr!

it was cool to watch in vr, a novelty. i haven't watched any sequel. i'm not sure, maybe i did watch avatar 2, but don't remember a single thing about it.

my sister absolutely loved it. the magical forest, the creatures and all that. she has a hippie vibe, and that part wasn't bad. she had watched it in an imax theater but had me download it and drove 70km to my place to go through the whole thing again with the headset, in one sitting, while i cooked some sauerkraut. she was delighted. horses for courses.

there is ofc a learning process involved. time and effort spent in mastering any new tool or technique will slow you down initially but might prove to be a worthy investment in the long run. this is typical for any form of automation.

however your particular domain might not be the best suited, or one to benefit the most. you describe a system which seems highly specialized where you already have intricate knowledge and long established procedures. that's not where generators excel, you might think of them more as hyper-sophisticated search engines rather than specialists: they're most productive in more generic contexts with bigger problem spaces, and in that category they are better at providing isolated smallish solutions rather than assuring the consistence of the whole. iow, if you already know very well what the solution for a particular problem is and already have answers for it then generators' contribution will be less relevant, unless there is also menial involved work they can do for you. current coding generators seem to be replacing or assisting entry level programming positions more than anything. in that they're quite good.

according to the anglosaxon model which is not shared by the whole world. at this point i find it prudent to note that no, the english speaking world is not the whole world.

sheesh, karen, it was a figure of speech :-)

you'll have to excuse me but i'm not impressed by your obtuse self-righteousness. that mindset is devastating an entire country and bringing about world war episode 3. if your portentous brain is capable of slurping up all the insane and duplicitous western propaganda and you even revel in that despicable hypocrisy you might aswell do something about it. ukranian banderites will probably welcome you, i hear they only beat their own "conscripts" to pulp. good luck, and don't wait for me. oh, and don't wait for your "democratic" leaders either, they will be busy partying in their bunkers, laughing their asses off. sucker.

really? doesn't vex me at all. abstaining from buying such shit just takes a handful of braincells and nobody ever forced me to do so. that these products thrive just speaks of the geographic concentration of suckers in the world.

true, thanks for the correction.

indeed. but not because of deterrence. ukraine had the weapons but not the launch codes, and nobody, neither the us, nor eu nor russia wanted them to have them. had they kept them the situation would not exist because there would not have been an independent ukraine to begin with, they had no choice.

true. and because the goal was just to keep the war going in the hopes russia collapsed somehow. not happening. realizing that the us has indeed held back but nato/eu hasn't hardly anything left to give. they would like to! it has been a huge sink, wonder weapon after wonder weapon. chewing through all that was one of russia's goals, and it's nearing completion.

also true except that has nothing to do with political systems, unless you're defending the idea that "good guys" should have them and "bad guys" should not. that distinction is rather artificial, and totally irrelevant in geopolitics.

well, if you take on a country that has nukes ... what are you thinking? btw, the nukes are still there but russia won't probably need them unless they see nukes flying towards them. they have better options now.

smaller, yes, but as a matter of fact the russian army was in a quite sorry state and far less trained in 2022 as the ukranian army, which had been propped up by nato for 10 years. part of the problem, actually. things have changed, though, little is left of those early ukranian troops and russia did its homework. the situation on the ground is quite eloquent. stalemate, you say. yeah, sure.

it indeed did. all it had to do was to stay neutral, which had worked fine for more than 2 decades. but they chose to play the game suggested by their western "friends".

they can do as they wish. they do seem eager to play the game, though. it wouldn't end well either, and they would also find out that staying neutral was the better and more sane idea.