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That's only a few weeks a year. The UK isn't Florida yet. And besides modern AC is incredibly efficient. The stuff that's cleared to sell in Europe has incredibly high standards.

Or just open a bank account like a normal person. But I suppose that requires deprogramming yourself out of the crypto cult.

Chinese people do not consider themselves inferior to white people and do not accept Western world domination.

For those of us living in America and Europe this truly is shocking and earth shattering. It is the end of the world as we know it.

Nah it's a simple numbers game.

1 China has a billion people

2 education is practically sacred in Chinese culture

It is only natural that after China's century of Western humiliation and Mao's delusional cultural revolution that the country is retaking it's rightful place.

Depends on how old the book is. You can grab plenty of them for cheap. One major advantage of ebooks is that they never go out of print.

In my country we have some retarded anti capitalist rules to protect the book industry.

When people realised they could import books from the UK and America for cheap bookstores started selling those $9.99 paperbacks. As an added bonus lots of younger folks switched to reading in English.

Consuming media in Dutch is more expensive. Smart move government. Now they're whining about English taking over the public space...

The Dutch government doesn't have the power to make America, Russia, Israel behave civilised. They would if they could.

As it is we have to live with it. Enduring the barbarians.

The US is a country that has some of the best experts in the world. Sadly nobody ever listens to them.

Because America has a hammer which makes everything a nail.

In my country the rule is "unsubscribe the same way you subscribed". So no bullshit with having to write a literal physical letter through the mail (yes really this happened) or having to call a callcenter in India and having to explain why you want to your stop subscription.

In a scenario were data centres in China, the US or France are getting blown up you're in WW3 and your food delivery service no longer matters.

Build data centers in politically stable countries.

Sure you cannot bribe anyone, actually have to pay taxes and can't install gas turbines but... they don't get blown up.

Venezuela is America's bitch. As is much of South America with the honourable exceptions of Mexico and Cuba.

The guillotine is too French, too modern and too humane.

America is run by extremist Christians so eventually it will be death by drowning, stoning or whatever else the Bible recommends.

Mankind has never been content with "basic" income. Columbus was not starving. He sailed into the unknown anyway because he was greedy.

Besides as much as I love UBI it requires Star Trek technology: ubiquitous space travel and replicators.

If the AI bubble bursts China will still be the factory of the world. They literally out-export their internal economic problems.

But for the US this is the last throw of the dice. All chips on red.

The last public execution in my country ended up such bloody debacle that the crowd ended up attacking the officials. The death penalty was quickly abolished after that.

I recall when you could add your own Steam account to GeForce Play so that you could play your library. That was a good service.

There is a funny scene in doctor Strangelove were they talk about riding out the great reset in caves with their own harems to repopulate the world.

People definitely care about creeps filming children.

Well except for America- there such creeps become pillars of the community.

The people who make that app earn more money than the average nurse.

A warehouse provides hundreds of lower education jobs. Well at least until they go completely robot.

Not everyone is a software developer.

Yeah I am going to be honest if Google was a Dutch company they would bulldoze houses for them. They do it for ASML. But it is an American company and nobody likes them. The Netherlands, for all it's faults, is still too dignified to become a US colony.

Until people can finally admit to themselves that their life has no meaning and the universe doesn't care about them religion will unfortunately stick around.

Maybe they ran out of numbers I mean there are only so many...

Considering games still require dozens of patches I don't believe AI is actually producing this mythical flawless code.

Watching Bob Ross didn't make anyone into a Rembrandt or van Gogh.

The Netherlands banned hyperscalers.

But that's because the Netherlands is a highly developed rich country that doesn't need to whore itself out to America/China for a few shekels...

I remember an old documentary in the Netherlands about the first Portuguese elections after their dictatorship ended.

The CIA needed to send suitcases of money to the socialists in order to beat the communists. It was all very hush hush with Dutch, German and English proxies. Everyone in those days was on the same side.

Socialists won, Portugal became a civilised part of Europe and everyone lived happily ever after.

The difference between Portugal and Brazil: if the Portuguese had known all of this was going on they would have turned against the US and Europe as a matter of patriotic pride.

This was already known. The British put the German scientists into a big country house after the war and bugged all the rooms. After the US dropped the atomic bombs the German scientists spent weeks discussing with eachother how the Americans could have done it. They never got it right.

What is a traditional relationship? Fathers selling their daughter off?

This is the real heart of the problem.

Trump literally CANNOT admit he made a mistake.

Nixon may have been a corrupt sleaze ball but he knew he had to get out of Vietnam because it was destroying America and so he did.