Hopefully he can dock in the UAE and use AI to repair the crater that was a data center.

I despise LinkedIn for encouraging such shitty verbal veneer to gloss over a rotten corporate foundation.

This is not an issue in the Netherlands. There are not giant vehicles, kids have autonomy at a younger age, and society is structured around allowing family and play time. Infrastructure allows kids to visit friends and play safely. Kids can run off and do anything, adults rarely intervene. Its a kid paradise compared to the US today and is more aligned with the 80s and 90s you describe in the US. I remember those times too. But its not perfect here either.

There is a line between autonomy and trauma. A kid is free to make a decision, but also free to suffer horrendous consequences without any empathy or adult support to help them recover. At least in my experience. For instance, a kid did not bring gloves to school and thus was not prepared for a sudden sleet storm in the ride home. Asking for help and telling people they were in pain and scared only to be responded to with the dutch equivilant of suck it up kid - you aren’t made of sugar. Thats trauma for damn sure that will come back to guide their actions as an adult.

There has to be a balance, and I fear many peoples are not meeting it.

Leaving the Netherlands. Need to file a US tax extension which is pain. My partner got the “ghosted at the border” issue resolved. An HR person made a mistake but it got fixed. We can move forward with relocation in Canada. That was an anxiety producing 5 days!

Sad that the Netherlands was not for us. Housing crisis + academic burnout + just not fitting in + no job = move. I am recording my bike rides with a go pro knock off to remember the lovely biking infrastructure and nature. As well as the insanity of biking rush hour.

I did help our friends move from the US to down the street. They are a gay couple and finally feel safe here. That means alot to me as there are no better people I know than them and they deserve peace and happiness.

GTFO of Texas! Yay! Happy for you.

We left the US, spent time in the Netherlands, and got jobs in Canada. Its like the floor is lava but the international version where you avoid the USA.

Wtf is up with the Guardian lately and these headlines? Not as bad as the “slams” or “politician did this one thing slop” but getting there. I digress…

They are invincible. That fine is a pittance. Thats a get out of jail free card.

surprised Pickachu face is the best way to explain it. Look, I was young, naive, trying to get away from home and be independent. Bought into it all -before- 9/11 and placed my bets on a more peaceful cold war world. Turned out that career path was a poor choice and lead me down an entirely different redemption arc.

Dropped KCD II after they replaced localization translators with AI.

Back to BG 3!

Boy. That was a wild ride. Life is nuts huh? We end up on a crazy path because of wild shenanigans, luck, or any other nonsense beyond our control.

I, too, hated computer science. Cs 101 at the University of Central Florida, circa 2001. Professor walks in and says dont ask him any questions. He had a TA for that. I was not a CS major after that class, switching majors costs $, decided ROTC was a great way to cover costs. Peace time Army! 9/11. And then I was in a war.

Life comes at you fast.

Holy crap. Do you live in a bitcoin server farm? Thats insane.

The article is correct. You are misinterpreting the writer: “…forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. More than 2,000 die in the process.” An event (Nuclear plant disaster) forced evacuation of people. That evacuation (from the area due to the nuclear plant disaster) resulted in 2000 deaths.

There were over 2000 deaths directly related to the evacuation order. No known deaths from radiation related events. Here are some links and quotes from a few places to show consensus on this.

“Official figures show that there have been 2313 disaster-related deaths among evacuees from Fukushima prefecture. Disaster-related deaths are in addition to the about 19,500 that were killed by the earthquake or tsunami.” - World Nuclear Association, a think tank and pro nuclear policy group.

No deaths nor discernible increase in cancer rates - UNSCEAR Report, 2013, a UN agency

And if you want to deep dive:

https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en-1-2-1.html

https://fukushima.jaea.go.jp/en/report/database/

I’m calling it now - Palantir and others of their ilk will be the ones leading this nonsense.

Honey? New Caesar III just dropped. And we don’t talk about Caesar IV in this household.

Circling around to say I thought about this over the last four days. In brief, my perspective that you can have a surveillance apparatus and a contemporary democracy in the 21st century were misguided. You are right.

That’s a fair set of arguments.

That’s a good read, thank you for sharing. I do not believe that a lack of privacy and surveillance are a given. You can have a strong Democratic state with surveillance, if you have strong privacy guarantees and the means to enforce them. I’ll point to the, for the time, rapidly expanding surveillance state of revolutionary America in the 1770s and 1780s for that, but I admit, this is a much larger discussion, but your article and point are well taken.

Edit: Update based on additional thoughts and comments below. This reply is to the perspectives and argument offered by /u/euxotic and my response is: “Circling around to say I thought about this over the last four days. In brief, my perspective that you can have a surveillance apparatus and a contemporary democracy in the 21st century were misguided. You are right.”

Valheim again. I need some calm meadows music.

I’m going with communalism. And its even simpler. A group of like minded people wanting to be creative nd share creativity without monetization. Seems more akin to artist movements to me. And I’m all for it.

The future is now fellow old man (my joints hurt just typing this). If it helps, I remember the comforting noises of a 14.4k modem connecting me to the world wide web.

Take anything Palantir says about democracy as either a dog whistle or a threat. Palantirs product is mass surveillance and criminal behavior prediction (location, whereabouts, movement patterns). That’s authoritarian, but not necessarily antidemocratic. You can still vote and be a democracy with mass (edit: typo was with ass survelliance…might still work) surveillance, don’t conflate it.

Where the anti Democratic comes in is using that surveillance to prevent people from exercising their right to vote and manipulating their information so they vote how you want. That’s what Palantir is enabling.

Aside: Its nuts how accurate their name is in spirit. Almost commendable they carried through embracing the name and the power behind it.