thank you for sharing this. Too many people around me i see this story in. EU here. I am a lucky one as i get to look at my friends suffer from my temporary comfort. The title could not be more on point.
Are you actually EU? You know we are not one homogeneous state right? There are currently 27 nations, in which policy and circumstance varies between even at a regional level. There is immense poverty in some nations, notably Spain or Italy, but even Germany. I've seen it first hand, its heartbreaking.
Thanks for sharing this chart. I am amazed how Poland has less poverty than Germany. Maybe is East Germany bringing the average down for the entire country? Even then, still very impressive.
a lot of people seem to be debating which of these thieves to align to. Only because Anthropic lost this stage doesnt mean they are somehow morally better. They all sell and sold lies. steal data, and only want your money, at the cost of you.
EU isn't perfect, even the best nations within it are not perfect (though still better than the US is or was), but only the worst two EU nations seem to be politically corrupt to the point of "danger" levels.
There's plenty of room to fall if people are complacent.
As a person from a country constantly near the top of that list, I have been saying this for more than two decades: holding the #1 spot in CPI tells nothing how well things are going for a country; it merely highlights how bad things are even for the runner-up.
Naive huh? Right wing/fascist corruption is a serious level-up of corruption. If you think your semi-socialist EU government is corrupt now, just wait until AFD or your local fascist+populist equivalent gets in.
Us US-ians are no longer naive. US was certainly corrupt before, and muckrakers had an uphill battle showing how e.g. Democratic admins were subservient to the oligarchy. But Trump has certainly taken this to a new level, and while it's a little bit sanity-enhancing to finally have middle-of-the-road friends see how bad things are for once, the brazen-ness of it all is nothing to celebrate.
What's more, it's precisely what happened with Putin, Orban, Berlusconi, Modi, Bukele &c &c &c. The right wing seeks to "finish the job" of private capture of public interests, and the populist side of it adds the mafioso "all in the family" touch where corporations explicitly kiss the ring.
alcohol is a far cry away from opiates. they should just allow everything. its actually effective in drastically reducing abuse. since use is normalized it become easier to have social control form peers etc. and that works really well actually. Additionally it would allow for stable products which means more safe products.
understand the sentiment from a perspective of having a career, but i do feel that the joy of programming and making a living of it can be 2 separate things.
if you can still find joy in it you can continue it, and it will inform and enhance your professional ability even if you are required to crank out vibecoded things.
the work might be less satisfactory, well, welcome to the majority of the world. it sucks but most people dont enjoy their jobs. its why hobbies exists.
programming is my hobby. I do use i it at work, and now i see a shift towards AI there. Someday i might need to cave to keep up with the speed of colleagues, but i'd still write my stubborn handcrafted segfaults just as i like it at home. GCC will still be waiting for me there.
I know the 'nothing i do matters' feeling, but personally for me it does not relate to these types of things.
some minds just work like this and different events or contexts can trigger it. That doesnt mean they _caused_ it. (for me ofc. and it is, in the end, personal things. subjectivity ofc. i respect that. just wanted to share my own view on that hell-loop of the self consuming mind)
nonsense. any feature should have acceptable failure modes. blaming the customer for a fault they have no control over is not acceptable. many people know nothing about 2FA. it is not their responsibility. 2FA is a symptom of shitty designed systems which are inherently insecure and companies who dont give a shit about that and let their customers shoulder the burden by shoving complexity down their throats.
if you make an app it is not your customers responsibility to secure it with additional actions from their side..if it is, you need to make it mandatory and guide them step by step.
you cant after a while enable some toggle.and tell people to fuck off and its the fault of their ignorance to not know some technical details.
most consumers of these services dont know shit about IT and they should not be burdened with it..any product that demands it is either only meant for tech savy people or more likely lazily and badly engineered by money hungry people who see opportunity to make more money in user's issues.
Provide a way to resolve the issue in the very foreseeable situation where someone doesn't read the emails an add it.
Is it possible that you use email differently than most people? I virtually never actually check my inbox. I'm either reading an email that I knew was coming (e.g. an order confirmation with a shipping link) or I'm searching for something specific. So no matter how many emails Google sends I'm unlikely to read them.
safety pledges are great it times of peace to show what great virtues you hold. sadly in hard times these go out of the window (: hard to blame them with all the fine examples around the world.
making promises in good times is a real minefield hah
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