23 karma · joined February 1, 2026
Surely we can raise the bar for team chat out of hell....
Can you explain what you're referring to? Obviously "ancient aliens" does not count as archaeology, despite your insistence otherwise.
But, it does seem like a terrible place to live. I fear for the immigrants who form the basis of the economy.
Most forms of power are more proportional to how much capital you control than anything related to intelligence.
Bear in mind europe is known for millennia of pogroms and ethnic cleansing (like, I'm sure, many other parts of the world). Sometimes the culture must bend towards the needs of a stable culture.
Granted, I also don't go to the EU if I can avoid it, and most places I make so much more money than the locals I don't mind a bit extra for the worker.
This doesn't make their decision good. It has consistently failed to produce politicians that represent the needs of the people who live here.
Democracy may be bad; but what we have is orders of magnitude worse.
Programs are rarely linear; why do you expect code to be?
You are blind. The senate and electoral college and lack of clearly distributed powers have meant that we have never functioned as a liberal democracy despite our lofty rhetoric claiming otherwise.
Samsung is just straight-up spyware infested crap that's somehow even worse than the other android options.
I'm really pulling for Huawei to rescue us at this point.