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While many countries in the west have a two or multi party system due to historical reasons, on certain issues they often just function as controlled opposition, making your vote worthless anyway, with political battles between parties now being mostly and ideological circus to keep the unwashed masses distracted and divided while they get robbed blind, rather than focused on actually fixing things for the working class.

If Singapore can skip this expensive time consuming circus and just get shit done, then good for them, but I don't want our western leaders to take the wrong lesson and move us to a dictatorship as the promised solution to fix things, which is what I feel they're trying.

Because most countries aren't actually trying anything nor can the government do much in that regard when the issues are cultural and emotional.

The low-birthrate couples who can't/don't want kids aren't suddenly gonna want them if you give them 3 months of paid maternity leave and a monthly stipend or other such welfare perks.

And those who do have kids because of government welfare perks, were having kids anyway, they're now incentivized to have even more.

That was possible pre-2022 during the famous developer labor shortage. In the current market, companies expect seniority/experience in that specific stack they use for that, no more career changers.

They either take you as a senior/expert to contribute from day one, or as a young and cheap newgrad/junior out of uni they expect to train on the job, but no more in-betweeners switching careers as they're not as experienced as the seniors on the market, nor are they as cheap and malleable as newgrads/juniors.

Sure, in theory every developer can learn at home to do anything new related, but in the current job market, companies expect X-years of proven on the job experience with their stack, no more bootcampers, and no more self-taught-at-home types. The entry bar has risen significantly. At least where I live.

Like I just saw on linkeidn a job posting from a large bank that was an hour old and it already had 100 applications, which probably means most applications are now AI botted, meaning yours will get lost in the noise and getting a call back for an actual interview is like rolling a dice.

Not saying it's impossible to change(I did a couple of times), just that's it's much more difficult than in the good times, and will most likely also come with a paycut.

The problem with that is that behind the Rheinmetall brand name it's actually made by Switzerland's former Oerlikon before the Rheinmetall acquisition, and Switzerland doesn't sell military gear to countries currently at war due to its neutrality status. So for Ukraine it might as well be vaporware as they aint getting it (officially).

Everyone keeps iterating on someone else's previous work. That's how it works.

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Depends from person to person, what you want from life, what age you're at, what career you're in, what your finances look like and what your family/relationship status is. Like if you're a radiology specialist, then you can find work in any city in the EU big or small, but if you're say an aeronautics specialist, then you're restricted to work in a handful of cities you can count on very few fingers.

One can argue that the smaller cities in EU are often times better to live in than the capitals and major economic ones, that is if you aren't dependent on the corporate/big-tech careers that are mostly dominant in the major cities which tend to suffer from high housing shortages and higher crime or at least more roughness.

But then, if you avoid the big expensive cities, you also miss out on the more developed rail transportation meaning a car might be required to save on commute times, big airports with cheap international flights, top hospitals and medical specialists, wide variety of cultural and entertainment events, etc. In the end, everything is a tradeoff, you can't have it all, all of the time. You can't have a capital city with top careers and entertainment opportunities, that pays well and is also affordable. You could get that maybe 6-14 years ago, but today not anymore.

>Maybe it doesn't matter how livable or beautiful Paris, Barcelona, Zurich, Stockholm, Sardinia, or whichever is, if you are never going to get roof over your head there.

That's also how I see it. The whole "X city is most livable" is so fucking subjective, that I just can't take those "livability" rankings I see online with a straight face, especially when I live in the country whose capital often takes the first place for "most livable city", so I know what I'm talking about.

Since when is Fedora community developed? It's basically the testing arm of Red Hat and implements their corporate policies that will be added to Red Had in the near future. It's as corporate as it gets, just like Ubuntu.

Basically all dating apps are optimized for enabling casual hookups at this point.

>All the apps I know suck.

Do ALL the apps suck, or are you maybe not appealing enough for being picked for casual hookups by the users on the app?

What do you call this then? https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gangs-scandal-timeline-w...

>Not that it had anything to do with what was being

What did your comment have to do with "what was being discussed"?

>Politics really makes people rabid.

"Shit, I'm losing the argument to my political opposition, better call them rabbid, *fobes, nazis, etc. "

Unless you know, your main and only PC/notebook just died and need a replacement ASAP, they you don't really have an option to not buy. And no, the used market (where I live) is just as fucked, proportionally reflecting the retail gouging, with people wanting quite a lot of cash for tower PCs and notebooks from the Pentium 4 - Core 2 Duo era.

> Prices will crash.

Does your crystal ball also say when exactly? If my laptop broke, then I need a replacement now in the overpriced market, not in X years when prices will crash.

Speak for yourself buddy, I had a blast both browsing and developing for the Flash era of the web back in those days and I was barely into highschool. Macromedia tooling made web dev so approachable to kids and youngsters, for games, animations.

I get you hate Flash and MS, but the web was still way more of a wild west back then than today. Nobody from the government or ISP was monitoring my online activity to check for IP infringement or CSAM, there was no ID age verification, Youtube and other websites allowed uploads of anything, there were no manufacturer closed walled gardens preventing me what I can install on my own hardware, you weren't getting your gaming account banned for saying a $GAMER_WORD in a death match, less AD-tracking everywhere, etc. etc.

Now there's more open standards for web-dev on paper, but instead of Flash and IE, we have the monopoly walled garden of Google, Apple, Meta, etc. over the web, plus the governmental eye of Sauron over our activity and identity, which is way more cancerous than what we had >20 years ago.

People thinking we're overall better off now than in the Flash era must be on some really good weed. If using Flash was the only downside, I'd gladly go back to the web of the early 2000s. Frost my tips and plug me into the Matrix.

Right back at you: Imagine being a European getting fined/arrested for memes(UK), or that you called a politician a dick on facebook(Germany).

How are those rape gangs in the UK this time of year? Did the UK government ever get in trouble for covering that up that scandal and calling the whistleblowers pointing it out "racist white supremacists"?

I wonder, is anyone left in the German government now (that isn't a paid lobbyist) that is even remotely interested on covering their industry sovereignty?

Every so often I hear about new footguns Germany used on itself.

I never said they do, you're just putting words in my mouth to farm drama and flame bait. Goodbye and good riddance, go flamebate with someone else.

But what if I want to crank hog?

No you don't need that, that's why we have the EU & EC that just demands all members follow a fixed set of rules and regulation in order to solve a common problem. Operating systems could also be part of that problem to solve (amongst million other sovereignty problems we have to solve but will never get to).

You didn't need a shared sense of belonging for the EU to mandate USB-C on all gadgets sold in the EU. So you don't need a shared sense of belonging to demand all EU government systems transition to SUSE or compatible forks in the next 10 years, and each state can fork and modify it to its own liking by local companies and service providers to support its domestic market/industry if they wish.

If EU countries can build Airbus planes together, then they definitely can standardize on an OS, you just need to want to do it, but unfortunately, the politicians and policy makers who helped put Airbus together, were cut from a different cloth than the self serving useless rejects we have today at the EU helm.

US postal service

Amtrak

State Lotteries

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

How is that in reverse to what I said? I said the same thing, and explained why this isn't actually happening.

You don't need to completely erase and crush ethnic and national identities in order to standardize on technical platform for the common market.

You can always "just do things" whenever you want by interpreting or changing the laws first to fit your desired goal. And so there, now it's legal, because I just changed the rules to make it so.

Same how the "we'll now have to accept all those migrants illegally crossing our border without asking our voters if its what they want" was done, they decided overnight that its legal. Or how they can just block the right wing from winning elections in order to "just protect democracy".

We're already under tyrannical rule, except the system abuse just acts on the wrong topics.

Yeah but when it comes to national sovereignty you can't let your own products get steamrolled by the entrenched monopolies of your adversaries (Google, Microsoft, AWS, etc) just because you're gullible and still think you can play by the rules of idealistic 'free market' and come out on top, while your adversaries protect their monopolies to weaponize them against you on the "free market", suppressing or destroying your domestic industry and making you indefinitely dependent on them (US big-tech, Chinese EV industry, etc).

China has achieved a SW industry superior to the EU with much less money, simply because it has banned US big-tech from its market, preventing its own small domestic players from being crushed by US giants. It's also how countries like Italy, Japan and Korea built strong car industries post-WW2, as they banned superior import cars (often US ones) from their markets, till their own industry could catch up and be competitive internationally. India does the same.

Not on defense and national security, that's up to individual EU member states, but the EU does veto corporate mergers and acquisitions on Competition Law (Antitrust). So just find a loophole in that and use it to prevent SUSE be taken over by non-EU nations.

I heard the reason was that NL doesn't know if SUSE will be sold off again and might end up in the hands of some US PE, but here's the thing, you're the government, you can just block the sale of companies related to sovereign national security like those making operating systems. You can just do things when you want to. You literally have that power. Exercise it for once FFS.