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If most laptop sales were still made in person, in a physical store, maybe laptops would still have rounded edges and maybe even flowing shapes

RIP Microslop

I hope "just the prompt please" becomes a common phrase

What the actual f. I am one of those 50 million people, played Blockheads all the time as a teen and had no idea I would randomly stumble over the dev around here. Great work indeed, thanks for the fond memories I made on my 4th gen iPod touch, playing that game :)

the internet got just a little bit more human again.

Maybe 'social media bad' is just the new 'video games bad' or 'watching TV bad', but the sheer scale and intrusiveness is completely different imo.

I couldn't carry my gaming PC with me as a Team Fortress 2 addicted kid, my Gameboy was too basic to keep me compulsively glued to its screen for 8 hours, it couldn't constantly send me notifications, it didn't have some hyperoptimized billion dollar algorithm meticulously designed to exploit human psychology.

There were friction and physical boundaries, now there aren't. That's a problem.

Just ask most primary school teachers how their students are doing.

Too late to change the fact that EU is no longer competitive despite historically strong core competencies and no shortage of talented people.

Manufacturing? Energy is way too expensive.

Tech? Admirable attempts using relatively little financial resources to keep up with the US and China haven't worked out. An issue of scale, not talent.

The complex regulatory body and risk-averse politics slows everything down (except the process of creating new regulations)

Germany is a prime example of all of the above.

Oh, and let's also make our energy supplies dependent on an adversary after shutting down perfectly fine nuclear power plants while fantasizing about a green hydrogen future while operating coal plants into the 2040s. (Also Germany)

it's too late.