The fact that we’re discussing literal space heater output levels for a fucking graphics card is insane enough.

With the amount of resources that are spent every year on anything from building schools to distributing clean water and vaccines, saying “we don’t give a shit” is a bit of a stretch.

Then look a bit closer.

Who do you think drills the holes? European contractors.

Who pays for the staff working in the schools? Not Europe.

There is a ton of money being poured into development aid, absolutely. But that money is mostly wasted on administration and vanity projects.

At the same time, Africans get hardly any working visa for Europe. It would help dramatically to have a few million Africans working legally and safely in Europe and sending back billions in remissions. Instead, poor bastards have to risk their lives on overcrowded dingies and get sunk by the Greek coastguard (not an exaggeration, there’s video evidence).

Another point: coffee. The real value add in coffee is roasting. But roasted coffee has very high tariffs, so african countries only export cheap, unroasted coffee. There’s no reason for that - except that this might lead to cheaper coffee and could undercut European roasters.

Of course it is true for the rest too.

You think I’m writing this from a US perspective? I’ve never been even on that continent. I’m in Germany and this is 100% what is happening here.

I think you still didn’t understand.

Yes, our lives are better, but the many Danish books are bought by (figuratively) having less arabic books. Denmark has next to nothing, just like Germany or Austria. But with cheap energy from the global south and cheap manufacturing in third countries they could get ahead quite a lot.

Yes, Spain got rid of its dictatorship, but that’s been 50 years ago and Franco’s grave is still a place of worship.

The EU is only inwardly inclusive. It doesn’t give a shit about Africa for example. Ukraine also only became relevant when the EU proper was threatened.

Actually, I think your reasoning is part of the problem.

For decades the “it gets better” and “best of bad systems” narratives kind of worked, but if we’re being honest, our wealth and freedom was always bought by oppression somewhere else.

We don’t have serfs or slaves domestically anymore, we have them abroad in Vietnam or import them semi-legally for a few months or so.

We uphold international law, but only if it suits us. Our wars are all justified.

This hypocrisy is what’s fueling the current downfall. The economic disaster alienated the population, it’s not getting better for them, they’re worse off. Liberal democracy didn’t deliver.

Every petty dictator can invade somewhere else and can (rightly!) claim that we didn’t do anything about Iraq, or Kosovo, or Israel, or Yemen.

Maybe we used to be somewhat free, but we’re not anymore. And we’re actively destroying freedom elsewhere.

That’s not really how black holes work. They evaporate really quickly when they’re small enough. And if they’re small, they don’t have much gravity either.

As someone working in government IT, the entire sector is focused on compliance, not security. You can install the most obviously backdoored/unsafe device or software, as long as you have a paper trail that someone pinky promised that it’s secure. Absolutely bonkers.

In your case, if the manufacturer of devices has all the necessary certifications, nobody will even question the security.

Yes, because you’re completely missing the point.

There is literally no risk involved for them in just staying. They had their jobs, and they could easily do the right thing by just following the law. If they were to be fired, they would still get severance of some sort. In any case, it would have slowed down Elon at least for a while.

What they did instead is resigning, thus not getting severance, not being able to slow anything down, making room for obedient bootlickers, and finally they’re now unemployed.

So tell me again: how is resigning the right move? They made the world worse, and they made their personal life worse. Literally no benefit for anyone.

Your entire argument is ex post. You see the fact that they resigned as a given and try to justify that. Why can’t you see that this is not a necessary condition?

… because they resigned. Seriously, what’s your point?

If they wouldn’t have resigned, they would still have a job. And since they couldn’t have been fired easily, they would have continued to have a job for quite a while.

That’s not a complex concept, what’s so hard to understand about that?

No. They resigned from a job. They were not fired. And as long as they don’t break any rules, it’s hard to fire them.

Was genau bedeutet die Phrase “auf etwas Bezug nehmen” in deiner Welt? Weil, für normale Menschen heißt das z.B. dass man eine Quelle verlinkt.

Es kann natürlich sein, dass in einer Parallelwelt andere Worte genutzt werden, aber dann integrier dich doch bitte mal. Die Partei die du hier so tapfer verteidigst fordert das nämlich schon seit langem.

That’s the thing, though. They’re not really taking risks.

Much of what DOGE does is completely illegal and does not go through the proper channels and processes. By simply doing their jobs and forcing everything through the proper processes, they can slow down everything, maybe even to a halt, while being completely in the right and thus can’t be fired.

Yes, it takes a mental toll, but these guys have a responsibility.

In der Anfrage bezieht sich die Union zentral auf einen Artikel der Zeitung „Die Welt“ mit dem Titel „NGOs: Der deutsche Deep State und seine gefährliche Macht“. Darin wirft die Zeitung aus dem Hause Springer zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, die sich an den jüngsten Protesten gegen Rechtsextremismus beteiligt und dabei das von Friedrich Merz initiierte gemeinsame Votum der Union mit der AfD kritisiert haben, vor, Teil eines angeblichen „Deep State“ zu sein. Die Union greift in ihrer Anfrage dieses Narrativ prominent auf und behauptet, die Einmischung der betreffenden NGOs in die politische Meinungsbildung sei womöglich – so wörtlich – „ein Verstoß gegen die demokratische Grundordnung“. Konkret genannt und angegriffen werden in der Anfrage Organisationen wie Attac, Omas gegen rechts und Correctiv. Inhaltlich zeichnet die Kleine Anfrage das Bild staatlich finanzierter und politisch gelenkter Proteste gegen rechts.

Der zweite Absatz. Hättest du dir die Mühe gemacht, den Artikel zu lesen, hättest du das gesehen.

I see. We’re at full blown ad hominem and removed even the pretense of argumentative value.

That’s of course a sure sign of maturity.

Maybe all the juniors around you suck, because the good ones don’t need to waste their time with arrogant, abrasive coworkers.

Genau das verstehe ich wirklich zunehmend weniger.

Verstehen die Leute bei der CDU wirklich nicht, was sie tun oder sind sie zynisch genug, zu hoffen, bis zur Machtergreifung noch ein nettes Amt mitzunehmen?

Merz ist ein Idiot, aber nicht dumm. Ihm muss doch klar sein, dass das nichts bringt.

Ich wünschte, du hättest Unrecht.

But that’s exactly what Microsoft promised its shareholders and why they invested billions into it. They need world changing revenue to make it worthwhile.

It’s already fourth tier after L1, L2, L3 caches.

Maybe something like optane will make a comeback. Having 16gb of soldered RAM and 500gb of relatively slow, but inexpensive optane RAM would be great.

I tried cursor, claude, copilot. They’re not good.

Like, they can sometimes generate 10 lines of perfectly reasonable code, but they constantly completely misunderstand my intention or simply produce garbage. But the garbage looks just good enough, that you actually have to read and understand it, which slows me down.

Maybe we’re operating in completely different worlds, but even for the junior devs in my company, typing speed was never an issue. I’m sure, within a few years LLMs can generate much better code, but I don’t see widespread unemployment. They need way too much babysitting and result in worse code.

No, I fully understand your point, I just think it’s shit, and since your first reaction to being challenged is a shitty attempt at belittling, I have to assume you’re about as valuable as your point.

Why would I trust the judgement of someone who can’t even fathom the concept of “someone else might have a valid point”?