bojan

It worked really well so far.

Sort of, that's the mindset you get because you've no clue how the app actually works.

We have a 100% vibe-coding team, and yes, when they couldn't pass through the CI/CD at some point, they contacted the Ops team and literally said "the agent said the problem is on your side".

While I agree with your point, I don't agree that the unchecked globalisation is to blame, rather unchecked capitalism. Even without globalisation unchecked capitalism would lead to the same result, only per country.

And the countries that did the work to rein capitalism in, in a proper way, are doing well, also in the circumstances of globalisation.

The fact that you're mentioning oil and not gas tells me you are not really familiar with the situation.

But no, getting yourself in a situation where you're dependent on cowboy regimes for critical resources is not good for the people.

Yes.

There is imho very little to gain from such a move, and potentially a lot to lose. Disconnecting a whole society in such a way would make the total government control even easier.

Edit: typo

I don't think this optimistic take is what vast majority of people experience in their daily lives. The AI gets used as glorified Google, and the AI-generated videos get pushed to the elderly as they can't tell the difference.

Or am I out of the loop and people outside the tech world do use it in a way I'm not aware of?

The Netherlands won't do it. Personally I think it shouldn't, as it'd set a sort of precedent that would be easy to abuse in the future, but the actual reason is that the Russian influence found a fertile ground in the NL, with about a third of the votes going to pro-Russian parties and with the destruction of MH17 basically gone from the public discourse.

Indirect democracy is not really a lack of democracy. But I dislike the way it works now as well and would like for EU elections to be more direct. I'd also like to be able to vote for candidates from other member states.

However changes like these are deeply unpopular as they get interpreted as moving more powers to "Brussels" by right wing media.

we do not love the EU government because there are billions being poured into promoting the discourse that the EU is a bad thing by both private and state actors.

What a weird take.

North Korea has, like all (formerly and currently) communist countries, a decent education system.

An educated population of 20 million people will easily provide you with a several thousand people needed to develop functioning nuclear weapons. Those you need to feed. The rest may, and do, starve.

Supranational, at the EU level.

Not just data centers. Europe is close enough to need an all-encompassing national strategy against this.

I think that's exactly what happened.

Except it doesn't seem the software is getting cheaper for the end user, even though it is arguably getting cheaper to build.

Paradoxically, the costs of running the software seem to keep rising, both for running it on a local machine or as a subscription.

Disagree. If you're earning enough for a decent quality of life working 4 days, there is no real reason to work 5 days.

Where I live many people choose 20% earnings penalty, because 80% is enough for all needs.

And we remain very competitive on the global scene, as a society. We ensure we make the most of those 80%.

Why wouldn't it be important?

It's very common where I live. It doesn't seem to affect our GDP or national productivity.

And interestingly enough, you almost never see people who start to work fewer hours choosing to go back to 40 hours.