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As someone else said in this discussion, there are literal billionaires and people who have saved thousands of people from death without Wikipedia articles. This person is a nobody and is very clear she or someone she paid made this article for her. I for one don't get the fascination with having your own Wikipedia article, though I understand there are many people whose only source of self-worth comes from trite things like these, this person very much included - I hope nobody ever makes an article of me

There is no sovereignty perspective because Europe isn't even sovereign to begin with. For starters it doesn't even have a common army

I assume most people who use XP (which by default means non-hobbyists) are using it to run some software that was made to run only on it and the people who made said software never bothered to update the software for another OS. Something like a software application to manage prices in some family-run grocery store or warehouse in a former socialist country or what have you. The people using XP don't know they're even using an old OS, and they're oftentimes not very technical people (to say the least). They're using it because it's their job and they don't care particularly about it. It's usually not connected to the internet

Recently I went to the dentist, and while they weren't using XP, they were using Windows 7 to run some in-house software (I assume) to check my insurance

Yes, im from a former socialist country

You can always count on someone coming along and defending the multi-trillion dollar corporation that just so happens to take a screenshot of your screen every few seconds (among many, many - too many other things)

More like surveillance state

I'm not American either

Am I wrong in thinking this guy isn't/wasn't a very influential person, outside of Twitter and the people that stay on there 24/7? If so, why even target the poor guy? What change was the person who shot him hoping to elicit? Either way, I hope he makes it, even though it looks like it was a fatal blow

People "back then" didn't have access to an industrial quantity of honey

Regardless, most people in the westen world dont eat like you. Most of their calories come from ultraprocessed garbage (look up the nova food system)

Then at least you tried whatever it may have been you wanted to succeed at. You may fail, but at least you won't wonder what could've been "if only I had tried"

Long-term planning on a colossal scale (like nation-state-level) (or even on a not-so-colossal scale - think of how many plans YOU have made and how they turned out) is pointless because of black swans

Sure, having a general idea of where you want things to go is fine, and everyone already does that; but when a government starts thinking that they should set a concrete goal X and they should do Y to achieve it, it's just akin to trying to predict the future, and we all know how well that always works out, because theyre under the faulty premise of thinkin Y will be constant forever, or that even the goal itself (X) should remain constant in a world that is anything but constant

So, this is a terrible argument for not having elections, or bigger election cycles. I'm sure someone could potentially put forward a better argument, but this one is not it

Life without work is meaningless. Over the millennia we have done nothing but work. We were made to work.

I don't know if you've experienced not working without having to worry about money, but I have and it has a unique feeling of emptiness to it.

This is not me praising 9-5 office jobs, or work from home jobs, or any other specific job. They can all be hell in and of themselves, but the idea of abolishing work is just so laughable to me.

The moment that happens, a collective neurosis will overtake humanity the likes of which has never been seen before. We can only hope work will continue to be around as long as we are around, for our own sake.

Using the wayback machine can work if you have the exact video link, but it's not guaranteed that they'll have it

You can occasionally find a torrent out there of some channels entire video log

Other than that, no

If you come across a video that you really want to save, just use ytdlp to download it

AI fakes, and AI in general, will push more and more people to interact with each other in real life. I, for one, can't wait for that. Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same

Thanks. I'll check it out

What kind of a book is it, genre-wise? Was it interesting? I'm deciding if I should read it someday or not