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Central authority is a tool. In different hands it does different things, but if you disarm yourself you’ll lose.

If you do not choose your leaders they will choose themselves. We tried the whole leaderless, decentralized anti-authority thing throughout the 2010s. At best you might be able to collapse the central authority of the currently existing government regime, but what comes after that is always much much worse: civil war, invasion, or an even more repressive government regime. But, more likely, the movement will just collapse because it lacks the structure to actually sustain itself.

We need to be centralized and we need to be ready to assert our authority when the old one is destroyed, or we will lose.

Imagine believing you can defeat capitalism without central authority.

There’s no way to enforce that without massive privacy violations.

You want to be asked to scan your ID every time you use a mature website?

Big problem with the 3rd world cubical farms - how do you evaluate their performance? You’d have to hire even more people to double-check their work, otherwise people will do the smart thing and cut corners to make their job easier.

Using books is definitely a way to keep out contamination, though.

Where do you get the real data, though? They just scrap data from websites, but now that chatbots have proliferated this will only introduce contaminated data. Keeping it clean would require hiring people to scrub contamination from the data sets.

AI of some kind will replace parts of our jobs, but LLM chatbots won’t except in some specific cases. This is just a hype bubble.

One Luigi will never make a difference.

That’s just a small hammer too.

And yet they never catch up. Why do you think that is?

The goal is to keep them weak and dependent, not help them stand as equals with France and Germany.

Sure, but you seem to be under the impression the only bots are the people that disagree with you.

There’s nothing stopping bots from grooming you by agreeing with everything you say.

Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

Do you still think you’re going to be allowed to vote for the next president?

It isn’t to help them catch up, it’s to keep them limping along without collapsing entirely, while at the same time keeping them dependent so they don’t think of trying to escape. It has the same function as the IMF/World Bank.

In terms of larger countries, it has been beneficial for France and Germany, less so for Italy

It’s just a way for the wealthy metropoles to turn poorer members of the EU into neocolonies. Yeah, it’s great for rich Europeans! Not so much for everyone else. Without the ability to deficit spend (because they lack currency sovereignity) they are forced to do austerity and privatization. It’s just financial imperialism.

It’s a bad system and it will collapse.

Ask Greece or the other Mediterranean nations if they are better off without their own currency (hint: they absolutely aren’t)

Death to US is a basic statement of understanding that the US empire is the primary contradiction.

The EU as a whole is an interesting project, but the Eurozone currency bloc was a mistake. All it did was surrender everyone else’s currency sovereignty to Germany and France.

And death to the US.

Don’t give up sovereignity, even to allies! Alliances change, but even ignoring that, it’s akin to letting allies run your infrastructure or make your policies or own your water. It’s giving part of yourself away.

Data sovereignty is going to be key to maintaining any sovereignity going forward, it’s so vital to the function of society and the economy that outsourcing it to another country is just giving part of yourself away.

You could dab it with a little paint or glue or something.

It helps when you reframe math as a puzzle, because then it becomes a game. It’s not interesting unless you make it interesting.

“New Math” kind of tries to do this, although then you run into the problem of parents being unable to help their kids with homework.

I consider my appearance to be armor. I put on makeup and cute clothes and style my hair so I can face the world. Helps my social anxiety.

Also, totally doesn’t take that much time. 20 minutes max once you get into the habit of it.

If lab grown teeth give me better reception then I’m all for it!