Because skin tone still relates to status, pale equals you can stay inside rather than in the field.

Meanwhile in Northern Europe tan is status, as it indicates you can be in the sun outside rather than stuck in the office

Germany is no Finland though, Finland also largely have had mandatory conscription due to not being a member of NATO;

Germany would have an easier time maintaining an army alike the way France does, a fully professional large army and riot police basically being intended for maintaining occupied areas (Gendarmerie). Germany can in theory have a 1 million strong force, fully volunteer based. While Finland can have 3 million in the reserves, by forcing everyone and their nan a mandatory conscription service.

Conscription is the cost effective option if you think numbers is everything, but for larger countries you’ll get stronger militaries by keeping soldiers stay in professional lifetime careers

In person is king, sure.

But phone? Nah, text and mail is preferable to a phone call.

Why are you talking about putting?

The first word is pulling.

You could argue that’s conservative, but nowadays conservative in a lot of locations wants to return to the past norms, rather than keeping the status quo of today

The left and right part of the word, literally comes from a historical context called the French Revolution.

The people standing on the left side of the parliament, wanted to abolish the king.

The people standing in the right side of the parliament, wanted to continue with a monarchy.

Nowadays it has changed meaning, but that’s all it originally conceptualised. Pro people or pro elites/royals.

The problem with thinking about politics as having very few positions you can take, is that you lose all nuances.

You can take any topic, and broadly list them on a spectrum of; wants more of it | wants the current amount of it | wants less of it.

In that world, there’s only three takes. Then we can list a few issues, like; Immigration, income tax, capital tax, property tax, military spending, healthcare spending, school spending.

That’s 7 very high level topics, causing 2187 unique positions in a tripolar world. If you expand that to 12 topics you care about, you’re having 533 thousand different positions.

If you then expand the choices a bit from 3 options, to 5 options. For the 7 topics you’ll now have 78 thousand positions and for the 12 topics 244 million positions.

All of this to say, political stand points is a fairly complicated multi dimensional vector. Forcing us to some degree to focus at singular issues at a time and dumbing down how we communicate it to find people we have some things in common with - But the world has dumbed it down too much, especially in the US, 30 years ago it was common politicians around the world could have their own opinions within topics that wasn’t a part of the core ideology of their political party - That’s pretty much dead today.

I’m a lot like you, I make vegetarian food myself. But if I’m visiting someone and they serve meat, I’ll have a slice.

My exception is game, as a large chunk of my family are hunters

quality of textiles on IRL shelves going back up

Because the people buying in a physical store, care more about quality than the regular online shopper does.

Sure there’s also good brands online, but most big ones are also seeing tremendous declines in recent years

To indicate terrorists are subjective

I know some people think like you, but it’s the most soul crushing shit in the world when all you do is wait for others.

Corporate jobs has always been soul crushing, and that’s why the cushy office jobs pays nicely. Because it drains you

Not read, but if you peer review something outside of your field. Experts should be able to see you’re off field and not assign the same level of credibility to that peer review

Couldn’t this easily be solved by one university building a platform?

I understand there’s a need to verify people actually are who they are and have credibility on the topic they review.

So starting out utilising uni logins or something alike, and you’ll have all university professors included

Well, it still doesn’t know it was doing anything wrong.

Most of the LLMs are tuned towards agreeing with the user, if you had a LLM able to stop a train crash. And you then blamed it for stopping the train crash, it would still start with a “sorry”

And bond premiums are set to increase a lot, as several countries, namely the Netherlands, are in the process of allowing their pension funds to hold more stocks and less bonds.

Due to the move from a defined benefit to a defined contribution based pension plan

Then they do it on the OS, forcing people to swap to Linux - But the majority of users wouldn’t know how

Football manager have always had “let’s kick racism out of football” and other NGOs represented on their banners - Because they had no clue what to do with it, I’m pretty sure there’s a settings option to replace them with real paid ads now

For corporate software, there’s so many bugfixes and features, which require so few additions/changes that it’s faster to do it than to write the prompt.

But obviously only if you’re able to hold the entire codebase in your skull, but a proficient developer should be able to do so.

If people begin outsourcing these changes to LLMs, then they’re cooked and no longer able to verify the output.

Heck an electric scooter could handle 70% of their needs