I always chuckle when I see an entitled online rant from a gamer. Nothing against them, it's just humorous. In this one, we have hard-nosed defense of free market principles in the first part worthy of Reagan himself, followed by a Marxist appeal for someone (who?) to "make hardware available at an affordable price!".
It seems like it's impossible for anyone to develop any new technology for trains without online commenters screeching "THAT'S CALLED A FUCKING TRAIN".
It seems to generally be clustered with a sort of leftish, anti-AI, maybe anti-tech worldview. Like they feel they have ownership of railways as a concept as sort of a charity case, and if "tech bros" are working on improving them, it's sort of like taking their cause away from them.
It's more that people have started realizing that governments and big tech have been playing this game for a long time, where instead of doing the work of using the huge resources they have to build useful infrastructure with the technolgies that we already have, they prefer to invest in useless new tech, coincidentally being sold by their own cronies. And they often have the nerve to do this while claiming that problems that are solved everywhere else in the world, and have been for 50-100 years, are somehow almost insurmountable.
> Like they feel they have ownership of railways as a concept as sort of a charity case, and if "tech bros" are working on improving them, it's sort of like taking their cause away from them.
The key point here is improving. For example, the doodad the BBC is marketing here is clearly not an improvement, is it? It's much more costly than traditional electrical rail (solar panels are much more expensive to maintain than a pole with a wire), it requires massive new infrastructure (the railway company would have to create a whole solar energy management division), and the only benefit is that it allows the railway company to avoid dealing with the regular electrical grid that powers everything else - for no clear reason.
Electrification of a rail is a thing since 1879 and 1881 in regular service. Techbros just figured out how to grasp technology of 19th century. A wire above a rail...
Even before getting off of MS Word, Germany would have to start by having a military capable of self-defense since leaving the country undefended would be very foolish. Ironically the imperial overlord USA which would hypothetically be getting evicted is the main party urging them to do this.
> Ironically the imperial overlord USA which would hypothetically be getting evicted is the main party urging them to do this.
I always found the framing on this funny. Europeans will talk about data sovereignty and decreasing reliance on the Americans and simultaneously cry foul when the Americans threaten to take their ball and go home.
> Europeans will talk about data sovereignty and decreasing reliance on the Americans and simultaneously cry foul when the Americans threaten to take their ball and go home.
I am sure that you are aware that there are more than one person in Europe, and most of the countries there being democracies, those people are allowed to have different opinions. They even have the right to express them, go figure!
You won’t because your administration is not stupid and knows what kind of soft power it gives them. But I really, sincerely, wish they would fuck off.
I made no indication as to my nationality in my original post and you responded with rudeness and hostility. This is illustrative of the type of person I was talking about. Your country would not exist if the Americans did not have bases in Europe. There are 26,000 people in the Swedish armed forces. You and everyone you know are either dead or speaking Russian in less than a year if the Americans leave.
the offer was that the US would play ball and Europe would remain militarily weak and not start another world war. now that the Amerikka Oblast answers to mother Russia, the Europeans are having second thoughts about the match.
I remember the Mueller report explicitly stating they would say he was innocent if the evidence showed but that they could not indict a sitting president.
The theory might be incorrect be incorrect, but to claim it’s baseless is factually wrong
The Trump administration has been passing Ukraine targeting data enabling them to hit Russian energy infrastructure. Doesn't seem like much of an alliance.
TACO keeps flipflopping, but each time Russia ends up with an advantage. Random noise should average to zero. When it averages in one party's favour, it's not noise.
They are fighting against a country with something like 1/5th of their population so this reasoning is completely fallacious. You will use any advantage gained by Russia as evidence of collusion without demonstrating that the advantage was based on collusion. The intelligence agencies have tried and failed to prove this theory of Russian infiltrationism for more than 10 years now; you haven’t seen something that they’ve missed.
> While the LLMs get to blast through all the fun, easy work at lightning speed, we are then left with all the thankless tasks: testing to ensure existing functionality isn’t broken, clearing out duplicated code, writing documentation, handling deployment and infrastructure, etc.
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