Also going and and actually interacting with those… “Females”, was it?

Meanwhile, fracking goes brrrr

That’s true and I agree in both experience and principle. Them brutalist buildings do be ugly tho…

Yes, I get it, both your and @stoy 's response. It’s why I say I don’t think it’s the wrong move considering. it just feels like the world is moving backwards. I grew up in a mostly demilitarised, increasingly inclusive Europe, naively believing we’re moving past all that crap. Yes, it seems I wasn’t a very bright child.

Sure, let’s stick it to the US because they are imperialist capitalist assholes and elected a Cheeto fart (twice).

What do we get in return though? An enormous pile of debt, which will inevitably go towards increasing inequality like these things tend to do. Militarised Europe with a toothless corrupt government and disjointed member states. Worsening relations with the most war hungry nations in the world. Brilliant!

I’m not saying it’s the wrong move but I find it hard to love any of it. We’re talking about wars, international tension, instability and unpredictability.

Are we in the ‘hardware as software’ age yet

The fork button exists for a reason…

Man, the propaganda on Lemmy has such wild swings…

I find it funny that this is a surprise to anyone, given the cloud act from trump’s first term. It’s literally the reason behind this ‘revelation’ in the French courts.

I didn’t answer because it’s irrelevant if I’m in Sweden, Spain or Greece. There’s a plethora of economic issues across the continent, none of which is that we’re falling behind on productivity. The point of this ‘productivity’ bs metric is to push for deregulation and less worker rights.

If you want to defend the premise of the article, you can do so regardless of what you know about me personally. Yet you haven’t made a single argument.

How do you go about finding and joining such a venture

You’ve fallen victim to propaganda, my friend.

It’s only mandatory if they survive the fall…

What effects are those precisely?

Do yourself a favour and stop measuring success as a function of the difference with last year/quarter or another region’s stats. If you want to compete, put the money where your mouth is, it’s that simple. There are plenty of people who are hungry to build and develop businesses for 168 hours per week, they just get better opportunities to do it elsewhere. But why should everyone else be forced to follow that pace? Don’t buy into skewed graphs meant to push somebody else’s political agenda, do you own thinking.

What, GDP per capita per hour is less in my region? I’d be making 3x the money in my profession if I worked in the US? My quality of life is 10x better here than it would be there. And yes, I speak from experience.

Ah yes, overregulation and weak productivity.

Let’s keep on pushing that narrative. Regulation stands in the way of businesses. Policies promoting a healthy work life balance stand in the way of business growth.

Truly terrible things… For anyone who doesn’t need to work every day for 40-50 years of their lives. For the vast vast majority these are things that make everyday life bearable.

Regulation is essential in avoiding a reality where you need to pay for the air you breathe. Weak productivity is a myth in Europe, the real difference with US is in the hours we work. And I fully agree this needs reform. Let’s drop the working week to 4, no, 3 8-hour work days.

Just let people enjoy their short lives, you fucking greedy assholes.

There’s no fullproof way. Even if you somehow block every crawling automation, there’s still puppeteering where the bot behaves just like a normal user.

As someone who works for a paywallled website, that’s hardly a deterrent. If the site is important enough, they will pay for accounts and crawl until the server melts

The problem is not the functionality, it’s the business model.

All is merry on board of the reTardis

Do Germans think they’re making amends? Is the lesson from the past century so deeply engrained that it clouds critical thinking? I don’t mean the politicians with hidden intentions behind their hidden intentions, but in general?

It’s pronounced Jamaica