They are theoretically, but coming from Eastern Europe all those levels of abstractions lead to “opportunities” for “managing democracy” and more importantly for alienation of the people because most people do not know what they are voting for or what each of their chosen representativea do when in office.

I am not saying it is a broken system, but I think it can be better and in particular direct participation can be greatly improved.

Yeah it is the 3th time in the past year I think some variation of this shit is proposed… Fuck them.

Sorry for spamming the tool but: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

It shows you your representatives and generates a email for you. Very handy.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/germany-orders-deportation-of-pro-palestine-activists-what-you-should-know

Germany always had a different flavor of distopia, I think the people there similarly to America drink the state sanctioned cool aid so they can never have a Orwellian distopia.

Karensaurus

A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural

Our leaders are spineless… The US says jump and we jump it’s pathetic. I really wish the people of Europe organized more and put up stronger resistance because our leaders will not do shit.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/two-maps-and-one-graph-comparing-obesity-in-america-and-europe/

Edit: noticed the first map is from 2018. Here is more recent one:

https://brilliantmaps.com/obesity-rates-usa-v-europe/

Winter is not coming

The classic “He didn’t do it, but if he did it was ok” move.

He was irresponsible with them, instead of doing drugs he should have been making children and increasing shareholder value… /s

Hese cats look AI generated (I know they are not, cats are just strange)

Why Randy? I may be missing the meaning of the name.

Or was pegged by one and liked it a bit too much

Oh it’s almost like all we hear about north Korea is propaganda…

I agree, but it’s so annoying when you work as IT and your non-IT boss thinks AI is the solution to every problem.

At my previous work I had to explain to my boss at least once a month why we can’t have AI diagnosing patients (at a dental clinic) or reading scans or proposing dental plans… It was maddening.

If only there was an option to update an os without restarting it…

Oh wait there is, but windows is a shitty product.

That comment led me on the wildest journey of org-mode discovery that you can imagine 🤣

In what format are tasks saved?

Edit: after a bit of poking around I can see that the exports at least are json.

As far as I can see the moderation there is shit.

Non-english posts are a shit show.