Yeah, but Europe, despite having the same idiotic centrists in power in a lot of places, has much stronger democratic institutions and systems to push back.

As much as I see far right pushes, they can’t fuck over the whole continent at the same time like they did in the US. Brexit had a backlash, AfD winning would show how shit they are to other countries. Also, there are more varied stuff going on, there is a lot of shit to hope about as well.

Hungary of all places might get a wealth tax going on this year for example. It’s not all bad. We just killed not just Chat Control 2.0, but also the already implemented first iteration was rolled back.

Stupid question, I don’t feel like Europe is collapsing in any way. Can you tell me why would you say that?

Shaheds are drones and not missiles though. That means they are much slower

In Nginx you can do rewrites so services think they are at the root.

That’s not what I’ve said. In fact, it’s exactly the opposite.

Every time something done by the government I’ve never voted for comes up, the whole comment section is always "kick them out of the EU“.

That would seriously fuck with my life, and I’m powerless against that sentiment. If anything, it is more than ironic that let the Hungarian government fuck around was the insane EU money granted to them in exchange for fucking up our labour laws.

I’m actually sympathetic, I’m just pointing out that most people don’t tend to be.

Nobody cares, everyone will still associate you with this.

Sincerely: a Hungarian

Still not enough I suppose.

Oh, there are those as well, I’m not dunking on juniors.

It’s just that my problems always tend to be caused by mismanagement of people.

Like just today I had to clean up after a “let’s do a quick and dirty experiment, oh it works so now it’s production, make 200 more features in a month built on top of the quick and dirty let’s just try it code, what do you mean we lost millions because of a regression nobody even noticed” situation.

Funding education, funding social services, funding mental healthcare. Enforcing existing laws against harassment on big tech.

One of the biggest social media platforms is spamming child porn, they’ve all been proven to be addictive on purpose, and we’re blaming teenage users.

IDK, I’ve been here a few years, the company has existed for another few.

If it starts getting uncomfy, I’ll start looking for a better one. It worked out so far.

It’s the EU making the purchase though. Voting with its wallet so to speak. Nobody forces anyone to do anything.

Me not buying McDonald’s is not a distortion of the free market either, just a healthy dietary and monetary decision.

Good workplaces are like the after-school extracurricular classes, you go because you’re interested, it’s fun to problem-solve with people.

I have to be regularly told to go home at the end of the day.

The EU does not oversee education, it’s usually a member state or even lower level responsibility.

Nah, cookie banners are a malicious compliance tactic adopted by the advertising industry after they got told they can’t surveil the whole of the internet without consent.

The bureaucrats are actually hard at work to get rid of cookie banners in the very near future, making it obligatory to follow an in browser setting. You click decline once on install, and that’s it is the plan.

That’s when you kill them with magnets /s

Nah, these aren’t assassinations, just plain domestic murders.

Yeah that shit is more common than people think.

A big part of the business of cloud providers is that most orgs have no idea how to do shit. Their enterprise consultants are also wildly variable in competence.

There was also a large amount of useless bullshit that I needed to cut down since being hired at my current spot, but the amount of containers is actually warranted. We do have that traffic, which is both happy and sad, since while business is booming, I have to deal with this.

I know using work as an example is cheating, but around 1400-1500 to 5000-6000 depending on load throughout the day.

At home it’s 12.

I mean if they are going to be doing model collapse, might as well go full throttle

Nixon fucked the world through the dollar.

In short, the world is paying the US to fuck around, since Bretton Woods replaced gold with the the USD, meaning that the US gets unlimited money while they get to spread their inflationary pressure around the world.

Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time wasn’t as stupid as most world leaders, and ended up preserving at least some semblance of fiscal independence by smuggling the French gold back from the US.