Yup, adopting the Euro as currency would be my first condition. They threw a lot of privilege and bargaining power away out of pride, so that pride should be injured as much as possible (but without emiserating the common people).

I think you need to read some more history about fascism my friend. That “pure” capitalist you talk about has never existed.

On the other hand, capitalists were essential to Hitler’s rise to power, and the likes of IG Farben and Bayer profited greatly during the reign of the Nazi’s.

Now we see the same thing with the likes of Bezos, Zuckerberg and Musk installing Trump, and abusing their influence to completely deregulate the markets they are in (e.g. banning any regulation on AI by states).

Yeah but the choice is between socialism and fascism, and capitalists stand to lose a lot under socialism.

You’re right, it’s also about the capitalists who put them in power.

That sounds like “right answer, wrong method” to me, tbh. Did you feel ashamed for having to sit in the front or having detention, or was it more like “eh, works for me, might as well go along with it”?

If I’d Only Known I Wouldn’t Have Wasted So Much Of My Potential Club.

I’m in this club but very much trying to leave, because I’m starting to realize “wasted potential” in itself is a toxic idea that’s been ingrained by years of teachers telling me this (with my parents doing their best to counter). That’s not to say I’m not still trying to do my best, I am, but only because I want to and because it makes me happy.

“Faith-based health care provider” is one of the saddest euphemisms I’ve heard in a while.

I agree with the overall sentiment, but I’d like to add two points:

1. Everyone starts off as a code editor, and through a combination of (self-)education and experience can become a software engineer.

2. To the point of code editors having to worry about LLM’s taking their job, I agree, but I don’t think it will be as over the top as people literally being replaced by “AI agents”. Rather I think it will be a combination of code editors becoming more productive through use of LLMs, decreasing the demand for code editors, and lay people (i.e. almost no code skills) being able to do more through LLMs applied in the right places, like some website builders are doing now.

Sanewashing, everything, all the time.

Even if Tesla itself doesn’t do that, it’s something to be concerned about in case a vulnerability is found that allows remote access to the camera’s (or worse any local video recordings that may exist).

4K Ultra DLP LASER Projection®©™

And they force you to use it if you want autosave, which is essential in a work environment given the stability of MS Office programs (or at least my ability to crash Excel).