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I think using AI in this fashion is different though as this is basically just using it as a fancy auto-complete...


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Realistically probably China as they are probably among the countries that depend the least on the US in terms of defense, banking, manufacturing, digital services, culture and the like.

If you want to live there is different question for a number of reasons, but I do think it is probably your best bet avoid the impact of a US collapse (which I think is very unlikely).


Regardless of what happens in the USA, a violent civil war in China is entirely possible within the next few decades. From a historical perspective those are by no means uncommon. The Communist Party has been able to suppress most internal dissent lately but when Chairman Xi leaves power anything could happen.


Fair enough, but I would view China's stability independently from the evaluation of the impact of a hypothetical US collapse.


If you are against heavy handed regulations I think supporting the DMA is only logically as those regulations are now coming from gatekeepers such as Apple or Google so limiting them in what they are allowed to do is fully compatible with this mindest I believe.


The Libertarian philosophy is concerned with limiting the powers of government not companies.

I think people are seeing that companies can wield as much power and influence as governments can and yet have no democratic mandate or similar accountability mechanisms that we impose on governments.



1. EU citizenship is not a thing. You can only have citizenship of a EU member state. 2. Looking at who the majority of Americans voted for no thanks.


I may be completely wrong, but it seems to me EU citizenship is actually really a thing.

You have the citizenship of your country, and if that country is in the EU, also conferred upon you is EU citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_citizenship


That is what I am describing in my second sentence. You get it in addition to having citizenship of a EU member country, but you can't get it by itself (which is what the comment I replied to implied).


>2. Looking at who the majority of Americans voted for no thanks.

It was a plurality, not a majority of the ~64% of the electorate that bothered to vote, not a majority of the US population. So roughly 30% of eligible voters (who make up ~70% of the population , so ~20% of the population voted for Trump[0])

So, if you don't mind, let's not paint all Americans with such a broad brush okay?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...


The 36% of the electorate who didn't vote is also kinda no-thanks.

Many of them had reasonable excuses, due to how hard we make it to vote in this country. But an awful lot of them took a look at the two candidates, shrugged, and said "Looks like a tossup to me." I can't imagine the EU wants them much more than it wants the 30% who actually voted for it.


Deciding to not vote is agreeing with the majority of those who did vote.


Thoreau would say voting is a joke anyway =-) a gentle wave of good-wishes as some vital cause happens to pass by.


Then why even have speed limits if you don't want to enforce them?



I can also recommend "Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride", which was made by the same author and is a really great documentary film.

It's free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Jrp6it9Ss


"Good morning, and welcome to the Black Mesa transit system" is the first thing that popped in my head when the train started moving.


Wait until you see the situation in Germany. Everything uses just a normal .de domain, no special TLD for government institutions at all.


It’s awful, really. Some domain names are so awfully chosen, they sound like scams. Take the government program for financial support to students, called BAföG. Here’s a bunch of domains related to that:

  * bafoeg.de
  * bafoeg-digital.de
  * bafoegonline.bva.bund.de
Or, the worst one in my opinion: the German federal ID card has an integrated RFID chip that requires a PIN to unlock. You can use that chip to authenticate against a few government services online, which rely on the PIN as proof of identity. The PIN can be reset using a OTP sent via snail mail.

Q: where you you think can you order that letter?

  a) Bundesdruckerei.de
  b) personalausweisportal.de
  c) pin-ruecksetzbrief-bestellen.de
  d) bmi.bund.de?
A: yes. It’s c. Seriously.


Healthcare billing in the USA has gone this way. You're going to see emails from my-doctor-billing.com directing you to hospital-pay-site.biz and they're all totally legitimate.

It's nuts.


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