idk if the organised military arm of a recognised state can even be classed as terrorists. i’d have gone with “oppressors”, personally. but the point of this community is to post news articles without editorialising them.

please use the headline of the article as the title.

Rule 1: Title must match article headline

please

yeah not a good look to have pictures of space nazi soldiers on your chest

the only admin disappeared and the bills stopped getting paid, apparently

yo

the right medication would fix me

meanwhile, in austria…

yeah lowering the standard of living is not popular. i don’t think complete self-sufficiency is necessarily the goal i’m thinking of, as much as minimising logistics costs. there’s also the resiliency factor; every european nation being self-sufficient in crucial areas like food, medicine, electricity etc and trading the surplus would make for a very strong continent.

there’s a lot of talk here about buying local now, like i’d imagine there is in most of europe. we still have local farms, but buying meat from brazil of all places is still marginally cheaper because they produce so much and have more lax standards for, say, how much antibiotics can be used on the animals (here that makes the meat prohibited to sell). i’m not saying to artificially modify pricing to privilege local production but i feel like there must be… something.

i think the finns did a ubi experiment pretty recently. the execution was a bit flawed, but the results were positive.

good answer.

i think the main point i’m disagreeing with people on is where to draw the line on self-reliance. it may be naive of me but i’m for a “put on your own mask before helping others” approach where countries trade for what they cannot make. a country is not a single subsistence farmer, it’s a huge collection of people.

i think what i meant was a fine idea was what people believed would happen rather than what was actually said and done. and i don’t mean the racist bits, that was obviously part of it. my other reply goes into that more.

okay fair, brexit as presented was always a lie and their numbers were not only wrong, but about things that didn’t actually affect anyone. but i’ve talked to people in england who are still pro. not because of what was promised, but because what they saw was an opportunity to get stuff made locally again. and i get that.

maybe it’s a background thing. i grew up surrounded by old shuttered industry that used to make genuinely useful stuff only to be out-priced by imports, and that has continued into the 2020’s. i used to live close to the world’s most advanced paper mill of its type, but it closed and production was moved to a worse mill with lower output in another country as an economic decision. that place had been there for 200 years, the company owned its own hydro power dam and all the forests used for the pulp, the mill had its own rail connection… it was basically printing money, but dismantling it meant being able to sell the machinery for a quick buck.

like, sweden is exceptional at iron and steel. but we used to be exceptional at a lot more. turbines and jet engines. high-voltage transformers. copper. grains. cheap but safe cars. textiles. power tools. wood products. all very useful stuff that could be made entirely “in-house”. now most of that (or the constituent parts) is made elsewhere, and almost purely for economic reasons. there was no need to close that paper mill, but it was done to get the numbers to look good. when the economy goes international it feels like the people get left behind.

the way i see it is, if you black-box a country to just look at imports and exports, the lower the ratio between the two the more money the country makes. yes the salary and living situation may differ from place to place but that’s all internal, funded by those exports in some way or another. moving towards that is, in my mind, a laudable goal. and doing so in a free trade union is obviously better.

the problem is of course that it was never the goal of brexit.

holy shit you interned for santa?

i got accepted at a small specialist school at 15 and moved alone to the other end of the country. our family situation had unfortunately degraded a lot at that point.

of brexit, absolutely. it was insane. and of course you need to export stuff to keep your economy going. but the basic idea that countries should be self-reliant so that the entire market is more robust is good. they were just blinded by imperialism.

honestly the hl2 model posed in gmod would probably have looked funnier

is that an ai pillowcase?

it’s an interesting case study of a fine idea gone horribly wrong. shoring up the domestic market is good, making sure people don’t lose their jobs because of foreign labor is good. but when you’ve got the history of an empire, that stuff was already taken care of, so they platformed on hate.

that’s not a complete rewrite. hell, depending on how it was architected it may just be a recompile

no the cults are the people building the things. most of the openai leadership seem to be afraid of roko’s basilisk.