nice of you to assume only American eyes are here, not at all feeding into the American exceptionalism trope, nope, not at all.

oh yeah most definitely and I agree. My real serious positions are :

• Tax billionaires
• let’s create more common services for shit everybody needs (housing, food, insurance, etc)
• start setting up universal basic income for the rest

My previous comment was more of a way to commiserate about those services than offering the advice that This Is The Way.

Imagine if a people actually chose to ban those websites tho. I would start my journey to become a Turk. (♫ ff7 turks theme and snaps ♫) Unfortunately, Erdoğan.

Gotta strike Brian while he’s hot, you know.

I mean, some ideologies in the TESCREAL bundle kinda are barreling toward that. What is the ideology behind Roko’s Basilisk if not that? They just aren’t organized yet - and I hope we can help those who fall for that lunacy before it becomes something more dangerous and sinister.

I once deleted the whole production kubernetes environment trying to fix an update to prod give awry, at11pm. My saving grace was that our systems are barely used between 10pm-8am, and I managed to teach myself by reading enough docs and stack overflow comments to rebuild it and fix the initial mistake before 5am. Never learned how to correctly use a piece of stack that quickly before or since.