Merz seems to genuinely believe no one works except for him. Yeah, right.

I like LLMs and use them a lot for boring task. It’s a nice tool, but I’d love to see it being marketed as such, and not as a panacea or a catastrophe. And gosh, I’d love people to stop shoving it down people’s throats. No, Adobe, I don’t need a summary, and I see it’s a long document, stop wasting time and resources…

Exactly! But developed countries largely still see immigrants as the source of all evil.

I strongly dislike the statement, but the graphics are cool.

Note: as far as I know, this statistic does not include the instances when the train didn’t arrive at all. I wonder if there’re any numbers on the overall adherence to the schedule.

Agreed. Here in Germany there’s a big problem that even all business have to comply with many regulations meant for corporations, making the expenses for smaller companies enormous.

Given: not all of them are driving innovation, but my entrepreneur friends who run their businesses in Germany plan to move their endeavors elsewhere.

I’m all up for a social state, but not for the laws that only large corporations can easily follow.

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer or a businessman myself and only know about the matter anecdotally.

It’s a bit sad for my friends in Russia, but I do hope very much it signals the fall of the regime.

Recently, the Ministry of Education posted on the official report as their accomplishment that less young people go to universities than before, and instead of high school they choose labour professions.

I’ve nothing against handworkers, but where else in the world does the bloody Ministry of education celebrate the lower rate of education in their country?!

Source: podcast in Russian by polititologist Ekaterina Schulman, a bit lazy to find the link at the moment.

From a Russian living in Europe; nice to learn I’m a nationalist from a lemming who really checked.

But I agree partially: nationalists in immigration are most likely not to change their politics inclination that easily.

Apologies for being sour.

I guess same with Putin – he was painted a pragmatic villain and not a senile man with nukes that he is.

Well said:)

Because Russia pays for spreading it.

I didn’t try to do the purchase, but very nice to know the company blocked the purchase! I was also very happy with the product too. What a difference from the likes of Adobe.

I almost bought publisher last week, and postponed till Black Friday. Just wow!!!

I live in Germany for over 6 years, and come from Russia. I don’t appreciate generalisation, but some things he mentioned just ring the bell. Some Germans I met definitely fit the description, but not the others.

I don’t think art here is complacent, but I also see how artists from outside of Germany (and generally, foreigners), often tune down their criticism towards Germany.

At work, my German colleagues are very sensitive if a foreigner criticizes late trains or long bureaucratic procedures. There’s a notion we should be grateful, and if we don’t like something, we should go back to places we like…

Germans themselves seem to be critical of their society though, so I wonder how it works from the inside.

Perhaps Ai Weiwei’s point is a perspective of an outsider who’s expected to express gratefulness and complacency.

It’ll still have plenty. It still trades outside of the West, it still has enough manpower. Russia would probably solidify it’s decline for decades, but it still have enough resources to squeeze for the rest of Putin’s lifetime. And, you don’t need to be a superpower to cause a lot of harm, if the intention is there.

Thanks a lot! I looked into it, and it seems it doesn’t run the last version, but works fine with the old ones. I’ll look more into it!

Thank you for the reply. I need to run Rhino 8, and apparently it doesn’t reliably work through wine. It’s my main software I use professionally, and moving to something like Blender is unfortunately not an option.

I’d go for Lunix, if the software I need for work would I run on it. Thinking about keeping Win 10 on a separate disk, since my laptop is not eligible for Win 11.

Yay Deutschland! 💪