Very insightful read, thanks! I’m not (as per my self diagnosis) neurodivergent but I’m also very curious about a lot of things, although I tend to get bored rather easily. I also probably lack life experience as I’m in my mid twenties so some trends might pass me by.
Another curiosity: do you have a curated list of sources for reading or read whatever comes at hand? Are you automatizing any of your flow for consuming and interpreting data?
This is really interesting, but hoe can you be sure your “gut” isn’t deeply influenced by whatever media you consume?
“We just can’t stop winning”
People are dumb or plain retarded to comprehend the most basic and common sense things about cases like Trump. The same has been happening in Romania for almost 40 decades now: people keep voting fascists/ex-communists/thieves/incompetent people even id they are warned about it.
No, it’s the child slavery 2.0 electric boogaloo
I guess once more and more content is posted here, naturally more people will come. And also any further steps of reddit enthitiffication will move people over.
Trump is at least a showman and it showed that a lot of people are braindead enough to believe him. This coupled with the apathy of the other part (afaik Kamala had fewer votes overall than Biden) got us here. The democrats, as with many other parties over here in Europe are fucking afraid to SAY THINGS OUT LOUD. I don’t know if that’s because they consider themselves too god for it or not, but it’s disastrous. Here in Romania the former president had less public appearances in 10 fucking years than the interim one we have had for the past ~2 months and we were on the verge of electing a russian puppet mostly out of spite.
I’m not an american, but man did Kamala and Biden look washed up as fuck. The same thing is happening in Europe/Romania too: washed up politicians that are tone deaf to the majority of people and then are surprised pikachu face when they lose. It boggles my mind almost no one comes up with (and is LOUD about it) things that favor the middle/working class.
Shouldn’t this be kept secret until after whatever outcome?
Yeah, nixos is great in some aspects, but a newcomer will be very displeased with a lot of nix specific things. And having quite bad documentation is no help either.
I hope EU steps up and props Ukraine long enough for Russia to collapse. The cracks are showing but the americans just had to be traitors.
We had a blanket ban on abortion/contraception in the 60s in Romania and while initially there was a boom in newborns, it eventually reverted to the norm even if the ban wasn’t lifted. So I’m not so sure about that.
You are very optimist people will still have kids in this situation.
Sadly what started as a people’s revolution got deturned into a coup d’etat back then: the old guard of the Securitate and high echelon of the Communist party continued (and still continues to a high degree) to have most of the power.
Eh, more or less. I’ll probably be able to afford one in about a year (with a loan ofc), but I make almost double the median salary.
This looks really interesting, is there any catch?
Perhaps, I use them when walking around mostly or in the night. At PC i have dedicated headphones.
Yup, Georgescu and supposedly some of the secret service/army were planning a violent coup d’etat. Looks like for now we avoided that.
The service itself is not great, especially in smaller cities, but it’s quite cheap compared to private healthcare and in big cities you actually have decent to good treatment. My dad has treatable diabetes (doesn’t require insulin) and spends something like 50 euros a month for them. Not free, but affordable.
Bad part of Romania is the rampant corruption and lack of infrastructure. It’s gotten better the past years but still behind western countries.
Because US seem to HATE anything remotely left of (far) right. This is probably due to decades of red scares.