In my client’s defense, they wanted to contribute to global warming, a patriotic act in these weird times!

Big Tech CEOs, the biggest subsidy-dependents the world has ever seen!

In a slightly better reality, it should be mandatory for them to use the word “entertainment” instead of “news” for their channel.

In short, we will need an open-source alternative to these implants, of course.

The only law in the world is that he who has the most raw power makes the law. Might makes right and shit. Unfortunately, the rest are idealistic illusions to give a false sense of civilization, security, justice and order to the masses.

Easy, each person pays for their own health care just like in America. Our politicians have been letting our health care systems to rot for decades for this very moment.

I don’t care anymore, the EU, the European project is cooked by the hysteria about immigration. If these beliefs continue to grow among the people, we will be a set of fossils, each of us becoming more and more authoritarian while desperately trying to increase birth rates as the only way to re-establish national sustainability and glory.

I only feel sorry for the women of a not too distant future, perhaps pessimistic (but not impossible), who will have to become authentic birth factories to save their nations whether they want to or not when there was another option.

I don’t think it necessarily has to be that way. That’s what I’m trying to say.

Now if you ask me what I think would be most likely to happen I tend to agree with you. This technology is already beginning to develop in the wrong hands.

One thing is certain, it would be a huge transformation.

I don’t think things will ever go back to the way they were before, largely because the USSR has dissolved. The European elites, and in particular the Nordic ones, allowed social democracy to flourish out of fear that people, influenced by the Soviets, would join a communist revolution in their respective countries. That threat has disappeared.

It might not be that different from using a social network like Lemmy, you wouldn’t necessarily have to be assimilated (in the sense of losing your identity), but you could more easily put yourself in someone else’s shoes, your experience would be augmented. In an ideal world this technology could give you access to my memories and give me access to yours, I would know everything about you and you would know everything about me (no privacy, yes, but no power imbalance either), lying would be pointless and we would be able to feel what each other feels in the way we feel.

A good part of Humanity’s problems are problems with language, communication, understanding others or rather the lack thereof. A technology like this could literally put us in other people’s heads and thus perhaps help us develop greater understanding and empathy, at least I have hope for this.

That said, I don’t trust the people running these companies to develop this with the benign long-term goal I’ve described. 🤣

On the other hand, if done correctly, we could become a federated hive mind and thus finally eliminate lying and achieve absolute empathy because we would be able to feel what the other feel as if it was us.

Ricin is natural and one of the most potent plant-produced poisons.

Furthermore, something can be efficient in different ways depending on the criteria. Something can even be efficient in one context and inefficient in a different one. Efficiency as they use it is too vague.

With ideias like that you sure ain’t that different from those white colonialist.

China is already an autocracy, which always brings greater stability (the regime cannot drastically change with the result of the next elections), but it also increases the chances of abuse of power. For some it makes little difference, for others it doesn’t. For the undecided, the one who offers more in return will win.

Europe needs to create new industries and develop existing ones, while distancing itself from the world’s major powers. But we won’t be able to manufacture here at affordable prices, so we could look for alternatives like the countries of North Africa, for example. I think China simply won’t be as interested in developing a relationship in this way, since they already produce a lot of goods by themselves. In short, we need to be as generous as possible with our new allies.

Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in this world. We do not even have the guarantee here in the EU that we will preserve our democratic systems, that we will not succumb to the far-right, to the neo-Nazis. In Germany alone, in recent polls, the AfD has grown and is now ahead in voting intentions, and the new Coalition government has not even taken office yet. Even seeing all the nonsense and chaos that the Trump administration has sown in America in just a few months, this has not discouraged German voters from a party of the same political line supported and financed by the same group of people. We cannot guarantee that we will not install far-right governments in our potential new allies, we cannot guarantee that they will not be destabilised, exploited or even worse. We cannot even guarantee that we will not do the same to ourselves.

Preventing this is an eternal battle that requires a certain leap of faith from everyone. This idea, for our own good, must become a fundamental part of our culture! We must unite the Democratic Forces of our countries and theirs in an eternal struggle against tyranny. We just cannot fall into the error of thinking that there are guarantees, this is a false sense of security that allows these far-right movements to grow. You may have even won great battles, but the war always continues. We can at least try to support their development and foster prosperity in good faith, not let them fall behind. Struggle, struggle, struggle ad aeternum!

I’m not superstitious, but I’m starting to think that the 30s are cursed, the closer we get to them the worse Europe gets.

The world is much bigger than just China or the United States. Perhaps Brazil and South America in general are the best candidates for better partners. Africa too, if it develops.

The countries of the European Union need to integrate more and form new alliances outside the two giants.

Just imagine: in a Europe with a single fiscal policy and a shared debt, where the euro is the dominant global currency, you could invest in Portugal or Finland in the same simple way. We would design in Europe, produce in North Africa (these countries would stabilize, develop and there would be no illegal immigrants sailing dangerously through here; later, when they develop sufficiently economically and culturally, we could even open the doors to free movement; Mare Nostrum!) and sell in South America and elsewhere. We should be the ones dictating to China and the United States the conditions for better economic cooperation, not the other way around. We should be the Global Power!

Don’t talk nonsense. Trump will destroy America and take Europe down the same path if he gets the chance.

The breakdown of trust in the Atlantic alliance alone is one of the worst things that could have happened to both sides and this is just the beginning. They’re going to fuck themselves and they’re going to fuck us in the process.

Bold of you to assume that Trump and Company won’t put the average American to work for almost nothing. The planned economic recession is to convince the people to do so.

The new generation of American children will not spend most of their time studying in school, but rather working in factories for a handful of peanuts. That’s Trump’s America.