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  • Remember that occasion where a Danish warship found itself in contact with pirates or Houthis or whoever, and it turned out half the weapon systems are not functional or something?

    This is what they don’t want to show. That any military rusts, so the initial moments of those countries’ participating in any war will be full of shame. The first weeks of Russia’s invasion are a good example of such. No, EU doesn’t mean this won’t happen. Yes, defense-related corruption exists everywhere. No, European militaries are not full of supermen somehow magically superior to Russians and Ukrainians.

    It’s very simple. The moment that happens, some people may find themselves under scrutiny for clear failures in their area of responsibility. So they resist. This is normal.


  • It’s different between countries, I suppose.

    Also people want different things. For me customizable desktops (say, FVWM however I want to script it) are important, because I easily get distracted and overloaded. I also can’t ignore aesthetics, and in my subjective taste Apple style is concentrated bad taste combined with arrogance. Also there’s something in their UI design making me feel nausea and get tired faster. I don’t know what it is.

    Other people want something else.

    It comes from subjective experience in a country where Apple is traditionally not very popular.

    I also can’t separate their disgusting advertising from their products, subjective again.







  • You need technology cheaper than fossil fuels. Some of fossil fuels’ downsides are upsides for some people (political control), which necessitates the difference in cost by a big enough margin to counter those invisible benefits. A revolution.

    There’s no urgency, I think, because Earth’s population is going to start shrinking. The emissions are going to slow down for that reason.

    Countries that won’t have some quality, not quantity, approaches to their economies by then are going to fall hard.

    I guess that’s how EU is going to make the world owned by Europeans again.


  • It’s simple, you have a shared resource running out, nobody wants to grab less of it.

    Grab less of it yourself - the others will compensate for you. Produce some of that resource - the others will just profit from it for longer.

    The biggest emitters are too strong to be climate-crusaded, the smaller ones do successful bribing and greenwashing, but I think there will eventually be climate crusades - against those poor bastards who formally fail to do something right, but don’t really contribute meaningfully to emissions.

    Other than finding some wonderful (like in Total Recall) process to turn fossil fuels into matter practically not separable and not usable as fuel, I don’t know what one can do.

    Profitable personal mobile nuclear batteries are still not reality.

    Some new magical principle of producing energy, sufficiently decentralized (here go big NPPs). There’s none, so prepare for dark future.