[–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

Millennials will likely be overrepresented at some point in the future as well.

Once senators get in they seem to stay more often than not and building up the network one needs to get in also needs time and resources. Doubt this has ever been much different.

Oldest millennials are 45 now. This is when people start to get into these positions. Will probably be quite different in 5 years already.

You'll still be governed by corrupt assholes, but yeah, millennial corrupt assholes will have better representation.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Like in pretty much all branches, the AI will eventually just be another tool. There still needs to be someone there to actually understand what the tool produces or it will result in catastrophees. You don't want to live in a building structurally designed by an AI without oversight nor fly in a plane programmed y an AI without oversight. Even for non-critical branches, there will be someone who directs the AI when it is e.g. composing the next shitty pop-song.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Nah, they can give out directives and regulations to force the hand of local legislation. It happens all the time for many things. I personally have to deal with the fallout of one atm.

    And I already said it costs money. And that is okay. National security costs money The EU spends several hundred billions every year on its military. A safe OS is much more important than a couple more jets. Even if it costs 5 billion euros, screw it even if it is 5 billion every year, it is still cheap compared to what it brings.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I am not just talking about funding, but about investing in operating an alternative OS. All goverment institutions should be switched over. A single entity alone is not able to do this, because they face too many compatibility problems with other institutions/contractors/software companies (this is also why the article says "mostly", even the military isn't able to do it on its own, not even just for the office package, leave alone the OS). But if the EU decides to do this, everyone else will follow and start using compatible software.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'll never not be angry about the EU not developing their own OS/Distro, but using US software with backdoors. It is just insane. Yes, it probably would cost a few hundred millions extra, but a fighter jet also costs 100-130 million € and a safe OS is so extremly more important than a couple of extra fighter jets...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    TurkoGerman here and we do that all the time. Our families back in turkey learned enough german by now thay we even do it in turkey...

    Same for my tunisian wife (Arabic instead of Turkish though).

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    "We could almost never get answers that explained what happened before the story was fully framed in international media, and then when the facts were fully developed, it turned out that the casualties were much lower, the number of civilians was much lower, and, in many cases, the children were children of Hamas fighters, not children taking cover in places."

    How on earth do they manage to look like the greater evil compared to an open fascist?

    (edit: changed the title)

    [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    True, but that is what did the trick. No tinkering, just a flawless experience (in most cases). This changed everything. No longer I start a game in the evening, wondering if it will start or not (I worked all day, I don't want to google what I have to change to get the game to run again...). I double click and expect it to work (and it normally does).

    There are things to learn from this...

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