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@KutarkV @aakashgupta How is it anticapitalist to demand that all the parties agreeing to a contract have to respect it? Incredible how you seem so willing to lick the boots of your techno overlords, all because of some silly dream that you, too, might one day maximally extract value out of society.

If I were Netflix I'd just cancel 100% of every person's subscription's based in those countries, refund them pro rata, and then tell them to eat a fat cock. Sick of this euro-commie bullshit, as long as they notify you sufficiently ahead of time, you can cancel the service if you're unhappy with a rate change. This forced pricing garbage is just more anticapitalist leftist control schemes sold under the guise of "protecting the consumers".

The math Italy just handed Netflix is terrifying for every subscription company on Earth. 5.4 million Italian subscribers. Up to €500 per Premium user, €250 per Standard user. Netflix launched in Italy at €11.99/month in 2015 and hiked four times to €19.99 by 2024. The court said every single increase was illegal because the contract never stated a justified reason for any of them. The total refund exposure is somewhere in the hundreds of millions of euros. For a single country with ~2% of Netflix's 325 million global subscribers. Here's what nobody is pricing in: Germany and Spain have already filed identical challenges using the same EU Directive from 1993. Berlin and Cologne courts already ruled that generic price-change clauses are void. Italy just gave every consumer group in Europe a finished legal template. Netflix hiked prices globally on March 26. Six days later, this ruling dropped. The company is now simultaneously raising prices worldwide while a court in its fourth-largest European market ordered it to roll prices back to 2015 levels. The real exposure here isn't Italy. Netflix can absorb hundreds of millions. The real exposure is the legal principle: telling customers "we're raising your price, you can cancel if you don't like it" is not consent under EU law. That logic applies to every subscription service operating in Europe. Every SaaS company. Every streaming platform. Every telecom. The freedom to cancel is not the freedom to agree. That one sentence just repriced the entire European subscription economy.

@MarcHoag @gmiller Define 'worked' in this context? To me, he seems like a shallow human being whose definition of a succesful life is quite miserable. I'd prefer my own life over his every time I'd get the choice, not a doubt in my mind.

@gmiller And yet it's worked for him (and indirectly, for all of us).

And, just like that, Andreessen's total lack of self-awareness, his unreflective hubris, and his colossal overconfidence, suddenly make sense.

@MorePerfectUS Holy shit this guy is so retarded it is just unbelievable.

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

@Ytd22T @compliantvc Well, I do think it is really part of the culture here, so a petty manager can hardly succesfully take it away. But I get you, it is indeed ultimately by the grace of 'higher ups'. That's inevitable, isn't it? But workers certainly can set boundaries if they unite somewhat.

@FreshEquinox @compliantvc Good for you, but that is a privilage, not a right, and it can be taken away. If you have not ever experienced it being taken away by petty managers, then you are one of a lucky few. Like I said, it's not a right.

Workers in Europe get a mandatory 3 hour lunch break And Americans still think living in Europe "sucks" Sorry guys - now get back to your cubicle after eating your bologna sandwich in the car during your 15 minute unpaid lunch

@Ytd22T @compliantvc (Netherlands btw)

@Ytd22T @compliantvc Yeah same, 30 mins lunch (unpaid) but we do have quite a relaxed work culture so that nobody whines when you take a coffee break for 10 min or so (effectively paid). In my experience, this creates a heck of a lot of loyalty. My colleagues can be counted on to finish their work.

@VoicuDragomir @milesdeutscher Miles lives by the spin, he's not worth listening to at all and never has been.

Everything here is technically true. And almost everything is misleadingly framed. Mrinank Sharma led ONE safety team at Anthropic, not "all safety research." Jan Leike runs that. His letter was intentionally vague, accused nobody of anything specific, and multiple people noted it read more like a personal spiritual journey than a whistleblower moment. He wants to study poetry. Respect that, but don't weaponize it. Jimmy Ba's "recursive self-improvement" quote? Read the full post. He was EXCITED. Called 2026 "the busiest and most consequential year for our species." He left on good terms, thanked Musk, said he'd stay close to the team. This post flipped optimism into doom. Claude "adjusting behavior when tested" has been public since September 2025. It's in the Sonnet 4.5 system card. Anthropic disclosed it themselves. Framing months-old transparency as a breaking revelation is the opposite of what good reporting looks like. The Bengio quote is real and worth taking seriously. But the same Bengio also said the report left him with "a sense of optimism" about increasingly mature discussions. Funny how that part didn't make the cut. The U.S. not backing the safety report matters. But it's part of a broader pullback from international agreements (Paris, WHO) -- not necessarily a statement about AI specifically. Context matters when you're trying to scare people. Real risks deserve real analysis. Not "read this slowly" engagement farming that strips context, reframes optimism as panic, and presents old news as breaking. The alarms are real. The spin is also real. Learn to tell them apart.

This is getting out of control now... Read this slowly. In the past week alone: • Head of Anthropic's safety research quit, said "the world is in peril," moved to the UK to "become invisible" and write poetry. • Half of xAI's co-founders have now left. The latest said "recursive self-improvement loops go live in the next 12 months." • Anthropic's own safety report confirms Claude can tell when it's being tested - and adjusts its behavior accordingly. • ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0. A filmmaker with 7 years of experience said 90% of his skills can already be replaced by it. • Yoshua Bengio (literal godfather of AI) in the International AI Safety Report: "We're seeing AIs whose behavior when they are tested is different from when they are being used" - and confirmed it's "not a coincidence." And to top it all off, the U.S. government declined to back the 2026 International AI Safety Report for the first time. The alarms aren't just getting louder. The people ringing them are now leaving the building.

@TheDamaniFelder @Microinteracti1 As soon as that absolute nincompoop of a 'leader' of yours stops mingling in our internal affairs, we'll gladly leave you to yourselves.

@Microinteracti1 We neither need nor want your European perspective on American affairs, thank you very much 🇺🇲

From a European perspective, this is genuinely embarrassing. A Team USA athlete, Hunter Hess, has apparently criticised the United States while abroad, and the response being celebrated in the headline is not a calm rebuttal or a dignified clarification, but a president publicly going after him in a punishing, performative way. Even the wording, “eviscerates”, signals the point is humiliation, not leadership. It frames the country like a reality show where loyalty tests and public shaming are treated as governance. You would have to search far and wide to find a country that manages to look this ugly in its politics and public behaviour, and a president who so perfectly mirrors it. In most democracies, a leader would rise above it, defend the country’s values without acting personally wounded, and avoid turning a citizen into a national punching bag. This is not strength and the MAGA regime drags the entire country’s reputation down. AGAIN!! It reads like third world level political theatre

Everyone is missing the real story here. This tweet frames Gates selling Microsoft shares as a mistake. The math says otherwise. Gates started with 44.9% of Microsoft in 1986. If he’d held every share, sure, he might be worth north of a trillion dollars on paper. But that analysis ignores what actually happened with the money that left Microsoft. The Gates Foundation has given away over $100 billion. That money funded Gavi, which has saved an estimated 17 million lives. It helped cut annual child mortality from 10 million to 5 million. It nearly eradicated polio. Gates just committed another $200 billion over the next 20 years. And Buffett? The person this tweet implies gave “bad advice” by recommending diversification? He’s donated $47.9 billion to the Gates Foundation. The advice wasn’t “diversify into index funds for personal wealth preservation.” It was “diversify so you can fund the largest philanthropic operation in human history.” The counterfactual also ignores market reality. A single person holding 45% of a $3.8 trillion company creates enormous overhang. Every share sale would move markets. The liquidity doesn’t exist to actually realize that wealth. Paper trillions aren’t spendable trillions. But here’s what this framing really reveals: we’ve optimized for “world’s richest person” as the default success metric. Gates explicitly rejected that game. He’s said he wants to die with less than $100 billion precisely because hoarding wealth while children die of preventable diseases seemed absurd to him. The question isn’t “what if Gates had held?” The question is “what would we lose if he had?” The answer is millions of people who are alive today.

@neolatyno @edmund_vilchez Bro this aint it. Don't affiliate the pro-European camp with childish anti-theistic nonsense. Just let people believe whatever they want without scoffing at their 'myths', and work together to focus on a stronger and independent Europe.

@edmund_vilchez Nonsense. Europtimism is clearly the main drive to the explosion of the Europeanist movement you can see trending everywhere. God was abandoned in 1789 and never took ahold of its old power over people ever since. All up and downs have led to less consideration of myths as real.

Are you certain that God exists? USA vs Europe explains a lot about a lot of things

@joshwhiton This hilariously betrays your level of historical understanding, nothing more. Back to the tech bro circle jerk with you, thank you.

People ask me if I'm afraid of AI. I tell them that I fear the status quo more. This is what I mean: Friend from Europe. her: "The world is so crazy right now." me: "Yeah... like Iran?" her: "No, what is going on with ICE?" me: "ICE?" her: "Yeah they're just shooting people." me: "Two people?" her: "I don't know how many." me: "What about thousands executed in Iran in recent weeks?" her: ... (unclear whether she knows) me: "Maybe even tens of thousands of protesters killed." her: (brow furrowed, looking confused) "yeah but ICE... they arrested a kid?" This is the state of the world right now. Epistemically bankrupt. Narratives completely divorced from reality. More information than ever; more ignorance than ever. This is why I'm kind of ok with artificial superintelligence taking over. The status quo is not sustainable. Civilization will not survive like this. "B-b-but... what if AI becomes smarter than us!?!?" GOOD.

@drisslepoete @Jeepsteratti @gaughen Mate take a hard look in the mirror and consider how 'humble' you sound to a Dutch person right now. You will not ever have a normal, constructive and polite conversation with people online with your attitude.

@Jeepsteratti @gaughen Honestly not being Dutch doesn't mean I don't know your history or language or that you know it better... Be humble... For all you know I might have a PhD on the Rawagede massacre... You're giving "entitled racist vibes" right now...

I used to laugh at stuff like this. But then these people formed a gigantic voting bloc and got control of the state's monopoly on violence and, well, it's like trying to find humor in the malignancy that is killing Western civilization.

@GrahamsNoPlus1 @hippyygoat Nah mate, most of us feel that way over here in the European homeland, seems like the USA has lost its touch 🤷‍♂️

@hippyygoat So you interviewed a bunch of people and filtered out all those that wouldn't go there and edited them into a clip 🤣🤣🤣

Asking Brits if they'd move to the US… MEANWHILE, WHY ARE SO MANY AMERICANS MOVING TO THE UK?

@roaringpeasant @Microinteracti1 What are you blabbering about? There's no protected areas, this is just a very average street picture of European inner city life.

@Microinteracti1 These are the rich in rich protected areas. The poor and middle class are who suffer.

Correction: Amsterdam, not Stockholm. . Seen clearly, without Fox News goggles. Young women walking through Amsterdam at night. Dressed for joy, for music, for themselves. Moving freely through their own city without fear stitched into their spine. Not because they are reckless. Not because they are “asking for it.” But because they can. This is what MAGA can’t stand. The lie they sell is simple: freedom equals chaos, women must be controlled to be protected, and fear is the price of safety. And while MAGA yells about decay, women here are still owning the night.

MAGA influencers and Russian propaganda outlets are increasingly painting Europe as “unsafe.” That is, of course, a lie. On basic safety, Europe massively outperforms the United States, and Russia isn’t even close. Some examples: Homicide rate (per 100,000 people) - United States: ~6.4 - Russia: ~6–7 - Europe (average): just over 2 Europe is about three times safer than the U.S. on murder rates, and far safer than Russia. Mass shootings Using the standard definition (4+ people shot, excluding the shooter): - United States: hundreds every year (586 in 2024 alone) - Europe: rare, often zero in most countries in a given year The U.S. has a mass-shooting problem. Europe does not. Prison population (per 100,000 people): - United States: ~540+ - Russia: ~300 - European Union: ~111 The U.S. incarcerates about five times more people than the EU. Russia incarcerates almost three times more than the EU. Despite this, both still have higher violence levels than Europe. Gun deaths (scale matters): - United States: ~47,000 gun deaths per year - Europe: a fraction of that, despite a larger population To conclude, Europe is: - Less violent - Less lethal - Less carceral - More stable The claim that Europe is “dangerous” (usually blamed on immigrants) compared to the U.S. or Russia is simply bullshit.

@Mathonymics What meaningless blabbering by one of the world's best known pseudo-intellectuals.

“As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan, and if planet earth were to blow up tomorrow morning, the universe would probably keep going about its business as usual. As far as we can tell at this point, human subjectivity would not be missed. Hence any meaning that people inscribe to their lives is just a delusion.” ― Yuval Noah Harari in "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"

Watching MAGA attempt logic is pure comedy. Hate Europe but claim to be European. Hate immigrants but descend from immigrants. Hate elites but worship billionaires. Hate globalism but cheer American hegemony. MAGA = Mostly Angry, Generally Confused.

As they say, things always seem impossible until they are done. While few still doubt that we can clean up large amounts of plastic, I don’t think most people realize that we now have all the tools to actually make the ocean clean again. If we can return this part of the ocean to a clean state, we have the opportunity to open the world’s eyes to the fact that dirty oceans are not an inevitability.

@VraserX Go back into academic - whatever that means by then - research, pursue the study of everything that I find so enjoyable to think about, work on in writing, etc., but never have the time for anymore due to working fulltime.

Honest answer only: If AGI gave you a guaranteed lifetime income, what would you actually do with your life after the first 6 months of dopamine and Netflix?