As a “European” my electricity bill has never been as low as it is this year. I think it really depends where you live

Great invention… Just uses hooorribly wrong. The classic capitalist greed, just gotta get on the wagon and roll it on out so you don’t mias out on a potential paycheck

You and me both. Good luck!

Many places in Europe are wonderful. Generally speaking I think you’re quite fine when it comes to LGBT rights, especially in the Western countries, and metros and public transportation in general are commonplace, but I wouldn’t expect free internet and freedom of expression to be around in a handful years.

I’d expect it to be cracked down entirely within the next 2-3 years. The EU has wet dreams of absolute control

The SVM government as a whole is huge on expanding surveillance and the police force - I don’t see that it’s just a small group of activists within the parties. I’m just glad other EU countries aren’t biting on this bs

It’s not “Danish activists” but rather the government. As a Dane I know how horny these people are to create a fullblown police/nanny state. SVM (the name for the government) is terrible for all of us. Can’t wait to see their voter share drastically diminish at the next election, but clearly they can do a lot of harm first…

LLMs are absolutely amazing for a lot of things. I use it at work all the time to check code blocks or remembering syntax. It is NOT and should NOT be your main source of general information and we collectively have to realise how problematic and energy consuming they are.

It’s only implemented in 4 countries and mine doesn’t even use Euro

It’s not just a “business decision”. It’s about control and they’re connected. You’re naive if you don’t see the bigger picture

It’s the slowly boiling water, mate. You think governments give a fuck whether some neckbeards play incest video games in their mum’s basement? It’s about power and expanding the reach of what they can monitor and control. One day it’s porn games the next day it’s books. It’s a tiny step towards a more and more authoritarian world.

What is wrong with that? It’s not like actual democracies are a thing. The elites somewhat allow us to decide on “Western bullshit” topics such as killing games, gendered bathrooms, national dishes, and other issues that don’t affect their bottom lines. They don’t allow us to influence geopolitics. Sure you can yell about freeing Congo, and it should be… but ehh, if some people care about stop killing games then whatever. Anything positive is something - and I don’t even really play video games or care about this thing.

And what do you recommend paying with instead?

No shit… you think it’d be fair to devs and creators if you could just buy the game, play it for 15 hours and then get a refund every time?

And payment infrastructure. Being dependent on Mastercard and Visa is no longer viable.

That’s a respectable age! Personally I’m 69 years old.

And likewise in a time with such a strong pushback against knowledge, science, and innovation… Oh the things humanity could achieve without these destructive forces!

Very disappointing indeed. Hoping to at least see continued work on digital independence, especially in governmental entities.

Don’t get me wrong, but why are matters of governmental surveillance and control inherently “right-wing” rather than a totalitarian policy not otherwise directly connected to wing politics? Extremists on both sides have a history of creating totalitarian, Big Brother states (which the UK is certainly headed towards).

If Israel stops starving children and razing villages you’ll probably see Hamas’ influence diminish ;)