At this point, there is no more “The West.”
“The Wild West,” maybe.

“Turmoil” is an interesting choice of words.

Fascinating game. You get to learn what amazing liars people can be. The devil really is a squirrel.

What do they need bots for? Just cut out the middleman and buy and sell upvotes/ recommendations/ rankings on the frontpage. Who would notice?
Lemmings and even more so Redditors are still clinging to the sham of “objective” platforms playing by some sort of physical rules and clean, unbiased algorithms in the face of multiple daily threads on social media that are very obviously being brigaded and capsized, for much more than 10 years at this point.

I think you are correct. Especially the thing about “liaisons,” reminds me of the political officers in the Soviet Union. They were the pillars of a reign of terror.

Rents are also 1/2. Cannot vouch for devs, but in our IT department, nobody speaks German.

You also take more, rents in particular.

English is the language of science, so I’d argue that any country in Schengen would be the most straightforward choice. Climates can differ greatly, though, even within one country, so I always compare the temperature, sunshine and precipitation stats before moving some place new.

Up until recently, I would have believed there was a chance for a few “quiet” years so a war can be started just when the incumbent president is up for reelection. Now that day might never come, so why not start some wars right now, subjugate whatever they can and throw the spoils of war to the population to quell unrest?

Yeah I’m going with a Murena phone and /e/os installed, as they’re both European.

Bleak when only a time traveler from the future can save the world from impending doom at this point.

Agreed. I hope it doesn’t take Europe until the Mediterranean is blocked off by US warships to understand the US is neither a friend, nor neutral, in this. “Trade” just doesn’t cut it for them anymore, they are going for the land grab.

The wondrous times we live in.

I’m almost expecting Trump to come out of the “special meetings” with Putin with the result that unlike Ukraine, Russia agreed to pay up, so the US will now deliver weapons to Russia and, of course, drop all sanctions.

For shit sure, even.

65% of Nigerians, and 61% of Indonesians agree with the statement that “Facebook is the Internet”

This is extremely worrying.

If you are not an insider, don’t buy, simple as that. And even if you think you are, are you really? Were you invited to the lavish opening party with the flamingos and the dancers at the huge mansion with two pools and all that? If not, then you are at the bottom of the totem pole, much like anybody else. Your designated role is to funnel your own money upward.

Unless, of course, the US exits NATO. At this point, everybody would be better of without them.

Good on you, Zelensky. Do not cave.