Mh, perhaps there can be a partial “Lemmy contrarian” side to the story, probably because we are used for stuff in private companies to become monopolies and ruin the availability of good service in general, out of greedy dividend-focused choices monopolies do

I guess the question is if that’s the correct way to do or if we’d prefer public investments on childcare

Like, are the people in June Care background checked? You know to avoid bad service before some parent has a terrible experience

Not to mention that currency from a specific country is valuable if others are interested in investing there or in their products

As less and less governments and banks want to invest in the US, they lose interest in selling products in dollars, since the US doesn’t produce much anymore, just services

So they create currency in absolute value, but in terms of real buying power they are dependent on the opinions of the rest of the world

When Picard updates the 21th century scientist on what changed after the warp drive, in First Contact. That was the scene that convinced me to start watching star trek, thanks to a YouTube video about post-scarcity economy

From the series, some scenes from Measure of a Man would be an easy choice, but I actually probably prefer when Troi helps, again, the woman from the past find her family tree on the computer, don’t remember the episode name

Data/Sherlok sceses when the highly intelligent villain becomes sentient are also cool

Especially if Data was watching over him

Database queries, especially OpenSearch/ElasticSearch

My humble opinion: burnout exists, laziness doesn’t

Laziness is a buzzword concept to describe way too many states of mind, downplaying the causes of lack of motivation.

I think there are some words that, if avoided, allow deeper investigation into important things, and “lazy” is in the top 10 of that list

E soprattutto il punto è che il suo governo si regge a malapena sull’odio e la disinformazione, stica di cosa accadrà realmente, d’altronde molti dei suoi voti vengono dalla campagna dove non sanno nemmeno cosa sia un pride, mentre i cittadini di Budapest (a partire dal sindaco) sarebbero pronti a occupargli le piazze se veramente lo vieta

IT’S BEEN A LOOOOONG ROOOAD

no really I completely understand it can sound cringe but I enjoyed singing it almost every time

Family Guy

Star Trek Enterprise

And as an italian 90s kid, all cartoons on air in the 2000s

Shivers in my ass

I read cows at first 🫠

Dope stuff anyway

Cows negotiating territory is very funny 😁

Would love a documentary about it, if you have any pointers

My favourite is language, not even writing, but language itself. We could collectively invent ways to understand each others with codes shared by tens of millions of individuals, living kilometres apart.

And then I also love early astronomy, like being able to approximate Earth’s circumference (or later the time needed to reach Asia by navigating west), based on the shadow lenght at two fairly distant (but still pretty close) places, thanks to that quirky thing some friends of yours invented to divide land called geometry. To say nothing of those demonstrating Earth rotates around the Sun just by looking at star positions during the year.

As for recent things, something pretty cool we take for granted is radio signals. Information getting places without anything moving, just invisible vibrations through space.

Most handsome capitalist I know

What’s funny to me is that such a robot takeover would mean all humans are (wage-)enslaved rather than 99% of us like right now

We already have a ruler, the Money god, that is already enslaving many, killing others, and silencing dissent. I might actually prefer if my ruler was some superintelligent logical being rather a than few male 60yos hoping to book the next trip to some harem island that might or might not have minors in it taken directly from the territories at war around the world

Hi, Italian here

Italy, like many European countries, had strong social-democratic foundations. Many state jobs, strong state education, one of the best state healthcares out there, strong labour laws with contracts made by unions with specific job sectors.

That’s now mostly on paper, and things change significantly from region to region. For example Emilia Romagna is still pretty strong on those, but go to the south and you’ll see state school buildings being closed because they might collapse, or not offering any heating or A/C for the kids. Public healthcare is now very understaffed in most regions.

As for labour laws, companies aren’t exactly too happy giving the expected raises or following work hours, and unskilled jobs are a disaster of underpay and unpaid overtime.

In general, social cohesion is hit or miss. Sure,most people are welcoming and friendly, but many of them are not paying all of their taxes. You’re friends with the person in front of you, not with your whole nation.

Now that I broke some of the possible expectations: yes it’s a good idea to come here. With time you will find some job, especially in the north and centre regions, just prepare for high rents in big cities and you’ll be fine. Oh and possibly find somebody to help with taxes. If you decide for Rome, Napoli or Palermo, don’t drive right away, take your time to learn how people drive here, what to expect etc

Killua, his nails long

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