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but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes

It's easier to name the major Linux FOSS projects that DON'T have drama and virtue signaling than the ones with.

If you read the Github comments on System-D, GNOME, etc, it's like watching children bickering on Sega VS Nintendo.

Turns out FOSS devs are humas just like everybody else and suffer from the same flaws.

Incredibly, we're still running NTFS and dealing with hacks on hacks on hacks.

It's the painful cost of maintaining backwards compatibility.

For context, I can still install and use Winamp 2.5 from 1999 on Windows 11. That's over 25 years of backwards compatibility. Not something most people need on a daily basis but still very cool.

Because Europe does not have enough money.

They seem to have enough to send overseas and to spend on illegal economic migrants.

Private sector often does not fund projects like these as they have bad return on investment.

Then why does the private sector in the US fund projects like these?

Government can't solve affordable housing. It is the problem causing unaffordable housing.

They CAN solve housing because, like you said, they're the ones causing it. They just don't want to because the housing bubble is making a lot of people rich.

Food isn't an apreciating asset who's value grows when you hoard it and is also easily transportable between free markets. I can't import cheaper land from abroad. I'm limited by what's around me. That scarcity gives it value. You can keep growing virtually infinite food in the same land. You can't do that with housing.

We both know that's not gonna happen. Europe is way too entrenched in its ways by this point. The good ol' glory days that brought in Airbus and Concorde are gone and not transferrable to the modern, dynamic and very internationally competitive SW world, nor are its leaders strong and motivated enough to enact policy changes that favor disruption of the old money guard at the expense of the status quo. Case in point we have no SW giants, no Airbus equivalent of the SW world. All Europe's giants are decades to centuries old. 20 years ago EU's GDP was on par with the US's, now we're only half the US's GDP. We're cooked.

Plus, we first have to prioritize solving more urgent and important topics like affordable housing (WHEN?!), the collapsing pension and welfare systems which is a ticking timebomb, cheap energy, collapsing demographic (see affordable housing), illegal immigration, Putin's war next door, the rise of the right wing (see illegal immigration) before jumping into another pissing contest with the US and China on something that's not gonna help fix the pressing issues we have right fucking now. I don't see how we can recover from this downward spiral when I look at the inactions of our politicians who are just kicking the can down the road and blaming the EU and other countries of the union for their own systemic failures.

Winning the AI race might sound cool but it might also be similar to winning the race to the moon: a cool flex but not super useful to the general population if they can't afford a place to live or getting healthcare in a timely manner. Until ChatGPT can wipe your retired old ass in a care home I doubt many people will see AI investments as being a top priority.

How about that the Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk, makers of Ozempic, is opening their AI/ML lab in London next to DeepMind and other tech giants, instead of in its back yard?

The only one close to UK in Europe is probably Switzerland and France but they too are mostly focused on research in universities rather than pushing out commercial products the way the US is exceeding at. Everyone else is not even in the game.

Ai investors like all tech Investors don't care about your virtue signaling or your social justice, they care about making money.

They just pander to gay/trans causes in hopes it makes them more money in the west while censoring the same content overseas also for more money. They're not on your side, they're on the side of capital and Profit.

You can lie to yourself that they're on your side if that makes you feel better but if outing and killing gay people would be profitable they'd do that instead, just like how IBM did business with the Nazis to send Jews to their death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmAq0epfrI

FWIW, a correction is required here. Oil-modding a F91W will NOT make it a dive watch replacement as the video creator claims several times.

A dive watch is designed to be operated at that depth while the weak o-rings around the pushers on the F91W will give up when you use the buttons. Oil modding on it holds up during a dive as long as you'll never push the buttons, so it's more of a neat party trick for show than anything to daily drive.