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This was obvious from the start just looking at their refugee numbers and the fact that they didn't have enough experience with immigration.

This whole thing is a bit of a mindfuck for me because I can't find any logical reason for what Sweden has done. I think the government has actually acted out of pure humanity and accepted so many refugees without thinking through any of it and now they're paying the price.

Compare that with Canada who picks and chooses their immigrants and has a 100-year outlook on the future of their demography.

Honestly I find 4chan much less toxic than Twitter in practice. Like I can find some of the most horrible, infuriating and potentially illegal content on Twitter whereas on 4chan it's relatively rare depending on the board and the occasional shooting that gets posted on there first or whatever.

Same story here. I was a ThinkPad user and bought my first Mac when the M1 was released. It just felt dumb to get anything else even when compared on paper.

I'm happy with my purchase but I'm still not a fan of Apple and their philosophy in any way. If there was a real competitor to the M1, I would switch in a heartbeat.

I moved to Tutanota and what I did is forward all my Gmail emails to my Tutanota email. It made it much easier to switch because I could immediately start using Tutanota and then migrate my accounts overtime to eventually delete Google completely.

I observed this as a kid and still experience it these days.

Never even questioned whether it was true because it felt so incredibly obvious that the ISP was dethrottling whenever they detected a speed test.

Sounds like a good way to create even more cults of personality and egotistical assholes who can't work in a team.

Breakthroughs aren't made by lone geniuses anymore. We just have that superhero fetish eg. picture of black hole where credit was practically given to that one woman in the picture.

As an outsider looking at Twitter I think they're fooling themselves if they think the problem is lack of free speech.

When I click a Twitter link what I usually see are: - bots and spam - low quality replies that add nothing (usually from bimbos or 3rd worlders trying to get the attention of a celebrity) - shallow one liners to an idea that people don't like

As much as upvotes were made fun of, I think Reddit had the right idea because at least the upvoted posts were almost guaranteed to be of "readable" quality. And if you wanted to, you could easily sort the thread by most controversial and read the unpopular opinion.

Now Reddit is a website where free speech is actually lacking with shadow bans and slightly controversial posts getting removed.

I know this is probably naive thinking but I don't understand how we can have so much land and still have unaffordable homes and concentrated populations.

My dream laptop is something with the performance of the M1 but with the modularity and freedom of old ThinkPads.

I'm just hoping that by the time I stop using this M1 laptop there will be alternatives because there's really nothing I like about Apple other than their SoC.

I switched to Tutanota for email and calendar and it has been surprisingly flawless.

To make the transition easier I started by forwarding all Gmail emails to Tutanota and I've been slowly updating my accounts to the new email. The plan is to eventually delete my Google accounts completely.

Twitter will suffer the same fate as Facebook i.e. the platform is so cancerous that younger or more intelligent people leave it.

Not sure where they'll go since Reddit is just as bad these days if not worse in many ways.

There are games like Elden Ring that are purely addictive and immersive through great game design.

And then there are MMOs and mobile games that are purely addictive through dirty psychological and immoral tricks.

Just don't play the latter. Those games (like modern WoW, HS, gacha games, etc) are garbage that will be looked at in disgust in the future.

Completely wrong. It would exist either way because recurring revenue is better for business.