The good place is a great introduction to philosophy

Democracy used to be an extremist position. Questioning the divine rule of kings in favor of letting the plebs vote?

Completely unthinkable

So, it’s nuanced

While I agree that AR glasses will become widespread, there’s still time to advocate for and implement privacy focused regulations. Especially early on as people are upset about the technology

While not perfect solutions, enforcing stuff such as recording LEDs and such are steps in the right direction

In other words, it’s why authoritarianism always fail

And capitalism is very specifically not a democratic economic system. There’s a hierarchy. The owners are the ones in power

You know what sucks?

In that AR glasses, in theory, are such an interesting technology with lots of potential, and certainly a piece of tech I would love to have and work with and on. Not to secretly record people, but to, well… augment my field of view with whatever digital tools or displays I would like. It would be so useful

It’s honestly kinda saddening to me that it most likely will get completely ruined by our current toxic relationship to technology. A step towards our ever increasing cyberdystopia, and not towards enchanting our limited lives

Obviously either way I don’t trust Meta, but an open-hardware device running a FOSS AR system? It would be nice…

I still hold out hope that this somehow could be resolved, and I would love to contribute to open software for these devices. Maybe one day soon-ish I will. My expertise should be well applicable, after all

It doesn’t seem appealing tbh

…would it??

That article was an insane read. I couldn’t have written more unserious people if I tried

In that case reducing the amount of freedom the kid has is… counter-productive

It will just give more control to their parents

I feel like that’s something a lot of people are just not thinking about for some reason

There’s a simple explanation for the weird videos, and why the government didn’t want to talk about them. And it’s just it being experimental military technology

The president of the US also said that tariffs are paid by the seller

So, you know, not a high credibility

What’s there to be excited about? There’s no reason to believe aliens ever visited earth. Exist somewhere in the universe, sure. I’m very excited for any news from observations in space or the mars rover finding signs of life, but not on earth.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so far, all we’ve had are som shitty low resolution videos which very well might have been either video artifacts, atmospheric natural phenomena, or just experimental weapons.

Really, it’s about laypeople using technical terms that they don’t understand, and the industry actively encouraging it

It’s a mess and it sucks

But that’s literally what I’m arguing for though…?

Who would replace the monarch though?

At that point it’s literally just an appointed minister by another name. And I’d rather have the position taken by someone who doesn’t live in a literal castle

And yes, I know it’s a constitutional monarchy, I live here :)

Pretty sure because it’s a routine tradition, and is always expected to end in the favor of keeping the monarchy. So it’s not really too interesting unless you are a politician

While I agree that having an independent body from the main political organ makes sense, I feel like a monarchy isn’t a great symbol to have in the first place

And what’s going to stop future scandals from happening? Or consequences for them? If a future king does something bad, we can’t exactly fire them and replace them with someone else, as that’s not how a monarchy works. We only got one tool, and it’s to abolish the monarchy. It doesn’t feel like great checks and balances

Generally I am against inherent power. And a monarchy is the peak of that, as you simply are in a position of power by having a lucky birth. It is true that lucky births happen constantly and are everywhere, especially if you get born in norway, but it feels wrong to actively support it.

It just doesn’t really feel like a system that has a place today. Though I do also realize that there’s problems with having a president or the like as well. But generally I support more democracy, not less.

And also as a final note like, if this went hidden for so long until the files got released, I wonder what other stuff got hidden as well? I mean, we got pretty much directly lied to here back in 2019

I’m just uncomfortable with systems that enforce a hierarchy. I think we could do with less of that

You can bet that once the inevitable population-wide vote happens on whether to keep the monarchy, I will vote no. I already didn’t like having a monarchy from before, now doubly so.

It’s fucking insane to realize that the conspiracy theories of a shadowy pedofilic cabal attempting to guide the world towards them staying in power has some merit to it

But for the games without DRM you can just download them and run the executable. Bypassing Steam

Sure, if you stop using steam you can’t re-download or update the game, but if the game didn’t have DRM, you can just keep copying the existing executable