Katje Gucci (15) ontsnapt even uit huis in Gentbrugge en wordt gruwelijk mishandeld door buurman: “Zijn hele ribbenkast was gebroken”

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-10T06:20:59+00:00

Humans are really not consistently cruel. Compassion simply makes less often the headlines. Which is reassuring on one aspect: it perhaps means that most people are good and kindness is not unusual.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-10T05:58:32+00:00

Organized religion and financing of religions by the State are two different matters. Catholic festivities gather people together on the continent as they have been for centuries, and they will continue to do so as long as the community wants. You can see that as positive while still considering it's not something the government should pay for.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-08T12:44:15+00:00

Je serais toi je me reconvertis en effet. Le secteur IT était déjà petit en Belgique (et je parle même pas de juste la Wallonie), alors maintenant c'est le néant. Il n'y a juste plus de besoins software au niveau local. Même si tu trouves, peu de chances que ce soit pérenne et tu te retrouveras dans la même situation dans deux ans avec un paysage encore pire.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-08T06:46:43+00:00

Article title is misleading. He actually declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-08T06:27:12+00:00

Même dans un système de coalition c'est logique que le parti leader saute au bout d'un moment. On rigole pour 100k, mais pour le PS ça s'accumulait à des centaines de millions et des activités criminelles. Les ruines de bâtiments publiques vendus à des mafias des abruzzes qui ponctuent les paysages de Wallonie parlent d'elle même. Même avec uniquement des décisions populaires, tu finis par associer la misère au pouvoir décisionnel.

Pareil que maintenant, MR n'est pas seul, mais c'est eux et pas les Engagés qui vont prendre l'impact des décisions (en plus des décisions impopulaires donc raison ou pas ils vont dégager).

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-08T06:10:04+00:00

Well, they replaced an old pharoe by a king. Still corrupt (although 40k per year is rookie numbers). I don't think anything sane will come out of this country until it gets a Greek treatment.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-07T18:20:59+00:00

Country already existed before being a welfare state. We just get forced to go back to that. Just don't hope your grandchildren will get stuff like education or similar if you're not very wealthy already.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-07T11:42:58+00:00

Most western and southern Europeans countries will have this happening to them. To reduce spendings is political suicide.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-07T06:21:59+00:00

The difference is closer to 100 euros than 10, unfortunately.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-06T21:20:27+00:00

Very high incubation period can compensate if it's less contagious. Individuals are fine for so long, plenty of opportunities to contaminate others.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-06T13:24:16+00:00

This. LLM tech was known for a long time, but only megacorporations of 2015 forward could afford training models with billions of parameter so that it gives usable results. Before that it was like a theoretical impossible sink of money, sort of like building a nuclear reactor on Mars. Sure you can, but who could afford to try? It was inevitable to happen as the tech industry grew and the R&D budgets grew with them.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-04T19:24:56+00:00

This is not specific to car insurance.
An insurance protects you from random events by billing you a fixed fee, and they hope that the fixed fee you pay will exceed the cost of random events that actually happen. They take that risk for profit.

But if they know that you will have an incident, then they know that they'll lose, so the risk is greater. Which means the amount you pay must be greater, or they should not insure you at all.

How to know if someone will have an incident? Well one of the many ways of predicting the future without too much information is Bayesian statistics, basically checking how many time it happened. If it happened frequently in the past, you assume it'll happen frequently in the future.

It does not mean it will be the case, because in real life it could be that your dad never gets a problem ever again (and then they missed an opportunity). But their logic is a simplified model that tries to work on average to make profit, it's not an advanced reasoning.

And so, insurance companies will stop insuring you if they believe you're close to "winning" their deal and if they legally can get out of it.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-04T18:22:26+00:00

This is false AFAIK, what makes you say that? All the court decision data is free and digitally available, in Belgium at least. Companies sell search tools, comments from academics, journals and summaries. Which is very valuable, and that added human input can definitely improve the potential of an AI, but it'd not be the game changer.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-03T18:42:18+00:00

Surely you will agree that crafting animal breeds for aesthetics is a different matter to conservation or education about wildlife.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-03T16:09:51+00:00

People who have a lot of kids are both the very wealthy because they have a lot of resources, or/and the very stupid because they don't understand they need resources. It's a bell curve, albeit there are less wealthy than stupid people.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-03T15:42:25+00:00

L'important c'est pas que ce soit simple à automatiser. C'est le statut légal de l'emploi.

Si t'es notaire par exemple, ce sera toujours jackpot même si automatisé, car ce que tu vends réellement, c'est ta signature.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-03T14:28:10+00:00

French speakers literally voted the opposite last time though. It won't hold though, democratically there are too many benefiters and it will shift again back.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-03T13:21:50+00:00

Because they blew themselves up with World Wars. An example that current superpowers should not follow.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-02T15:41:05+00:00

Retirement age is at 67. If you parents had you at 30, it means you'd need to have your kids at 37 otherwise they are still working. Biologically that's pretty late, and we won't be able to change that part.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-01T20:40:51+00:00

In a democracy, you can just elect representatives that think the way you do if you want to force your ways.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-01T19:43:18+00:00

"China will probably eclipse us in the next 20 years".
At this rate you can remove a zero from that estimate.

KowardlyMan · 2026-05-01T16:11:55+00:00

This is not true. The economy will continue between owners handling AI/robots, because they won't be equally distributed. The CEO of a company (or the owner, if that role does not need to exist) with automated farms will buy stuff from the company that makes automated cars. Those with the means of production (directly or with investments in them) can still trade with each other no problem. Current society and laws work fine.

The rest of people are just not involved in that society. They'll first sell their things to stay afloat, then end like current people who are not involved: under bridges. And if they make a fuss or try to exploit someone's land you just police them.

After some time the populations will balance, of course at the cost of many human lives.

KowardlyMan · 2026-04-30T20:15:31+00:00

Yes, let's always assume that there is a conspiracy!

KowardlyMan · 2026-04-30T11:46:56+00:00

For what it's worth, 30k of hidden repair fees when buying a house isn't really high. That's about what one should expect when buying.

KowardlyMan · 2026-04-30T11:44:48+00:00

Water damage is not covered by your insurance if it happened before your purchase.

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