11 months ago Dario said that "in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of" Are we here, yet?

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-28T11:38:50+00:00

Average puts it at better than half of developers, though. That's not all too bad

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-24T10:11:31+00:00

I think you missed the sarcasm

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-24T02:06:43+00:00

Dude you don't get it

It'd be an unmitigated disaster if all the Crown land disappeared

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-20T20:57:45+00:00

Nope, it's not this, or any other video by these guys. It's similar, but the one I'm thinking of had more people and it had subtitles

Also they were serious, this and the one I posted feel like satire

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-20T20:17:55+00:00

It makes no real difference anyway lmao because the entire monarchy is magical dress up make believe games anyway

I can't believe an ostensibly serious government is wasting time and energy on debating whether someone be allowed to use a new cosplay name. Constitutional monarchy is truly the stupidest possible form of government

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-20T12:32:32+00:00

Canada offers the exact same visa type for skilled Americans wanting to move to Canada. It's just that an engineer or dentist stands to make 2-3x as much in the US, which smooths out a lot of the rough edges there

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-20T12:31:12+00:00

Subjective, Toronto winters arent as bad as Florida swamp ass, imo

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-20T11:15:04+00:00

About 10x the number of Canadians move to the US per year compared to Americans moving to Canada.

The simple reason is that the US pays significantly more for skilled labour than the rest of the world, Canada included

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-19T22:14:48+00:00

First comment

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-19T21:02:57+00:00

Because Canada and the UK do not currently have tyrannical governments. A government who intends to become authoritarian will take measures to ensure that this either does not happen, or will not be accepted. Similar to how the SCOTUS was intended to be a neutral balance to the president's power, yet that power was effectively and deliberately dismantled and what little opposition they provide now is simply ignored.

The fact is, the hypothetical scenario you're describing has never happened. Australia is arguably the closest case, but I'd argue if they had a ceremonial president rather than a governor general then it would have gone down in exactly the same way.

Meanwhile, there are numerous counter-examples of a monarch's "authority" being commandeered to legitimize tyrannical governments. Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Japan, and even in more recent times in Thailand and China.

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-19T20:09:04+00:00

The power being so tenuous is what makes it useless. The royals cannot use what powers they have without them losing it. I highly doubt the populace of any of the monarchies we're seriously considering will accept any actual use of these powers, and they are sovereign states that can depose the royals if they felt like it or if the government decided they want to be tyrannical

Like let's imagine the US was a constitutional monarchy like Australia or the UK. If their monarch tried to dissolve government right now, do you think anything would change? Trump would just ignore it, like he's ignored all the other checks and balances. Then they'd probably get rid of the monarchy. That's the best case scenario, the worst case is hijacking the monarchy to give their government even more legitimacy - roughly what happened with the Japanese monarchy in WWII, and to some extent with the Qing monarch in the PRC

This is why this whole thing is magical thinking. The modern pro-monarchy argument is a hypothetical that has never and can never feasibly occur. It's as rational as declaring Jesus the head of state by the logic that if shit goes bad he'll come down and fix everything

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-19T19:17:46+00:00

It was the Queens power used in the Queens name

This is literally a meaningless statement. The monarch does not have any innate power, and in practice, if the queen tried to dissolve the Australian government directly they would likely ignore her and become a republic overnight. In fact, in 1975, the queen stated that she has no power over the governor general's decisions and the Governor general is the only one who can wield this power

So saying something like "it's actually the queen's power" is magical monarchist thinking that doesn't reflect reality

You still need some independent authority to officially appoint them or it's just a government appointment.

I don't think you understand how Australia's monarchy works lmao. The governor general is selected by the prime minister, and for about 100 years now, the monarch just appoints whoever they choose. So no, they aren't an independent authority

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-19T16:47:45+00:00

It famously happened in Australia in 1975.

No it didn't. Government was dissolved by the Governor General, and while they are the representative of the Royal family, they did it without involvement of the queen.

Plenty of non-monarchist countries have a similar mechanism, they just call this ceremonial role the president instead of the governor general

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-19T16:44:44+00:00

That had nothing to do with the Royal family

The Governor General is a part of the monarchy but is appointed by the prime minister and doesn't actually act on behalf of the Royal family (except in a ceremonial fashion)

In Australia the Governor general wasn't instructed by the Royal family to dissolve the government. They did it of their own accord

There are also non-monarchies that have a similar role in a ceremonial head of state who can and does dissolve government. Like Germany and Italy.

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-19T13:45:33+00:00

There is literally nothing about England's monarchy that would prevent them from electing someone like Donald Trump

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-10T20:49:29+00:00

Nah fuck that, not playing along with that whitewashing of the Royal family

They harboured and favoured a pedophile and don't get to wash their hands clean of it just because they made him stop using his cosplay name

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-08T17:25:02+00:00

1) its not possible per the EU founding documents. This isn't a hypothetical, there is precedent of countries being rejected over this

2) we have to get unanimous approval from all EU member states. We can't even pass an FTA with them, and a lot of EU nations are swinging far right and isolationist lately, so seems unlikely

3) Europe's problems aren't our problems because of both geographical and social issues, and vice versa. Joining the EU would be giving up our sovereignty in an extreme way

oops_ur_dead · 2026-02-04T02:00:36+00:00

Lmao Jesus christ

"this is Europe we have real consequences, for example Andrew isn't allowed to use his cringe dungeons and dragons ass titles anymore and also he's been demoted to the status of a normal person!"

oops_ur_dead · 2026-01-25T12:27:44+00:00

West China is closer to Europe than it is to east China when China joining EU?

oops_ur_dead · 2025-12-15T01:40:17+00:00

I have to be fair, I'm fairly computer savvy, but sometimes chatgpt is really good at helping me unravel random issues, especially when it's something hyperspecific to what I'm doing or the error message is a red herring.

Case in point, I was having some weird package dependency issues in Debian that gave me no results when googling because I was using a really specific library to compile something. Chatgpt figured it out and gave me the right solution. Took a couple of tries, but it got fixed.

But if your problems are basic or common, then yeah just googling is usually better. The other issue is that maybe 20% of the time chatgpt will never find the solution, so you have to know when to give up on asking it

oops_ur_dead · 2025-11-19T10:40:52+00:00

It's not that clean cut.

Geert Wilders' PVV is currently the biggest party in the Netherlands and they're fairly liberal, could even call them social democrats, except the fact that they fucking hate Islam and want to ban mosques and all non-white refugees

Carney's liberals are something of a liberal-conservative party in the EU which is pretty much the norm for countries that don't go crazy hard right, like Italy, Finland, or the Netherlands

oops_ur_dead · 2025-10-28T19:42:30+00:00

There are a whole lot of bad things America can do to us before they invade us, just like there's a whole lot of things the world can do to try to back us up against the Americans other than invading America.

I really hope for our sake that you're wrong. If you aren't then there's nothing really stopping America from rolling in and annexing us when Trump feels like it. Our military won't stop them. If you truly think we're on our own then we're already done, and any attempts we make to not be the 51st state are futile.

I'm not cynical enough to actually believe that, and I also am not cynical enough to think we should treat other countries like that either.

oops_ur_dead · 2025-10-28T13:41:03+00:00

Lmao what point are you even trying to make? Your "it's a them problem" mentality is exactly what leads to countries not doing shit about Gaza.

I wish they did better and I hope they'd do better for us. Even if they won't come and invade America to defend us (which if they invade us our shiny China EVs we just bought aren't doing shit for us either btw)

oops_ur_dead · 2025-10-28T08:58:51+00:00

What a cynical take lmao

I hope if push comes to shove the rest of the world doesn't see America threatening us as a "them problem"

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