The simplest way would be for the remaining countries to raise their contribution. And perhaps have a review of the executive salaries.
qyron
joined 2 years ago
I grew being told, playfully, that if fried a shoe would taste nice. But no. Too much of a good thing is bad for you.
Not an american but, apparently, still as much confused as you are over the concept.
Large Language Model
To the extent of my understanding, it is a form of slightly more sophisticated bot, as in an automated response algorithm, that is developed over a set of data, in order to have it "understand" the mechanics that make such set cohesive to us humans.
With such background, it is supposed to produce new similar outputs if given new raw data sets to run through the mechanics it acquired during development.
The closest we can find if an european common culture is that we share a mass of land and our ancestors have been lusting after eachother since... well, just pick a date.
The EU can be strong by finding common ground where we can agree and respecting we will never agree on others. And that is fine. If we find the strenght to emulate what is made well in other countries and slowly push towards a better, negotiated, future.
Those are even legal in Europe? Some dude imported one here, as an impulse buy, as he had won a large money prize on Euro Millions, and it had the nastiest of ends, as he jammed the thing between two building in a narrow street. The car was cut to pieces on the spot, to be removed. The rumour mill spoke of nearly 75.000€ to the trash.
A politian is an elected representative. Their appointment depends on those who put their trust on them.
How politians managed to create a compulsory respect towards them evades me. The position they occupy is not theirs and, for what it counts, makes them the voters and state (as in, every citizen) servants.
I can't say the same thing, sadly.
People around me get easily fascinated by convinience over security and privacy. Biometric phone unlocking, work-only-through-app accessories, smart tvs, connected refrigerators, kitchen robots and expresso machines, autonomous vaccuum cleaners or web enabled water heaters and ACs... convenience rules absolute.
I enjoy going to stores and have sales people throw their pitch at me. The look on their face is priceless as all the convenience functions don't ring any appeal to me; nothing against them, they are doing their job, but still.
I hope we can force change and push back on the ever growing invasive tactics of companies and markets.
You'd be amazed the lack of foresight most have.
When CoViD hit, I was able to avoid shopping trips for nearly six months, due to having a well prepared pantry. At best, I would go every other week to the store for mostly fruit, which is something I find hard to preserve without requiring huge amounts of sugars, of which I shy away, for personal reasons.
Things like these are getting ridiculous and the most unreasonable of it all is that most people do not consider this as predatory and invasive behaviour from manufacturers.
I like my appliances dumb. Don't try to sell me a smart TV, a smart fridge or a smart anything. It does not need to connect to the internet. It needs to do one specific task and one only. I don't need my fridge to order groceries.
It crashed? Go read the telemetry and see what went wrong. Try again.