> The EU isn't even capable of ramping up its own defence capabilities when being faced with the very real threat of a Russian incursion in the next few years, which has me wonder what would be required for them to finally wake up.
It is because EU is not a single state, and member states have very different perspectives not only on Russia threat, but also on "digital sovereignty".
Everyone saying "EU should do something" is just blind towards political reality.
Yet they keep yapping on about the EU being about tighter integration between its member states. If not in the area of defence, where else? So far, this has been an abject failure (recently, see: FCAS).
Well, people don't read Adorno or others, maybe have their favorite sci-fi book, and then go and describe, sometimes centuries old, ideas as some novel insight.
> I see a lot of leftists where if you could get them to let go of one idea, namely equity and equality, you’d instantly have a “trad.” Most of their other opinions are already aligned.
It shouldn't be surprising - people conflated leftism with liberal progressivism, but they are not synonymous.
> Specifically Jean Baudrillard describes copies of copies with decreasing relavence and quality. But more sinisterly, the loss of knowing what is real, important, safe, efficacious.
> His work builds extensively on Plato, Lucretius, and Deleuze's concept of the Simulacrum.
Not really, Baudrillard is far more nuanced than "it's all fake", doesn't say much about "quality" (actually, hyperreal is "more real than real", and simulation is better than thing being simulated - that's why it is so pervasive), and he takes much more from Debord than Plato.
I apologize, but your comment seems to me based on YT video essays or LLM summaries, not on Baudrillard's writing.
> With writing code in english now, why have it use a slow weak language?
Because the feedback loop of writing few lines of Python inside Jupyter cell is much shorter than with your currently favorite AI tool. It costs less too.
> People who are deeply into static typing have little incentive
Except when their boss tell them to use Python, or they rely on one of Python libraries that their pet language couldn't provide via its powerful type system.
This says much more about you, Last Man, than anything else.
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