What field are you in, if I may ask? I mean, the ship has probably sailed, I’m well set into EE/IT by now. Maybe med-tech, who knows. Sometimes it’s cool to hang out with the actually smart people in the canteen.

Purely by feelings? Synthetik Biology. Super cool subject. Engineering, but your computers live. Sadly, anything Bio-related basically needs a PhD and top grades for a job. So I guess I’ll stick with the lightning imbued rocks for now.

Add me to the list

Honestly? Cool that you are asking, but I just want a coffee, not a conversation.

Yes, I’m German, how could you tell?

All toothbrushes I have seen come with a hard case, so I don’t think that’s a big issue

I’ve recently started to throw a mini screwdriver set into my laptop bag. I can even fit a small pocket knife and a bit of soldering tin into its case. Obviously not a good idea for flying, but it has been useful a few times.

I also keep some crappy headphones in that bag. Priceless if someone around you in public transport is being annoying.

It is more about being able to constantly spy on everyone. Funny how this exact sentence would have labeled one as a conspiracy nut not too long ago.

Constantly online means constant (more or less) analytics, means constant data to throw in the big computer to make you buy more shit or vote for the shit party.

That actually sounds quite sane, except the not willing to use weapons part. I would have assumed that would get one straight to alternative service

So, if you are the hyper-manly chest hair and leather jackets gay, you get drafted?

Mine told me to take a shower and put on a clean t-shirt. I cannot say he wasn’t right :)

But I get what you mean.

I would say that that is a legitimate concern of a parent who wants their child to have a “normal” life. Badly worded, of course.

It is literally a fork of uBO

I have gotten used to coffee and desert. I am officially an old man now.

However, the Italians/French are onto something, an espresso after lunch is great. It gives you half an hour or so of slacking off and then the caffeine kicks in.

People are just lonely.

Alright, let me finish my beer and then we throw hands. Belgian beer is meh.

They are already getting more. They want more more.

Again, that is the thing I don’t understand. They are already filthy rich. Why crash and burn everything? Wouldn’t it be better to just continue making boatloads of money?

Alienate all your allies speedrun

Jokes aside, why? There literally is no good reason to piss of people that like you and are willing to work with you

I’d like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.

It is much worse. I hope I am reading it wrong, but:

The term ‘‘technology’’ […] includes […] any semiconductor, circuit board, operating system, graphics processing unit, central processing unit, tenor processing unit, field-programmable gate array, random access memory, hard drive, solid-state drive, dataflow architecture, or cloud-computing service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, […] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence […] and any other hardware, software, equipment, device, component, robotic computer, processor, network […] that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, […] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.

This would mean that importing and exporting literally any piece of IT equipment, from a Ubuntu installer to a RAM chip, is illegal. Good luck & have fun.