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  • SWIFT is a European cooperative and its headquarters is located in Belgium! I don’t know where you even got the idea that this could be an American company.

    Also, all of Europe is covered by Giro Payment. Credit cards do exist and are usually supported, but almost no one uses them domestically.

    Edit: Another interesting note about ICANN. The US government has not had direct control over ICANN since 2016 due to its importance for global communications. The US government has no power to censor any of the namespace resolving outside its own borders and if they were to try, this would give a lot of states a very strong argument for the already existing calls to remove ICANN entirely from US jurisdiction.



  • One of those is not like the others. There’s no future for nuclear energy. It’s an outdated, expensive, fossile fuel just like coal and gas and Germany is doing well in phasing it out!

    • Nuclear is the most expensive energy form
    • It’s only green if you ignore several key factors like water usage for cooling, dirty mining operations and long transport routes
    • Its a maintenance nightmare especially compared to distributed power production like solar and wind
    • Nuclear fuel recycling is as big a lie as plastics recycling
    • Fusion remains a pipe dream even after almost 100 years of continuous research and funding

    Nuclear wins in one metric though: Space efficiency per kwh! Although it’s debatable how important that really is when we can use solar panels to provide shaded parking and place wind turbines on the open sea where there’s plenty of space…


  • Idk, there’s a lot of people at my job talking like this. LLMs really do help speed things up. They do so at a massive cost in code and software quality, but they do speed things up. In my experience, coding right now isn’t about writing legible and maintainable code. It’s about deciding which parts of your codebase you want to be legible and maintainable and therefore LLM free.

    I for one let AI write pretty much all of my unit tests. They’re not pretty, but they get the job done and still indicate when I’m accidentally changing behaviour in a part of the codebase I didn’t mean to. But I keep the service layer as AI free as possible. Because that’s where the important code is located.