Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.

I cannot search three words in quotes.

Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.

And now we have this.

If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.

Yeah, it's a French quirk

There are many dynamics to Germany's industrial woes, but one of the most important is how big German manufacturing corporations ascended to become truly Europe-wide operations at the expense of their traditional German suppliers, who are often no longer competitive with rivals in other EU states

VW, Siemens, Bosch and so on are as as big players not just German manufacturers any more. They are EU-wide behemoths.

If suppliers in other EU states adapt faster to change then big German corporates will ditch traditional German partners for competitors in Poland, Spain, Romania and the rest

Rubber tyres on Metros are a gimmick tho

Like, they very publicly set goals for it! They gloated about how they were smashing the rules to get stuff done! It was by *far* the highest profile policy story of Trump’s first few months! And it was just a complete failure and nobody in the press cares

Like, this is applying the lowest possible standard here: I’m not even asking the US press to manage the impossible task of caring about the millions of poor people around the world being killed or having their lives ruined; they can’t even manage to judge it as a political win/lose story