this is more of a general reflection on the whole situation abstracted from the chatcontrol situation but like: the problem here at the core is that to pass this gestapo-ass law they transparently went completely anti-democratic (forcing the vote several times after a rejection and then waiting until people were on vacation to then have first a vote for creating an absolute majority requirement and then using that narrow restriction to finally pass it back in)

this is, objectively, democratic backsliding, and i am not going to pretend people will be on the streets revolting, that is not how stuff works

what will happen though is that reflexively when people start completely losing any faith in the rule of law they will act that way: there is now an understandable and transparent incentive to ignore the rule of law because the social contract has been broken in such a way it is impossible to hide it

the result is, simply put, that people will actively, by default, put more effort into hiding what they are doing, whether they are criminals or not, and will consider the law as not reflective of their own interests at all, creating a layer of distrust that in the long run will actually make it harder to catch actual criminals

and i am not even considering the implications this will have in people considering the EU a legitimate entity: this single decision + the tariffs one single handedly made and will make thousands of euroskeptics and it will be hard to change their mind considering how democracy is being treated like a doormat rn

reposting this just to give as much info as possible

https://namesyoushouldknow.lol/

there is a button to download the whole website and rehost it in case for any reason it goes dark, enjoy

edit: for the first minute or so the xml was parsing in the wrong way, adding a few names that should not have been there, now it's fixed, enjoy :) but if you notice anything wrong lmk and i'll fix it

Obsession was worth the hype holy fuck

it's like that one episode of the fairly oddparents but turned into a horror movie and it's the best movie i have watched lately holy shit

Large money

big pants!

A Fist Full of Chips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3cTDWc_zw4

i have rewatched this today and laughed like it was the first time, 10/10 joji you are the best

how instagram dropshipping course grifters have been moving since claude code dropped

a part of me is tired of these unprecedented times being more unprecedented everyday but at the same time i would probably be miserable in a boring, static, safe world compared to what we have today

https://youtu.be/qJBm1n8JUZ8

Kyle Gordon straight up went "ok this time I will roast Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland" and it's a masterpiece

yeah for context this is the same guy behind planet of the bass

every time why's this dealer by niko b autoplays in my car it hits just right to the point i almost feel guilty not driving a first gen yaris

my youtube recommendations started being old jeremy clarkson shows again out of nowhere

3 unique sentences left

how Samsung/Micron/SK Hynix will be talking about CXMT once it FINALLY gets to sell their memory worldwide:

Giovanni Pintori’s work for Olivetti goes insanely hard

i love going on archive.org and just checking out old magazine scans

finally some good video suggestions

video i am working on started with gamecube homebrew investigation and i am now checking the registration for a cessna private plane so i hope you get why this is taking a bit longer than expected, scope creep hit me hard, it is like 80% there though

video is ALMOST DONE and I want to drop it THIS WEEKEND if everything goes smoothly, it ballooned into something bigger than expected + construction noise was making it impossible to record at my place lately so me and a friend just went to a random parking lot for the intro