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CPS horror stories should be the least of your concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s-1990s_Romanian_orphans_p...


Your best bet is going to be Raspberry Pi devices:

https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/18431

You can try Googling around for bespoke products but they will almost exclusively come from China and they will be very overpriced due to the soldered RAM.


It is May 2026, there is no difference between AI and non-AI bills.

Most (if not all) major enterprises in the US have gone through at least one round of org-wide subscription renewals (eg: Atlassian product packs, Microsoft product packs, etc) where 1) price increases were mandatory, 2) AI features could not be opted out of, and 3) AI feature usage was strongly encouraged from C-suite to client-facing biz staff to telephone agent support staff.

I repeat, we are passed the point where AI bills and non-AI bills can be differentiated. We are all paying for these features driven by tokens whether we like it or not, whether the cost-benefit analysis makes sense, and whether they are even being used.

And we are all passing the costs onto everyone lower on the totem pole, from insurance groups to bank groups to national grocery chains to consultant conglomerates to minimum wage front-line staff to below-minimum-wage gig workers.

And this is why there are layoffs, every price increase from the top down causes further price increases to cascade down.


`--non-interactive` has precedent too.


This article describes ("corona discharge") what is the prelude to what you are describing ("upward streamer".)


Opus 4.6 is no longer available and Opus 4.7 chews through monthly limits with reckless abandon. The value-add of GH Copilot is basically gone (at least for individuals on the Pro or Pro+ plans.)


How does a state survive if refugees/immigrants are imported en masse and then the state becomes so dysfunctional to such a degree that its male citizens must be conscripted to fight and die for it? Surely this is a recipe for disaster.

I would sooner die for my family and my country but I wouldn't lift a finger to save the lives of refugees/immigrants.


You die for your country and the refugees make the state survive. Germany becomes Deutschstan, Köln Dom is converted to a minaret and Hildegard is required to wear a hijab in public at all times, that's how. At least that's probably how Michel Houellebecq would imagine it.


Why not just leave for another more sane country before that happens? It's for sure what I will do.


Why aren't refugees/immigrants conscripted over citizens?


Because not only that the immigrants have no allegiance to Germany, most have different culture and sometimes incompatible values.

I grew up in the Middle East and I can tell that cultural differences and values were more smooth and compatible than what I saw in Germany. Conscription requires a degree of trust in the people you give guns to and expect to fight on your side in case it is needed, that is mostly not true with immigrants in all times and all countries.


Ten years of "refugees welcome" to fighting age men who we don't trust won't run amok when we go to war with a third party. Very cool.


Even if they are included, they wouldn't join up.

More British Muslims joined ISIS than the British military. <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/her-majestys-jih...>


That statistic is mind boggling. Surprised this hatefact hasn't been flagged yet.


Because citizenship is a commitment, not merely a set of privileges. If you obtain a citizenship (or have it imposed on you upon birth), it comes with a set of duties other residents and visitors do not have. The duty to defend your country is a traditional one.

Some countries may conscript non-citizens or allow them to serve voluntarily. Often because they are more likely to use the military as an extension of foreign policy rather than for defense. Others may see it a waste of effort, as those people are probably not sufficiently committed to the continued existence of the country.


The philosophical justifications sound nice and all.

The thing is that when you have a huge non-citizen percentage of the population that is actively drawing taxpayer money out of the state to the point where the social welfare system is beginning to break down, and you have the working citizens of the country being taxed at 50% or more to support that during an escalating global cost of living crisis, you have effectively destroyed the social contract around citizenship that permits this system to function. For the massive aged population that's drawing retiree benefits, there's at least the justification that they paid into the system during their lifetime, even if the equation that makes the retirement system work increasingly doesn't work anymore.

Now the young people are being told to go die to keep that system alive. I wouldn't be surprised if most don't.


Do I have the right to give my citizenship away if I don't want it anymore?


Because immigrants have the right to be protected, while native men have a duty to die for their rulers.


This kind of inflammatory nonsense serves no purpose other than to be insulting and provocative.


I think it signals to other people that they should not feel alone in that "this is all **ed up". To that, I appreciated the comment.


Kiro's spec-based development looks identical.

https://kiro.dev/docs/specs/

It looks verbose but it defines the requirements based on your input, and when you approve it then it defines a design, and (again) when you approve it then it defines an implementation plan (a series of tasks.)


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