I find that digitalocean (which is a VPS provider) has great tutorials.

I often tend to search “how to X site:digitalocean.com”, despite hosting almost everything on my own hardware.

Except when it does (1)

In a hierarchical society, those on top will use any existing govt structures to their benefit

That’s exactly why there’s separation of power! The idea being that executive, legislative and judiciary are of equal power. One can block or strenghten the behaviour of the other on an independant, case-by-case basis. Those properties should, imo be strenghtened, not weakened.

people affected by a decision should be the ones to make it, not merely to vote for those who promise to do right by them.

Samesees. My utopia would be liquid democracy.

But even here, there would be law! It’s a necessary good, to combat arbitrary prosecution, imo.

Would you say we’d be better off by merging executive and judiciary, doing away with legislative?

I think about it quite similar to you. I’d even go a bit further: shortsighted and bad laws are the biggest source of problems.

Often the kind of law that a populist gains popularity/notoriety through.

Plenty of examples where both public and executive and legislative would’ve deemed certain behaviour problematic, yet the perpetrator, of marginal power, walks free.

I’d say the law also gives power to the marginalized, when the judicial behaves independently, as they should.

I agree with you there are perversions to this ideal, such as elected judges, plea bargains.

I think RAG will be surpassed by LLMs in a loop with tool calling (aka agents), with search being one of the tools.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

Converting free text to standardized forms such as json

Yes, a full mathematical proof is required.

I notice the same. A sad observation in my opinion.

Fundamentally isn’t any religious belief in an omnipotent/world creating god creationist?

Oh yeah. This isn’t a problem unique to Christianity.

but the thing about essentially all religious belief is that its not exactly falsifiable

I think the function of a belief system is to lessen fear in scary, doubtfull, uncertain, painfull situations. That’s when an unfalsifiable happy ending brings comfort.

It’s just that many of them were invented quite a while ago, and some things that used to be unknown and scary then, are now better understood or obsolete. No point in engaging in makebelief for those.

Believe can cross into delusion and become harmfull. I believe (hihi) creationism is part of the latter, as it also implies a hierarchy inbetween people and between people and other life.

Additionally, all evidence points away from intelligent design. For this youtube channel in particular, it’s sad to see examples of belief over evidence.

Watched the video yesterday. I think it does a good job at describing the reality, and it’s consequences.

The causes and solutions are left as an exercise for the reader

dreaming of smaller roads and walkable cities.

Grass is always greener, maybe.

It’s a bit like us going: “i love how people in the US live close to a central park, above a coffee shop, in a big appartment, with a bunch of friends, on a bartenders wage”.

The romanticized vision of EU comes from disneyland-esque tourist destinations (which are lovely!), and romcoms, I think. You’re dreaming about a good holiday :). Day-to-day life, ofcourse, differs. (1)

You can ping yourself

It’s like I may have the longing for both America and Europe.

Montréal :)

The manual copy is a bit annoying, but in the end it’s maybe 10 minutes of work. Start the transfer in the evening, it’s finished in the morning.

US is a very big place with different cultures. I’ve only visited Boston, but have heard it’s not the same as Florida.

I always have this inner conflict of not knowing where I truly belong and what’s better for me/where I will be truly happy and feel more “home”.

I think you’ve spend a lot of time thinking about this, which I do too, sometimes too much :) Perhaps it’s possible to visit the US for a holiday, and find out if your expectations match experience?

I’m wondering if there’s a program where anyone can upload files, but can only be viewed and downloaded from the server by authenticated users.

Email does that. Anyone can send it to your mailbox, only you can download it.