There will be no problems until Washington is under serious party contention.
Then, suddenly, the weak security of the postal system will look dodgy.
When, as in the CA case, ballots roll in after the polls close and magically ALWAYS flip the decision the same direction, there will be Sudden Shock and Awe.
efficiency and productivity is clearly more important for development of all industries than what you value. Political institutions are not very good at preparing for unfamiliar problems, dont count on them doing that. Just push for progress in natural way, and for politicians to adjust to an already happend changes. Thats the best that we can do.
"efficiency and productivity is clearly more important for development of all industries than what you value"
And yet countries that value more than efficiency and productivity are repeatedly ranked as the happiest in the world [0].
"Just push for progress in natural way, and for politicians to adjust to an already happend changes"
How much damage has unfettered tech done to society at large? Maybe we'll never know the full answer, but we can definitely agree it hasn't all been positive (advertising, social media etc..). We're now retrospectively regulating, but a lot of it feels too little, too late, for some elements of society (privacy being a notable example).
Happiness is the only goal, because all other goals no longer matter if you're unhappy. Infinite money is worthless if you do not have the motivation and drive to enjoy it. Have 1 trillion dollars and spending none on something you care about is equivalent to having zero dollars.
And then what, conclude that a useless action to delay progress is somehow good and allows you to feel better about yourself and superior to others using self-checkout while doing absolutely nothing? If that's the outcome of "classic education" I think you didn't do it right.
the mind blowing fact is that for any significant percentage of people taking something that is not yours, can be justified by anything. That is not western culture, saying that as someone born in ussr, where stealing from government has never been considered stealing, which to this day the reason for all the corruption and low level of trust on every level of communication.
> saying that as someone born in ussr, where stealing from government has never been considered stealing
Reading this and realising how much of an understatement that is in fact! It's so much an understatement that in USSR lexicon the word stealing in regards to government property was nit in fact used, ever.
> This is one of multiple carrier apps in the stock Pixel OS which we don't include in GrapheneOS. We were aware of it already since we had to go through them and figure out why they exist... GrapheneOS has gone through each of the carrier apps included on Pixel generation to determine their purpose and consequences of including or excluding them. Here it is being excluded from the new adevtool project for ProtonAOSP and GrapheneOS in 2021.
We don't include these carrier apps in GrapheneOS. However, this particular claimed vulnerability isn't a real security issue. The other Verizon apps do add significant attack surface and give them control they shouldn't really have. They're only active on the stock OS when using a Verizon SIM though.
GrapheneOS does massively improve privacy and security, but these apps aren't a problem if you aren't using Verizon SIM and even then the retail demo app is not remote attack surface.
there is no point in comparing gdps here, what's important is what is the capability of war industry and armies are, and at the moment we can see that industries are not that far off, add nuclear weapons to the picture, and its draw, just as it was in the cold war.
The overall GDP tells you what capabilities exist in total. Life of Russians is significantly more impacted in post because they are redirecting a much larger part of their economy. Let's also not forget that the cold war was with the Soviet Union and not just Russia.
GDP is directly and strongly correlated to military industrial capability for sustaining a meaningful war effort. Modern history has shown this time and time again in many wars where enemies seriously applied themselves to pushing onward (I say this to exclude things like the Vietnam War, in which the U.S could have crushed the North but didn't have the political or social will do push it that far). Aside from its nuclear arsenal, Russia is economically and in terms of sustained war production no match for the NATO Alliance, even without the U.S. With U.S support, there's no chance. Putin himself even recently stated this, calling the idea of attacking NATO insane and specifically referencing his country's economic strength vs. that of NATO and the U.S.
Russia is just barely sustaining its war with Ukraine and the production capacity behind restocking destroyed and lost supplies. Never mind a war with NATO, unless they're willing to use nukes and risk utterly destroying themselves, and I don't quite think Putin is that insane. Even if he is, I don't think those surrounding him are, and their sycophancy would rapidly evaporate if faced with a real, immediate threat of their boss unleashing something that makes their decades of hard-stolen self-enrichment become irrelevant.
education has nothing to do with this, an average university professor in Russia(or for a matter of fact in the west too) is a radical supporter of the mainstream media
