As long as the default recommendation is to use authenticator apps on your main device I’ll see this as a “could be good if implemented correctly, which it isn’t, so it isn’t good”

This. This so much. Password+Totp based login is just two passwords where one is more annoying to use.

The state sactioned date-nights will continue until morale improves!

A lot of people are and it’s a growing disease in online communities. It’s doubly bad because firstly it drains energy and it makes engaging with actually well intentioned but disagreeing people a lot harder because you are always expecting to just waste your energy

Tbh after the comment with the ft links I was 50/50 on this just being an AI bot. I am very susceptible to getting sealioned this way

I fully agree but I can’t help myself and have to make this nitpick:

Replacing workers could be the best thing ever if we had a better system to distribute the results of work being done.

Just because I am not totally conviced you are in fact a troll I just want to explain to you why I don’t find what you are saying very convincing.

The original top comment of this thread said:

Proud of extorting the whole world for centuries for our wealth? No, thank you

You then went ahead and said this:

If you think that what people living here 500 years ago did is a reason for us to feel bad, then you need therapy.

This showed to me, that you think extortion of wealth from all over the world is a thing we stopped 500 years ago. This is wrong on a number of levels, not the least is, that the original colonial age is decidedly less than 500 years ago. The USA is just close to 250 years old.

In response to that honestly already troll-like twisting of reality I just said:

If you think we have stopped extracting wealth from other countries you are the insane one

You then acknowledged that we didn’t in fact stop 500 years ago (rendering you first comment completely invalid) but then went ahead and tried to excuse that with this:

Compare us to any other continent or country and not some ideal, imagined perfection. The UAE, China, Russia, the USA…

If you think we’re bad and exploit people, I suppose we should replicate the approach of one of those countries, right? Then we will stop exploitation, wars, everything bad in general and become better people! Is that what you believe?

Never did I mention any of these countries, never did I claim that anyone did a better or worse job. I just maintained that we did not stop extorting money from other countries to benefit our own. Which I expressed thusly:

If your whole argument is “we cant be bad people because look at these even worse people” then I have nothing more to say to you. There will always be someone more stinky than you. Doesn’t mean you’re clean.

You then went ahead with a baffling try to convince me with a list of paywalled financial times arcticles that for some reason only pertain to anti-climate-change measures. Giving you the benefit of the doubt one could interpret this as connecting the fight against climate change with the unjust effects it has on the global south that is typically a target for our extortionism. But that would really need a mention from you. The way you put this it is way too removed to support your claim of us “doing better” with extorting money from other countries for out benefit. Again, you also list articles showing how other counties are doing bad shit.

I’m not even going to explain to you, that everyone can collect 7 positive and 4 negative articles about any country. Trying to paint a picture like this is childish at best. Convincing: not so much.

Anyways, thanks for indulging me in a lesson on how to earlier detect bullshit and disengage.

Yeah that’s right, calling yourself the best and ignoring glaring structural exploitation of others will surely lead us to stop doing that

If you think we’re bad and exploit people, I suppose we should replicate the approach of one of those countries, right? Then we will stop exploitation, wars, everything bad in general and become better people! Is that what you believe?

If your whole argument is “we cant be bad people because look at these even worse people” then I have nothing more to say to you. There will always be someone more stinky than you. Doesn’t mean you’re clean.

If you think we have stopped extracting wealth from other countries you are the insane one

That might be specific to your target or some other shit. Maybe they blocked pdf24 on their end? I’ve been using it through 2025

The thing every privacy advocate said would happen, but every politician promised wouldn’t happen, happened. Shocker.

What do you mean it’s broken? Havent used it for a month or two but seemed to work back then

That’s Reichstag for you. Reichstach is only for close friends

You know that weirdo anarchist that keeps rambling about all nations being bad and by nature imperialistic constructs? They might be the good one

For context: I am 29, 5 years in the workforce after university. Also German.

For me it’s the pointlessness about all of it. I live with the expectancy of this world going to shit since my formative years. Nothing ever feels like it is getting better. If society is talking about my generation it’s either “sorry here is another burden we don’t want to take care of right now” or “this generation is too lazy, too weird, too something”.

I am supposed to pay for 1/2 of someone that was allowed to stop working at 63 while I fully expect to work until I’m 70 or dead because of some war about water supply.

I am also supposed to keep consuming because otherwise the economy will collapse.

I am also supposed to keep my own stockpile of cash because probably the system won’t provide for me when I am old.

I am also supposed to always keep learning because otherwise some AI will steal my job.

All the while every tech company out there is hellbound to make me feel miserable because that is the best way of keeping me engaged to make them some profit either via ads or by selling my data or both.

It’s just so… meh. And then the garbage bin is full again and all I can think about is “yeah be a good little cog in the machine and bring out the trash”

The introduction of languages will continue until morale improves!

He really put the devs into the crab timeout cornet

Hungary for some reason keeps surprising me. I know that fact, I just keep forgetting it.

“The checks and balances might have actually checked us doing something way out of balance, so we just ignored our responsibilities”