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Have you experienced Silvesterabend (New Year's Eve) in a major German city? It feels like a warzone. In the context of fireworks specifically, this image of Germany as an over-reg…

I don't think you have it right- the analogy to woodworking and craftsmanship is a category error and probably misses the broad thrust of the essay. The goal of a woodworker or cra…

"Building an application used to mean orchestrating roles over time: one person designed, another challenged the architecture, a third tested, a fourth deployed." What? That's not …

What historical examples are you thinking of?

I don't disagree that you got a window into American values, I just don't agree that proximity to American values is the same as civilization versus primitivism.

Just trying to understand your point here- so non-westerners are primitive and irrational, unlike the West, led by Donald Trump, champion of rational, elevated discourse?

Revolutionary terror in 1789 wasn't about killing the Bourgeisie- the French Revolution was a Bourgeois revolution- the Revolution was about overthrowing the Aristocracy, the noble…

So I should listen to 4Chan but not Pakistanis?

How do you square your directive that leaders use X as a way to get an option poll or pulse of a nation with phenomena like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/ri…

I decided to put this to the test. What I would expect a human to reply: "Um... OK?" What Claude Sonnet 4.5 replied: "Hi there! I understand you're planning to repeat the same sent…