Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@thor Switzerland is a special case, true. Their direct democracy is probably the biggest factor in this case, less politicians between the people and actual governing.

@thor no government is. To be a successful politician you have to be a spineless manipulative sociopath and that's the people who always end up in positions of power.

@thor still funny how Europe's independent countries are better at having a shared energy market than the US.

@icedquinn @shibao it was and still is great for miners though, long after militaries switched to more potent / resilient explosives.
He knew military is gonna use dynamite (gunpowder explosives existed for many centuries by then) and founded the prize to try to offset that part of its use (and leave a better legacy), not because he regretted ever inventing it.

@hj @VD15 I talked with people recommending connecting ground to a lightning rod in an apartament building that doesn't provide a ground connection. That's when I understood where the myths about disconnecting electrical appliances from sockets during a thunderstorm come from.

@kmic @smigol dokładnie, to już się dzieje xD

@freemo @trinsec that's an upside. The more jobs are automated, the more productivity per capita we have and the more luxuries, such as better social support, we can afford.