BeeHaw went full Reddit powermod level of power-tripping.

Like a mix between the UK and Germany.

The housing situation is also quite bad, it's near impossible to rent if you move here for work (unless your company acts as a guarantor).

The rent-controlled housing queue system is extremely corrupt and long - at least 8-year queues (unless you're related to the local administration). Taxes are also insanely high on workers - 56+% income tax, 25% VAT.

The currency has collapsed since COVID so wages are far worse relative to Europe than before (and let's not even mention the USA).

It's far from everywhere (you're not going on holiday to Russia these days), with few direct flights, and long delivery times for imports.

But still the transport is quite good, there are a fair number of new apartments if you can buy a leasehold (it has its own issues with high fees and interest rates though), and a lot of online services.

I'd give it a 6/10.

Then your bigger problem is using Windows...

But how would they know? It's like Blade Runner.

Same, I thought it was an April Fools' joke at first.

That 19 trillion isn't spendable money at all though. Learn the difference between GDP and a budget.

We're already at high inflation, high interest rates and little to no growth - the situation is extremely precarious in Europe. We could easily end up like Argentina or Turkey.

Europe has donated around ~$150 billion USD (including from member states). That's almost an entire year's EU budget, over 20x the ESA's annual budget (wtf), and over 20x the EU's 6-year contribution to ITER (double wtf).

The money comes from somewhere and Europe is broke.

The US needs to stop shirking their duty, and send the military in. They are making an absolute fortune off LNG and weapons exports, they should take the responsibility to help.

EDIT: Also rich for Poland to complain about this when they are the biggest leech of EU funds in the Union. It's absurd that there are only ~9 net contributors to begin with.

That is irrelevant to the effective ban on gene-editing and CRISPR though. They can do the same thing with hybrids, etc.

I do agree with some of your post though, but even efforts to control fertiliser over-use are really difficult to manage.

That is the same for all crops though - including those modified as hybrids, or by mutagenesis, which are allowed.

I agree that patents shouldn't be allowed on genetics (and software for that matter) - but that's unrelated to the specific gene editing ban here (CRISPR, etc.)

I think the EU should fund the research and disallow genetic patents, but allow companies to do the production themselves.

It's a great movie too.

Nah, it's a scam if you look into it. They spend it all on "AI Safety" and "Existential Risk" bullshit.

It's a shame as the general concept is cool with microloans and crowd-funding, etc. but it's really been taken over by that crowd.