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New comment by SZJX in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

SZJX — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:18:03 +0000

Curious, what’s exactly not true about these? The Nordic (and Central European) countries are surely not friendly to people accumulating wealth, and it’s a widely known fact that monetary supply got out of control especially since Covid. Data about it are all available in public.

New comment by SZJX in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

SZJX — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:58:59 +0000

I looked through some related recent discussions, interestingly somebody[1] pointed out that this has long been the case in some countries where the military service is mandatory, such as Switzerland (even though the threshold of continuous absence for applying for such a "military vacation" is longer, 1 year in the Swiss case): https://www.armee.ch/de/militaerdienst-urlaub

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/luftablassen/comments/1s33z9v/wtf_g...

New comment by SZJX in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

SZJX — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:53:46 +0000

Yeah, by such definitions any country is justified to wage a war and always find a way to claim it’s for self-defense (which is indeed how most causus belli have worked throughout the history – they always claim to have the moral high ground when launching the war). This is also how essentially in every country it’s called the Department of Defense (unless you’re Trump) but that means nothing as they start wars all the same. Not a trace of any rules, accountability or restraints still remains under such a framing.

New comment by SZJX in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

SZJX — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:28:53 +0000

Sounds like a weird incentivization for sure. Why not base the pension on the average over all the years worked as in many other countries? When you offer such incentives, people will naturally work in such a way.

New comment by SZJX in "Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom"

SZJX — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:12:36 +0000

> It demands people ask: Do you prefer Hong Kong's past? Or its future?

Such a formulation is either sheer ignorance or worse, full-on deliberate cynicism.

Hong Kong's "past" was a typical colony where the governor was appointed by the British government with no local input whatsoever, and where any assembly of more than 6 people was deemed illegal and brutally suppressed. The type of thing that people like Gandhi (who are apparently heroes in contemporary narratives) fought against throughout their lives.

The British government only started changing the laws and handing locals more political freedom and freedom of speech once they knew that Hong Kong was returning to China no matter what (surprise, surprise).

In all such propaganda you see now, they try to construct a "past" that never existed, and apparently a lot of the young generation who never experienced the old days fell for it. But the older generation would tell them outright that "Hong Kong's past" is far less rosy than what's made out to be.

It's just astonishing when you see the amount of people waving British and American flags on the streets during the protests. What kind of "fight for freedom and independence" is that? Just imagine the reaction to protesters in a US territory or a European region (Catalonia etc.) waving Russian or Chinese flags.

New comment by SZJX in "New nanotherapy clears amyloid-β, reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice"

SZJX — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:35:01 +0000

Not sure it’s a “long-running Internet movement”. You make it sound like one of those loony anti-science conspiracist agendas. There have been a lot of serious articles written about it. I don’t think it’s hard to believe that a lot of scientists and institutions have the incentive to try to keep a whole system of focusing on removing beta-amyloid going as a self-fulfilling cycle. Getting funding and publication citations snd promotions etc. could always be the fundamental incentive out there.

New comment by SZJX in "New nanotherapy clears amyloid-β, reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice"

SZJX — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:26:23 +0000

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind is another book on these topics which is rather comprehensive and compelling.

New comment by SZJX in "The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closing"

SZJX — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:38:52 +0000

Good that I saw this post on its last day of opening. Gonna pay a visit today. Typography is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by SZJX in "People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design"

SZJX — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:32:17 +0000

It's mindblowing how the majority of the comments here seem to be rather cynical and distrustful. I'd be really discouraged if I were the author. I (as an engineer) found the article rather well-written and convincing! Well, at least it did get 100+ upvotes.

New comment by SZJX in "People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design"

SZJX — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:29:02 +0000

That's the whole point of the article: It's not about "decoration", but about making the underlying UX flow make coherent sense.

New comment by SZJX in "People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design"

SZJX — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:27:01 +0000

That's a similar thing to clothing though. You may argue how it can be manipulated all you want, but people do think in this way and it's a socially agreed upon contract to show you care enough about the occasion and have enough respect for the other people present. No head of state shows up to a meeting in shorts and slippers for a reason.

New comment by SZJX in "People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design"

SZJX — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:24:59 +0000

That doesn't seem to be talking about exactly the same point as the article is focusing on though.

New comment by SZJX in "Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly"

SZJX — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:31:49 +0000

I was wondering about grammar checking tools in the era of LLMs, especially for grammar checks beyond English, and Sapling https://sapling.ai seemed decent. Nobody seems to have mentioned it here?

New comment by SZJX in "Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools"

SZJX — Sat, 10 May 2025 08:57:32 +0000

You can always come up with criticism for anything. Do they deliver some interesting ideas (while understandably they might oversimplify some other aspects) and are not complete frauds? If so there is some value in them.

New comment by SZJX in "The Generative AI Con"

SZJX — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:13:20 +0000

They’ll be fine and will survive regardless, but their current astronomical valuations probably won’t be.

New comment by SZJX in "Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k"

SZJX — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:18:51 +0000

Weird that it shows that to me at first as well, but now when I opened the article again, the video seems to be available? Not sure if it was restored just now.

New comment by SZJX in "Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k"

SZJX — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:17:28 +0000

From the D/M/Y date format at the end of the article, they may not be native English speakers (at least they aren’t American).

New comment by SZJX in "Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013)"

SZJX — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 05:04:01 +0000

If it’s true, one idea to explain it might be oversensitivity to input (which maybe sometimes leads to withdrawal or avoidance to social situations which could be too stimulating and stressful?), which given the connection between autism and ADHD which has become discovered more and more by research in recent years doesn’t sound entirely unreasonable to me. Then again I have no expertise in this field whatsoever so can only conjecture.

New comment by SZJX in "US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek"

SZJX — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:20:11 +0000

lol that’s such wishful thinking and seeing those congressmen in a way too competent light. If they had any hard evidence they’d have published it. It isn’t hard to understand is it.

New comment by SZJX in "Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history"

SZJX — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 07:15:32 +0000

This is precisely how English is the lingua franca of developers around the world, and a lot of (not all, of course) companies in e.g. Germany or Japan hire English-speaking programmers.