Europeans in shock about America's air conditioning (the coincidence of it all)

[C C]

The fast internet on the airplane is probably due to the plane being equipped with Starlink. And Starlink service is currently approved and available in every European country except Russia, Belarus, Serbia and Bosnia.

Of course Starlink is an American thing... another product of that horrible fascist Elon who Europeans love to hate.

The question to ask is - Why does Europe have so few of the exciting visionary startup companies that America seems to excel in? It used to, 100 years ago. Back then, Americans all looked to Europe for the exciting new developments in every field.

But since World War II? Little or nothing. Europe's decline seems to have been simultaneous with and a product of the rise of the welfare state and its tendency to regulate everything into oblivion... all for the people's protection, of course. Perhaps World War II was too much of an emotional shock and a generation felt that they had to pull their heads in and hide. But this is a new millenium and it's time for Europe to emerge from its shell and lead once again, like it once did so long ago.

Europe has a combined GDP equivalent to the United States or China. It has great universities, plenty of scientists and world class engineers, and advanced industries in every field. Europe could defend itself... if it wanted to. Europe could rival the United States in spaceflight... if it wanted to. It could lead in computers, the internet, robotics and AI... if it wanted to.

Europe isn't even short of young visionaries. But cool European startups always seem to remain small, never seem able to accomplish very much, and go out of business or are bought up by Americans to get their technology. So the European visionaries all seem to end up moving to the United States where there are so many more opportunities. What Europe lacks isn't cool ideas, what Europe lacks is the support infrastructure necessary to turn cool ideas into reality.

Europe needs an American-style venture capital system, like the one that grew up here in silicon valley, so that young visionaries can get initial funding to make their ideas reality. Certainly 90% of those startups are likely to fail. But imagine getting an initial ownership stake in a new trillion dollar company like Tesla or SpaceX! Or getting in on the ground floor of an outrageous new idea like "the internet"! Of course this requires an appreciation for rather than a hatred of "capitalism".

And Europe needs fewer regulations that prevent the young visionaries from making their visions real until a hundred regulatory agencies have signed off ten years later, and without each of them micromanaging the whole thing with often contradictory requirements.

The moral high ground is more important to the continent. Capitalism must be ethically supervised to a painstaking degree. Despite the post-Church secularism, it's never gotten rid of that prescriptive fanaticism for policing behavior (extended to business).

The EU has regulated itself out of the AI race but the UK is still in the game
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-20646-...l#pid86351

. . . a sprawling legal framework designed to regulate artificial intelligence across all member states. The EU’s top officials and lawmakers were delighted with their effort ... While Europe’s leaders convinced themselves that they’d done the right thing in establishing the world’s strictest AI guardrails, companies in the US and China were pushing AI into a world that the EU’s Act barely touched on. ... Meanwhile the UK, thanks to Brexit, was spared the EU’s ‘safety first’ approach and was able to capitalise on its regulatory freedom...

[Magical Realist]

The desire for safety over all else, including freedom or innovation, is a female desire.

I'd say it's a republican male desire. And possibly related to TPS (Tiny Penis Syndrome). That's why they fight so hard to carry guns. Only people who live in fear of their own safety need to have guns near them at all times.

[Syne]

The desire for safety over all else, including freedom or innovation, is a female desire.

I'd say it's a republican male desire. And possibly related to TPS (Tiny Penis Syndrome). That's why they fight so hard to carry guns. Only people who live in fear of their own safety need to have guns near them at all times.

Aww, projecting again. Explains the asexuality.

People who carry guns don't live in fear and are willing to defend others. Just ask any cop or soldier.
It's those who fear guns... mandate vaccines, fear the police and ICE, fear the climate, etc.... who are obviously safety-driven (women).

[Magical Realist]

People who carry guns don't live in fear and are willing to defend others.

The same uneducated dolts who carry guns because they live in fear live in fear of a possible police state take-over, of vaccines, of vaccine conspiracies to make them vaccinated, black people, immigrants, LGBTs, Muslims, assertive women, socialists, Hollywood Satan-worshippers, universities, scientists, and the govt taking away their right to pollute and gas-guzzle. There is very little they (and you) don't fear. No wonder they need their pathetic God crutch so much..and their guns.

[Syne]

People who carry guns don't live in fear and are willing to defend others.

The same uneducated dolts who carry guns because they live in fear live in fear of a possible police state take-over, of vaccines, of vaccine conspiracies to make them vaccinated, black people, immigrants, LGBTs, Muslims, assertive women, socialists, Hollywood Satan-worshippers, universities, scientists, and the govt taking away their right to pollute and gas-guzzle. There is very little they (and you) don't fear. No wonder they need their pathetic God crutch so much..and their guns.

Aww, that's so naive.

Being prepared means you have no reason to fear. Weighing you're own health conditions against the need for a vaccine is rational. Plenty of states did have mandates.

A total of 24 states enacted past statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandates targeting specific, non-general public groups—primarily healthcare workers, state government employees, and school staff.
- gemini

No conspiracy there.

The rest is you're own projection, as leftists regularly protest things like low-income bussing into their affluent schools, they are racist, sexist, antisemitic, etc. against anyone who disagrees, hyperventilating about fascism where none exists (including fear of police and ICE), fear of the climate, Christians, average Americans, etc..

[Magical Realist]

Being prepared means you have no reason to fear.

Preparing against an imaginary threat, like carrying a gun, is purely fear-driven. There is no other motivation to do such an unnatural thing. And being scared of vaccines and not getting them isn't preparing for anything. Getting vaccinated is rational non emotion-driven preparation otoh. Conservatism is entirely built out of the craven pathetic attempt to hang onto the past out of fear of change and of the different. It is this whole spirit of xenophobia and projected-malevolence on complete strangers that drives it. Which is why in an age of exploration and embracing new things it's days are basically numbered.

The rest is you're own projection, as leftists

Oh..so we go from obsession with safety being a female attitude to a leftist attitude? Methinks you change whatever you are arguing for just so you can keep arguing.