There are some concerns that the internationally recognized image of Saxony as an extremely xenophobic region will deter international talent.
The main problem isn’t staffing the plant with human assembly and packaging drones but having engineers and IT join permanently after production starts.
Rural saxony is not a place where you want to live if even your last name isn’t deemed ‘white’ or ‘German’ enough. And after years of cultivating this image it started to work against the best interests of the more rural parts of the region: brain drain galore and no sane person seeking work in a future proof place to build a life would come.
Translation: there are a lot of talented Asians, and we’re worried they won’t want to live there. Is that accurate?
It seems like most of the US has this problem. And yet rural IT always seems to find a way. I’m in Lake Saint Louis with gigabit symmetric fiber, which is a dream. We were backwater for awhile, but post COVID a lot of talent can be sourced remotely, at least for software.
Is a fab really so regional? I could imagine them having a team in Taiwan who they work with remotely. But I know very little about fab plants, and it sounds like you have a better idea of their engineering and IT requirements.
I used to work at Groq, a hardware company, and we were fully remote. So I’ve seen this work in practice. (It’s a tossup whether Groq will succeed, but that’s a separate conversation.)
The US still benefits from latent good marketing/rep in the 80s/90s, and projection of military power in decades past. For example, until relatively recently (the Trump era and especially how it ended disillusioned many), South Koreans still looked to the US as their model of the developed world. If you'd send your children anywhere to get educated or marry, it would be there. Inner benchmarks were done against the US. The rose-tinted glasses were enough to convince many to move without checking too carefully what the place they'd be moving to would actually be like.
This is changing, and more recently more attention is being paid to Europe, partially because the national conversation has shifted more toward quality of life, birthrate problems, aging population, etc. and there's more interest in social systems, healthcare, family planning support and so on.
Still, Koreans have a lot of memes about this or that place in Europe being racist in this or that way (and of course, quite lot of it is true), so it remains a big impediment.
Let me know when companies actually start pulling out of Saxony (not blog posts from randos - most people don't care as much about politics as the people who wrote those blog posts do).
That seems like a 'slight' overstatement. Saxony is also full of crypto-communists (third highest polling state for Linke)...
> The main problem isn’t staffing the plant with human assembly and packaging
So why on earth are these companies building they are fabs there instead of some other place in Germany? I mean they can't be that stupid to not understand all of this?
As much as I love your reply, the story is pretty interesting - far more than I anticipated. I hope people discover this if just for the pictures alone.
You are right that this is probably not the worst thing they did. I’m absolutely sure the US armed forces are a highly sought playground for psychopaths and people with sadistic tendencies. Furthermore military tends to attract people with a predisposition for authoritarian and/or facist mindset. We saw the snapshots of unspeakable torture - made by people that were so entertained by the atrocities that they just had to make commemorative pictures of it.
But collateral damage is something else: if I blow up a house with a terrorist leader in it, weil the debris kill a bystander? It happens in every war and it’s the main reason why a ‘just war’ still can’t be fought without tainting conscience.
> the main reason why a ‘just war’ still can’t be fought without tainting conscience.
Not to mention a completely unnecessary war sold using lies, and launched in violation of international law (not in self-defense, no UN Security Council authorization).
The article is nothing more than a rant. That is absolutely okay as long as it encapsulates some beautifully written outrage and at least some portion of self aware wit. Neither of those were detectable while reading. As a philosopher myself (though I left the university many moons ago), this is unfortunately the de facto standard of internet philosophy,
The field seems to attract mostly curious people and overthinkers but also a very vocal minority of people that don’t seek answers or even very good questions but want to ramble in a seemingly eloquent way about very broad topics - so broad that philosophers seldom dare to write books about them without decades of sincere chipping at academic details under their belt.
This blog post I just dragged myself to read until the end has nothing to do with philosophy - that’s not a dig at the author, more at the audience which assumes that a post about moral philosophy obviously has to be philosophy. By typing this out I hope to be able to illustrate the logical error that lead to this top comment along its children.
It’s just a blog post that was obviously crafted with a certain audience in mind and more of a cheeky rambling than an honest attempt to talk about moral philosophy in a way that transcends the discussion of pretty well read people with too many alcohol in them at the ugly and tired end of a drawn out social event.
The rant is at times funny to read because of the use of so many exclamation marks, italics and whatnot. I imagined a person gesturing wildly with a counterpart gasping in the pauses to try for a rebuttal but finally nodding apathetically while swaying his glass of wine.
TL,DR: This is not philosophy but a blog post and you guys should keep that in mind while discussing its content.
I get some of the points but the language used puzzles me. This presumably well meant blog post or rather blog rant seems only readable for a subset of readers which either frequent image boards or have urban dictionary open in a second browser tab.
The numbers quoted as in ‚95% of all personal sites are dead‘ do not seem sourced but more of personal estimation quoted with overconfidence just to get the author‘s point across.
To be honest: I stopped reading after the third section and only scrolled through the rest.
Concluding from the URL and the OP‘s user name I‘m assuming they posted it themselves so please take my comment as constructive criticism.
My own bias as a person interested and well read in history as a science wants me to agree but there is a selection bias at work that the authors of this study do not address to my satisfaction: We are talking about PUBLISHED language.
On the one hand, published and distributed works are only a fraction of the written literary works of an era and therefore only represents a commercially viable subset. On the other hand, the commercial viability is determined by the demand in the market of readers which would suggest that their language analysis could be more sound than not.
I THINK I’m reading more and more abstracts that show similarities between our current societal climate and that of the late 20s/early 30s of the last century. It will be academically interesting to see what the continuation of the current inflation and energy crisis which disproportionally hits the lower two thirds of the western populace causes in the next 2 years. The road to a substantial outburst - be it revolutions as a form of inward-directed change or god beware war - is paved at least.
I think this section addresses that sort of bias (a limitation of the used data):
>The availability of large-scale historical records of published languages going back centuries may provide a unique opportunity for the quantitative investigation of important cultural and linguistic dynamics (“culturomics”) (21), while acknowledging limitations with respect to verifying hypotheses and testing the causal mechanisms that underlie any observations from these data.
I enjoyed that overall the article does not try to sell the idea that there is/was an actual change in the society, but rather showing how this analysis may be an indicator of that and inciting future work on the topic.
what would be a better subset then? if you take the set of all computer-indexed written text, you would end up simply measuring the rise of the capacity of the unwashed masses to air their thoughts in permanent, public, usually informal form.
Yeah, well much of accepted history from that time is up for debate - from who funded the Germans and Soviets and their ties to industry and banking in the US and Europe. The current energy and inflation crises are caused in parts by similar global forces pursuing agendas today. I don't think revolutions will be forms of inward-directed change, but more as a result of financing by global elites similar to how Lenin and Trotsky's revolutions were funded by wealthy financiers in the US and London. Kennedy's father also helped fund the Germany war machine.
As you pointed out - we find ourselves in a similar political climate but not because of the people who elected these governments but because of the globalists who still run them behind the scenes, just like they were doing prior, during and after WWII.
To explain the remark of majormajor a bit further:
A philosopher can translate the attribution of the quotes to certain arguments or ‘thinking structure’ of the mentioned philosopher. It’s important not to see the argument and it’s supporting discourse in isolation but in the context given by the quoted philosopher’s work. This may look like name-dropping but is essentially a important as specifying if a certain mathematical trick only works in a Hilbert space.
I can wholeheartedly vouch for Grav. It’s absurdly fast, easy to deploy and even easier to template for thanks to Twig.
When I was still freelancing and a project was beyond the scope of htmlcssjs, Grav CMS became my tool of choice. Their admin plug-in makes for a easy to use backend GUI and it’s configurable enough to have non-techies use it without losing sleep.
One of the newer features are the so called FlexObjects. It’s an absolutely great idea for a CMS but explaining the possibilities and technical intricacies seems moot as the documentation and Discord community are a better place to start learning. [1]
Websites built with Grav compare to SSG speeds while maintaining a different ease of use and much less time invest to roll out.
And sticking to the topic: being completely flat-file centric, those websites are a breeze to maintain and according to my albeit limited experience also a bit sturdier security wise.
That is right and very important to note.
German law also enables employers in the realm of those institutions to terminate employment of non-vaccinated employed caregivers.
There are some very tricky edge cases like some vaccinations done in the former GDR which are not sufficient - it has something to do with the vaccination being a living/dead shot but I’m not a physician.
Generally speaking, the European view on freedom firmly remains rooted in Kant-ian ethics and always weighs personal or individual freedoms versus the impact on society. This of course heavily influenced the philosophy of law and in direct consequence the laws and constitutions all over Europe.
