Yikes !

Their attitude to kids, based on that nightmarish Guardian interview, is extremely fucked. Hopefully their children will break the cycle.

I will always remember Sam Bankman Fried saying it's obvious that Shakespeare can't be the greatest author ever because it's unlikely. Just because something's unlikely doesn't mean it's impossible! You need to independently evaluate the evidence!

Never mind genes, he chose to shave his head like that. Humpty Dumpty

"If you zoom in on an upward trend, it looks smaller. I am very smart. A genius, even"

Do the founders of religions usually get much out of it? Jesus was nailed to a cross.

That's basically what some forms of christian homeschooling are.

This website perpetually relevant

If Bill Gates really wants to reduce the dangers of climate change, he should call up his old company and ask them to pull back from the massively energy-intensive, socially useless AI boondoggle......

Pipebombs are more of an evangelical thing. Catholics prefer to use legal evil to block abortion access.

my condolences from Dublin. we gave you the web summit as well!

they're both extremely online. next question

You're right. I don't know if the EU could actually stop Italy from creating an independent city-state within its borders - probably not. But TechTopia would have to either join the EU and submit to all the legal, financial and tax obligations.... or negotiate a trade deal with the EU from scratch.

Negotiations between the EU and Britain, which is an actual country that only has 1 EU land border, ended pretty badly for Britain. I can't imagine them even being considered for a tiny city-state with no resources that's entirely surrounded by another EU country. There are states in Europe that aren't in the EU, but they're either states that are trying to get into the EU or independently wealthy states like Norway and Switzerland that pre-date the existence of the EU and have negotiated agreements with them over the decades. Plus Italy would probably get punished by the European commission. I don't think they would have even considered it.

You get the impression they've done absolutely no groundwork on the places they want to set up their cities. I assume it's a scam and they don't actually have any intention of setting one up - but maybe that's being too generous.

No location picked let alone land bought or planning permission approved but they've already announced they're building a city. You can just say anything I guess if you're a hip right-winger.