It is fascinating, and (I suspect) is behind Thiel's comments about how the expansion of the franchise to women has contributed to the "decline of democracy". (View Post)

Yvette Cooper??? (View Post)

Off topic, but I'm a mod so I can get away with it: Groq (not Grok) is absolutely amazing. It's a platform for running opensource LLMs (like LLaMa or DeepSeek), and it runs at 5x the speed … (View Post)

This is one of the things Americans really don't get: "ah, but in Germany you get election results in a couple of hours, whereas it can take a day in the US." Well yes. But in Germany … (View Post)

If BSW and FDP don't make it into Parliament, that means that only about 84-85% of votes did. That means you only need 42% or so for a majority. What this means is that -if the CDU/CSU is on 30%… (View Post)