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  • And yet, translators are losing their jobs left and right, from what I hear. Sure, quality has gone down, but most people don’t seem to care. Plus, in a lot of cases, instead of the AI doing all the work, translators proof-read AI generated texts and correct the worst mistakes. Fewer translators can translate more at a lower price this way.

    Does the quality still go down a bit that way? Probably. But again, who cares? Not the people spending money on translations, that’s for sure.






  • I tried that already, didn’t really help. That repo is currently deactivated on my machine, I think I had some (more) annoying problem with it (don’t remember all the details), but after spending quite a few hours on this problem, I essentially gave up trying to fix it. Right now, video playback works well enough that I don’t want to deal with it anymore.

    And, honestly, I haven’t had a Linux installation where everything related to multimedia and graphics drivers just worked flawlessly. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Suse all had different issues. Switching from Nvidia to AMD didn’t help, either. Sometimes the flaws were minor and easy to ignore, but it has never ever worked as well as it does on Windows.









  • I repeated myself because I thought you overlooked some of my arguments or that I didn’t express myself clearly. But no, you simply chose to ignore half my arguments three times in a row. Nice!

    Do you have something to counter my points on EEA vs EU membership, or is “You keep saying this…” all you could come up with?

    … yet multiple EU politicians keep expressing a desire for the UK to be in the union.

    If that’s a sound argument, then surely Brexit was a splendid idea, too – after all, multiple politicians expressed a desire for it!


  • Oops, I missed a few words in my last paragraph. My bad.

    I agree that the larger market and membership fees would be beneficial to the EU (though it doesn’t need it even half as much as the UK needs access to the market).

    Both of these things, however, would also be achieved if the UK only joined the EEA instead of the EU itself (=what i was trying to say in my last comment). Like Norway or Iceland, the UK would retain (more?) control over some areas, including farming and fishing, but would have no say on EU internals.

    And since the internal affairs are complicated enough without the UK, I don’t see how minor benefits could outweigh its general stance towards Europe and further integration (which, imho, is needed direlly)

    To be honest, I even have doubts about the UKs soft power post Brexit; in my perception, it has decreased drastically since the referendum.

    Edit: I am in complete agreement on your points about benefits for the UK. Heck, from the UK’s perspective, full membership would probably be best. I just don’t think it would be in the best interest of the union.


  • Tbf, I couldn’t find a source for the UK’s voting behavior (and I was being a bit hyperbole). And it’s true tht we haven’t really seen any reforms since then. The EU has many different countries that want different things at times and some (including mine) are incredibly apathetic.

    But that is actually the reason why I do not want the UK to rejoin. Structural reforms are incredibly slow and hard as is. Let’s take a common European army for example; afaik a majority would be in favor of it. A member of the European parliament that I once talked with also talked about widespread support within the official bodies of the union. And still, things are slow, though not stagnant; i.e. Germany and the Netherlands have begun integrating their armies into ond.

    And all of what has changed i this regard, happened after Brexit (or the referendum, anyway). The UK never had to block votes, because with the UK, any attempts towards a common European army would have been struck down long before anybody got to vote on it. Heck, Eurosceptics loved to use ideas like these to paint Brussels as the boogeyman.

    So I’m still not convinced that a full rejoin would offer significant advantages over a Norway type of deal for the EU.


  • I’m an American, so it’s maybe hard to put myself exactly in the same shoes, but if I were in the EU and able to act freely, I’d personally make the concession to permit the opt-outs to the UK if it permitted for Rejoin (that is, I don’t think that there is great harm, as things were working all right earlier and that any precedent concerns could be addressed arguing that this is a special case)

    The EU would be nigh insane if it were to grant the UK its previous opt-outs, in my opinon. They only got them in the first place because they acted as though were special. They never really committed to the idea of the Union and kept using their potential exit from the union as a bartering chip. But, unfortunately them, they fell flat on their faces when they actually left.

    And, honestly, things were not all right before; the UK loved to block just about anything that went beyond trade deals.

    The EU has nothing to gain if it went back to giving the UK special treatment. And not really a reason to do it, either, because the UK needs the EU much more than the other way around, as the Brexit negotiations demonstrated clearly.

    Giving them back their opt-outs would be like giving in to a child that keeps throwing tantrums when things don’t go its way. If the UK wants to come back, then the EU cannot allow anything but a regular membership – if it greenlights the UK’s application at all.