Just learned that Belgium shuttered one of its (functional) nuclear plants today.

Trump was right, this country is a shithole.

Perpetual soldier of fortune, occasional internet slacker.

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What makes me really sad is that there's nowhere that really stands as a beacon of enlightenment these days.

Singapore? Taiwan? Pretty depressing when a soft-authoritarian state and a country whose survival is balanced on the geopolitical edge are your go-tos.

Maybe the future is finding a way to infallibly prevent enlightened soft-authoritarianism from devolving into tyranny 🤔

One could pay an enormous premium and retreat to Switzerland. Safe, but not that forward-looking. The protestant reformation is the only thing that ever came out of Switzerland.