Americans on hearing a British accent: “wow, they must be so much more intelligent and cultured than us!”
Britons: “I’d be fine with migrants if they came here to work instead of just stealing all the jobs. Also, I wonder how many Creme Eggs I can fit up my bum”
In modern America, smiling is normalised in a way that’s an outlier among human cultures. If someone in Russia smiled as much as the typical American, they’d be regarded as a simpleton, too feeble-minded to have an understanding of the world.
The US SUV-style aggressive-looking headlight ports are a nice touch.
Under the benevolent gaze of Richard Stallman’s fursona.
The gold will be donated to the Russian war effort
It mentions style as being among the data points used, along with personal details, though if your hidden account is used for things like whistleblowing or niche erotica, you may not be mentioning telltale biographical details at all often, while you can’t help writing the way you write, with numerous unconscious choices between alternative ways of phrasing things, which will be the bulk of what it has to work with.
Of course, that doesn’t mean you couldn’t slip up, so if you don’t want your posts traced back to you, also look out for any details you’re leaking and file the serial numbers off them (and perhaps rig up a way of delaying your posts outside of your waking hours).
Most of the time, yes. Sometimes visiting friends, sometimes going somewhere for an event (and staying in a hotel/hostel), and occasionally just going on a trip, visiting/exploring a few places.
If you’re in Europe, Interrail is your friend. Get a pass, catch some trains and explore.
This seems to mostly scale up stylometry (the method of identifying authorship by writing style), a long-established technique. It unmasked the Unabomber in the 90s, as well as the anonymous author of a scandalous book about the Clinton administration. Indeed, one technique some writers use of dodging this is to deliberately write in character in a contrived style (there was an information-security poster on Twitter whose style was modelled on Taylor Swift, for example).
As all things are an arms race, a countermeasure to this would be a locally-hosted language model that can rephrase text into a more neutral style. Install it on your phone, select the text you’ve written and get it to rewrite it, getting something without any regionalisms, turns of phrase or other peculiarities of your writing style that you wouldn’t notice but would identify you given a large enough corpus of your writings. A voice changer for text, if you will.
“The Price of Freedom”
If you were where Poland is, so would you.
We can have a revolution, and move to an economy that caters to the frivolous desires of the Party nomenklatura.
The US famously has a clear line of succession that goes down a long way, all the way to the Washington DC Municipal Dogcatcher or someone, and nominally is run by impartial institutions. Trump and his Supreme Court have weakened these somewhat, but they theoretically still stand, so that if a succession was triggered, there’d be considerable institutional inertia pushing to return to some form of equilibrium.
Xi’s personal power over the CCP, and in turn, the Chinese state, seems to be a lot greater. There are no judges or delegates who would push back against him, and the principles of rule are what he says they are. It was similar with Mao, whose death precipitated conflict and instability.
Sometimes filesystem developer syndrome removes a wife, sometimes it adds one
Schooling in which you learn to do arithmetic, write reports, research and collaborate on projects will be replaced with reverse-centaur training, in which you are trained to respond to headset commands more quickly, preparing you to join the only remaining part of the workforce
You love to see it
Tell that to the judge
There was a guy from the Cypherpunks community who set such a thing up (in the 90s/00s). IIRC, he was jailed after the courts rejected his defence that he was merely running an innocent betting site.
Vibe coding. Not even once.
There’s one thing he can never have, which is enough
It sounds American and mid-20th-century. If that’s the vibe you’re going for, great.