I sincerely doubt this…
It’ll be a week before supermarkets have trouble getting filled, I bet. After that, with our amount of urbanisation, it will be very hard to (re)coordinate the logistics of keeping a city liveable, without internet.
Let’s hope at least the phone lines keep working
Yeah, it’s a shame that the entire Internet has gone down. We can’t even post about it on a web forum that is ostensibly about Go.
Oh, later it will be a different case, indeed, but “the internet getting destroyed” or a “the sun issued a huge ESP and most circuits are fried” is not a direct way to die soon like, let’s say “an asteroid hit the earth” or “megavolcano eruption”. This leaves a few days of chaos, then a few weeks were people live off the provision they randomly had at home and then we are into “not even Hollywood movies can depict this” kind of area of savagery.
Having had a similar experience in the sudden capital controls, I can tell you that people will panic fast and run for the supermarkets, but they won’t start rioting and looting immediately.
Speaking of disasters, here is something else on topic:
Wait till he finds out about the 7 days a week/12 hours per day jobs which is the standard in the tourism “industry” 
I heard that there are now so brazen that they actually post that stuff (along with mentioning about not paying insurance - which is illegal) on the job advertisements.
That experiment will work, by the way, for reasons mentioned in the video, so this is a trend that might appear in other less fortunate EU countries as well.
While we were watching TV the image froze suddenly, so I restarted my Box and now the Internet connection in my house is down (I’m using the 4G connection of my phone to write this).
After checking this site
It turns out to be a national breakdown. It says that only TV services are affected, Internet works fine but “do not restart your Box”…
If you do not mind a suggestion, since here things break down often, I have had to look for alternatives and redundancies for such emergencies. In such cases look into getting a “WLAN stick”. It costs 10-15 euros and it practically provides a wireless LAN access to your computer. That way you can make your phone a LAN hub and then connect your computer to your phone and keep working without any issues even though the landline internet failed. Small cheap things like that can reduce stress over potential outages.
I’ve had this happen to me and it worked like a charm for some days till the issue was “fixed”. (it was not fixed. They just returned things to the previously faulty, but “some internet trickles in, so it works” condition. The internet provided by my phone was - and still is - better than the landline hahaha )
Quite the year for online computer security, eh?
The police are not your friends, do not invite them into your house.
Maybe only in the US?
Feel free to name a country that implicitly, and rightly, trusts its police force. I’m fairly sure most of continental america, asia, africa, and australia is out. Is there some european paradise where the police force actually operates in the interests of the public?
Countries like Finland, Switzerland, and Singapore seem to have high levels of public trust in the police force.
Besides, who will you contact when you are in danger involving crimes if not the police?
You just buy more guns 
We have a saying in the U.S.: “When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.”
Makes me think of the seconds counting in Go
In France, the police are really hated in poor suburban areas. Of course criminals dislike them and occasionally fight against them with heavy weapons, but ordinary people in these areas generally don’t like them either because, not only they sometimes use unjustified violence against “colored” people, but also they don’t do much against criminality and drug dealing.
Among the general population, about 70% trust the police.
The trust peaked in 2015 after intervention against terrorists. A few years later, trust went down around 2018-2020 after the Yellow vests protests when 23 demonstrators were shot by a flashball and lost an eye, someone lost a hand, etc. Granted, some demonstrators were violent, police officers got injured as well, and both parties accused each other of lying about who started the attack, however people started to realize that not only criminals and “colored” people can be victims of unjustified violence by the police, but ordinary, “white” people as well.
Nowadays I wouldn’t take any risks by demonstrating in the streets and being caught between black blocs on one side and the police on the other.
I no longer have access to that AI discussion thread so I’ll put it here:
Anecdotal evidence to the above, I was talking recently to a friend of mine who is a localiser/translator and asked about AI and if their work was affected as they say and the answer is that there was an initial issue, but the AI generated translations are so bad that they all need curation and that the market is now re-balancing itself since correcting a horrible translation takes more resources than doing the translation from scratch, ergo it will soon cost more to run AI translations.
I found that very interesting. Let’s see how things go. I still refuse to use any AI tools before the penny drops.
I think the trust of police in the Netherlands is similar. But I don’t think people of color fear the police for potential violence against them (although they may be more likely to be searched and I imagine they’re justfully not quite OK with that).
Perhaps there is not much faith in the police for solving crimes though. Especially petty crimes may not be actively investigated (let alone solved) because the police tends to be underfunded and understaffed for many years already.
But I do think the overall population considers the police officers that do exist to be fairly competent and not corrupt.
The education to become a basic police officer takes 2 years here, and a police officer firing shots is news.
The French police generally don’t commit violence against people who comply. On the other hand this story has caused a lot of protests:
(He didn’t have a driver’s license, was seemingly trying to drive away from the police, a police officer shot him dead.)
