I would argue that you can consider those thoughts. But this is the difficult bit, I've had the experience before of thoughts/feelings whatever ypu want to call them where words fall short. Knowing multiple languages helps a bit but it still falls short sometimes (very rarely).

Language is very effective at this, but I don't think thought is inherently linguistic.

To me language is just a way to label, group or organise these things. So when you learn a new one you learn a new 'labeling system/taxonomy' does that sound familiar?

Spotify is not a US company.

Having seen AstraZeneca inside, this is not the case. There's quite a lot of development going on. It is all non-fundamental though, the focus is heavily on late stage. No identification of disease mechanisms and such.

>In most of Europe, and in the UK, you can't express certain ideas.

This is total BS. In many European countries (the ones I know personally) this is not at all the case.

Try holding a piece of paper on which is written "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" in London.

What I took away from the book was that all these people were very eager to say variants of 'das haben wir nicht gewusst' when at the same time they also describe how the jews were systematically removed from their society and every part of civil society was taken over by the nazi's.

I would add to your statement that almost everyone should read it. It's unnerving to read how 'normal' all these people were in some way and how 'easily' it all happened because the population generally disliked jews.

Many many restaurants and stores never accept cash here. This would be a huge problem if cash suddenly becomes the only way of paying for everyone at the same time.

Stores accept cash. Some restaurants don't, but restaurants aren't really something necessary for survival.

Denmark, Sweden and Netherlands have the same system and it works reasonably well actually.

The same Denmark whose representative is in the EU council is championing for similar laws?

EU representatives are not elected the same way, so that is unrelated.

Netherlands currently has no government, so I'm not sure that's an argument :)

Like the German diplomats recently speaking out against their governments policy on Gaza and Israel?

Or Dutch professors openly criticizing the plans by the right-wing government (which just fell) as being damaging, unproductive amd sometimes unconstitutional?

The only examples I see are the opposite of what you say. Can you name any examples in Germany, Sweden, Norway or Holland? (Those are the countries that I'm confident talking about at least)

Its a little disingenuous to say that, most of us would have never gotten by with literally just a library catalog and encyclopedia. Needing a community to learn something in is needed to learn almost anything difficult and this has always been the case. That's not just about fundamentally difficult problems but also about simple misunderstandings.

If you don't have access to a community like that learning stuff in a technical field can be practically impossible. Having an llm to ask infinite silly/dumb/stupid questions can be super helpful and save you days of being stuck on silly things, even though it's not perfect.

Wait until you waste days down a hallucination-induced LLM rabbit hole.

> most of us would have never gotten by with literally just a library catalog and encyclopedia.

I meant the opposite, perhaps I phrased it poorly. Back in the day we would get by and learn new shit by looking for books on the topic and reading them (they have useful indices and tables of contents to zero in on what you need and not have to read the entire book). An encyclopedia was (is? Wikipedia anyone?) a good way to get an overview of a topic and the basics before diving into a more specialized book.