It’s still a cool border agreement though. The new border goes right down the middle of the island, but it is agreed that whoever manages to get their sorry ass to that piece of cold rock are free to roam the entirety of it.

They should make a TV show.

F.R.E.U.N.D.E.

So I guess the kids are gonna go to the dark web. What could go wrong.

I will look forward to Darth Musk throwing a tantrum against Australia when they eventually fine X for not complying, but that’s about the only good thing to come from this ban.

Oh yes sure, it’s great they stop the kids from being brainwashed by the algorithms. They really should ban everyone, especially the elderly.

I don’t remember asking Grok a god damn thing.

Who the hell goes to his page anyway?

A brain itself doesn’t feel physical pain. That requires a nervous system and pain receptors of which the brain has none. Brain surgery is done with only local anesthesia for the skin and scalp.

We also know that braindead people don’t suddenly start creating brain waves even if the body gets mechanical resparation and pulse. It’s quite literally “off”. So, I guess the creation of a dead brain won’t feel anything or start thinking about anything by itself.

The question is what inputs they give these artificial brains. It’ll think that, and that will be it’s “sensory” input. Whether that can cause some emergent brain waves that could be interpreted as emotion or other stuff is impossible to say. I doubt it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_car

https://arcomage.github.io/

The money would easily pay off and stop more wars than when it is spent on “defense”.

If someone wants to fight, just offer them a sandwich. They are less likely to attack you after having a nice sandwich.

It’s from this video:

https://youtu.be/75iOaMW-pTE

I’m not really scared of AI becoming more intelligent. I’m more concerned about stupid people giving control to stupid AI. It’s plenty capable of fucking things up as it is provided it is given access to do so.

Sand from Sahara in Africa is sometimes carried by wind and rains down in Scandinavia and even South America.

Fish eggs have landed in tree tops in the Amazon and what not.

I’m sure a mosquito or their eggs could ride the wind to Iceland as well.

Honestly, the bamboo “forest” isn’t worth a visit. I wonder if they post this news just to attract more tourists. The same story has been posted year after year.

It’s just a place where someone once planted a lot of bamboo thinking they’d need it as a ressource. They didn’t need it so they just left it there.

It dates back about a thousand years, so I guess it’s “natural” now, but it’s basically the remains of a human made plantation, albeit old.

The famous path through it is about a hundred meters long and a great spot to take that photo. I didn’t feel immersed in the forest at all, because the entry and exit is visible through the entire “attraction”.

There’s a nice temple with an impressive garden close by and some random rich rock star dude also build a mansion with a garden on top of the mountain next to the forest, and that’s it.

The whole thing felt like the kind of place that you only want to go if you’re a tourist with nothing better to do.

Kyoto is still worth visiting as a whole. The thousand gates on mt. Inari is a much better use of your time.

The G is silent in English words starting with gn. Gnarly gnats is pronounced narly nats.

There’s not a lot of those words anyway

Gnu and gnome are exceptions only when used to describe the software. The gnu animal and the mythical gnome creature are pronounced with silent gs.

I know it’s completely off-topic, but anyway. No, I’m fine with the rake. That’s what’s makes it funny.

It’s the drawing of the skater that is too good, and that doesn’t add up with the other details being wrong. Someone who can draw a skater that good wouldn’t make the other things that wrong or even random.

The rake is drawn as doing a frontside shove-it, popped from mid-air and failing because of gravity suddenly changing in the middle of the sequence. The skater is “obviously” doing a varial heelflip instead of a frontside shove-it.

So that’s the clue to why I thought it was drawn off an actual picture. That the background is also a copy of the original only reaffirms my theory.

In hindsight I can also see that the skater is obviously Andrew Reynolds. The tuck and landing is his signature style.

The last picture in the meme always bothered me, because the sequence doesn’t make any sense physically. (Popping the rake from mid air and doing the wrong flip and such)

So, I went on to find the sequence that I believe it was drawn from.

Not officially. It was removed in 2023.

That’s the background for the story: Russia sent their convicts to war in trade of a “get out of jail”-card.

The guy was in jail for killing his wife. He took the deal and was sent to war. He got shot, got sent home as a free man, and immediately started killing people again.

It’s not a single case. It’s likely that convicts are taking the deal, not just to get out of jail, but also so they can go back and get revenge over those that put them in jail in the first place.

Yes, sure, and I’m not trying to defend or downplay the story. I’m just sharing the info that is otherwise only available in Danish.

The past was indeed a horrible time. Social experiments like these happened in many places worldwide. Similar things have happened in America, Russia, China, Brazil, France, Germany. All of which were done because people thought it was a great idea at the time.

Although the damage cannot be undone, at least these women will now receive an apology and some kind of compensation for the wrong-doing.

I do find the timing of the stories very peculiar in light of America’s desire to take control of Greenland.

Earlier this year we had the story about displacement of children, now this, and I predict that next you’ll probably hear about the racist hiring practices in the military, which also occured in the past on Greenland.

All of these happened almost half a century ago or more. There has been plenty of time to bring it up. I am happy that they do bring it up, so it can be redeemed as best as possible, but I do find the timing very convenient for certain people outside the kingdom who is currently interested in sowing division.

I agree it was wrong, and it was probably also illegal at the time happened.

For context:

It was done to avoid an explosive population increase which happened in the 60s.

At the time, Greenland had the worlds highest birth rate, despite having access to free contraceptives like condoms and pills, of which information campaigns had obviously failed. A lot of the births were given by teenagers aged 15-20 outside of marriage. Infant mortality also hit records with about 1/3 of the total number of deaths on Greenland being infants. I should note though that Greenland does not have a much higher statistics of inbreeding than elsewhere, despite rumours.

However, something had to be done to lower the number of unwanted pregnancies. The humanitary organization Mødrehjælpen (mothers help) did a test run with volunteers and it gave a positive result.

At the moment it is unclear who or why it was decided to roll out the forced spirals. An investigation of that is happening currently.