The US was Europe’s biggest ally.

If you don’t understand what has changed, you’re mentally deficient (or a conservative, which is the same thing)

Weeeellll I mean, they do make up shit all the time, but that’s just great power politics for you. What’s left for us little people is to decide which overlord is the least bad

EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATION

I mean, he did specifically come up with his idiotic “Hyperloop” concept to kill California’s high speed rail project

I think that’s called “murder”

How is this a revelation to fucking anyone? Will we be seeing eXpLoSiVe allegations of OpenAI and Anthropic working with the US military, or is that fine?

I’m European so I certainly don’t trust the US any more than China. Probably even less.

Well, NATO was pretty much built to counter a Soviet invasion of Europe – so even though Art. 5 does cover the US (and they’re the only ones to have invoked it so far to justify their bullshit war in Afghanistan) since they’re a member state, the organisation has always been more geared towards keeping Russia from invading Europe.

“If NATO was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense, it must either become an organization that takes on this task by engaging with the Global South — and thus become something profoundly different — or we will not achieve the goal of having security within rules that apply to everyone,” he said.

It was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense in Europe. Why would NATO have to “engage with the Global South” (whatever the fuck that means in this context) to do that?

The hell did you want me to call it then? “Military service” is a completely common expression to use, and it applies whether we like what they’re doing or not.

And before you get any bright ideas: no, I’m not American and no, I don’t support what their military does. This kind of completely pointless semantic wankery just really activates my almonds

Both world wars look like “clear lines” to you after the fact. Of course you can just point at, say, Ferdinand getting assassinated and go “yeah that’s what started WW I” but do you think anyone at that time thought “yup that’s going to start the mother of all wars”?

As others have pointed out they absolutely didn’t look like it when they were kicking off.

But don’t expect any medical treatment after your service if you’re a Democrat or unmarried: ‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans

Imagine my utter shock.

I’ll be surprised once the Russians actually manage to do something right

Edit:

Unlike in the West, the use of AI in Russian online encyclopedias hasn’t sparked much debate among editors — at least not publicly.

Gee wonder why that is

if there’s an accident, the parents will be fined and the scooter confiscated.

Yeah, but that’s post hoc enforcement

Finland; our police force is already really overextended and generally doesn’t give a shit about small stuff like this.

Good luck enforcing that shit

You should stop using the PowerCore 10000 ‘immediately’

Engadget “journalists” don’t know how to use quotes

Edit: it’s probably I who doesn’t know how to use quotes

If the data you’re handling isn’t sensitive in any way (or you can eg. anonymise / pseudonymise it) and you don’t have anything else sensitive on the VM, it wouldn’t really matter either way – and as @MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com said, if you’re running an executable from some yarrr site you’re probably going to get malware

Just run it in a VM?

Unfortunately for all of us, all you have to do is look at history and you’ll see that a lot of people do want to – especially without consent

They should, but they’re human, and this is just such a quintessentially human thing – mindless hate and brutal torture are features, not bugs.