I really wanna believe that the US overplayed their hand but it’s hard to be optimistic these days. Feels like too many countries have enough people willing to sell out everyone else.

What can you say at this point except “yeah ok whatever”

Israel & Taiwan recognizes Somalilands independence from Somalia.

I shouldn’t base my politics on “the opposite of whatever those guys say” but

The Harry Potter books have sold over 600 million copies. Of course there were a lot of people involved, but I think nowadays with digital self-publishing, it could be possible to have a book series that sells millions of copies while only requiring the labor of a handful of people.

Shoutout to Apex Legends. Apex had an NB character as one of their original 5 launch heroes and they have a trans character voiced by an actual trans woman. It always felt like they were being sincere with their wokeness and weren’t doing it just to pander.

Also Warframe. But the Warframe devs are just cool in general tbh.

counterpoint: the editor was british

Since nobody else has said it so far, the other one is Taylor Swift.

I think especially in the digital age you could theoretically earn a billion dollars without exploiting anyone, like if you wrote an ebook or made a video game that pops off like Undertale, where there is little to no labor required for distribution. It’s still unethical to hoard that much wealth and society should tax it away from you. Even if we were to accept the narrative that some billionaire celebrities made their wealth through ethical means (which they didn’t), they still very much have the ability to give it to people who need it and choose not to.

“The problem with capitalism is you eventually run out of […] people[…]”

human + cat ears is the Vtuber norm

Outside of AI chat bots sucking in general, I think they are particularly inadequate for tutoring schoolchildren because a lot of children are simply uncooperative. They will not prompt their assigned AI tutor to tell them how to do linear algebra, they will prompt it to write a poem about how girls are icky.

Most kids don’t understand why they learn the things they do at school and they don’t want to do it, that’s why they need an adult authority figure to hit them with the “You have to do it because I say so” sometimes. A sycophantic chat bot can’t do that. There is no way it can deal with the endless amount of nonsense children will throw at it to get around having to do schoolwork.

An AI tutor could maybe work for university students, adults who understand why learning the material is in their interest and who will engage with it in good faith. But you effectively have to treat children as bad actors in this context and I don’t believe for a second that Grok of all things is equipped to deal with them.

Hogs will worship anything if some fossil fuel executive tells them it’s patriotic

Do they know that this is a trillion dollar business opportunity?

They are not militarizing to fight the US lol.

Please read my comment before giving an obnoxious response. I am under no illusions about this.

As someone from , I have somewhat mixed feelings about the ongoing militarization in European countries.

As long as Germany doesn’t have a real military, it will only ever be a vassal state of the US. The same goes for all EU states. Do I think Germany or the UK for that matter will use their militaries to liberate themselves from US control and end Western hegemony? Absolutely not, they will probably do fascism. But I still think it’s a prerequisite to end the imperial core as we know it.

She deserves it for voicing my wife in BG3

So if the US cuts ties with the EU, what are the odds the EU tries to re-establish ties with Russia?

I can’t believe they’re such morons. You’d think they’d be capable of confidently bullshitting their way through a hearing like this. I could probably improv something that would be more convincing. What an absolute imbecile.

So does Trump want to install a more Russia-friendly leader?

What are the odds Kamala Harris is on the list