I wouldn’t be surprised if a bloc forms between Indo-Asia countries, providing mutual aid, nukes, and trade to box in China. Phillipines, Taiwan, India, Korea, Japan, Australia, all have good reasons to cooperate.

The Congress of today likely won’t. But the people who takes their vacated seats? Possibly.

I think centralization has merit…IF there are deliberate regional blocs, with the national figurehead elected by popular vote or if the heads of the other blocs agreed on that representative. Of course, the regional heads themselves are voted by popular election. As with the US Constitution, the concept is to divide up power - but in this case, the branches are multiplied by the number of blocs.

A national judiciary and parliament refines and creates national laws for all regional blocs, but only after representatives of each bloc or their constitutes have agreed for those laws. This creates a backbone of common law and policy, but also prevents any one region from dictating what should be.

Examples of hypothetical EU Regional blocs: A Mediterranean region for all nations who share a coastline with that body, a Black Sea region of the same, a Balkans Bloc, A Baltic Sea bloc, and so forth. Those spots have commonalities in what places they deem to be important, thus they would be focused on creating frameworks that allow for effective trade and practices within their region.

Whether this sort of division would work is the big question. Unfortunately, we will be exposed to political upheavals of what does…and more importantly, DOESN’T, work.

I personally believe that the US will become an social experiment of great and terrible proportions, that all other powers will pay close attention to.

I think you can see the more open signs of shying away from American products, with Europe starting to officially adopt FOSS software like Linux or LibreOffice. That is a relatively easy change to make, since there is less physical logistics involved with the transition.

Material things, like shipments of manufactured goods for the F-35 program, would become evident in a decade or so, IMO.

The launch codes: “0000”.

“More lethal”, as in American soldiers reenacting the Charge of the Light Brigade.

…though, to be honest, I am alright with willful soldiers of the Trump Regime doing that. Preferably, into the killzones of Blue State militias.

Got it, the EU should buy Congress!

…that might be an improvement, considering how dumb our political animals are. 🤔

Uh-huh, I sure will trust the word of Captain Bonespurs and his spawn about the “corrupt” rich of a country in a war with Russia. 🙄

A world with one less dictator.

I hope Putin is discovered while fleeing, and promptly suffers the divine plight of kings…

Really, all dictators should end up this way.

Garibaldi may had regrets about his choice of home appliances…but his mind changed. Buy our Pluribus today!

Considering that we may have WW3 started by the United States, I very much approve of Europe and friends cutting out America. It would be preferable if they had fully vetted and stockpiled arms, rather than makeshift drones made out of bedframes.

I have no idea what a seahorse emoji implies, and never had the desire to use one.

Anyhow. I personally believe that AI can be used to empower the common person, provided that it is available and publicly funded. Something along the lines of Switzerland’s Apertus could be very helpful. Be it keeping an eye out for discount goods, pairing news with investments, or determining the legality of a Kavenaugh Stop, AI can make it easier for people to have agency in their lives. But that is dependent on whether we support the establishment of that agency.

I personally feel that anti-AI people are bad for the future of humanity, because they encourage the 1% to become the sole owners of AI, by trying to deter the ordinary person from becoming masters of it. Rejection of tools and power, only ensures it is used by the worst people.

Also, all existing human artists derived their skill and creativity from observing the works of other people. IMO, the same can be said of AI. While an AI currently isn’t fit to independently create original works, eventually it will be able to make great creations, be it in collaboration with a human partner or by itself. It is simply a matter of when that AI becomes capable. Of course, I can’t prove that - but neither can the technology vegans. We will have to see in a couple of decades.

AI, being a technology, will become more economical and effective over time. My gaming rig isn’t well suited for running medium-sized AI like GLM Air, but it is an AM4-socketed machine. When a post-AI boom socket is released, such as AM6, the memory and PCIe lanes for it will be much faster and larger to account for AI usage. It is through the improvement of software and hardware that the progress of AI will march forward. For example, we can expect GLM to run about 30% faster on consumer hardware once MTP is implemented in LlamaCPP. A prompt that took 40 minutes to generate an response for me, becomes 28. Time savings like that, translate into less energy and heat being needed to run AI. It isn’t dissimilar to how aircraft massively improved over time.

As to why the Pro-AI don’t need to prove our beliefs: we aren’t claiming that people aren’t artists, nor are we trying to make other people feel sucky. We just want to do neat things for our folks, without bothering other people. Anti-AI folks tend to throw around accusations and generally be jackasses. It is why court systems and society needs the accusers to prove their points, otherwise they will just bully people for anything and everything.

That is for the best. The US is a hostile power, and allowing it to embed enemy troops or sabotage NATO operations should not be permitted. Europe is better off without the traitorous Trump Regime.

It sucks that it has to be this way, but to deny the intent and nature of the current United States, is to invite disaster.

And you fail to explain whatever it is that makes it AI, let alone why that would be a bad thing. It is on anti-AI people to prove that their beliefs have merit. Careless speculation such as yours is irresponsible, unjust, and is pretty damn likely to hurt real people.

You are welcome to dislike AI - but using that as a crutch for falsified criticism is just plain wrong.

You DO know that Asimov’s Foundation series has been around for at least 70 years now, giving humans plenty of time to make fancy posters and cover art?

Bluntly, your type of “Ew, AI slop”, is dumb and disingenuous. It became an excuse to hate stuff, no matter the merits, context, or source.

Sounds familiar.

EURO-NATO should just declare war and get it over with. Putin’s Russia is a festering wound, that needs disinfectant and proper care.

I expect a chunk of Russia gold would coincidentally vanish with Putin’s resignation.

Opposition to Antifa is basically this: