Ugh, goddamnit. But at least that’s 5 years old, so maybe they’ve changed? I can’t remember running into anything in the 2-3 years I’ve been a subscriber, although it’s definitely not like I’ve seen every single headline during that time.

Yeah same. I’ve got a subscription but I’m going to yank that tout-de-fucking-suite if they’re TERF-friendly

Wouldn’t expect much more from a TERF paper.

Ah shit, has The Guardian platformed TERFs?

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 clear lines 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

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

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.

Yup. That’s because most “moderate” conservatives fundamentally agree with far right positions, or at least don’t disagree with them even though they might not be enthusiastic supporters

Tankie paradise

And the thing is, I think the reality is even worse than that.

Current AI models aren’t going to lead to general AI, we need something radically different. The current “static” neural network models just won’t cut it, we need something like spiking neural networks so the AI can be “on” all the time.

Actual AGI is probably still so far away that I doubt mass-scale industrial society has enough years left before either the climate or some other human-caused idiotic omnifuck kicks the chair away from under it.

We meatbags have to be the absolute worst role models for AIs

Current models point towards a max ~6°C anomaly for the pessimistic (and, imo, most probable) scenarios where we continue acting as we are now.

Men are going off the deep end

I just remember news about Germany planning to halve military aid to Ukraine from the summer, but honestly I haven’t been keeping up with the situation