Orange is a huuge disappointment.

the collector and the seller know

So you have never bought or inherited an old collection - large boxes rather than single books? “Going to sort them later…” :)

I would assume that every serious collector of books, everybody who has more than a few shelves full, has not read all of them.

Article 5 doesn’t actually oblige NATO members

I do not share your interpretation (although I know that it has been the popular one recently).

I read it like this:

1. The obligation is out of any question: they “will” assist.

2. The goal of all measures is defined: “restore […] peace and security”.

3. The choice of measures isn’t totally free. It must fit to that goal.

So, yes they can decide whether or not no use force, but they cannot follow random political agendas there.

And not fold paper airplanes instead of real ones :)

Greenland is not a nato member

That’s like saying your right arm isn’t a human.

Greenland is simply a part of Denmark, so it is a NATO member.

USA itself would violate it’s own membership. With such an act it became the enemy of the NATO.

Asking was unthinkable. At 17 I was glad when they informed me :)

Nice try, Bezos

Mujahideen in Afghanistan or on the front lines of Korea or any of a dozen other proxy wars.

I do not count these as the Cold War.

Proxy wars have their special funding and maybe false motives, but they are hot wars. Real wars.

The Cold War consisted of threats. Piling up weapons, bombs, nukes, and counting and comparing who’s got more of them. These threats were made mainly by politicians. Maybe I was wrong in saying they “fought” it.

Who exactly

Some AI or other, at some 3 letter agency, but they will never tell you exactly.

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This guy here explained it good:

https://feddit.org/post/9039190

https://archive.ph/xjFq9

The U.S. is eyeing Greenland

I believe that the Great Tricktator is already determined to rob it. Question is only, how, that means, which exact tactic he is going to apply.

I am so fucking glad Europe got nukes.

The Cold War is over. We live in very different times now. Try to understand it.

to further erode European sovereignty?

This whole situation is not about Europe. Europe is a mere nuisance.

This is how people brainwashed by capitalism would use it to deprive us all of the post-scarcity future.

That doesn’t work out. Unfortunately.

Reason:

When it was politicians who fought the Cold War, they were few who had actually a say, and these few got some minimum brain, at least.

But in your scenario, it is random jerks who execute that scheme everywhere. There will be some who pull the trigger just for … all kinds of stupid shit that has triggered them. So you’d have nukes going off somewhere, at least every few days, and then nobody can really rule the world anymore with them. The power of the threat will be gone.

I make another Elon.

And then another on the next day, and then another etc. When I have got a dozen of them, I let them loose on the real one and on each other and watch whatever happens.

Next I make another Trump…

In my understanding, art is made of

1. creativity

2. craftsmanship

If one of them is lacking, then the outcome is either just a copy, or even a bad copy.

Current AI is lacking both.

So whenever anyone calls generated pictures “art”, then you know something about that one.

Trolling against some lemmy mods? (surely one of the most hazardous things to to)

He’s been saying “fully autonomous” by next year for literally like 10 years, lol. Short memories indeed.

I just never heard that he announced it like 3 months from now! 🤣

Isn’t it the same with the Jehovah’s witnesses announcing the end of the world in 3 years, then in 2, then in 1, and then… silence?

But of course he will never be able to do that:

Silence.

Not in these next 4 years.

Afterwards, if judges still exist, you can try to force Tesla (with the help of judges) to allow your right to repair.

The world outside my doorstep is a really complex net of chaos

You are right. Another word to describe it: it is lacking structures. That’s where man comes into the picture: You. You can create structure.

Having that wonderful and powerful ADHD brain too, I found that I need to find and create structures within myself first. Then I can go on and give structures to the world outside.

One important step is to describe structures in explicit words. Often write them down or draw them on real paper, in order not to forget on the next day, or after an eventful weekend (for me it’s always the weekend - Monday morning I am so empty and I need to start with reading all that I have done at the end of last week).

Another good approach is to describe and define goals and strategies. A goal is where I want to get. A strategy is the order of steps needed to get to the goal.

Somebody explained it to me like climbing the mountains. You can’t just wander around there and hope to find a way sooner or later because you would get lost inevitably, and your force is limited and your day runs out etc. So you have to look at a specific point and say “There it is where I want to go!”. Then you look and think and decide and say “This is the way, and these are the steps to get there!”. And you cannot start before you know the way. But when you know it, you can go and start your climbing.