I hate ai slop with a burning passion. This channel on the other hand is actual ai art.

I think they might mean all european social media users. The vast majority of those are still on corpo socials.

Multiple pictures can be posted at a time by adding the other pictures as embeds to the text body of a post.

My gaidar (generative ai radar) is going off.

I think a good old shitass paint illustration would be preferable. The message itself is good enough to deserve at least that.

Trump is probably too old to survive a proper sauna. I hope he goes into one.

The horse probably couldn’t handle the weight of the cow. Both animals might get pissed at you for trying to coax them into this.

Thales’ Theorem

For the sake of clarity I will say that I was referring to the hegemonic position the US has within NATO. This is the result of them simply being a trusted ally with the largest military on the planet. The latter isn’t about to change soon and the former would require very little effor, but the Trump adminstration seems to be doing it’s best to demolish the trust between the US and its allies. (Soft power protip #1: Don’t threaten your allies with invasion!)

No I do not believe that. I was talking about NATO troops in Russia, which could in theory also happen through a coup and a new government more alligned with the west. Even then I find it hard to believe that there would be “NATO troops on the Amur” as you put it.

Greenland and Canada aren’t about countering a Russian military threat. Both are NATO members with US bases in them. The Russian threat to the US was much larger during the cold war and yet the US didn’t annex them back then. This is about force projection in the arctic. Control of both the NW passage and the Panama canal would increase US leverage on the world stage, including on their so-called allies. Local resources are most likely of interst as well. Even then, I suspect that a large portion is just rhetoric to stoke up visions of grandeur and might among his supporters, since that would track pretty closely with how fascist regiemes have operated in the past.

I admit that “current de facto US ally #1” might be a bit strongly put, but it’s not like the bar would be too high at this point. They do get along well enough. Putin isn’t dumb enough to antagonize the US president who is more useful than any of his predesecors in a long time.

A NATO occupation of Russia, be that through overt means or a friendly coup, would still be incredibly expensive and thus politically unpopular across the board. Also Trump is all about pretending to be the peacemaker when it comes to Ukraine and Russia, so this would never go forward barring a major restructuring of NATO where the US is booted out or at least knocked down a peg from their current hegemonic position. Both seem unlikely to say the least.

The way I see it, China is just trying to position itself as a force for reason and making the most out of recent US shortcomings in soft power projection by exercising its own to fill that vacum.

Why would they wish to stabilize the current de facto US ally #1?

Capitalism has a tendency to eat everything it can. This includes the political system. The US is just ahead of the curve in this.

Or if the first side is objectively right, an infinite percentage more misinformation.

Beautiful.

Identity is just something our brains invent to better make sense of the world. It doesn’t exist as anything other than a thought. You are the universe and the universe is me. The only thing that goes away when anything “dies”, is the illusory and self-imposed border between the “individual” and the rest of it all.

I think they should have a duel and the loser has to resign

Good time of day

Humans can already fit through way too small holes.

A wiki article about a particularly gory diving bell incident. No graphic images, but still not exactly light reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_accident

Might take a while for the mods to get mad. I don’t see how anyone could get mad about such a cute and whimsical little goober.

Meh I can understand uncaring, since that’s just the lack of being caring. But yeah plenty of nihilists also slap on some attributes of active malice as well.

This. The meme is inaccurate in that the polar vortex is in fact currently unusually strong. It’s just unusually shaped and oddly elongated. I hope the two following images show up correctly.

Strength of the polar vortex. Blue line is this winter:

source: http://weatheriscool.com/

Map showing the mean 500 hPa geopotential height and surface (2m) temperature anomalies for this week, as forecasted on Monday by ECMW:

source: https://charts.ecmwf.int/products/extended-anomaly-multi-param?base_time=202501200000&projection=opencharts_arctic&valid_time=202501270000