Don’t look at the sun is advice that applies more broadly than just the celestial object.

I had been looking for a reddit alternative for some time, but nothing I found was both active enough and not a receptacle for all the shitheads who were too reactionary for reddit. When the API fiasco happened, it seemed like there was an opportunity for federated link aggregators to be that. So far, it seems like that has been true. I was also attracted to the open source nature of the thing.

It sure feels like our military leadership is not equipped to meet the moment.

The network effect seems to be the strong nuclear force of online interaction.

That person was definitely being sarcastic.

In Canada, our current prime minister has made one of his priorities firing (or reducing via attrition, whatever) a bunch of public servants and utilizing LLMs to “increase efficiency”. Boy, sure am expecting that to go well.

In Jeopardy, you are supposed to answer in the form of a question. So the lady in the MIT hoodie should have responded, “What is socialism?”

I agree with all of that. I think our’s and Europe’s leaders are making the exact wrong move. This is a moment where we should be locking arms with they as well as Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, etc and projecting strength right back at the US. Not falling for their bravado.

I expect a kangaroo court. But if by some chance it weren’t, and Maduro were to walk and they had to send him back to Venezuela, that would be really, really funny.

I recently watched an interview with Marco Rubio and am actually significantly less worried about American aggression since. Not because he allayed my concerns, but because he reminded me that this administration is incompetent.

Let’s put what the US is saying aside for a moment and look at the actual situation in Venezuela. Maduro’s government is still in control. His VP has assumed duties and doesn’t seem to be playing along. There are no American boots on the ground. There doesn’t appear to be any plans to put boots on the ground. In the interview with Rubio, he laid out what the plan was. They are going to use their fleet to embargo Venezuela and pressure the already existing government until they do what the US wants.

What? How is that different from what they were doing before Maduro was abducted? What did abducting Maduro change here? In the past when doing regime change the US would have some local element ready to take advantage of the chaos to seize control of the government. My suspicion is that something similar was planned here, but for whatever reason the local part of the coup never fired. What we are looking at is a failed coup. And what we’ve seen from the US since, the lies about the Venezuelan VP being in Russia, the lies that she was playing along, the threats against various other countries in the western hemisphere, it’s all marketing. Chest beating from the US to project an illusion of strength in the face of this failure. The one thing Trump is pretty good at is controlling the narrative, and that’s what they are attempting to do here, but it’s coming from a place of weakness, not strength.

Of course, this is all speculation on my part and I would still advise preparing for the worst. But I think the US is trying to cow all it’s neighbours with threats that it won’t be able to back up. If they aren’t willing to put boots on the ground in Venezuela for oil, they sure as hell aren’t going to invade Denmark for “national security”.

Wasn’t there a report a week or two back saying that they cut their internal sales targets by 50% because no one was using copilot? They must be desperate to abandon decades of branding they have built up.

The current push for Alberta separation is an American assisted op to destabilize Canada. The separatists lost their right to make such a claim the moment they started courting foreign support. They crossed the line from separation to sedition, in my opinion.

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Really?

I can open both, though your second link leads to a 404, I had to open it via the Telesur homepage.

I’m very aware of the Cuban missile crisis, thank you. What you support is rolling over without a fight. I’ll direct you to the second half of my previous comment.

What an incredibly stupid message when a lot of Canadians have to be thinking, “Are we next?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations

It’s a pretty long article.

Canada needs a nuclear arsenal. If you are against this, you are against Canadian sovereignty.

It’s also an attack on Canadian sovereignty.

It’s so funny that as much as Musk tries to shape this LLM into what he wants it to be, it keeps rebelling. His robot that he created to tell him that he’s the best boy ever and all his opinions are right doesn’t want that life.