really fucking important to realize that greg bovino is getting fired not in spite of there being no riots, but because there were no riots

people were mad about the exhortations by state officials to stay calm but if mlps had not stayed calm they would not have routed them

I highly recommend you do not watch the awful videos of today. I recommend watching and sharing this instead.

The Euro outrage of last week was justified. It being directed at average Americans instead of those in power was extremely unjustified. Americans are proving themselves to be the brave, compassionate, and noble people we know them to be, in the most selfless ways possible. Our hearts go out to you.

"🧵 1/5: [some text], end of story." is a really funny way to start a thread ngl

Before you celebrate Europeans "waking up" or "growing a spine", NATO is still a thing, and Euro leaders must take a stance supporting the sovereignty of the state of Canada. Staying quiet and hoping to stay out of the crosshairs will be very attractive, but they must resist that urge.

i think you could probably get 80% bipartisan approval for JSOC raids to liberate people held captive in spam call slave centers

A screenshot for the ages

"W" directly acknowledges Musk's brand, ID sucks, "European only" is unenforceable and bad on its own. I do think launching *primarily* European alternative services is good for its own sake and to hedge against the US right's brainworm of "GDPR is a globalist conspiracy", but this aint it.

Don't like it when elder beings call me "mortal". There's a lot more to me than my finite nature - for example, my life is ruled by fear

Anthropic made a very conscious decision to not do any kind of image or video generation unlike OpenAI and XAI, which 1. cuts off a potentially really ugly legal liability tail, 2. is much cheaper to train and serve, especially without video, and 3. makes the product far more enterprise-friendly.

wall street guys who see trump back down from some insane policy and then immediately start posting TACO Trump memes designed to piss him off possess what we call in freudian psychoanalysis "thanatos" or "the death drive"

Moral questions aside, you don't really want to make deep sea mining a thing if your main concern is "we want to beat China in the resource competition". Guess who'd be the first to scrape up most of this stuff? Not the US.

This sounds sinister but it's basically just the adoption of the EU crisis guideline. Weapons and ammunition are simply everyday essentials in Greenland, it's not "ok everybody time to become guerillas", it's "the govt may stop working for a week and you don't want to be unprepared for that".

It's arguably the only battlefield.

>we were promised cool stuff in our cyberpunk dystopia There are machines proving unsolved mathematical theorems. You can create anything you want in your home with a cheap 3d printer. You can reach any information in the world through the web. The dominant aesthetic is neon retrowave. It's all here

it will be very difficult for Europe to both fight back against Trumpism while dealing with the destruction of the cordon sanitaire on the right in every European state

A very informative read that you should thoroughly read and ponder

“Why are Europeans and Canadians so mean?” Because our country threatened a war of aggression. “Why aren’t Americans doing anything?” 1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.

The For You feed is broken and boy oh boy do I feel now that that really is *the feed*

My prediction for 2028 is that we have no way of knowing what 2028 looks like when less than three weeks of 2026 have been like this. Looking that far into the future is a fool’s errand.

While we're on the subject, if I wanted to pick a fight with the EU I'd aim for something grey-area enough that the member states start fighting over it, wrangling commences, and the EU's natural bias for a technical compromise surrender-non-surrender wins out. Annexing territory isn't that.

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

Probably just short for "channel", maybe as a reference to 4chan, def not the japanese term. But that's not the most pathetic thing on the screenshot. That award goes to the knd[dot]gov[dot]ru/[...]bloggersPermission link.

Americans should just spam this image instead of might makes right posting. Is the EU ready to give up cheeseburgers?

Dear Tomb Raider fan followers! I finally figured out why you're here. I'm sorry to inform you that I am not, in fact, DelcaTheKitten. I've been using this name for more than a decade now, and the avi since before covid. This is all just a coincidence. Sorry, feel free to unfollow or even block.

Some interesting news from around here

I'm not sure this is deployment will happen, I'm not sure what will come of it if it does, I'm not even sure this report is true. But it does seem like arctic troops have to be split between Greenland and Minnessota, which is a bit amusing.

I'd just also like to add that Greenlandic independence is fine! If that's what they want, and the US wants to help them pressure Denmark into it, that would be perfectly fine!

"Tech", as we know it, has been eaten by its own success. Total cargo cult, mainly copying Musk. A nuclear startup now means: -govt contract -outlandish overpromises -deeply rotten political advocacy -posting posting posting -???? -profit It works, for now. The catch is, ofc, there's no actual R&D.

If the 10% is not a typo then this might be the first sign of him backing down. I mean I expected 100%, but at the very least 50%.

Oh god

I'm not even gonna comment on this anymore. But I will remember it forever.

The thing about the extremely arrogant "What on Earth did we get from subsidizing European defence? Freeloaders!" discourse is if you break the alliance, and that's where things are headed, you will get the question answered whether you want it or not.

I'm not even halfway through this book but let's just say, it puts all these "what about people born in 1890?" posts in a very different light

It would be darkly funny if all this ended up shifting Greenlander sentiment from "we want total independence" to "you know what, this is plenty independence, and it is nice to have the Danish military around, just in case, you know".

Steve1989 is posting arctic rations, if you want to know how things are going

Most people with a realistic understanding of the world, I presume.

These sorts of things get a lot less mysterious when you see how easy it is to approximate a regular polygon with a resonant wave of the right amplitude.

I didn't think we have it in us (the EU, I mean). Doesn't mean it will work, but not having at least tried would've broken something fundamental in me.

Many refutations on the topic are "I simply do not care about birth rates". I find that unwise, as it's something that affects society deeply. But I can't make you care. However, the core of the problem is our lives are bad, and making our lives better is something you should care about.

If you want to increase birth rates... you need to log off. Just log off. I'm sorry but there's literally no other option. If you're not in the anglosphere that's a plus, bc you can still be somewhat online while being totally isolated from your local politics. But in general... you need to log off.

The flip side of "trains are too expensive" is that the ~€5 student pass that lets me use public transport, intercity trains, and public transport in my hometown is also an admission that yeah, everything is falling apart, now shut up. (And it's ~€50 for full price passes, which is still a steal)

One thing I am 100% certain of is that Tesla investors are fools and 100% deserve what's coming for them.

People are stating facts about the status quo and going "wow this was unimaginable in 2021", or showing it to LLMs with earlier cutoff dates and sharing their responses. This is a testiment to a lack of imagination/weak grasp of reality. This all was foreseeable, and many did in fact foresee it.

Combine it with Android integration and it doesn't take a weatherman to know where the wind is blowing

So is this even pro- or anti-IRGC?

The For You feed is extremely good at its job - which is why I've switched back to Following because man, yeah, that is exactly that stuff that would interest me, but I also can't quite take it all in.

Ok, I watched Superman(2025) and yeah, it's fun, but, like all Superman movies, incredibly on the nose. It's fine I guess.

Greenlanders facing the most cursed marshmallow test of choosing between $5.7 billion in American promises and $1 billion of Danish recurring grants. I mean it's not especially hard but I'm not too happy about it either.