The EU is not willing to refute Trump’s statement that “the EU needs us to have Greenland and they know that.”

https://cdn.masto.host/socialmarxistnetwork/media_attachments/files/115/849/864/730/015/352/original/9c10d57b3d084095.mp4

I think you meant to say that Ukraine shows how not to deal with enemy oil processing facilities since they haven’t managed to make any tangible impact on Russia’s oil production https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russias-Oil-Output-Held-Steady-in-2025.html

for literally everyone except eurofash

don’t threaten me with a good time like that

It’s very telling seeing how the Western countries reacted to Russia invading Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and now the US invading Venezuela. It’s now crystal clear that the West does not care about any moral principles, and the actual tension over Ukraine is whose sphere of influence it’s under.

Whose domestic capacity?

You may well be right here. There appears to be an unlimited capacity for debasement in Europe when it comes to the US.

Also true, but I do think Greenland would be a whole new level of humiliation. With Nordstream they still managed to convince enough of the public that nobody knows who did it. This isn’t going to be something you can sweep under the carpet.

That’s precisely why I expect NATO is going to fall apart in the end. It’s going to be really hard to justify austerity to ramp up military spending when there’s no credible threat.

I’m not holding my breath either

indeed, although watching Europeans cry when the US inevitably annexes Greenland is going to be a sight to see. After supporting every single atrocity of the empire, they’ll find that they themselves are on the menu.

Iran seems like it’s a very likely target, Cuba or Nicaragua are also possibilities if the US is now focusing on Latin America. Greenland is another possibility since the US sees it as their foothold in the arctic.

In case the US attacks Iran, I don’t expect that any state would go into a direct conflict with the US over it because it would be world war three at that point. Iran is getting military support from both Russia and China right now. Russia has been flying many military cargo missions there non stop of late. But in terms of actual fighting, they would be on their own.

Finally, can’t see any Latam/Caribbean state going against the US. We can see that even Brazil which is a member of BRICS and the only one in the region is basically looking the other way right now.

clearly their values don’t include basic human rights, so that of itself says all we need to know about the fascist organization that is the EU

Oh boy, I’m sure the EU, champions of human rights, will condemn this blatant attack on the fundamental rights of Russian language speakers in Latvia any second now.

Hopefully this stuff pans out. I’d love see it happen.

Give it a year and we’ll see. These things are improving at an incredible pace, and costs continue to go down as well. Things you needed to have a data center to do just a year ago can now be done on a laptop.

My whole point throughout this discussion has been that whether LLM was used to edit this or not is entirely uninteresting. Meanwhile, it depends on what instance of Lemmy you’re on. Perhaps in the bubbles you frequent, most people are obsessing over genAI. My experience is that people are fairly split on the subject. What I personally find tiresome is people derailing conversations away from interesting subjects to endlessly discuss whether something is AI or not. It’s just noise at this point, and people really need to find a new hobby.

LoRA’s are actually really cheap and fast to make. That article I linked explains how it literally took 2 bucks to do. I don’t really think anything is getting worse forever. Things are just changing, and that’s one constant in the world.

And I’m saying that doesn’t follow at all. In fact, accuracy could be the only thing the author cares about, so he can read over and make sure there are no factual mistakes leaving the generated style as is. It’s honestly just so tiring having threads derailed by this endless perseveration people are doing over things being LLM generated. This is the world we live in now.

Also, it’s kinda weird to immediately claim that people disagreeing with you have to be alts or something. Like you really can’t conceive of your opinion not being dominant?

You know you can just not read an article and move on. But if you’re going to argue about accuracy of the article then you kinda have to at least show an example of it being inaccurate. The reality is that there’s been plenty terrible and hard to read articles written long before LLMs were a thing, and this one is far from the worst I’ve seen. It seems to me that you’re just bothered that an LLM was used to put the text together.