SolanumChillEse

joined 1 year ago
[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

There’s an abundance of contemporary evidence that shows this doesn’t work but it’s basically a foreign policy meme at this point. We tried this in Iraq and it just ended up killing a bunch of children and had no effect on Saddam’s hold on power.

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

Do we count disputes over territorial waters as the same as war? Are you actually serious with this question?

The Spratly Islands are China’s Afghanistan?

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Finnish government literally extradited Jewish people directly to the Gestapo who were promptly executed.

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The US blackmailed all of Europe before the UN assembly regarding the Iraq invasion and forced the Baltics to send troops in order to gain admittance. This isn’t something new within NATO. France wouldn’t even join NATO unless they agreed to defend attacks on French colonized Algeria. NATO despite whatever other functions it has is also a tool for currying geopolitical favors. Turkey is playing the game the same as everyone else. Not sure why this is surprising anyone.

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Saying this scenario is wildly unrealistic is not the same as saying we should bow down to Putin. It’s highly doubtful that Ukraine will even be able to restore all the territory they’ve lost since the start of the invasion, let alone get Crimea back. Sanctions haven’t been all that effective at this point either. Russia is still importing processors through middle men nations and has found perfectly willing buyers for national resources outside the West.

Expecting to subjugate the Russian economy to indentured servitude to pay reparations not only to Ukraine but to NATO? It’s just straight up not going to happen as much as we want to fantasize about it. I wouldn’t even be surprised if most of Europe begins importing Russian natural gas within a few years of the war ending again.

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Russia sucks the big one. But this is straight up deluded.

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (9 children)

And the West relies on Chinese manufacturing. All the scare mongering surrounding China, the US already would have pulled investment if they actually were the ones in control. The West has hitched its wagon to China at this point. They have no real alternative to turn towards.

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly wouldn’t be worried about it’s application for simulating human generated comments. This stuff is only going to start sounding notably less human as it begins to train itself using ever increasing amounts of AI generated content. AI is only as “intelligent” as the input it gets for training, and it’s getting stupider shit fed into it by bot created content every second.

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nineteen is dix-neuf though. Which is literally ten-nine. 11-16 all have an equivalent word to the English “teens.” Quatorze for example instead of dix-quatre for 14.

[–] SolanumChillEse@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Just started learning French only to find out you need a Bachelor’s in math just to count past 70.

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