Weird. I have Russians in the mix and literally nobody has ever cared.

Also, solar panels are worse for the environment than burning fossil fuels for 20 years and windmills make everyone nearby sick because they spin and disturb the atmosphere.

Literally things I’ve heard IRL in oil country from people who, clearly, went looking for a personally affirming worldview.

Small, niche communities, and unfortunately you’ll probably need to know what ideas you’re interested in ahead of time to get there.

People with intelligent but divergent ideas are always outnumbered by people pushing an agenda, and they end up getting moderated together because it’s hard to superficially know the difference.

Note that it’s entirely possible to have an echo chamber that’s divergent from bigger echo chambers, and that’s were a lot of people are pointing you, because of the instance you asked on.

This is what photoshop was invented for.

Don’t forget make money, get out of their shithole small town and be a cool action hero guy. It’s a rare soul that’s purely motivated by ideology or identity.

In context, I think OP meant “for money and considering nothing else”. If you’re not with a sketchy mercenary company you can maintain a certain level of expectations about who it is you end up killing. This guy apparently wasn’t worried about that.

There aren’t any Chinese conscripts in Ukraine - I don’t know how that would happen.

The participants identified a negative feedback loop, whereby the government’s failure to tax wealth effectively means it lacks sufficient revenue to uphold the social contract by which strong public services, an effective social safety net and a healthy economy provide people with decent living standards.

Trust in politics then declines further, politicians avoid honest discussions of the underlying problems and what to do about them, and the system’s legitimacy is increasingly questioned as the social contract collapses.

That’s a nice story, but there’s been plenty of even less egalitarian societies. Pretty much all of the ones in written history, actually.

More likely, in the short term a new, more coercive “social contract” will be rotated in (if the trend continues). Heck, we’re already seeing it a bit in the US. Now showing fealty to the president is more important than public relations for a lot of companies and billionaires.

I’m guessing you’re in Europe? On this side of the pond everyone white is descended from someone somewhere else, so in my experience it never really matters.

Wouldn’t slop AI crash their motorcade or private jet pretty much immediately?

Option A feels like wishful thinking or sour grapes or something to me. Community crossover with the humanities and fine arts is significant.

B is feeling a bit less imminent too; it just wasn’t clear a couple years ago that it will take more than raw compute. That being said, AGI is still bound to happen eventually, seeing as NGI did.

cough North Africa cough

Hmm. Maybe I should restrict that to Anglo countries, then. I thought it would be similar in continental Europe but maybe not.

Why hasn’t Germany implemented more aggressive policies on the matter, then?

Yeah. To be clear, I don’t know if they called it a scale change, but “we need to start considering more, weaker crises because there aren’t big ones anymore” was the gist.

Which country?

Do they actually think you only need 3% support? I thought it was more like 3% active support, and majority passive support (no “sticking their neck out”), which is roughly historically accurate for basically every insurgency (at least in that insurgency’s target communities).

Lol, so what’s actually going on according to that, then, is that 85% are against it, 10% think it’s a bad idea but are trying to keep an open mind, and 5% are lizard men.

The controversy exists only in Western news offices.

Sane washing is a good way to put it, actually. They’re trying to write about Trump’s rambling like it’s a new and valid perspective on the world. It’s not, and his supporters even know that for the most part.

I don’t even use American outlets. Educated, well-off people across the West are still in some kind of weird denial, a near-decade into the madness.

Yeah, but that was dependent on the vaguery of dozens of political processes.

Russia is expending way more resources than they produce. We don’t know when they’ll run out of metaphorical furniture to burn for heat, but we know that it will be sometime. No politics needed, just cold hard material reality.

According to the reporting, after dealing with Danish colonisation some Greenlanders see the US as (still) less imperialist than Denmark. The grass is always greener on the other side, basically.

Good to know that the vast majority understand that’s BS.