Don’t pretend like Mearsheimer is some sort of objective observer, he’s a fountain of wacky convictions. It’s also wild to use ‘get mad’ as a euphemism for military conquest and genocide.

Can we at least agree to call a spade a spade? Russia annexing Ukraine by force is military expansion. If we can put that to bed then the only issue in contention is determining if it was unprovoked or not. If we can’t agree on such a plainly obvious fact then I have misgivings we can come to an understanding at all.

You’re making excuses for a genocide, do you really not understand why that could make people upset?

Hopefully your powers of comprehension are more suited to discussions of history, let’s get into it:

Ukraine split from Russia in the 90s with a referendum, over 90% voted for independence. Russia has wanted to regain control over Ukraine ever since. In 2014 Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine’s sovereign territory. In 2022 it escalated into full scale war, with Russia attempting to take the entire country.

Ukraine is a distinct nation with its own language and culture. The people have the right to self determination, they are a sovereign nation. Fostering closer ties to the EU is their perogative as a free people, to call it provocation is to deny their essential freedom. Expanding borders through conquest is military expansion, plain and simple.

You might want to fuck all the way off. They invaded their neighbor, stole their land, slaughtered families, and stole their children.

Ukraine did nothing that could justify such atrocities. There is no excuse. It is a genocide.

Same for the PNW, but I don’t mind keeping a low profile.

Which is a little funny, because the Appalachian mountain range is part of the same mountains as the Scottish Highlands: https://youtube.com/shorts/c_JWEipGwgs

The problem is the companies building the data centers; they would be just as happy to waste the water and resources mining crypto or hosting cloud gaming, if not for AI it would be something else.

In China they’re able to run DeepSeek without any water waste, because they cool the data centers with the ocean. DeepSeek also uses a fraction of the energy per query and is investing in solar and other renewables for energy.

AI is certainly an environmental issue, but it’s only the most recent head of the big tech hydra.

When people say this they are usually talking about a very specific sort of generative LLM using unsupervised learning.

AI is a very broad field with great potential, the improvements in cancer screening alone could save millions of lives over the coming decades. At the core it’s just math, and the equations have been in use for almost as long as we’ve had computers. It’s no more good or bad than calculus or trigonometry.

I think most recently I cried while playing Wandersong; such a great game!

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I used to do that with HTML, make a fake little website and open it.

Yes cultivating patience is a great skill, but I have no interest in spending more time in line than I have to.

It’s not that bad, it’s just more bad than self check.

Personally I hate waiting in line, I can feel the life leaving my body. I self check for speed.

Apparently line impatience is an ADHD thing, but regardless of where it comes from I appreciate being able to do it myself instead of waiting.

And a little compartment for dry ice to slowly sublimate into the ventilation system

Oh, that makes sense.

Technically they can extract more now, it’s just a really really small amount.

Your son is a badass.

In all seriousness fuck charging for cures, especially for cancer. Life is about more than getting paid. I just lost someone yesterday to cancer so I’m sure this is an outsized response, but seriously, cancer fucking sucks.

Who has ever seen a yellow Canada tour bus? Pretty much the only yellow busses in US and Canada are for school.