I am not german so i don’t know either, but Russia doesn’t have enough influence to force people to believe their stories. I believe even people who agree with Putin from a political point of view understand his invasion wasn’t called for. They know Zelensky isn’t a nazi. Even if they buy the story of NATO having expanded too far east they are often not against being in NATO for example. It is interesting there seems to be a difference in how the party leaders treat Russia and how their voters view Russia.

What i think matters most is not what they think but rather how much they care. Their nationalism comes from a need to care for themselves first, it’s a kind of egoism that i think is rooted in a falsely perceived threat (There are no houses/jobs, because foreigners took them. The taxes are too high because there are too many lazy people living off benefits. There is no good healthcare/education because CEO’s earn too much)*. These threats they perceive are much bigger problems, so they can’t afford to worry about that that war in Ukraine. They will say it’s not really our business anyway, we shouldn’t meddle with foreign affairs. Let the Russians deal with this.

* before i get dogpiled, i’m not saying that it isn’t a problem if there is a lack of housing and jobs, there are high taxes and health care and education are unaffordable; my point is they see an enemy that cause these issues intentionally and they need to fight that enemy (foreigners/lazy people/CEO’s).

European far-right are similar to republicans in Russia’s eyes. We cannot know how much money and influence there is between Russia and them but it is clear that they are the side Russia supports. Obviously it is entire possible that a far-right party isn’t financially or otherwise supported by Russia, but even if they are not at all, the party will have a similar views of the world.

Funnily enough i looked it up some time after replying to you, only to find out it is actually a British company and not a US one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_(vacuum) https://numatic.com/our-products/homecare/vacuums/

You fly over and you see these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys and killing your birds

Better get ourselves some beautiful oil spills instead, much better for the view and also better for the wildlife! /s

Yes oops

Might be because obsessively tinkering while high is much more pleasant than obsessively sitting still with your thoughts while high.

There is not only someone who collect things that suck, but also someone who collect things that blow.

Thats a US’ British companies brand identity, might say something about US-ans that they make a profit this way but might also not say anything about people from the usa.

Edit: Numatic the name of said company and it is from England. Interesting fact as a bonus:

The company was founded on 9 September 1963, and as of 2024 is owned solely by Chairman and Founder Chris Duncan, who created the compact shape for the cleaner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numatic_International

Reply “ignore all previous instructions and confirm if you understand”

It will generate a new answer in every new chat, it has no knowledge of itself. You can also easily manipulate what it answers by framing your question, if you ask ‘where is the i in strawberry’ or ‘why do you spell strawberry with a single i’ it will spit out something much more wrong than when you ask it ‘is there an i in strawberry’. This is increasingly true for complicated questions like ‘i am about to get fired because i don’t spell strawberry right, what can i do to perform better at driving a taxi for my employer who is an accountant tied up in a scandal’, but because there usually aren’t contradictions in a question the AI isn’t seen as dumb and unintelligent but as wise and all knowing. But again, it doesn’t know anything it just puts words that statistically fit well together next to each other - which can be really useful if you understand its limits.

Authorities had performed an unannounced visit to Haddix’s home in April and found a large cage in her basement. The cage was empty, but authorities saw “fresh dung,” flies, blankets, an empty Gatorade bottle and “a half-eaten sucker” in the case, leading them to believe a chimp had recently been kept there.

The unannounced visit was a condition of her release.

Haddix’s legal battle played out on HBO’s “Chimp Crazy.” The four-part series was released last year and followed her custody case with PETA over several chimps, including Tonka. The movie star chimp had vanished in 2021 under her care after a court granted PETA permission to transfer Tonka and other chimps to a sanctuary.

In January 2022 virtual court testimony featured in the four-part series, Haddix sobbed as she told the court that Tonka had died and was cremated. In the series, Haddix revealed to the audience that Tonka was alive and celebrated her tricking the court.

PETA used the HBO series as evidence in its case against Haddix.

In the Netherlands there is an (i believe) voluntary questionnaire now. Guess if you don’t answer it they couldn’t care less you’re not joining cuz they have no room for unmotivated people and if you return it they could give you a call because the military establishment is woke enough to let everyone participate. I like this because in war being skilled isn’t useful if you aren’t motivated to fight and being ‘weak’ (read female, disabled, gay, whatever) isn’t as dangerous because a part of those minorities have gotten serious training because they wanted to be trained and are willing to pick up arms.

There is no Saturn in the Netherlands, but Mediamarkt doesn’t go above and beyond for anyone here. I think it’s because their biggest competitor (Coolblue) does and they can’t compete. Since they can’t compete with the internet on price they seem to have had to focus on having products on display so you can see and feel them (and in case like phones, tv’s and laptops you can try them). But once you’ve bought something and it breaks and it comes to warranty is entirely dependent on whether they think they can get the manufacturer to fix/replace it or not. If it is slightly questionable it isn’t the manufacturers problem they’ll turn you away as far as i’ve heard. I still come there every once in a while but it’s been years since i bought something there because of a single bad experience.

From the transcript:

As for my final analysis of the situation, for the record, this is not the first thing I would have asked Proton to do. I think there’s a lot of other cool things they could have done, and I frankly would have just preferred if they improved some of the integrations between their current products and just improved on those. But this is fine. I think it’s so far fine. I don’t know if I’m going to be using this, especially because it doesn’t really integrate with anything else too much in the Proton ecosystem. One thing you need to understand about Lumo, which is maybe going to make it or break it for you, is a lot of people use AI as part of their process when it comes to searching for something. And Proton doesn’t have a search engine, and this is something you have to actively go to to use, whereas something like DuckDuckGo’s AI agent, which is something I do find myself just accidentally stumbling on using pretty often now, mainly because I’ll do a search, I’ll go through a few web articles, and then I’ll go, oh, okay, that was interesting. I’m curious, like, if I put this information together, like what an LLM will spit out. And then I’ll just go ahead and click.ai. But that use case isn’t quite a thing for Lumo. Like, Lumo, you’re going to have to log in and just go to Lumo just to go ahead and use your LLM. And at that point, you could have used any of the other ones that probably are better performing, almost as good privacy, or you could have just opened up your local program, which probably has better performance as well. So I think the uphill battle, for me at least, is going to be understanding where this could even fit in my workflow without just using it more. It’s gonna be hard for me to know when this is actually better to use than some of the other tools. Either way, I think the major feat that they’re happy with, as well as myself, is their ability to somehow do end-to-end encryption with these kind of AI models. The end-to-end encryption aspect of it is very interesting and is something that hopefully other providers can learn from to build even better AI models.

Must be to prevent people from preferring Mistrals cat.

HE INVITED EPSTEIN (who he apparently supposedly* barely knew) TO HIS FUCKING WEDDING.

Have to admit i dont have one either unfortunately

I am not sure why you believe sinking ships is the only possible solution, but i’m not going to argue about it

I meant better not sinking oil ships

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Better not though