LLMs don’t have any intentions.

Eh. The output from LLMs is usually pretty goal-oriented, so it arguably has intentions.

The LLM is not designed to deceive though, so in that sense it is correct that it is not lies.

But there is some support from USA at this moment, right?

Limited. There are 1) some sanctions on Russia 2) intelligence support (which Trump has withheld intermittently) and 3) allowing European countries to pay for US weapons to be sent to Ukraine. 4) Maybe I forgot something.

If the US completely stopped supporting Ukraine tomorrow it would be suboptimal, but wouldn’t really change the situation fundamentally. If the EU stopped tomorrow, Ukraine would be completely fucked, and Russia would win within 6 months.

Europe seems perfectly happy to fight Putin alone, right now. Europe might lose, but Europe still tries to do what is right there.

Like, it was not all a lie. E.g. the 1991 Gulf War was perfectly morally defensible, while at the same time being in the US economic interest. But there is no inherent problem with defending your economic interest. And the US deserves unqualified praise for the 1999 Serbia intervention to prevent a genocide in Kosovo.

What the US is doing in Venezuela is (at least Trump thinks so) in the US economic interest. But completely amoral at the same time.

If America, Russia, and China is going to be evil, then Europe is also going evil for sure.

I don’t see why Europe would necessarily turn evil.

What is the point of fighting evil

Traditionally, America has seen itself as standing for goodness, morality, doing the right thing, Democracy, etc… Most of the voters have, at least.

Trump does not think that. Look at Venezuela: It is open and blatant colonialism, resource extraction. Trump has just come out and said that he doesn’t care if the Venezuelan people have freedom and democracy - Trump only cares about profiting from resource extraction. Now maybe America has sometimes acted like this in the past, but Trump openly stating it is new.

This open disregard for doing doing what is morally right is a new thing. Which Trump can do without consequences from Republican voter, apparently - Trump still had ~90% approval among them, last I checked.

So in conclusion, asking “What is the point of fighting evil” is a non sequitur - Trump is not claiming to be the good side fighting evil. Trump represents this as “being strong” (=fascism…). And Republicans are cheering.

As another example, look at Ukraine. Rarely have I seen a more black-and-white, good-vs-evil conflict. A fascist dictator is invading a budding democracy, with the openly stated purpose of annexation, without even pretending to have a casus belli. With Putin openly doing warcrimes left and right, torturing and executing prisoners of war, threatening nukes, and sending his own soldiers on suicide “meat assaults”. And yet, Republicans and Trump seems more sympathetic to Putin than Ukraine.

It is sarcasm making fun of their religion. Iranians think their faith in Allah will save them, but Trump bombing will demonstrate that Allah will not save them. Demonstrating (according to Trump) that Islam is a fake religion, unlike Christianity.

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So it is illegal - but whether it will stop people from doing it is a separate question.

there are sources that substantiate him saying something very similar.

As in, you can go read Trump’s actual post yourself.

I don’t like this shitpost. It is too close to reality, so it effectively becomes misinformation, doesn’t add anything to the world.

Apart from the lack of misspellings, it is a very Trump post. Does this mean that Trump is not dead?

Gold is fluctuating wildly in price. It is meaningless to talk about measuring commodity prices in gold.

Please tell us where your window is - how can we avoid climbing through your window, if we don’t know which window we are not supposed to climb through.

Uproar in Heaven from 1964. Freely available on YouTube.

The Iranians essentially practicing piracy in the strait is unambiguously counter to international law (UNCLOS), and breaks one of the fundamental elements of how world diplomacy has worked in the modern world. What the Iranians are doing is in fact an act of war against all nations which ships the Iranian stop.

Countries like those in the EU are keeping a low profile right now, because Trump has made such a giant mess of the diplomacy. But long term, I can’t imagine they will let this fly.

Also, the law to release the files was pushed through by the Democrats.

Even if we find out there is a Democrat in the files, that does not mean the Democrat party as a whole is irredeemably compromised. Bad apples can and will exist everywhere, the problem is only when the organization doesn’t try to remove them. By passing the law to release the files, the Democrat party is doing exactly that.

The damning thing for the Republican party is their coverup of the files.

Sony loves making their own custom formats.

Stuff is just getting more expensive, because of demand competition with AI. There is no reason to think that production for non-AI computing will ever hit literally zero.

From both a moral and an economical perspective, price controls on oil in the US would make tons of sense right now.

• The US oil producers have done nothing to deserve the current arbitrary price windfall. So morally acceptable
• The US economy would do much better without the price increase

The US is self sufficient with oil, so technically there is no problem with shortages if price controls were put into place.

But as Krugman said, in the current political environment, such price controls are simply not being considered. The US is run by free market morons.

RAM used to be ~$4/GB. So 300*4=$1200. A price increase of $1200 is actually pretty darn affordable to get self driving, surely?

Sure, there are other components than RAM needed. But the RAM alone is not what would make it unaffordable.

Ross Perot

Ah yes, the billionaire. Electing a billionaire businessman is just what the US needs, right?