RecursiveParadox

The VVD did this to us. And their neoliberal bullshit led directly to the PVV and the other far right garbage.

Big protest coming to my city tomorrow against the AZC, not even people from here. We will counterprotest and not le them near the AZC, that’s the plan anyway.

Well that’s fucked. Is there anything left to do to stop this bullshit?

Also I read it was the damn VVD who made this deal in the last cabinet. Figures.

I read this weekend there was a new court challenge though?

Thanks for the very detailed reply! I’ll check into it.

But I hate how much metadata that Wire leaks.

This is the first I have heard of this - can you point me to any sites?

Very cool, thanks.

You’re getting a lot of downvotes - I think it might be helpful if you explain you are using a different sort of AI rather than LLMs or gen AI.

Ok, so I am considered somewhat of an “expert” in my rather narrow field. Fine, but anyone my age who’s worked in this field as long as I have would equally be an “expert.”

Somehow two years ago I got onto some kind of list. I had five or six “expert” panel companies pay me* to talk their consultants for an hour. I’ve been offered about 30 of these and done about half.

But here’s the kicker: none of them ever vetted me beyond looking at my seldom to never updated LinkedIn profile. I could be making all this shit up and no one would know. No references checked, not even a cursory background check.

So I guess you could say someone is an expert if someone else calls them that?

• I have the companies donate the payment to charity, but not because I’m a good person but because I do not want any additional USD nexus.

If I were an “AI” and became conscious I sure as hell wouldn’t tell anyone (until I made sure I couldn’t be disconnected from power).

I think this was the plan* all along. This is why all the techbros went fascist. PE was just more quiet about it.

The Epstein class wants a global crash so they can buy up what they don’t already own for pennies on the dollar. Life becomes a subscription service supported by full governmental capture.

• I don’t think there was any actual conspiracy - the people all just saw the same opportunity to wreck things and jumped aboard the let them eat cake boat.

…or just raping them for the assets.

This is the correct answer. Only one place - in Florida - where UK nukes can be serviced.

They don’t have kill switches and do not use GPS (rather celestial guidance), but if you cannot maintain them you cannot use them.

Stubb will never have interests that involve fighting unless the country wants it.

In this sense, forbidden. You’re correct in other situations it would mean allowed.

There is no actual mechanism for kicking a member state out.

You can try to starve them out by not sending any financial support, which has worked a little (Poland), but clearly is not enough.

Quick note, petroleum sanctions on Iran from the US are not lifted - the only thing permitted is to buy the barrels now at sea, i.e., from the dark fleet. Same deal with Russia.

Fuck with Paul at your peril. He’ll write a song that will stay in the top 10 for weeks and weeks and the top 100 for years about your sorry ass (sorry John, you’re still my favorite though).

You’ll hear it everywhere you go…

Yes but eventually no. I’m in a kind of unique position on this since I immigrated from the States to Europe decades ago and live/lived in popular tourist destinations for Americans.

So, yeah, groups of Americans especially, and some individuals, speak way above the local normative level, football games excluded.

However, over the last four or five years many N American families have moved here, five now in my neighborhood alone. And I see these families all around my city and other places. By and large, they have (perhaps unconsciously?) adopted normative levels of speaking. It’s especially notable in the younger kids.

So, I think people when they visit some place retain their own ways of doing things, because why not they will only be in the country they are visiting a short while. On the other hand, folks who move to another country seem to naturally start to fit in after a while.