Using it for authoritarianism, sure… But the end state I’m concerned with is a private company building a fleet of robots so big that it can take on a police force or army and win. And then subjugate the population with or just kill everyone off (because who needs everyone else now that there’s a robot army do do whatever you want). I definitely wouldn’t put it past Elon, Theil, Alex Karp, etc. One of those fuckers would probably do it if they could.

About time. That and AmigaOS I think. What a world we’d live in!

Unknown is kind of a lot here

A war will last as long as Russia is willing to throw bodies and materiel at it. Same as we see in Ukraine. If they can keep going until their adversary is out of men and/or materiel, they will eventually win. It’s unlikely to happen if the western alliance stays together, but considerably more likely on a country by country basis if they don’t.

About 30 years ago I went to the Edinburgh festival and in one of the bars met a farmer from the north of Scotland. I literally talked to him for 10 minutes before I made out more than a word of what he was saying.

Trump is gearing up to roll in the troops.

To be fair it would probably shoot right across the floor and someone would slip on it and shoot it right out the door.

That’s kind of my point

So what it’s only war when war is formally declared?

I’m the dribble of drool from a baby’s mouth every so often.

Germany is far worse prepared than Ukraine was. And it doesn’t have to be Germany first. There are lots of small countries in Europe that can be taken in the build up to Germany if NATO is not swift and forceful in its response.

As an American who’s lived half my life in Europe, I’ve been warning of this since Trump first took office in his first term. The US under Trump could easily start supporting Putin directly or attacking Europe directly. Its unlikely but its a possibility, and Europe would be really screwed if this happened. Europe’s ass is really hanging out right now and they need to pull it together militarily quick so they stop looking like easy pickings.

Well yes to be honest it’s DDG image search usually

I usually start with a google image search, find ones that look good and then try to track down where I can get them from.

Call it a covert war or what you want, but the EU is under attack by Russia and has been for some time. Just because one side has started a war campaign against the other and the other hasn’t responded in kind doesn’t make the war not real.

I do wonder if this isn’t where the whole “kiss a toad and he turns to a prince” thing comes from, someone kissing a psychedelic toad and then just hallucinating the rest?

I disagree. We are being attacked on a regular basis.

They are certainly of lower quality, but in the words of Stalin, “Quantity has a quality of its own”.

The question then is when Europe will realize it’s at war and start producing like it.

Sexy snoo can get it. Who’s going to make us a sexy lemming to save me from the forbidden fruit?