Defining “taken something behind a paywall and thus denied them revenue” as theft is the exact same argument movie studios make when you pirate a movie. Theft implies that the original is gone. If I steal your car, you don’t have a car. If I pirate a movie, we both have that movie. As someone who supports piracy, I would be careful to conflate piracy with theft. I think that’s the entire point the post is making.

Fuck AI slop. There’s enough other arguments against it. It destroys the environment and artists’ livelihoods. We can point that out without supporting corporate copyright talking points.

Funny, here in Germany everyone I know goes on the third word, there’s no “shoot” equivalent.

Schere, Stein, Papier! And you go on the last syllable of Papier

Godspeed!

Were you?

That is a lie on part of the ESC, it’s been documented and until recently was still up on their website that they booted Russia because it invaded Ukraine. When asked why Israel was allowed to participate in 2024, they came up with this explanation and changed their story re: Russia.

I do this almost by accident most of the time, just when peeling potatoes regularly

Honeybadger

Most of them want a save haven and a place to stay. Palestine is their home. Having the population displaced is exactly what Israel wants

But yes, other Arab states should do more. But I have little hope for Egypt and Jordan, they are both too paid off by the US

Problem: not enough gay sex

Not sure why they show it like that, it might be a design choice. Where I live, it’s often put as decimals, with the last digit smaller than the others:

There are missile defenses, but not nearly enough to counter China’s, let alone Russia’s, full arsenal. Superpowers want to have enough weapons to overwhelm their adversaries’ missile defenses. The perverse calculation of MAD is that while both can destroy each other, no one attacks. But if one country thinks they can survive a retaliation, suddenly nuclear is on the table.

The only logical (if perverse) reaction to your adversary building missile defenses, is to build more missiles. This is a route to escalation. This has been extensively studied during the cold war, and is no less true now: https://www.amacad.org/bulletin/spring-2024/understanding-chinese-and-russian-views-on-us-missile-defense

And missile defenses are way, way more expensive and technologically burdensome than missiles. So no, I don’t think that Russia nor China have large scale defenses, for now.

Ja bitte.

locking oneself to a table with a zip tie sounds like a good idea. That’d give another few minutes, until they figure out what’s happening

Zumindest hat man ziemlich wenige Gegenstimmen gehört, als die Gülle-SA mit Treckern und Galgen das Land terrorisiert hat

Antisemitism definitely isn’t. Getting called antisemitic by Israel, on the other hand? Certainly.

For a nuclear armed country, a robust missile defense system is a first strike enabling weapon. It means you can first strike a peer adversary without fearing MAD. This is a dangerous development.

9/10 of a cent

Beides. Beides ist gut

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