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The comically large chainsaws on the front have proven remarkably effective, with proper maintenance of course.

AI detectors are categorically useless, and should not even be referenced, let alone relied upon, to tell if something is AI. Treat them with the same level of skepticism you would a lie detector, ie complete fucking quackery. (I can explain this in depth if you’d like, but the long and short is that if an AI were capable of differentiating it’s own work from a human’s without a watermark, it would also be able to improve it’s human mimicry to exactly that same standard it’s detecting, thus destroying that capability)

The artist does have a consistent style and if you follow their page back you can see their work and growth detailed like any other actual artist, including in-progress pieces. This isn’t AI, the artist’s style has simply been stolen and copied by AIs, and now you’re faulting the artist for their own work being effectively stolen en mass.

As a member of the relevant minority…do not interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

Yeah Michigan has the enhanced licenses so a lot of people just get that for travel to Canada and don’t bother with a passport. I imagine any state with a similar system has the same distortion.

There’s a whole ass state over there named after a slave owner

This had a plausible basis in reality prior to Trump 2.0. That basis is now a burning pile of toxic sludge left in a trash heap somewhere in the central pacific. If Trump is actively trying to undermine and shatter the existing NATO, why tf would he or anyone be interested in a new one in the east with the US anytime prior to a complete and total political restructuring of the US?

lol it was just one guy posting a vaguely unhinged short paragraph about how there couldn’t be universal vibration energy because Stephen Miller was living proof some people have absolutely no vibe energy or something, and when one guy copypasted the same comment we all started commenting the copypasta

I guess the mods here don’t like harmless fun

Funny enough, that’s exactly what a number of Palestinian liberals have actually done. It’s one of the many levers of influence Israel has used to keep both Gaza and the West Bank politically chaotic and isolated.

They may like to see the Iranian leadership weakened, but all of them are more concerned about a scenario of chaos and uncertainty and the possibility of more radical elements coming to power there,” Anna Jacobs Khalaf, a Gulf analyst and non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute, told Al Jazeera last month.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely opposed to a war in Iran for no fucking reason, in large part because I give a shit about the well being of the Iranian people and want to see them make their own way out of authoritarian theocracy without western intervention. But I’m not exactly sure what more radical group could possibly come to power there than the Ayatollah. Is ISIS-K a serious enough political entity that it could end up wielding any actual power in the aftermath? Cause I don’t see anyone else who could be much more radical (while maintaining something resembling a state) than what they’ve already got.

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He does seem at least willing to cooperate with the EU and not block things like this unless it’s actually, genuinely in Hungary’s interest from a traditional conservative POV. Not great, but sane, at the very least.

In India I’m mostly referring to the ongoing descent into theocratic authoritarianism and hindu-nationalism. Historically I agree, they’ve done pretty well for themselves given where they started, but it’s right this moment that they’re veering in a decidedly unpleasant and less grounded direction.

Idk how much the French cultural influence can really be attributed to the maintenance of relative sanity in Canada, but it seems like a sorta far-fetched theory to me. France is going a pretty questionable direction right now too, with a near majority of the country embracing an ethnonationalist, barely-hiding-the-nazism far right party, and that’s a pretty unsurprising reflection of the same historical factors as influence English speaking nations too. Quebec isn’t exactly a bastion of cultural stability in the last few decades either, but I guess you’re right that it’s not quite on the level of the anglosphere.

The answer is yes. Britain has some hope in the Greens but that’s about it, Canada only looks good because it’s on top of an actively exploding train wreck, Ireland is sorta halfway sane but corrupt as ever, South Africa is a mess and has been its entire existence, NZ apparently wasn’t happy with how good of a job Jacinda was doing so now they’re back to quietly fucking things up, and everyone else who speaks it secondarily is going off the deep end in their own unique ways (see: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Netherlands, etc).

Plenty of smaller, subject specific and/or niche subs are still great. But you need to do some hunting for them.

I left because the admins beat those places into submission at every opportunity.

Isn’t the Japanese government currently on track to completely block the import of any and all foreign labor?

If there’s one thing me and the fascists can ever manage to agree on, it’s how much we hate liberals.

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The comment you’re replying to is directed at the American military personnel. Famously, American soldiers shot and killed their commanding officers on numerous occasions during the Vietnam war, so what they’re advocating for is mutiny by execution, and effectively martyrdom.

If the appeal goes well, yes. Well, at least about freeing them. Records and restitution should be cleared/made but I doubt it’ll happen without a fight.