I bought a new smartphone because I wanted to escape US tech oligarchs. One could call that a feature as well I guess.

No, but maybe there are still some left in the Pentagon who have not been purged yet and some influence left.

That is a bit rich. Are you from the US, or which other country? How many asylum seekers has your country accepted from “the global south”? I doubt it is even a fraction of what EU member states have. People with such an asylum status won’t be deported. This is only about people who fail to qualify for that status.

Btw, it is not the “bourgeoisie” where anti immigration parties are the strongest but their stronghold is among the working class, interestingly not limited to those without immigration background.

Brazil isn’t Venezuela, much bigger, stronger institutions, stronger army etc. Never say never but you think Trump is eager on getting into another Iran war?

Noyb is doing such such an important work.

That’s fair. It still shows how far you can get even with a foldable phone when you are taking care of it. It also shows how long these things are already on the market. Damn, time flies.

5 years for a fold3? I am impressed.

I do believe there is a target audience for folding phones but if you had already "multiple of them, you don’t seem to require a device that can truly last (+5 years).

Hey, some light sci-fi movie on some time travel, astronaut came to ancient civilisations to rescue humanity or something plot: I’d be even up for that. But that AI slop makes my eyes bleed and if the visuals are anything to go by probably the whole story is slopped as well. Isn’t it?

“Liberals”, “the West” or"much worse examples" are all failing the point I was making before. I was mentioning that in Europe two authoritarians with fascist tendencies conceded to lost elections, after having failed to secure a majority even with underhanded attempts of influencing the outcome. Are you saying that this was not the case or that was not what they were?

But then, the real problem for you appears to be none of that but rather that those autocrats were aligned with Russia, right? Even though that is in the case of Vucic a bit of an overstatement, he played both sides really.

I am not that naive. All I am saying that we should demand that it applies.

Yeah, sorry. Apparently some wooden chips that were used as light source.

Because of the terms of access to this database.

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When will be Anthropic be held accountable for the crimes they are committing with their very own software? Don’t start with nonsense it “went rogue”, it is their software, their tests, their responsibility. If you put a brick on the gas of a truck that then crashes into a jewelry store, you don’t write about the truck going rogue, are you?

I have no idea if they did it in NK at any point. I am pretty sure it is nothing you can see in current North Korea. It is a bit older already but in 2008 two Austrians were travelling by rail, via Russia to North Korea. They entered the country via north by train in a way, that the North Korean regime officially allowed at that time but apparently had no process for to handle in any way, because they probably did not expect anyone crazy enough to take the full Transsib to North Korea. What they managed was travelling by train in North Korea, all the way from the very north, to the capital Pyongyang, where they were then greeted by their “guides” as usual for Western tourists.

They took a lot of pictures and videos of rural North Korea and its people and they had uncensored contact with regular North Koreans on the train, who were understandably very intrigued by those very strange people from abroad. I think to this day, the material they took is among the best, uncensored and non-biased evidence of life in North Korea. Limited as it may be from simply travelling by train across the country.

https://youtu.be/b1mzXFAzUjQ?t=694

That was a good one.

Yeah sure, no I am not surprised about post 2025. My question was indeed about the post 2014 uptick.

Looking at that, the lines of code cannot really be the full story. M-dash count really just appears to rise from 2014 onwards.

I am not saying she is not a serial liar who is earning her money from selling out to the populist right media, but you’d be surprised what humans can do in terms of pushing rail carriages, as long as the track is flat. Rail has very low friction. For a single person it is very hard, but if you have a dozen of people at it, things get doable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qGJFDyrGEg

I could imagine that shunting work of individual carriages could be done by human force, if you have enough people available for it. With maybe two dozen people for one carriage it could be even not totally exhausting work. Still a rather crazy thing to do but perfectly possible.