I’m gonna be brutally honest here, as I don’t care about the downvotes, but the amount of insanity and taboo around sexuality on - presumably predominantly American - online forums is indeed hard to bear. Always ready with the negative connotations: skimpy, slutty, cooties, cheating, home-wrecker; don’t even eye your cousin, that’s incest, therefore the worst thing in the world; a young woman loves a much older man, oh, he must have been grooming or coercing her; don’t masturbate or you’ll go blind, hair will grow on your palms… From a European POV, these seem like compulsory figments of messed-up minds. Love, sex - why can’t they just be there? So people can enjoy them? Why must people shit all over everything that brings joy? Even when mentioning these taboos “ironically,” such people perpetuate a culture of prudery and I don’t want it to creep into my own culture.

Friends don’t let friends visit Reddit.

🔝⬆️THIS⬆️🔝 To the top with you!

I didn’t know he was Georgian

It’s moronic. Currently, decision makers don’t really understand what to do with AI and how it will realistically evolve in the coming 10-20 years. So it’s getting pushed even into environments with 0-error policies, leading to horrible results and any time savings are completely annihilated by the ensuing error corrections and general troubleshooting. But maybe the latter will just gradually be dropped and customers will be told to just “deal with it,” in the true spirit of enshittification.

With all due respect, but he seems to have been talking out of his ass here. Either that, or he’s been reading legal language. Or maybe language was that different in his day.
I’d argue that nowadays, in German, very nested sentences are seen as “good style” in poetic writing only. Plus, the tenses he mentions are an issue specific to English language which has like 23 of them. In German, I’ve heard people with a Master’s degree get by with using one (1) for any situation in everyday life.

Pineapple and hedgehog are some examples which are compound words in English, but not in German.

Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me.

I have a feeling he’ll be the one to invoke Article 5, accusing Denmark of some “aggression” or another in his completely fucked-up authoritarian style.

First step, be a business. Second step, accept Trump’s dick in your ass. Congratulations, here’s your “get out of jail free” card.

My main takeaway is that some contrived notion of “national security” has now become an acceptable justification for business decisions in the US.

There are better ways to devalue your currency. It’s not such an uncommon thing for countries to do. Why go out of your way to be a dick? This new type of behavior we are observing from US officials just smacks of sheer incompetency and lack of direction on the diplomatic stage.

That’s… a lot better than I thought.

- Not to leave the room… even if you come and get him.
No, no. Until I come and get him.
- Until you come and get him, we’re not to enter the room.
No, no, no… etc.

My feeling as today’s designated Arm Chair General is: he’ll invade Greenland before Easter, then wage a 3-front war on Canada. Plus pulling the plug from Canada’s internet, cloud services etc., and of course ramping up the trade war, blockading their harbors etc.
Then, US forces will blockade the Mediterranean, using Israel as their stronghold, and relieve what’s left of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. The US plan for Europe is to get the Blue Banana and especially ASML under their control. What Russia will get, I don’t know.
Despite all the hope-against-hope rhetoric that routinely comes up in these threads, none of this going to be a problem. In fact, I’m willing to bet money that there will be a completely new world order before Christmas.
And then the stripping of citizen’s rights and the cleansing of “unwanted elements” will start.

Change the system from within.

Denmark thought so, too. And of course Hungary still thinks it. When everybody thinks they will get special treatment from the US, internal cohesion suffers, as evidenced by this “summit” bullshit.

Who is in charge, though?

Shocking news… that 55% of European Tesla buyers don’t know or don’t care about Elon’s egregious public Nazi displays.