Whose domestic capacity?

I very much agree there, but think of how much worse it would be if we were stuck dealing with proprietary corporate tech instead.

How is that wishful thinking? Open models are advancing just as fast as proprietary ones and they’re now getting much wider usage as well. There are also economic drivers that favor open models even within commercial enterprise. For example, here’s Airbnb CEO saying they prefer using Qwen to OpenAI because it’s more customizable and cheaper

“We’re relying a lot on Alibaba’s Qwen model. It’s very good. It’s also fast and cheap,” he said. “We use OpenAI’s latest models, but we typically don’t use them that much in production because there are faster and cheaper models.”

I expect that we’ll see exact same thing happening as we see with Linux based infrastructure muscling out proprietary stuff like Windows servers and Unix. Open models will become foundational building blocks that people build stuff on top of.

O7

You may well be right here. There appears to be an unlimited capacity for debasement in Europe when it comes to the US.

we can only hope

Also true, but I do think Greenland would be a whole new level of humiliation. With Nordstream they still managed to convince enough of the public that nobody knows who did it. This isn’t going to be something you can sweep under the carpet.

The real friends were the internal dilemmas we made along the way.

Not if we have a nuclear winter first.

That’s precisely why I expect NATO is going to fall apart in the end. It’s going to be really hard to justify austerity to ramp up military spending when there’s no credible threat.

A Canticle for Leibowitz is turning out to be prophetic.

I’m not holding my breath either

indeed, although watching Europeans cry when the US inevitably annexes Greenland is going to be a sight to see. After supporting every single atrocity of the empire, they’ll find that they themselves are on the menu.

Iran seems like it’s a very likely target, Cuba or Nicaragua are also possibilities if the US is now focusing on Latin America. Greenland is another possibility since the US sees it as their foothold in the arctic.

In case the US attacks Iran, I don’t expect that any state would go into a direct conflict with the US over it because it would be world war three at that point. Iran is getting military support from both Russia and China right now. Russia has been flying many military cargo missions there non stop of late. But in terms of actual fighting, they would be on their own.

Finally, can’t see any Latam/Caribbean state going against the US. We can see that even Brazil which is a member of BRICS and the only one in the region is basically looking the other way right now.

All I know is that you’re a deranged troll.

I mean you can believe whatever you like. I’m obviously not going to convince you of anything here. We’ll just have to wait and see who’s right.

Why would I feed a fascist troll? Not like these topics haven’t been discussed to death already.

clearly their values don’t include basic human rights, so that of itself says all we need to know about the fascist organization that is the EU

you’re a fascist, everybody knows you’re a fascist, at least own up to it and be honest with yourself