Admit it, if he dies before finishing, and someone publishes the result of such an AI output, you would read it.

Using a huge plagiarism machine as a shortcut to creativity is a big no-no for me. I would think that any serious author (which I am definitiely not) agrees with me.

IMHO, the book series should have ended after book 3. Books 4 and 5 leave too much hanging, which is even worse as book 4 introduced a whole set of new characters and subplots. Even if he does finish the series, which I doubt, he has lost me as a potential reader.

Stop publishing CEO / billionaire spam.

At least the ground did not shake.

I love Valheim. It’s a survival game set against a Nordic inspired background. It has several play modes and multiple world modifiers so you can tweak it to your playstyle. You can just chill by exploring the seas and its islands or go build a cozy base. It is also stunningly beautiful despite the modest graphics.

Oh great! Another ‘CEO says something’ article. :-/

80s kid here. Have my upvote.

Oh that’s cool! The lyrics to Hamrer Hippyer appear to be from the Merseburg Charms.

Krigsgaldr by Heilung. It’s in proto-Germanic if I am not mistaken.

(edit: spelling - my proto-Germanic is a bit rusty)

Successful? I know that he used to be huge in the 80s and early 90s, but after that? I am slightly surprised that he is still getting some attention in the media.

Then again ‘hurr-durr AI hurr-durr’.

I did not vote, but the premise that I would read any religious text when I’m in jail is prepostorous.

Subscripttion services for actual journalism?

I’m not sure about unethical, but blocking ads is a big one for me. The WWW is unusable without blocking ads.

a pretty good diplomat

*sycophant

This is the guy under whose ‘leadership’, Dutch politics turned into a toxic cesspool. Education has worsened, the housing market has crashed, environmental problems were not solved and his party made sure that the energy infrastructure was not kept up properly, so that the citizens now pay for a hastened upgrade of said infrastructure. He has claimed to have no vision and is a compulsive liar with a very selective memory. I have not even touched all the debacles he facilitated.

This guy is now the boss of NATO and calls Trump ‘daddy’. He is a fucking disgrace. I am ashamed to be from the same country as this piece of shit.

Hang Youth (NL)

…Donald Trump told…

So it was not true then.

decimated

In the literal sense, that would mean a 10% reduction of fighting capacity. Nothing to sneeze at, but still pretty capable of fighting defending, I would say.

So a few airplanes were lost and/or damaged. I read some statistics of the Vietnam war that thousands of planes were lost. It’s part of being in a war, especially when you are the agressor.

harrowing incidents

Tell that to the Iranian civilians.

Hey, the Iranians recently used a (~$2500?) Shahed to take out a $700.000.000 AWACS. Rheinmetall will not earn any money with homemade drones and CEOs do what CEOs do: fart out an opinion and expect the mainstream media to publish it without criticism.

PFAS?

If this were part of a strategy, it would be TACO Tuesday.

IMHO, the James Bond series is a product of the Cold War. When that ended in the late 80s, they tried to reframe or modernize it. I do not have a strong opinion on that, apart from the fact that the latest Bond movie was a very expensive commercial for shitty Dutch beer and equally shitty German cars. Bond is dead.