I noticed that dictionary definitions on Google are now AI-generated, whereas they used to be taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, written by humans. Needless to say I much preferred the human-written definitions.

The view of tankies is “I hate imperialism when the West does it, but I love imperialism when anybody else does it”

Where are the tankies telling us that Taiwan belongs to the glorious benevolent PRC and that the views of Taiwan’s people should be disregarded because they’re all evil imperialist Nazis (or whatever it is that tankies believe)? I guess they’re all circlejerking over on Lemmy.ml

I absolutely agree with Zelenskyy that Ukraine is justified in hitting Russian oil infrastructure and military infrastructure, until the Russian military withdraws entirely from Ukraine.

Unfortunately though there are tankies on Lemmy who believe that every single Ukrainian is an evil Nazi who deserves to be murdered by the benevolent Russian regime. That’s why I asked “do you agree”.

Surely you would agree that some countries are more authoritarian than others?

I think my view is that I don’t like how oppressive Iran’s regime is, but there are many world governments I don’t like (including that of the US). I also think the US and Israel probably shouldn’t be murdering Iranian civilians with bombs just because Trump and Bibi don’t like Iran’s government.

Why would somebody trust AI with access to their production servers, and why would that person also not have remote database backups

I looked at that article and it quotes Trump as saying:

We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain

Surely this is a reason why Europe should unite in order to protect its interests. Imagine if the EU were to deny the Americans permission to use any EU air base for strikes on Iran. Would Trump then say “we’re going to cut off all trade with the EU”? It would be much more costly for the US economy if they were to cut off trade with the entire EU, rather than just one EU country.

You claimed that Epstein was “running a child raping blackmail ring on Israel’s behalf in order to manipulate world events”

Maybe Epstein raped children because of his own inclinations; not because Israel made him do it, or because they paid him to do it, etc

Which specific quotes from these articles do you think show that Epstein committed his crimes “on Israel’s behalf”? I suppose it’s possible that all his crimes were directed by Israeli intelligence or something like that. I would have thought it would be bigger news if that were true. Also surely possible is that he was just a wealthy criminal and abuser who didn’t have much to do with Israel.

I think it can easily be interpreted as antisemitism so the artist probably should have avoided it

You claimed Epstein was “running a child raping blackmail ring on Israel’s behalf” but that article doesn’t seem to mention sex or rape

If Epstein had conversations with Israeli officials then okay, but I don’t think that means his sex crimes were some sort of plot masterminded by Israel

You also said “criticizing the government of Israel does not equate to antisemitism” and yes I agree with that. But putting a Star of David on Epstein’s underwear in the artwork seems to me like an antisemitic dog whistle. Epstein was not known for links to Israel (as I said, maybe he had some conversations with Israelis, but this isn’t widely known). He is widely known to be Jewish though.

I just think criticism of public figures should be based upon facts (which seem to be horrible enough in this case) instead of bigotry or conjecture

Please prove the “fact” that Epstein was a “Mossad agent” working on “Israel’s behalf” with a reputable source to substantiate your claims

You’re right. Without the Star of David it would be a good piece of art, but instead it looks like the artist really doesn’t like Jews

Quite right. The Trump administration are the ones who decided they don’t need allies. Fine, then there is no obligation for America’s old allies to help America.

Maybe there should be an official alliance between America’s old allies: Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. A big free trade area with Americans excluded.

I think it would be patriotic to play …And Justice For All, by the red-blooded American rock band Metallica, endlessly on repeat

What better way to celebrate the rebellious act of American independence than to play a song which rebels against powerful figures like Brendan Carr

The font is probably the least bad thing about his administration

Interesting, I didn’t know China had little oil. I would have guessed that it was just a pragmatic business decision from China (“there will be global demand for green tech, so let’s serve that demand”), whereas Trump and his administration are too ideological to make sensible, pragmatic decisions

Obama clarified his comments on Instagram:

I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!

What’s crazy is that Trump would never say anything even half as intelligent as that.