Elbows up, Canada! I'm really happy to see that there is at least one nation that pushes back.

I only wish the European Commission would take note and grow some balls.

Because we Europeans are almost as fucked in the head as you Americans.

::: spoiler Spoiler If I had to take a guess what the root cause is, I'd say the problem lies in the difference between the culturally transported image of reality (propaganda, advertisement, algorithmic bubbles etc) and the longing for a life according to human nature (community, good food, sense of belonging and usefulness, spiritual fulfillment etc) :::

I don't think AI is anti-ethical or fascist per se. As many argued here, you can run it locally, you can train it on public data sets, etc.

But there is another problem that is hardly mentioned. Let's call it a culturally negative feedback loop. AI is different from any other tool because it pretends to be an universal tool. It can generate music, pictures, videos, text, code. If we as a society outsource all those skills to automatisation, there's a real danger we unlearn those skills.

Well, obviously you did not read my comments. Or maybe it's my bad english. I wasn't alive back then, but my grandparents. And yes, they were guilty too. Also I'm part responsible for my shitty government. Even if I never voted for them. But my stupid country doesn't start wars, we don't run torture prisons or bomb schools.

Americans are like fish who don't know what water is.

Maybe I shouldn't tell you guys this, but sometimes I press the button even if I don't have to cross the street. Also sometimes I cross the street really slowly, drivers get especially mad about that. Obviously I'm not from the US, since I'm still alive.

I still play Warcraft III - Frozzen Throne. So many custom maps. I've got enough gaming content for another 10 years.

Nah, you got it all wrong. I don't punish them, I do them a favor. They mabe don't know it, but it's good for them if they stop occasionally.

On the other hand, they punish me, every day of every week. They punish me with pollution and noise and concrete and traffic accidents and oil consumption and heat radiation.

Yeah. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Carbrained psychopaths look a people crossing the street and think: How dare they make me wait a few seconds longer. I'll fucking hit them with my car.

And they think that's a proportinal response. It's just deeply sick and twisted.

Better an asshole then a bloody American. The whole world is sick and tired of your shit.

Yeah, I guess I'm a litte bit accelerationist(1) with my take here. But the situation will not change if drivers have it more comfortable.

There is so much violence in driving a car, and you argue against me because I make them stop for 20 seconds. (Inner)Cities should not be build for cruising. They should be build for pedestrians. If you want to cruise, drive on the Autobahn or some Umfahrungsstraße.

::: spoiler Spoiler (1) DuckDuckGo translated accelerationist with beschlagnaderungsorientiert. Since you german speaking I thought you might enjoy this. :::

I always though the US-Military is almost allmighty. It's nice to see there are clear limitations to their power.

Ähm, manchmal braucht es die erhabene Kraft der Poesie um das ganz und gar Unverständliche zu erfassen:)

::: spoiler Spoiler

Es schmerzt im Herz,

Die Sozialdemokratie ist tot.

Da lacht der Merz,

Was für ein AfD-Verbot?

Rechts und Rechts,

Die gesellen sich halt gern.

Dumm und dümmer,

So sind sie, diese Herren.

Deutschland, was geht?

Das frag ich dich schon lang.

Wer das versteht,

Der soll es mir erklären. :::

Ich bin dann mal weg.

They elected him twice. It hurts me to say it, but (most) Americans are evil as fuck. It's just this deeply toxic culture, which gets reproduced in every aspect of their lives.

They are obsessed with violence, their cars a basicly tanks, they have more guns then people, no maternity protections, mass surveillance, they worship their celebrities like drones their queen. They start war after war, build torture prisons around the world, destroy the environment, they bomb schools then turn around and say shit like: Thank you for you service. But don't blame the soldiers, they have no choice. They call it "Land Of The Free", "A shining city upon a hill", they say "Make America Great Again".

Every half decent thing they monetise until it's hollowed out, they poison, cheat, scam, torture, kill, then lie about it. Most of all they lie to themselfs. They are vampires of the soul, ghouls of the heart, monsters in human form. And their fucking culture expands like a virus.

And I speak with the pain of a disappointed lover, I loved their music, their artistic brilliance as shown in movies, musicals, theater, literature, journalism, hell even tec. But it's all a big scam, designed to amass power. Designed to enslave and exploit every last corner of this earth.

I mean if you American, then you did in fact send us the bill. You flattened our cities and convicted our leaders, literaly Nuremberg style. I think we deserved it back then. For me that's not hard to see.

Why is it so hard for you guys to take a look in the mirror?

USA starts war after war and I'm the asshole because I can tell that's not right? You call yourself "Land Of The Free" and all I ever hear from you guys is: "There is really nothing we can do about it".

You get all defensive and butthurt all the time. But yeah, I listened to a lot of David Foster Wallace yesterday. I think I learned something(1). Maybe you give it a shot? There's some stuff on youtube.

::: spoiler Spoiler (1) The American is more of a hollow man than an evil one? The corporate media can fill him with whatever they want. Yesterday it was "War on Terror", today it's "MAGA", what will it be tomorrow? :::

In Österreich gabs vor kurzen einen Mord aus diesem Umfeld.

Mit Théoden frag ich mich: Was kann der Mensch gegen solch tollkühnen Hass ausrichten? Wir müssen uns da dagegen stemmen. Gewalt ist ihre Sprache, vllt wirds langsam Zeit für eine Antwort.

Ja, ist traurig wie sich die EU-Komission von den USA unter Druck setzten lässt. IMO um so wichtiger, dass wir als Konsumenten den Ami-Konzernen nicht die ganze Zeit unser Geld rein stopfen.

Oh poor fellow, I'm sorry I made you a victim of my linguistic violence here. Land of the free, home of the brave, right? Just be glad my country never bombed one of your schools. But then again, we really don't have to, since you guys shoot those little bastards yourself.

But I could tell you a lot about WW2 Germany. Concentration Camps were an open secret. For example, in my own home county, there was one of those camps. In 1945 there was a big escape. Civilians from all around came together to hunt and kill the escapees. From 500 escapees 11 survived. I would call that evil.

Now this flame of evil has passed onto you guys. And you carry it with pride and ignorance.

The Krenim killed Harambe?

Mir scheint, als wären wir als Gesellschaft so ideologisch verrant, dass uns für diese Probleme nur Lösungen einfallen, die die Ursachen von besagtem Problemen noch verstärken.

Die Städte heizen sich immer mehr auf? Klimaanlagen!

Der Rhein hat kein Wasser mehr? Sonntagsfahrverbot für LKWs aufheben! Oder noch besser: Den Fluss ausbauen, sprich noch mehr begradigen und vertiefen.

Derweil der modus operandi der neuen Normalität:

• "EU-Kommission für Aussetzung von Strafe bei Methanverstößen" https://orf.at/stories/3436756/
• "Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-largest-pollution-source-texas-usa
• "Frankreich will verbotene Insektengifte wieder zulassen" https://orf.at/stories/3436801/