Rosencrantz2
2d ago
The European right, or parts of it, shares a part of the blame too - there's been a veritable cottage industry of European RW grifters painting a hysterical and exaggerated image of the situation in Europe regarding immigration, specifically posting in English and not their native languages for an American audience (often since they've already tried their hand in local politics and failed to gain any traction) to get Substack subs and, if particularly successful, even appearances in popular American podcasts or pivots to the American RW think tank / media ecosystem or whatever. It's almost certain that these types and their arguments have also affected the American RW ecosphere, including it's social-media-addicted leadership, creating room for the mindset that leads to the current events happening. Some seem to now be going "C-come on, you guys... it wasn't THAT bad, we don't need all this..."
On this note, the current episode of the QAnon Anonymous podcast has a bit about Youtubers coming to London and trying to find scenes of Muslim no-go areas, only to end up having to complain about too many curry houses on Brick Lane.
The UK is in quite a bad state, but the picture of it one would form from right-wing social media has become a cartoon based only on fringe events which, while important, play little part in ordinary life for the vast majority of people.
Rosencrantz2
2d ago
Trump appears to have now given up on getting Greenland altogether and dropped any threats of tariffs. At this point I resent him more for his pointless unpredictability and obsession with sucking up all the oxygen in every room in the world, than for the consequences of his actual policies. What have we even been talking about?
Rosencrantz2
2d ago
The thing that stands out for me in the UK is how we do not hear about anyone in America either opposing or really supporting Trump in this course of action. It seems it's up to him to turn a nation of 350 million people into a territorial aggressor, and few others can or will make themselves heard above his incredible attentional monopoly.
From afar it reads as Americans not caring either way, though I know this isn't actually the case. It makes me question why the US system doesn't feature an official leader of the opposition. There is a voice missing in this conversation that such a role would help to fill.
Rosencrantz2
3d ago
7% here too, well with some apparent tension in there to do with free will and determinism to which I'd say to the creator of the test: go read some quasi-realist philosophy and come back to me bro.
Rosencrantz2
4d ago
I don't think Trump's sentences are any more coherent than Biden's were, he's just more forceful about them and comes across as less physically fragile.
Rosencrantz2
7d ago
Am I reading that right, you reckon half of people here should be able to nearly 6x their savings every 5 years?
Rosencrantz2
9d ago
It feels like a political attack ad made by a rival car company.
Rosencrantz2
10d ago
Dude wasn't standing blocking her car, he was circling it filming, likely for evidence
Either that or because ICE has been tasked with generating tonnes of footage for White House social feeds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/ice-social-media-blitz
Rosencrantz2
10d ago
I think the type of efficiency we have is efficiency at maximising what can be measured. The causality between e.g. a fun sociable office and employee retention is hard to measure. It's somewhat obvious that there is such a connection, so it gets a little funding. But there's not enough numerical evidence to put it where it should probably be to actually optimise for success.
Rosencrantz2
11d ago
Did you know "gaslighting" originally meant lighting the way for others?
Rosencrantz2
11d ago
I'll concede that some of my suggestions are at a much higher pay grade than officers on the ground or within ICE. One point I disagree with in terms of reactions to this episode though is to put much of the blame on Jonathan Ross. I guess he might well be a bad guy but I think such episodes are pretty much inevitable and the result of poor leadership decisions as well as poor training.
Rosencrantz2
11d ago
There are lots of things that could have been done differently. Many are not about what Jonathan Ross did but about not allowing situations like this to happen in the first place. Things like (and some of these will be unpalatable):
-Try not to run towards people and grab at their car door handles
-Try not to walk in front of vehicles
-Don't be scary – wear uniforms and ID
-Work to build trust in the community and communicate with residents like other police forces do
-Work in collaboration with local law enforcement and if they don't want to, take steps to understand why and what can be done differently
-Don't draw your gun unless you know what you are attempting to do with it
-Take anger management and body language training so you get less riled up by protesters
-Don't do generalised sweeps where you are at large in a neighbourhood, be more targeted
Rosencrantz2
11d ago
It doesn't imply that at all does it? Unless you think someone having committed a crime means their killing cannot have been a murder?
Rosencrantz2
12d ago
Surely in saying this you're actually agreeing that Good was acting like a teasing teenager in a school hall or a sarcastic sitcom character, rather than like a domestic terrorist?
Rosencrantz2
12d ago
If Trump just wants extra military bases, he only had to ask.
Rosencrantz2
12d ago
Trump himself said: “I would like to make a deal the easy way but if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way."
Then Vance told European leaders they should "take the President of the United States very seriously."
It's disingenuous to pretend it's all been kicked up by the media.
Rosencrantz2
12d ago
I think it is actually very likely to happen under the guise (?) of saying the troops are there to repel China and Russia, and thus assuage Trump's stated concerns about the island being seized.
Rosencrantz2
12d ago
That's true but there's equally political capital for Trump supporters to say no one should take him seriously when he says crazy things about invading allies. The fact their leaders are trying to curry favour with them is not an adequately reassuring thought to a European worried about the world order.
Rosencrantz2
12d ago
It's not that reassuring though. The EU ought to put troops from multiple countries there to create some sense of jeopardy for the US that it might not be a totally bloodless operation, even if they can't realistically stay to fight.
Rosencrantz2
12d ago
Isn't a lot of how ICE is being presented also hoping for a viral moment though? The administration wants ICE to create conflict in blue states, so that they have more people to villify.
Rosencrantz2
15d ago
I don't think it's reasonable, I think it's predictable.
Rosencrantz2
15d ago
It's not that surprising she would panic though, the ICE officer strides towards her car and tries repeatedly to open her car door.
Exactly -- if you don't think insiders should leak military secrets, you also shouldn't think they can make bets based on them. It's little different than making a hint about a forthcoming operation to a journalist, which would probably be considered treasonous by many.
I find myself confused about what exactly you're asking for necessary and sufficient conditions for?
I offer these general points in the hope they'll help, as I wonder if there was some misunderstanding upthread:
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Creating and distributing lifelike fakes with intent to deceive (AI generated or not) is likely more injurious than creating and distributing sketches, actor representations etc.
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Creating and distributing non-lifelike images (e.g. paintings, caricatures, actor representations) cannot simply trick people, but could still change how someone is viewed, perhaps forever, and therefore still be injurious. (Every time I think of British PM John Major, I see him as his grey underpanted caricature, an example where the injury to Major is easily justified to my mind by its satirical value.)
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Creating and distributing a convincing fake with an 'AI generated' watermark is somewhere in between these two – a lifelike fake with seemingly no intent to deceive. Because extremely lifelike, this case allows room for doubt as to whether the watermark is true, plus the very existence of the image brings the possibility of deceit firmly into play (e.g. a watermark can be easily removed).
He didn't confuse Iceland and Greenland. Why do you hate America?
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