Even from a distance from the Netherlands, there is this constant rumbling thunder from the direction of the border. It starts a few hours before midnight and only stops a few hours after midnight. Sometimes you can see the clouds flashing red and green. It does feel like a distant war zone.

Without scams, spam, slop, bots and ads, facebook would be rather empty.

Israel is not allowed to geneocide quickly, so they’re genocide slowly by denying any help and blaming it on the rest of the world.

With a fertility rate of 1.76, thus a shrinking population, that seems like a grandiose idea to make any problem bigger.

Some say Putin is saying this to derail the peace talks and he’s got only this ridiculous excuse left. Zelenskyy basically called the bluff on the other arguments Putin had and so this story was invented. It does make Russia look so weak.

Funny enough, the only thing that works is AI generating YouTube fanfic videos about bosses being awful and receiving karma.

To avoid the doorman fallacy, companies must recognise jobs are more than the visible tasks listed on a job description.

It’s why malicious compliance and work-to-rule actions are pretty devastating for a company. You got to assume AI will act with malicious compliance, or at least hallucinate and lie about it.

Now do it for real, they already said you’ve done it anyway.

Most other countries do their best to create environments that are hostile to children, but in a different way.

Now Taiwan knows where to install the sea mines.

So nobody can stop their genocide by taking their weapons away.

You also have a Bluetooth FM transmitter, so they phone audio becomes just another reason station. You can even get a Bluetooth remote control for common media functions to put on the dash.

It feels like the elite are doing one last big haul before they’re out of there, looking for new regions to exploit.

It was not unexpected. Most big powers in history end like that. The rich always want more and eventually start taking it from everybody else, even if it’s detrimental to the future of the nation.

Manosphere fanfic everywhere.

USian

That’s just a sparkling Murican.

The far right is claiming Christmas as the latest family values and traditions thing to fight over. It seems they conveniently leave out that the part of being friendly to foreigners and the wealthy being generous to the poor.

Those drones Ukraine uses to blow up the Russian Navy are produced in the EU. Let’s say there is a certain risk involved with threatening with ships near European shores.

And even worse, it doesn’t realise it and can’t fix the errors.

I don’t think anybody part of the armchair general brigade is surprised by this. Maybe surprised it took them this long.