Yep, you’re a loon.

The USSR literally helped Vietnam (and many other countries) in their war for liberation against you.

Against me? I think you’re assuming incorrectly.

The basic answer is that everyone just likes America. I’m not kidding.

Or they pretend to, because it’s the biggest kid [1] in the playground.

[1] by PwrIndx

You raise some good points, and of course there are few universal truths especially if it descends to the individual. No country is without its haters. Certainly my Uncle, who only visited Germany from a height of 20,000 feet whilst dropping bombs on it, never ever forgave them and was always incredibly rude if we ever met any. He had more reason than most perhaps, as did many during the second world war, and you can’t force someone to forgive. I’m British, and many in the world don’t like us much, and with some reason.

But considering the global hatred against Germany 80 years, I still maintain that most people accept that things are different today, as do the Vietnamese against America, and perhaps against Russia who used them for the proxy war. Perception’s not fixed, of course. Global views towards Russia have shifted dramatically within two short years.

But I chose my racists phrase carefully. If someone hates someone for their country, that is the very definition of racism. “Racism is prejudice or hostility towards a person’s race, colour, language, nationality, or national or ethnic origin.” I don’t think it’s possible to argue against that someone’s racist in that situation.

Joe Pasquale sings it

I’m so sorry.

People forgive.

Consider that Germany is a very welcome and integrated country within Europe and the wider world. It’s only the bigots and racists that are still hostile towards them.

He ain’t going to be the only one. US President can threaten anyone with impunity, the courts have already shown that.

Vote better.

Gizmodo flying a bit close to the libel laws in that article.

Despite saying they can’t confirm it’s genuine, then saying stuff like " it’s pretty clear that Mangione was motivated by the tremendous injustices regularly perpetrated by the healthcare industry in the United States."

Was he? Did he write those words? Is he the shooter? Doesn’t this kind of reporting compromise the chance of a fair hearing?

Surely he deserves the right to a trial before being found guilty, as per the Sixth Amendment?

Adults saying “poop”

Am British where it’s what kids call it. For adults it’s poo or shit.

Walking on Dartmoor one cold, gray and rainy winter’s morning.

A young man in a sodden T-shirt and shorts emerged out of the mist on the same moorland path I was on. He was carrying a tesco carrier bag with a ram’s skull sticking out and what looked to be the spine stuffed into it.

Sheep die out there all the time so it was probably a chance find - but walking in what were difficult conditions so poorly dressed, but with a carrier bag…? I still wonder what he was going to do with his prize.

Oh, and that time when I drove around a corner to find five pirates pushing a horse and carriage up a hill. (It was a themed wedding and the horse was slipping on the way to the reception so the followers got out of their cars and helped push - but it earned a second glance)

And when these guys discover local auctions, the storage requirements explode. So many half-broken mowers, engines, chests of old tools - all needing sorting out, fixing and keeping forever.

Agree. Context from OP suggests it’s a sick day, but day off = paid holiday, surely?

Is it too cynical to be suspicious of anti-chinese rhetoric so close to the impending US protectionism changes?

You expect me to watch a whole video?

The man’s an arse. He’s always been an arse. He will continue to be an arse.

I think I’m going to disagree with the accuracy statement.

Yes - AIs can be famously inaccurate. But so can web pages - even reputable ones. In fact, any single source of information is insufficient to be relied upon, if accuracy is important. And today, deliberate disinformation on the internet is massive - it’s something we don’t even know the scale of because the tools to check it may be compromised. </tinfoilhat>

It takes a lot of cross-referencing to be certain of something, and most of us don’t bother if the first answer from either method ‘feels right’.

AI does get shown off when it’s stupidly wrong, which is to be expected, but the world doesn’t care when it’s correct time and again. And each iteration gets better at self-checking facts.

I have been this week, for the first time.

I’m using Hugo to design a new website and Gemini has been useful in find the actual useful documentation that I need. Much faster and more accurate than trawling the official pages, and does a better job of providing relevent examples. It’s also really good at sensing what I’m actually asking, even if I’m clumsy at the phrasing.

And for those who continue to say AI isn’t really useful for learning - another thing I’ve been using it for. “write perl to convert a string to only container lowercase, converting any non-alpha chars to dashes” - I’ve learned how to do stuff like that over and over again, but the exact syntax falls out of my head after a few months of not doing it. AI is good at providing a quick recollect. I’ve already learned perl properly (including from paper books - yes, I first wrote perl a quarter of a century ago) - and forgotten it so many times. AI doesn’t prevent me learning, just makes it faster.

That shit is essentially a full time job. And it’s forever ongoing full time job, with 24/365 on call type job if emails are mission critical.

Totally agree. No fun being a small guy in a dugout and a rifle when the spam and malware arms race is bombing you with nukes.

No sign of that happening yet, especially with the results of a certain election in a certain country.