It’s the 6-7-Man!

So, Ilhan Omar is still on Twitter. I wished all respectable politicians would just ditch this place.

What’s HN?

I love it.

An upvote just for PeeWee Himmler. 🫠

Thanks for saying that. Yahoo tries to set millions of data harvesting cookies, it’s insane. Declining it means no video in this case.

The comment leaves no room for consideration - it is unequivocally dismissing the threats

Hey, it was just an assumption (“I reckon that…”). I wanted to express my disbelief that the Trump administration will actually go for it and was therefore looking for other motivations.

Of course I don’t know the truth, and -believe me- I take that threat seriously. But as the risk with Greenland is much much higher than with Venezuela, I guess they just throw around their bullshit and see what sticks. If there is little resistance, they might even try something. Or they are preparing for a blackmail scenario like “OK fine, we stay out of Greenland, but only if you sign this trade deal”.

As someone else said here, there can be multiple motivations. The distraction aspect is also real.

You’re right, there can be multiple motivations. It all stays in the vein of “Flooding the zone with shit”.

Here: https://archive.is/20260106054904/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html

What are [the territorial claims] based on for Greenland to be a colony of Denmark? The United States is a NATO power. For the United States to be able to secure the Arctic region.

So? Denmark is also a NATO power, therefore the Arctic region already is secure as it is.

Miller is full of crap.

Meanwhile, Denmarks PM Mette Frederiksen stated, an attack on Greenland would be the end of NATO. She is right. And the pros in the White House know.

I reckon all this Greenland talk is -again- just smoke to distract us from Venezuela and the Epstein files.

Wer sich fragt, warum in meinem Artikel nur eine einzige Stadträtin den dramatischen Rechtsruck offen kritisiert, kann angesichts des Abstimmungsverhaltens erahnen, woran das liegt: Es gibt kaum noch politisch Engagierte, die mit der AfD nichts zu tun haben und offen darüber mit einem Journalisten sprechen möchten. Einige Leute, mit denen ich während meiner Recherchen Kontakt hatte, weigerten sich, zitiert zu werden. Andere wollten sich gar nicht erst zum Gespräch treffen – aus Angst vor den Reaktionen.

Jene Stadträtin, die so offen Kritik geübt hatte, spürt an diesem Februarabend im Stadtrat die Konsequenzen: André Krillwitz, Fraktionschef von »Pro Bitterfeld-Wolfen«, will wissen, warum die junge Kollegin die Zustände in der Stadt öffentlich kritisiere. »Da frage ich mich, warum Sie hier noch wohnen«, sagt er. Wem es hier nicht gefalle, könne ja wegziehen.

Ich empfehle, den ganzen Artikel zu lesen. Zum einen versteht man das System, wie aktuell Kritik unterdrückt wird. Zum anderen erfährt man: Der Autor möchte die Auseinandersetzung bzw den Dialog mit dem Stadtrat nicht abbrechen lassen und sich weiter mit der Situation beschäftigen. Ich hoffe, dass da noch was bei rumkommt außer maulige Versuche, ihn zu diskreditieren.

evolex? Perhaps you meant evolved?

Die Reichweite von X lässt halt alle Bedenken schmelzen. Mittelfristig dennoch ungeschickt.

Danke, sehr informativ. So werden die Tage länger:

Bis St. Stephan (am 26. Dezember) eine, bis Neujahr sieben, bis zu den Heiligen Drei Königen 15 und bis Mariä Lichtmess 93 Minuten.

I am familiar with the bubble, Morty. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ym0HBvpFA

Seems to forward to Youtube for visitors out of US. Here’s an archived version: http://archive.today/w17Oa

I agree that from our current position, things look dire. But there have always been big changes in industries that not only eliminated part of the workforce, but on the other hand provided new opportunities.

To be honest, I don’t really know how this might work out. Maybe there will be a new wave of junior startups that have their prototypes ready in half the time with smaller teams. Maybe something else.

It’s probably rooted in my optimism and my trust in people being creative in new situations. I hope I’m not just being naive.

It’s mainly just the course of the current administration. Chances are high that the conflict is fought on the political stage and the market only.

We still have to see how the situation in Ukraine plays out. But I don’t see the potential for a military conflict including Europe and the US here.

The Trump administration will hopefully be replaced in January 2029, and up to then, it’s not unlikely Dems take back the congress in 2026. Not a major push to progressivism, but it can help to contain the current national extremism.

I’m not too optimistic about a real regime change, but I reckon that affairs will normalize somehow and Europe and the USA arrange themselves in their new positions.

But inexperienced coders will start to use LLMs a lot earlier than the experienced ones do now. I get your point, but I guess the learning patterns for junior devs will just be totally different while the industry stays open for talent.

At least I hope it will and it will not only downsize to 50% of the human workforce.

Really funny!

Although when I played it first embedded in Boost, I heard YouTube automatic audio translation, which of course sucked big time.