The grift goes global.

I don’t think he’s interested in the populated areas in the south. If there’s anything he’s interested in, it’s more likely the minerals. What he would probably like is for US companies to go there and take those minerals. But if they do that without Danish permission, Danish forces can come and kick them out. What would happen if he lands US troops illegally in that inhospitable corner to protect such an illegal operation?

Fighting over Greenland is really hard, because it’s mostly empty and inhospitable. What he really wants is for everybody to simply recognise it’s his, but how do you get there? It’s not working for Putin, it’s not working in Venezuela.

And of course Russia has claimed half of it, because they have about half of the arctic coastline.

the opportunity for profit is too huge

Until their coastal refineries start flooding when Antarctica starts melting. Although even Greenland is already worth 7 meters of sea level rise.

But of course all of that is for future generations to worry about. As long as they can squeeze out a bit more profit before they die, it’s all good.

This is the most literal “après moi le deluge” ever.

If we’re going to tax sin, can we tax hoarding money?

That’s absolutely true. If 2 decades ago anyone had written a story or movie about a president acting like Trump, it would have been considered too unrealistic to publish.

Oh, there’s absolutely oil. No doubt about that. It’s the claim that Venezuela has the largest reserves in the world, that I’m doubting. But even if they had only a third of the claimed amount, they’d still have an enormous amount of oil.

I’ve heard recently that there’s actually a good chance that ocean of oil was a lie to gain more influence in OPEC. But as long as it’s a lie he can believe, I don’t think Trump will mind.

He won’t leave that office while he’s alive

That’s an extreme solution, but if it’s the only one, it’s the one.

With the advantage that the target can’t easily opt out of it. It’s probably fairly easy to stop wearing clothes from a wool/linen mix (although avoiding cotton/polyester might be harder), so your target disappears.

As a Christian, I object to books featuring rich people, people who don’t help poor people, people who don’t heal the sick, and people who are mean to foreigners. Unless the perpetrators of those unChristian acts get their comeuppance, of course. Can I now demand from schools that my kid doesn’t get exposed to those kinds of books?

Yeah, I don’t really understand that either. What’s wrong Heroic? It’s not quite Steam, but pretty good. And no DRM is definitely a plus.

Are you aware it hasn’t even been one year? There’s three more to go. How can anyone tolerate this? He needs to be removed.

Honestly, yeah. Let Trump rule Venezuela, and get someone else to govern the US. Sucks for Venezuelans, but what doesn’t? And he can do a lot less damage there.

All of this should be configurable per site. Lots of sites do not need to know my timezone, location, cookies or fingerprint, but some do. I want to give sites I like, those where I’ve intentionally created an account, usually, permission to these things while denying it to every random article I happen to click on.

Firefox is great. Mozilla, however, is making some weird moves every now and then. A lot of people don’t quite trust Mozilla to have their interests at heart anymore.

The obvious solution is to use a Firefox fork. I have no idea whether there’s a meaningful difference between the various Firefox forks, and would welcome a summary.

The “socialist speed bumps” is deliciously ridiculous of course, and it’s easy to imagine these complaints coming from rich people who want to race their super low Ferraris through the street, but from the article, the complaint sounds a lot more reasonable; these bumps apparently exceed the council’s own allowed height. And some have indeed been fixed already.

That said, I’m not a huge fan of speed bumps (though I don’t mind them much either), because I think they might encourage these people to buy luxury SUVs instead. I’d rather see extra curves added tot the street. They may do less for the sports cars, but more for the SUVs. A mix is probably best.

But I suspect it’s cheaper to just add a speed bump; requires less thought , less redesign.

I’m religious. But I’m afraid I also don’t understand the switch from “overpopulation is a problem” to “people need to have more kids”.

But if people do want others to have more children, maybe invest in the resources and infrastructure to enable that. Make houses affordable for young families, don’t work them to death. Normalise at least one of: free child care, 3 day work weeks, or single person income being enough to raise a family.

Also, in the US, maybe address those school shootings and car deaths; it seems American society has been redesigned explicitly to be as hostile as possible to children. But at least that’s something other countries do better. Houses are too expensive everywhere, though. And wages too low.

No, I think these billion dollar companies are incredibly sloppy about curating the content they steal to train their systems on.

I like Civ 6, but it helps the set it to ‘online’ speed.

This is the big issue. LLMs are useful to me (to some degree) because I can tell when its answer is probably on the right track, and when it’s bullshit. And still I’ve occasionally wasted time following it in the wrong direction. People with less experience or more trust in LLMs are much more likely to fall into that trap.

LLMs offer benefits and risks. You need to learn how to use it.