Main exports:

USA to Spain: Petroleum
Spain to USA: Refined Petroleum

Now, I’m sure this is bad business for both parts, but it’s a helluva lot worse practically for USA to be without refined petroleum than it is for Spain not to have petroleum to refine.

Anyway, I’ll make sure to eat double the amount of Spanish tomatoes this week.

I don’t understand why I would want to buy a new computer so their OS can have their AI do that stuff that they want.

Why don’t they just do it themselves then? I never asked for any of that shit.

If you liked Unreal, you will like Sauerbraten.

“I ain’t never said no such thing” - Albert Einstein

It’s a good starting point. The more people vote, the more people will be angry if the result is stolen.

Apathy is the worst threat against democracy. Especially when one part is cheating.

It’s wild how we still learn more and more about Epstein’s person.

He was obviously a sick bastard, but I don’t think he was the worst of the lot.

He was probably more like the frat boy whose parents were always out, so everyone would party at his place. He was thrilled with being the host of it, so he could mingle with the powerful people. If he was truly the mastermind behind all the illegal shit, it seems unlikely that he’d also be stupid enough to write all those files and keep trophy pictures of rich people.

This never made much sense to me, until I realized that someone else is behind arranging the worst of it.

This would explain how he had both ordinary and completely wild illegal shit going on at the same time.

Trump plays a larger role in it, but I also don’t think he is the mastermind behind it. He was allowed access because he took part in and knows the people doing the human trafficking.

I don’t think we know who called the shots in the group yet.

may

No. They’ve been doing it for years.

I’ve read speculations about him wanting Americans to riot so he can declare an emergency, and that’s why people should refrain from rioting.

However, it’s pretty clear that he’s going to try to stage that emergency to grab power, whether or not the Americans riot.

Maybe he should have a national emergency. A real one that prevents him from grabbing the power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification

Soviet zone: From the beginning, denazification in the Soviet zone was considered a critical element of the transformation into a socialist society and was quickly and effectively implemented. Members of the Nazi Party and its organizations were often brutally beaten before being arrested and interned. The NKVD was directly in charge of this process and oversaw the camps. In 1948, the camps were placed under the same administration as the gulag in the Soviet government. According to official records, 122,600 people were interned; 34,700 of those interned in this process were considered to be Soviet citizens, with the rest being German

Let’s math: 122600-34700= 87900 Germans.

Former Nazi officials quickly realized that they would face fewer obstacles and investigations in the zones controlled by the Western Allies. Many of them saw a chance to defect to the West on the pretext of anti-communism. Conditions in the internment camps were terrible, and between 42,000 and 80,000 prisoners died.

Sure they never directly stated that they deliberately wanted to kill all the Nazi, but the result is still that they did kill a good chunk of them (between 50-90%) in the camps.

The history of denazifying Germany shows that the Allies were torn on this.

To summerize:

Russia “Okay, let’s kill all the Germans.”
Britain “Oh, but then we’re no better than them. We must make due process for all the Nazis.”
USA “Yeah, I don’t think either of you understand the scale of this.”

And the Americans was right. A due process would have taken centuries, and nobody wanted to pay for it.

So that’s why the Nuremberg trials only reached the top of the iceberg and millions of Nazis got away with no other punishment than memories of shame.

Well done.

A little late…

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/22/nx-s1-5722796/danish-military-evacuates-us-submariner-medical-care-greenland

Lol.

I believe it’s called data poisoning, which theoretically could be used to hack something in some theoretical situation.

It’s not the case here. He simply left a turd on the sidewalk and then the AI picked it up.

I don’t think they even care about profits anymore.

Billionaires live in the balance sheet, not the P/L statements.

So… mustard gas or labour laws are the only options?

Have you tried poking them with a stick?

It’s possible in Denmark too. However they usually only get to the conclusion that they need help after they have been caught in possession of illegal materials.

The psychologists working on it have difficulty getting funding for research. The questions are if it really is a disease on it’s own and if it’s treatable. There’s not a lot of valid data to work with. This made the news last year or so.

I’m no psychologist but my impression is that it’s more like a symptom of a different trauma, which might make more sense to throw money at. It would be interesting to hear from the psychologists who work in prisons.

Anyway, the foundation Save The Children has hotlines for young people who are concerned with their sexuality in one way or the other.

something about audio that attracts an atmosphere of wilful ignorance

I think it’s the lack of a shared vocabulary.

Everyone likes some music better than other music, and so everyone think they can tell the difference between good and bad music. However, nobody can explain the difference in plain words.

This easily leads to the conclusion that it is fully subjective, and this is where the ignorance comes from. If nobody can explain what good music is, then my own voodoo explanation is as good as any.

However, we can talk about music theory, audio production and sound analysis in scientific terms to the point where we can even reproduce certain sounds based on the description. But we can’t really understand the description without actually experiencing the sound.

It’s similar to somebody saying “I don’t like this cake” or someone saying “my taste receptors react to the umami in this cake”, but I still wouldn’t have a clue about how the cake tastes.

Sound is also different from other sciences in that there is very little proof of one thing being more correct than others. And that goal changes constantly. Whenever somebody does crack the code to what people enjoy, it’ll get boring really quick.

I had a music teacher long ago who said that there is no bad music, only wrong audiences. His point was that the music that makes it through to the recording and publishing will already have passed the filter where someone made a decision if there is an audience for it. If you hear bad music, then you’re just not the right audience.

Anyway, cables. Who cares. The end result is the most important part. However, I’d prefer to hook up the instruments on stage with thick cables instead of bananas. Same thing applies at home. Any wire will do, but cheap wires do break.

Five nights at Freddy’s is a media franchise that includes games and movies. It’s a horror story about a pizza place that has teddy bear like robots who are also ghosts of children.

It is or was popular among preteens for a while. It’s somewhat similar to Poppy Playtime, with the characters being used all over tik-tok and Roblox etc.

I have no idea nor desire to know how it makes any sense as porn, or why any adult would even want to create that kind of content.

Absolutely, but it isn’t up to their employers to punish them.