takes one to know one as the saying goes

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Amazing how vassals have to relearn this lesson every few years.

Sure, I’m just noting the feature their service currently provides that DeepSeek doesn’t.

From my anecdotal experience they’re pretty similar. A couple of nice things with Kimi is that it can do internet searches, and you can paste images in for it to analyze.

There’s zero chance of that happening. The US has no credibility at this point due to its growing political volatility. Any deal Trump makes has a 4 year horizon tops, because the next admin can just reverse it the way Trump reversed Biden’s policy on Ukraine. There’s also nothing the US can offer Russia given that Russian economy has already adjusted to the sanctions and it’s actually growing faster than it did before the war. If being cut off from the west economically results in minimal pressure that in turn means that being integrated back will have minimal benefit.

On the other hand, China has a stable political system and is able to make long term commitments. China and Russia also have many common interests and their economies are complimentary. Russia has a lot of natural resources and China has a massive industry that needs them. It’s a similar relationship to the one US and Canada have. Russia has shown that they are able to do long term planning, and they can see that their interests are much better served by an alliance with China than the US.

What I expect will actually happen is that it’s the alliance between the US and Europe that’s going to break apart as a result. We can already see the start of the break up happening, and it’s obviously in Russian interest to encourage this. So, I fully expect that the Russians will continue normalizing the relations with the US in order to drive a wedge between them and Europe.

Ben Norton did a pretty good take on the situation incidentally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJIymzuRGU

yeah that’s a conservative number for his support

He clearly has a large base that’s pretty fanatical at this point.

I mean that’s how a lot of European systems work and clearly isn’t helping much there either. The reality is that liberal democracies turn towards fascism in times of crisis. The problem is with the inequality and the fact that a handful of rich oligarchs own everything while exploiting everyone else. No meaningful democracy is possible unless means of production are owned by the workers. The rich will always get their way.

Sure, but I think it’s clear that Trump has a strong base that supports what he’s doing. It’s important to recognize that.

Seems like plenty of people are cheering it on.

Or maybe voting on which member of the ruling class will oppress people isn’t meaningful democracy.

Seems like we’re talking past each other here. I never said positive change in US is not possible, or that people shouldn’t be organizing. I’m pointing out the current state of the country here. 🤷

It’s not like human players don’t cheat in competitive games though. I mean that’s the whole reason stuff like punkbuster ended up being necessary.

I’m not against actual organizing done by orgs like PSL, but the reality is that large swaths of US public openly and vehemently support Trump.

People who didn’t vote clearly didn’t feel that strongly about it one way or the other.

That is the correct way to understand US military. Projects like F35 aren’t meant to produce practical weapons that are cheap and reliable. These are vehicles for funnelling as much public money back into the hands of the oligarchs as possible. Making really expensive toys in artisanal volumes and then charging exorbitant amounts for support is how you make money.

You do realize he actually won the popular vote this time?

The funny part is that humans do the exact same thing. It’s one reason why it’s so hard to create effective performance metrics. People quickly learn what behaviors are actually rewarded and do that instead of following the intent of the rules. It all comes down to thermodynamics in the end, the solution that requires the least energy will be favored. This is as true for humans as for artificial neural networks.

It’s pretty clear that a carrier would never be allowed to get close enough to Chinese mainland to project much of anything in case of a conflict.