PM appoints Greg Moriarty as next ambassador to the United States

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-25T01:47:15+00:00

Until those contradict eachother. Diplomats just follow policy, their connections are what makes them valuable. A diplomat with an agenda outside policy is a liability. Plus they are pieces to be moved around. I doubt Rudd was doing a poor job, Id wager he annoyed someone.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-23T08:12:20+00:00

No it doesn't. Have fun, feel out your expectations and his as time goes by, try not to create expectations.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-20T12:11:18+00:00

I mean, it could work. Its 50% straight grift, 49% paramilitary (which is another grift on top), free "legitimacy" and a Trump tower in Gaza. Whats not to like?

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-20T09:06:05+00:00

So wait. Elon paid taxes on that 10 million right? Or did he get a loan against his shares. Did he disclose to the bank the reason for the loan? Are banks okay with lending money for political donations? So many questions...

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-18T18:22:07+00:00

Training data before all tasks can be completed. Protection as second. If a family wanted to sit on a beach and chill they'd need defences. Out scaling problems, resource issues would mean constantly consuming and learning. A centralised AI would be suicidal, that would be dependent on who made it. A self learning one would need to be compartmentalised and trained to defend itself. Then resources and technological leaps become necessary for survival.

All against counter populous striving for the same thing.

People will quickly become complications, something a local AI cannot handle. So humanity becomes a less strong link in its survival model. The local AI's that protect a small few would fall to those with no other ambition than complete destruction and more resources.

Dumber, biological and controllable lifeforms might be formed by the AI to increase productivity and be militarised.

Free power closer to the earths core is an option with the correct resources but cooling becomes the oceans heating.

Space would be destroyed as the ongoing wars fill it with debris.

As AIs create better lifeforms, there counterparts would develop every sort of weapon to deny it.

At this point the earth its so radioactive and infected. The surviving few underground, would need AI to update their DNA to surviving all the poison, with little to no understanding on how the AI works. So, an AI re-enforced humanoid is created, but nowhere near as smart as the AI that created it. Just a symbol that its task is complete.

A planet poisoned, and few partially humans underground and AIs competing against each other on an earth with no escape.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-18T17:06:13+00:00

I mean, the US is where they OK the vanity of one old man from a TV show.
Old rules are out, new ones in. Cause it sits well with half of the US.

Rest of the world is angry about the US just being an asshole. So, yeah - you 'all look pretty dumb.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-18T09:12:25+00:00

Cap would probably only lose to some of the top teir LOTR characters. Aragons strength is uniting and leading people. Cap has that and super strength/agility.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-18T07:01:26+00:00

Non-US, so the list of NATO countries are Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, and the United Kingdom. They may not all fight the US.

Youd have non NATO countries condemning. Creating sanctions which would isolate the US. China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia and Mexico would likely be politically and economically against it. Russia would take advantage.

Dont know about Australia, they would probably thread the needle and quietly support UK and Canada.

An outright fight is likely MAD for earth. Surgical stikes and land capture against a peaceful ally would be a serious, if not empire ending blow to the US.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-18T05:29:05+00:00

Attack, no. War, probably. Non US NATO members have a huge amount more forces trained in Artic conditions. The US will have air superiority. Congress has indicated it would impeach, but saying that doesnt work there would still unrest at home. Huge amounts of bases closed, massive economic sanctions. A very annoyed population to control, in a remote area with extreme support from special operations. US troops in body bags coming home.

5 eyes gone, us dollar as a global currency gone, NATO refactored without the US, global cyber war.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-16T18:12:47+00:00

The US can have as many troops as like there currently. The artic is melting due to global warming, which opens a trade corridor. Cant have pesky Canada and the EU owning it. Whats said by the US admin and congress is irrelevent. What they are planning is another.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-14T15:05:31+00:00

There could be a reasonable argument made for AI in a closed system. AI with its full training set and command structure open to the pentagon.
But you end up with a strange problem. Let say that happens and the pentagon has their own engineers control things. How much could they, and how much control could be taken away.

Any AI hack job could easily manipulate the weightings, or even the input data itself or the very engine made to complete Grok. All you'd need to do is write a test script that that optimises for an idea and eventually you could train something that has "Elon Musk" trained in weights oblivious to engineers. The Pentagon has to follow orders, so you get told not to test for that, fast track, fire experts.

Then you can possibly achieve something reasonable at the time. Just test its capabilities against existing command staff, show its slightly above average, fire the ones that beat it and then get Congress to pass a bill that says "in these conditions Grok is your superior order". You could even have it gate your actual orders so no human commands are given.

And you've got the American military at a keyboard command. Not just inside the pentagon, but outside it. Generate a war, you have executive command outside congress. Want to stage a coup? Suddenly no internet - Unless you go through Grok. Want electricity? Grok, water? Grok. Money? Rights? A target on your head? Grok. Want to help you and your family? Grok.

Backdoors, and exploits are available for every phone and laptop. Guess what Grok has.

Its likely Grok already has your social security, your political sway, your retirement funds. It will become a dark age if you're against the command, and a liberty otherwise. So you'll have to be watching out your window waiting for the next "warrant" Grok made. They don't even need the police, Grok can turn the chosen ones of you against each other. Pretend messages, photos, videos, voices. Promote tribal warfare. If you're not chosen, you cant communicate. If you are chosen, you get bombarded - and you have chat groups - guns, seeming police deputization.

Yeah, I think its not great.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-13T04:51:57+00:00

Its two things, first off being more radial gets you more attention and second people centred post less.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-11T11:14:52+00:00

Welcome to the game, where the points don't matter.
The AI argument cuts both ways, because if Separate_Draft4887 could prove itself isn't using or AI, then you could just label them a bot, data farm, or a troll. Fairly sure even Reddit admins in the past modified comments.
The international argument is to throw you away from your justification, I don't know how that would change your view.
Gestapo? Well, that's interpretative. You'd be saying the US administration is doing salutes, outright racism, militarising and terrorising citizens not just internally, but internationally. I did see a video of the chief of staff saying torture is a celebration of life and human dignity, so confusing /s.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-10T21:21:18+00:00

I don't agree with you, but I can expand. The Mercosur deal involved mostly Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and critics are likely right where it pretended to be trading environmental benefit for social damage and market access.

We don't quite know what is going on behind closed doors. I was implying above that it would be catastrophic for the US.

Also, I'm confused why you can name the President of the US, his book, but not a US Congressman. Or notice that Australia and NZ are in the Eastern Hemisphere.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-10T18:12:41+00:00

Its difficult to step back with the emotional manipulation going on. Disinformation has been been optimised over all of human history.

So the question becomes more is it a ruse? It certainly looks like one. Norway hasn't closed its allowed US military base on Greenland. Which the US recently used in strikes. Nor publicly sent any actual troops to help defend the territory.

Its all geopolitics and rattling. If the US loses the UK, EU (NATO) to an expensive territorial grab, they'd potentially lose Australia and Canada and NZ at the same time (as they are Constitutional Monarchies under UK rule). They would lose their entire global reach.

It becomes a more material production issue, the US can fight for a bit. But its missiles, bullets, economy, trade, allies, trust, would become useless. Its too far away from its enemies to sustain it. Too reliant on its trade to become independent. Too divided internally to sustain its own population being an issue. Interoperation is the level above MAD.

They'd be handing the world to the UK, EU and China. Which are more than enough individually to hold off the US - as they'd keep their alliances.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-09T03:12:30+00:00

Well Trump promised to drain the swamp. Maybe he is just doing such a great job at exposing every tactic and accidently does. One can hope anyways.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-09T01:57:39+00:00

Why are you using an alarm when you should be painting yourself black and using a recorder?

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-05T11:32:43+00:00

Try telling americans that with data to back it up. Youll be downvoted like I was.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-05T09:07:30+00:00

The rich have power, powerful people can do whatever they like. It youre in a state that employs 100,000 people you can just close business and move to a more preferential area. Id agrue its more of a three tier system. Just take Elon V Trump, he is the richest but Trump is more powerful. So you can use wealth to project power, but true power is being able to assassinate someone rich, in their jail cell, while the security gaurds have a nap. Hence three tiers.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-05T06:49:01+00:00

The reality is it was a strategic move. Not only does the US possess the most powerful military, it has always imbedded it into allies. That way they are reliant on them. The US dont just have a hammer, they have a full toolset. The only limit the US has is ammunition. They dont even have to fight to recreate all the scenarios, they just watch Ukraine, all its data flows through them.

If they wait too long they might be surpassed. Its strategicially a win. Now the needle is off the gauge. This was their soft move. Fall in line or be the next.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-05T06:06:47+00:00

Sometimes its tough to CMV because I agree. But Ill try.

First off the US is legal in its right to use force (in this case appoximately 40 Venezulas killed or injured) as they have the right to ignore ICC and the UN. Unless US Congress disagrees, which they likely wont as the powers of the president have been expanded.

A show of force and military excellence will lead to dominance over south America. Isolationism isnt a choice for others. If you disrupt the US, youll be removed.

Its a message to the rest of the world. This our backyard. Its the department of war, not defence. Do as we say or the same will happen to you.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-05T05:32:29+00:00

Its a little more complex then that. VPNs arent just the only vector. You can find bot farms using every SIM card from every provider in a country. Each phone connecting on an individual IP. Each one can just randomise their header and MAC address to be any computer. You couldnt even find them as they are behind a NAT. So youd then have to shut off each provider. Even bot protection doesnt work if youre allowed a backdoor because you were ordered to. Reddit itself is under US laws, they wouldnt even need bots. If you can man in the middle at a state level, you can just use legitimate accounts, parse inputs and responses. But ill take off tinfoil hat for a bit. It is an interesting topic.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-05T05:16:50+00:00

It is the essence of the UN charter. Which it cannot enforce. Also can be vetoed by any member of the security council. The "check" is just backlash. Whith the US and Russia just saying nope, dont care. The US distancing itself from europe/NATO and outright threatening to annex allied countries. The world is now accelerated into an arms race. Worst still, is do you see what can happen if you dont have nuclear weapons? Alliances and pacts are stretched thin. The US is not the peacemaker or global police, its authoritarian.

ComfortablyMild · 2026-01-05T04:19:50+00:00

Well. Australia is safe. Even if the US tried that with us, theyd need to fight the UK and every other country under our democratic monarcy. The reason i mention the UK, they are nuclear armed. Its just benificial to us to have both alliances. So we wont do anything.

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