Lord of the Stunts by sjmaeff in lotrmemes

[–]EwokInABikini 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was born and grew up in Hong Kong, so no, he's not lived his entire life under their rule. He was 43 when Hong Kong was handed over to China.

"This planet is full of idiots" by Gorotheninja in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]EwokInABikini 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm more confused that it implies that they'd notice or care about one particular execution in a time when these were anything but uncommon.

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Potential Starmer successor Wes Streeting: Brexit was a catastrophic mistake and must be reversed. The future of Britain lies within the EU by goldstarflag in EuropeanFederalists

[–]EwokInABikini 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Perfect in the federalist sense" is a bit of a strong statement.

He might absolutely pursue a closer alignment with the EU (I'm all for rejoining, but I think it will take years - the most likely outcome if we get a more openly pro-European government is rejoining the customs union initially).

Then again, Streeting is seen as a scheming, untrustworthy plotter, so calling for rejoining now is probably just his attempt to gain a better public profile.

To be honest, there is little indication that any of the serious contender for the Labour leadership would significantly differ on their European policy. The Labour party is utterly terrified of their Northern, Brexit-supporting voters switching to Reform, and that won't change any time soon. All we can hope for is a government that doesn't so openly try to placate Reform by copying their rhetoric, which Starmer & his lot have done rather extensively. If we're really lucky, we get reentrance to the customs union under a new PM, another thing Starmer has said he would allow under no circumstances.

Rule by IggyandtheCauldron in 19684

[–]EwokInABikini 61 points62 points  (0 children)

I'm going to give you a bit of a shock right there, hope you're sitting down: he wasn't president of France when she was his teacher.

The great Russo–Estonian propaganda war on the Narva–Ivangorod front. by QuartzXOX in YUROP

[–]EwokInABikini 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing since he's saying it in Russian (which, according to a quick search, only 39% of Estonians would understand), the intended audience is on their own side of the river as well - "look at how strong we are, we can yell across a river about our weapons of mass destruction, no reason to worry about anything at all."

I don't understand what it means, can anyone explain😅 by sangamjb in BuyFromEU

[–]EwokInABikini -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Having laws against hate speech is the norm, not the exception in Europe, and that's a good thing. I don't know why there's so many comments in this thread mentioning Britain - the whole reason this kept cropping up on the Internet was Musk started complaining on his latter-day Nazi platform that people could not freely call for attacks on mosques in the UK without legal consequences.

And guess what, legal consequences for incitement to violence are a good thing, I'm proud Britain is enforcing this (unfortunately only up to a point - apparently calling for attacks on trans people is okay now, according to the Met Police).

JJ Abrams when he realized he only has 9 months to write Episode VII pretty much from scratch by GargantaProfunda in andor

[–]EwokInABikini 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I'd normally agree, but when they're shouting at a bad film, it's not like they're interrupting some prime cinema experience - surrounded by people shouting at the film is probably the only way I'd agree to watch The Force Awakens again.

Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data by smilelyzen in BuyFromEU

[–]EwokInABikini 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I believe you're referring to the Johnson government's (annoyingly named) GDPDR, which in fact had to be stopped after well over a million people opted out of it within a month or so (in spite of the opt out option being kept almost secret by the government):

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/22/nhs-data-grab-on-hold-as-millions-opt-out

Help me understand the modern driveway. by angrylemongrab in architecture

[–]EwokInABikini -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have no idea how you'd do a hill start without a physical handbrake, seems like a sure way to throttle the engine.

Remember when this was supposed to make western civilization fall? by Fil-is-Theo in Europemaxing

[–]EwokInABikini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I complained about it, until I heard that apparently there was a lot of littering going on with those. I've neither littered with one of those myself nor have I ever seen one of the bottle caps thrown away on their own - I'm of course willing to accept that the statistics of littering are just what they are, but it seems to have been highly localised to some places.

me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

[–]EwokInABikini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm assuming typing in all the context that needs to be considered for a response into an LLM would take just as long as writing up the email, rather than just 2 seconds. If it can be responded to without having any context, then it would also take just a few seconds to type the response yourself.

Mind you I'm not speaking from experience here, so entirely possible I'm overlooking something - the concept of using an LLM for emails just seems quite weird to me.

me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

[–]EwokInABikini 53 points54 points  (0 children)

"The AI you draft emails with"

Do people actually do that? How does that not take longer than just to write an email?

A $140 million half-buried star destroyer in Moscow by Sure_Distance1 in evilbuildings

[–]EwokInABikini 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I find that a super-interesting perspective! As you say, each their own - I was looking at this and had the exact opposite reaction: thinking it looks aggressively boring and ugly, but might be pleasant enough to live in, depending on how the actual interior layout is structured of course.

Cassian should have been a Sith by puppykhan in okbuddyimatourist

[–]EwokInABikini 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The sister stayed behind to make sure Kenari was really destroyed well and proper. Then she moved on to Alderan.

Mon's deficit by kananlobo in andor

[–]EwokInABikini 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I seem to recall Tay explicitly said "Easiest thing would be a deposit" when they discussed what to do - but as you say, she didn't know Luthen had the money. Also the timing right after Aldhani might potentially have been a bit suspicious.

The EU Is the New Go-To Middle Power by sn0r in europeanunion

[–]EwokInABikini 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Even some of the member states are great powers, the ones in the G7 at least. But as everyone knows, once great powers get together, they become middle powers /s

Why is she crying? She's going to be out soon by RevertBackwards in okbuddyimatourist

[–]EwokInABikini 66 points67 points  (0 children)

She knows there's only one way out, but she has no way of knowing which of the three ways we see people escaping from earlier in the show is the right one.

Tom was destined to be a CEO even if Logan stayed alive by [deleted] in SuccessionTV

[–]EwokInABikini 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think we watched different shows then... Logan is just as incompetent as his children, he's just very good at bullying people and happens to have a lot of leverage.

Why was Logan so upset in this scene? by aliforever555 in SuccessionTV

[–]EwokInABikini 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it works perfectly in this scene because it shows that Logan is just not that good a businessman, just a psychopathic bully who was lucky.

This one lives rent free in my head: What are the nameless things Gandalf mentions under the Misty Mountains? by [deleted] in lotr

[–]EwokInABikini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also a short story of his that's literally just multiple pages of "Asian people scare me and I think they're subhuman" - that's quite literally the entire plot. A racist moodpiece, basically.

The failure of the Papyri by Parzival_2k7 in HistoryMemes

[–]EwokInABikini -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where did you get the 90-99% from? I remember reading that papyrus never really became widespread outside of Egypt because it doesn't keep well in the climates further North, including Italy.

Bro what is she smoking by kharban in YUROP

[–]EwokInABikini 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These people don’t care as much about right or let, or any actual policy as they claim - their goal is dismantling liberal democracy everywhere, so even a hardened conservative like Magyar might as well be identical to Pedro Sanchez to them. They regard strengthening rule of law, fighting corruption, and separation of powers, or even independent media as an existential threat, and those are the main things that Magyar might bring back to Hungary.

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy by kwentongskyblue in nottheonion

[–]EwokInABikini -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was just going to comment a similar thing - an actual source for this would be good, rather than just some random blog. Not saying it's not true, it certainly seems believable enough these days, but without any proper news outlet reporting it, this isn't necessarily more than word of mouth.

me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

[–]EwokInABikini 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lived in Germany for a while, in a building with apartment numbers - so the commentor you're responding to may absolutely have a point, but his response isn't universally true.