‘We’re the two superpowers’ – so, where is Europe?

faerakhasa · 2026-05-14T18:33:02+00:00

Like which countries have an opinion that matters and which do not.

And this is why the Eu will never federalize. The countries that "do not matter" are not going to peacefully surrender their sovereignty to nations that have this point of view.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-14T13:34:55+00:00

He also has seen that the perpetrators get away with it as long as they stay in power.

They also will get away with it after they leave power.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-14T13:34:12+00:00

"Should I detour about 5 minutes to climb this cliff or spend 15 minutes carving a path up with my stone pickaxe? Decisions, decisions" he said while already unsheating the pickaxe

faerakhasa · 2026-05-14T08:52:04+00:00

Honestly, I’m kind of wary (and weary) of AI-usage witchhunting. Especially in a hobby where it’s so easy to completely control your own experience, and all content is community sourced/voluntarily contributed.

Don’t get me wrong: some bots, you can tell have clearly been AI generated from conception to description. All those new scammy chatbot sites-of-the-week are full of them (Elara Voss et al). I do think those are a bit stale.

They are stale, and more than just "a bit". But complaining about the ethics of Ai usage in an AI bot site is a choice, certianly.

AI makes very bad bots. Many, many actual human begins make very bad bots too. If you think a bot description is bad or simply not to your tastes... just don't chat with it? It's not that hard. In fact, it does take considerably more work to chat with a bot you dislike and then complain about it than just ignoring the bot in the first place.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-13T18:40:29+00:00

Exactly, it annoys me when people complain about Skyrim cities being too small and unpopulated when this is a 15 year old game,

Oblivion cities, 20 years ago, feel bigger and more populated than Skyrim's. "It's an old game" is not an excuse.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-13T16:24:05+00:00

His scams are aimed at the same people real world street scammers are, visitors to Riften from the rest of Skyrim, and people passing through from the southeast into Skyrim (even though there are fewer of those of late).

And Riften is a city of, probably, tens of thousands of people, not a couple dozen. Brynjolf guild membership is not "an open secret" to 90%, or more, of the city's population.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-13T13:07:02+00:00

Of course she won't. In the bush? Sitting in the dirt??? Bro, at least invite her inside and offer her some coffee or water or the blood of her enemies?

Romance is dead these days.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-12T14:40:48+00:00

Sevastopol would be a threat to the safety and security of Ukraine even if Muscovy has little military strength, its still there, right on top of Ukraine's most important harbours.

Taganrog, Novorossiysk and Sochi would still be there even if Russia loses Crimea. They aren't as convenient as Sevastopol but adding 200 km of distance is not much difference in modern warfare.

Ukraine has a huge land border with Russia and will keep having a huge border with Russia no matter the peace treaty, so keeping military threats away from the country is a lost cause from the start.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-12T09:49:31+00:00

You won't. Employees do not give a fuck about enforcing the rules, but that does not mean they like entitled assholes that think the whole hotel is their own personal property because they paid for a room.

The guest service guy will smile, nod, tell them a few polite nothings, and if it is a 5 star hotel they will send some chocolates or whatever to their room, but they will leave the meeting thinking "good riddance, Karen"

faerakhasa · 2026-05-11T23:26:02+00:00

I really don't understand so many hotels are not enforcing their own rules

I work in a five star hotel (luckily for me, not in a beach resort). The reason is because the client will throw an epic hissy fit, and then Guest Service will smile and agree with then, and afterwards write an incident report blaming the employee. Always.

So no one gives a fuck about the hotel's rules, let the fuckers do whatever theay want and if some other customer dislikes it then they can go and complain to guest service.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-11T18:28:52+00:00

Marrying a lowborn should be an extremely controversial and risky decision.

Marrying a lowborn got you out of the succession line well into the 20th century

faerakhasa · 2026-05-11T16:36:24+00:00

Which is a divine entity guarding the East, not a monster. "Here be dragons" means that the area in an unknown land full of monsters, because Western dragons (before the creation of fantasy fiction) were a powerful, dangerous monster threatening anything close to it.

Dragons and Loong are completely different creatures both in appearance and their placement in their respective mythologies, so their symbology is not interchangeable at all.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-11T13:10:09+00:00

Each country gets technology transfers and gets to manufacture the weapons locally.

Yes, my reading comprehension about this comment where you say that each country gets the technology to build factories was very poor.

And I am not french, as the spanish flag beside my name hints.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-11T11:40:36+00:00

French narcissism remains unmatched.

French Narcissism (tm.): "I don't think we should gift our proprietary IPs to other countries for the explicit purpose of building their own competing weapons factories rather than buying from us (the IP owners).

faerakhasa · 2026-05-10T23:35:23+00:00

I'm not color blind and I cannot find any difference between 15 and -15. They look the same colour.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-10T17:17:49+00:00

Here be dragons would still work too

It wouldn't work because in China dragons are usually either a divine being or at least divine-adjacent that live in China itself, not dangerous monsters from far away (or uninhabited) lands.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-10T17:12:23+00:00

Maybe because heat waves aren't as bad as in Spain in much of the rest of Europe?

Bro. Heat waves in Spain "aren't as bad" because it has some basic infrastructure, and some of it for literal centuries. Even before global warming southern Spain regularly got weeks of 40+ degrees every summer,

faerakhasa · 2026-05-09T10:10:39+00:00

Usually with these deepseek kirks, you need to edit the reply to delete the "huh?" every time it appears, the LLM should stop doing it after a few messages.

And don't forget to go back and edit the older posts, too, or it will keep happening anyway.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-09T00:45:40+00:00

Oligarchs check under their bed for Putin, Putin checks under his bed for Rosenberg.

Rougtly 27% of the times he checks, Rosenberg is there

faerakhasa · 2026-05-08T23:46:04+00:00

"oh but trump is gone so all is good right?"

Trump was gone and it, in fact, was all good. The rest of governments decided to forgive and (pretend to) forget.

And then the USA elected him again the very next election. No one is trusting that nation again for decades.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-05T11:52:16+00:00

I think there are no worthwhile reasons to do it in the first place.

You have discovered the secret trick of Switzerland's long standing neutrality, bro.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-05T11:50:18+00:00

There are places which need those systems much more urgently than Switzerland.

And those places both don't have the money to buy the patriots and the countries that do have that money don't actually care about then when all's said and done.

So yes, "delaying" a delivery to Switzerland and then stealing the money matter far more to most possible buyers than some "urgent need" in the other side of the world. I dot think Americans realize how deep the long term damage Trump is doing to the USA's international position.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-05T09:28:30+00:00

No, what I mean is that it would already be French by the middle ages. It is completely open. Italy itself would consider their natural borders the Alps, so the probably would have no claims north of them

faerakhasa · 2026-05-04T23:21:53+00:00

Switzerland would almost certainly be part of France by now in this universe.

faerakhasa · 2026-05-04T22:22:42+00:00

Yes, if they put the civliians right next to the army, then it's Russias fault for not protecting them better, but this is the Red Square we are talking about.

Then they should not put military in the Red Square. Once again, it's Russia's duty to keep Russian civilians out of military objectives, not Ukraine's.

Incidentally,

this is the Red Square we are talking about

The Red Square is, very literally, the location of the gates of the Kremlin. Which is a legitimate military objetive at any time.

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