The funny part is that Russia literally did it first, they occupied Poland for 123 years. Then Poland was reformed after WW1, along with Lithuania. Then of course the Russians attacked Poland 2 years after it was reformed / independent, and got their teeth kicked in so hard, they had to wait 20 years to try again and ally with Nazi Germany to succeed.

So they invaded Poland to get back at the US? Like they invaded Poland in 1920 when they got their ass handed to them by a newly sovereign country? Just like they are doing now to Ukraine?

Nope, you are “just” whatabouting.

So “abandon Ukraine and your other long term allies in favour of China, for no reason”, got it.

“whatabout”.

Why did Russia league in with Nazi Germany to start World War 2?

They got plenty of answers and in return get insults from you. So people don’t bother anymore, you are just one of the hundreds of tankies on this site that will completely deny truth and try to twist the narrative.

Compared to before, no, there aren’t. There has been an ongoing genocide since the tsarist times, that the soviet union “finished”. Thousands of people completely relocated. That’s why people are “wary” of Russia - because it is a genocidal state since time immemorial.

“EU dislodging itself” would be better, but US being bogged down in Ukraine would still be good. So why would they help Ukraine in that case? Or are you suggesting we abandon Ukraine?

China is absolutely bullying the EU. Otherwise they wouldn’t be supporting the greatest threat to the EU.

And there it is, everything is NATOs fault. If only we gave everything to Russia, the world would be saved.

Tell me, why are there no more Tatars in Crimea?

So “if Europe caves to the bully, joins the side that is actively supporting its enemy that invaded a sovereign country, maybe China will see a benefit and do something countrary to their interest and work towards peace in Ukraine”. Have you even thought how your post sounds? If it is beneficial to keep the war in Ukraine going, why would they “switch sides”? The US would still be “bogged down” in Ukraine even if the EU started better relations with China. So either we would totally need to cut off Ukraine (in which case Russia wins) or China would magically do something that’s completely stupid from their POV.

Kewl. If only there wasn’t a country that invaded another country on our borders, that openly talks about invading even more, fucking about with our utilities and using spies, the internet and sabotage to fuck around even more.

A comfy life needs to be secured with military might, like it or not. Otherwise you get assholes in shitholes trying to forcefully take it from you. Rome knew that, the US knows that, the EU knows this (otherwise it wouldn’t exist - since it is made to increase bargaining power and contains mutual defense clauses).

So until Russia stops being a militaristic shithole that invades its neighbors and starts building those schools, power plants, hospitals and highways, we need to spend taxes on military. And yes, Russia is a threat - Georgia shown us, 2014 has shown us, 2022 has shown us.

Everything is skewed, even the measured studies. Most insecure people won’t go to a literal dick measuring contest. Which means even the measured ones trend “upwards” of the actual average.

It is 100% about killing rich people. Also why guillotines are talked about in the context. I don’t know why you are trying to spin it any other way.

Yes, it is valid to say “limit AI usage”, that’s not what this conversation is about. It is about people saying “I don’t need to limit AC because AI uses so much so why should I bother”.

I’m generalizing for people who don’t know how long it takes or how much power it uses. The point is a 3.2kW AC will take a lot more power than a PC generating a picture, going further, training the model will take less power than the millions of ACs people use and try to justify as “but AI uses power, and so can I!”

That’s your opinion. Fact is that AI is used worldwide by lots of people to great success. It doesn’t work everywhere, it isn’t “a tool to end all tools”, but saying AI is worthless when using air conditioning isn’t, is straight up false, especially if you take into account how much power is used by people / businesses using AC and how much power is used by AI.

Yes, yes you will. But you (and other people like you) running your AC contributes more power draw than the boogeyman AI does. The point is “limit your AC usage” is valid and saying “but but but AI!!!” isn’t.

Yes, and you do the training once, and then millions of people use it. And it also isn’t “thousands of hours”. Compare that to AC - where each home runs a 3.2kW device that runs for hours, times a million people. It comes nowhere close.

You are not recalling it correctly.