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  • 💯%. the US was heavily isolationist at the start of WWII, and pretty anti-Semitic. for example, the St. Louis, a boat full of Jewish refugees, was turned away from the US and Canada in 1939 - and turned back to Europe, with many Jews eventually imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. there were also the blackshirts in the UK, who were pro-Nazi, and PM Chamberlain had a peace treaty drawn up with Hitler. and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the Soviets, of course.

    so if the Nazis had been content to murder only German, Austrian and Czech Jews, they would have gotten away with it.

    on the other hand, Nazi ideology (e.g. "lebensraum" and their belief in the destiny of the Aryan race to conquer the "inferior" races) drove them to war, to invade Poland and to break their pact with the Soviets. and they also spent tons of resources on the Holocaust, at the expense of their military.

    so basically yeah, isolationist Nazis would have totally survived, but otoh Nazis aren't isolationists.

  • yeah, they could have been like Belarus!

  • I support NATO, in the sense that if NATO dissolved Europe would get eaten like a three-course meal by Russia. Ukraine shows that all too clearly. it has many problems, though.

  • Czechia seems like it'd be pretty based. or Estonia. I like Central/Eastern Europe. or maybe Thailand.

  • ngl kinda glad Trump banned trans people from the military. I can't get drafted! 🥲

  • save it up and you can spin it into yarn. great for making mittens, hats, scarfs and baby sweaters.

  • I'm looking forward to fucktons of individual suits absolutely slamming the courts every time an EO is issued. crowdfund the filing fees. turn petitions into copypasta. DDoS the Court system. they literally asked for this.

  • friendship ended with Raytheon. now Rhinemetall is my best friend.

  • Why would he push NATO countries to increase their defense spending target by 150% if he was planning on actually invading?

    Trump isn't planning to invade NATO (except maybe Greenland.) he's planning to leave NATO. NATO exists to protect the Western world, and its highly interconnected economies. it's a globalist project, and the US's role as de-facto leader of NATO gave us the ability to project tremendous soft military power, the same way the dollar lets us project soft economic power.

    MAGA are isolationists. NATO protects "the West," but Trump doesn't care about the West, only America. so what if Putin carves up Europe? has Europe even said "thank you?" they're screwing us over, just look at the trade deficit! that's the logic.

  • the neutrino was estimated to at 220 PeV. goodness!

  • the amount of consumer goodwill that statement bought easily pays for any losses from the hotdogs. companies seem hellbent on torching their brand reputation for short-term gains these days. little gestures go a long way.

  • if they existed they'd be killer for RL. RL is insanely unstable when the distribution shifts as the policy starts exploring different parts of the state space. you'd think there'd be some clean approach to learning P(Xs|Ys) that can handle continuous shift of the Ys distribution in the training data, but there doesn't seem to be. just replay buffers and other kludges.

  • I have no clue what to do. I'm American. I'm trans. I voted for Harris. I live in a blue state. I've gone to protests. I've talked to state senators about legislation. I've canvassed. I've talked to Trump supporters and tried to get them to change their minds.

    it all feels totally useless. nothing I've done has had any effect. my own mom voted for Trump three times. it's like being chained to an anvil and thrown overboard. I'm swimming but I'm still drowning.

  • I'll just have a cup of rain, thanks.

  • Technology Connections did a video on this rule.

    regular US outlets are 120V. regular EU outlets are 240V. P=VI, so to produce the same amount of power as a 240V kettle, a 120V kettle needs to draw twice as much current.

    the gauge of a wire determines how much current it can carry without setting insulation on fire. home outlets are typically wired for 15A, around the world. so in EU, 15A service can deliver twice as much power since that's 15A of current at 240V = 3.6kW, while in the US at 120V = 1.8kW.

    so EU kettles are twice as powerful, typically.

  • I actually don't. :) it's the first thing I disable on my phone. I only capitalize "I" specifically, and proper nouns.

    again though, my issue is one with producing the Unicode character of the specific em-dash glyph. maybe some phones automatically convert dashes to em-dashes based on context but I personally wouldn't know how it's done.

  • no no, you misunderstand. I'm not talking about the verbal flourish of dashes for interjection - I use those all the time, in this very sentence - I'm specifically talking about producing the specific Unicode character (—) instead of just using the normal ASCII dash (-). the only way I can make the actual em-dash character is by long-pressing. if I do -- or ---, it's just a sequence of normal dash glyphs for me.

  • I buy all my groceries from Omega Mart, like a normal person.

  • I use dashes all the time, but em-dashes? I don't even know how to type those. I guess I could long-press the dash on my phone and select it, but... why?