unless they're literally just been lying they've been struggling really badly to do this, they constantly keep missing their production targets by a ton (in artillery shells particularly but i remember reading about them missing it in other areas too). i will believe they have ramped up military production to a reasonable degree after i see it and not a moment before.
They plan to turn it into their war factory for the coming war with Russia and/or China and I do think that within the next 3 years they'll have that capacity operational and be able to use it against China or Russia and it will be significant in the amount of production capacity it will give them and the ability it will give the west to stay in a long fight.
placing your fancy new arm production facilities (even underground ones) within striking range of Russia's missiles while planning to go to war against them again would be so stupid i struggle to imagine even the dumbest among the ruling class would entertain the idea
as long as youre not uber paranoid/dont need public moderated groups ala a conferencing program like discord, i strongly strongly recommend deltachat, i deleted the account that wrote it but i love this app so much i wrote like a 1k+ word review/advertisement on it a month or 2 ago lol
that's true yeah. although part of it is that i have a remarkably good memory for random bits of info about people (drives me insane if i meet someone there's a better chance ill remember some random thing they told me rather than their name next time i see them), which makes it easier to idenitfy a hb user when i remember something more unique about them and notice them mentioning or even just posting in a subreddit pertaining to that unique thing
like i said though there are people i can recognize on style alone such as pluto/makan and it would take conscious effort for someone like her to disguise an account lol
people most often believe what they want to believe so what this says to me is that even though he is very smart, he wants to believe we have figured out/are on the very cusp of figuring out GAI so he is much more inclined to take evidence that suggests that supports what he wants to believe (OMG LOOK THEY PASSED THE TURING TEST!?!?!?) at face value rather than thinking about whether the turing test is actually even a valid way of determining this kind of thing or not.
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recognizing hb users on other sites is always fun lol, of course some are much easier than others (for instance, pluto/makan is literally the easiest person to track across the entire internet, stg she could make an account on any site in existence and i'd recognize her within like 3 posts)
the criticism i have of people on hb (and the rest of the internet this isnt remoltely a hb only problem) isnt that i think people think he's lenin 2.0, it's that if you give criticisms of him no matter how gentle, people come in and "crashout", they immediately assume you're calling him a lib like AOC, they will act as if you said things you didnt actually say, etc etc etc. In particular i said this was an example of "libbing out" because i thought it was quite clear what the top level comment was saying and people were acting like they were saying something really weird/stupid when the statement is filled with language that is used to performatively protest against trump. by blue maga dems. i guess i could just start copy pasting shit and just start arguing with 4 people at once but imo that is actual wrecker behavior plus not worth my time so i just left a generic comment summarizing their comments as "libbing out" to let the top level user know that i thought everyone responding to make fun of them was "libbing out"
great another example of what i said in another thread, literally cant make the single lightest bit of criticism about him on the internet rn, i havent even claimed that this is of any actual significance anywhere , it's just a very mild criticsm that i dont think socialists should be putting out statements that sound like they were written by a blue maga dem, and instead you're coming in and claiming that i think that mamdani's victory isnt a win for a left
What would happen if he still crossed the border, made it to Belgium after hoofing it a few kilometers and proved his EU citizen status? Are Belgian authorities going to turn him over to Germany, nullifying any prospects of challenging the EC directly or seeking asylum elsewhere?
im unsure tbh, it sounds viable but then again the whole thing is barbaric so maybe they would actually just send him back to germany?
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one of my recent accounts had an even more pertinent username lol