Eupolemos

Yup.

I read it just before Cyberpunk came out, just to know some more history of what I was stepping into. I was completely flabbergasted by how modern it felt to me.

I don't have the patience to read much anymore unless it is real good. I ate that one, more than once. And the others.

I find it interesting that what the author arrives at is the OODA loop.

The final form became: understand → act → inspect → clarify → adjust → act again

But he says that "understand" isn't really fitting (or something like that), so we are at: act → inspect → clarify → adjust → act again

That can be understood as "observe, orient, adjust, act" - but with other words.

That is the method to use when you are IN the sh*t rather than removed from it and making some theoretical plan.

I thoroughly enjoyed the read <3

Democratic populations have feelings towards each other, including friendship.

There are plenty of nations I feel my nation has friendships with - if they were bullied, we'd stand up for them on pure reaction.

Not everything is interests. People are people.

Eh, you can split us Europeans up into two camps; those who do not want to see the problem and those who couldn't look away.

The second camp saw the craziness when the later Bush was elected a second time.

> The Youtuber has an axe to grind

It is Anders Puck Nielsen who is a serious military researcher and commentator. He is a go-to by any television channel in Denmark and has been from the start of the war.

He very much passes the smell test :)

> They abandoned their armies because the continent outsourced defense spending/industry to the United States and Russia following WWII.

We outsourced our defense spending to Russia?

Are you incapable of embarrassment over your own level of ignorance?

No.

> The moral dimension is also completely illusory. Ukraine is fighting a war of attrition that's funding is due to the same cold-hearted power politics that Russia subscribes to.

Blatant gaslighting. Ukraine is defending against an invasion. Russia has said it wants to go further and take what it can of Europe, states that the Baltics aren't countries and threatens us all with nukes on a daily basis.

In Europe we defend ourselves by funding Ukraine.

It is super simple; Russia attacks when it is strong enough and takes what it can.

We tried living in peace, we believed in it. We basically got rid of our armies in Europe, since everybody knows how to live in peace. Except Russia.

We will not make that mistake again.

I'm sorry - you're saying that having a public opinion on another person's opinion is against the plurality of opinion?

Being on the backfoot will make us vulnerable to those who are not.

I do not understand how this can not be self evident.

These years, knowing what is tongue-in-cheek can be very difficult.

Many of us see the current US administration as being either real life modern nazis or heavily influenced by such.

So I was wondering; are you being serious?

What power?

Economic power (US will no longer be the world reserve currency).

The power of allies (see Trump begging for help in Hormuz).

All the soft power it ever had.

That is a very broad and silly position to take, especially in this thread.

I use Devstral 2 and Gemini 3 daily.

Why are you talking price when we are talking local AI?

That doesn't make any sense to me. Am I missing something?

Perhaps some added details would be nice?

In Nuuk they have had 11 degrees celsius. January has been, on average, 8 degrees above the norm. They are having the highest temperatures since 1784.

It is warmer in Greenland than in Denmark.

They now have to close down ski-slopes in Greenland.

We all have in Europe and the US - but it too is a sign of harsh climate change, because the reason it is cold "down here" on our latitudes is that the arctic is super hot, pushing the cold down to us.