Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

It seems highly unlikely.

Oh, I see, so you misunderstood the title of the article. Honestly though that would be AWESOME for real. It would make for a good party name or something, too.

In Norwegian it is known as Landsorganisasjonenthe National Organization iin NorgeNorway, hence the abbreviation LO.

(By the way, in case anybody doesn’t get my reference, it’s “My N@zi Roommate” by Atun-Shei Films)

During his inauguration speech, [Trump] referred to the U.S. as a growing nation expanding its territory.

“Yo, Klaus, what is this?”

“It is the natural Order. My Beer requires enough Territory to support its Population.”

“Dude, make some room in there, I just got some Soft Parade for my friend in Michigan and I want it to be cold by tonight.”

“That’s not going to happen.”

“Excuse me??”

“German Beer is superior both in Taste and Culture. It must be allowed enough Territory to survive and to thrive, lest less civilized Beers, which are more energetic, take their Place. A Day will come when the Fridge is dominated by the Laws of Nature, and Nature favors those Beers which are of a more brutal Vim. It is only right that the strong and the pure should dominate, and not every Beer has a Right to exist.”

“Are we… still talking about beer?”

“Of course we are. What else would we be talking about? — Besides, your Pisswater has its Place, in the Back, where it belongs.”

“OK man, well um… I gotta go do some work.”

“Auf Wiedersehen.”

The article itself seems to be saying that this “defense boost” was something Denmark was already planning on doing, and Trump’s remark really just coincidentally came just before they actually signed off on it. The Danish defense minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, called the timing an “irony of fate”.

The article describes the boost as encompassing the following:

1. Two new inspection ships.
2. Two new long-range drones.
3. Two new dog sled teams.
4. Increased staffing at Arctic Command.
5. Upgrades to a civilian airport to be able to handle supersonic fighter jets.

It’s worth noting that the Arctic Command carries out a lot of tasks other than just defense per se, and as SoyViking pointed out, Danish military buildup in Greenland is largely due to anti-Russian paranoia rather than anything to do with Seppoland.

A “small invasion” of Mexico, Canada as the 51st state is a “great idea”, controlling Greenland is an “absolute necessity”, and he also wants the Panama Canal to return to US control to boot. Is our big wet boy trying to, like, speedrun expansionism?

Holy Hell, who could’ve possibly seen this coming!

It makes my blood boil. I can practically feel the drool of capitalist ghouls salivating at the thought of forcing a third world war — they can barely conceal their glee about their own profits and the preservation of their dictatorship through words about a “deteriorating security situation” even though they brought that “deterioration” upon themselves.

And now, it seems, the capitalist ghouls will convince people that risks are more real than they are, by building bunkers, and mailing pamphlets, and putting aircraft carriers in our harbors, and tripling the number of American military bases in Norway, and doing military exercises in the middle of dense urban centers, et cetera et cetera et cetera. The people of Europe generally trust their governments still, so they would see all of these things happening around them and assume that it must be for “a good reason”, right? Because it would be an awful lot of effort to just be “theater”, right?

Thus when the people are trusting of their own government, they are easily scared; and when the naïve are terrified, they’re more willing to accept this sort of absolute nonsense, the idea of a “preemptive strike” in this case, which will surely trigger or bring us within inches of a third world war.

“For the sake of security” — Give me a break!

I’ve tried to look into what the Rome Statute says about non-cooperation, and historical cases of this happening, and it really would seem like the Statute’s “mechanism” against non-cooperation is just a complete dead-end. So states “obligated” to respect arrest warrants can just ignore their obligations and nothing will happen to them whatsoever. Sasuga.

This is such a fucking scam, Jesus Christ. No wonder my immediate response to this news was “That was a lot sooner than I expected!” — no, it’s still gonna be a long time yet before the Brits and Seps will actually concede their rule of Diego Garcia in any meaningful way. This agreement is as good as toilet paper.

I wonder when Lalit is gonna make a statement about this agreement.

John Kirby’s just trying to figure out whether or not he’s become a real boy yet.

“…also every 39 minutes they stab your balls”

구글, 조선으로 어떻게 이주하나요?

My friend, you’re on the fediverse and saying that a single website would be the best way to achieve this. I think that decentralization such as federation or peer-to-peer would be a much better way to achieve a pirate’s utopia, because the decentralized approach guarantees that even if one part falls, the whole will remain.

That aside, if I can talk about “What other features would make the ideal file sharing site?” — for a pirate video streaming site in particular, my number one feature would easily be community-contributed subtitles. In the list of subtitle tracks, each track would have two checkboxes, one for text and the other for TTS (this would be used for audio description and makeshift voice-over dubs). For rarer languages without reliable TTS, users would be encouraged to submit voice recordings, which might be anonymized with AI to sound like the TTS voice.

Subtitling would be done with a danmaku-esque system, so that people can choose to contribute just a few pieces here and there and wait for other contributors or continue later, rather than just one person needing to subtitle everything. Users might be able to rate subtitle tracks based on quality and completeness, too. A system of upvotes and downvotes on individual subtitles, as well as both manual and automated moderation, would prevent abuse.