Dedollarization would happen.

It will be painful for countries which are vulnerable and ill prepared.

I honestly think there’s a good chance it will happen soon. Trump is speed running “how to dismantle the US power and influence in one presidential term”.

I am convinced he is a total Putin puppet and the only reason it doesn’t always seem that way, is to be able to deny those allegations.

I haven’t been beaten in an argument.

You are trying to lecture people on a historical genocide while whitewashing and denying a genocide that is happening before our very eyes.

That is truly sickening and not healthy. And it actually hurts people who are now dying and starving.

And you’re a Nazi, just against brown people instead of Jews.

Same shit, different victims.

I didn’t say that Holocaust wasn’t that bad, that’s you being racist.

Go up three comments to read the full context. Like a normal human.

Dude, I never said the Holocaust ain’t bad.

You’re just a racist projecting your beliefs on others

I have chatbots with better reading comprehension than this.

Don’t cherry pick and misquote dude.

This whole discussion is in the context that, in Germany and the Western world, the Holocaust is positioned as the worst thing that ever happened. And the Nazi’s as uniquely evil.

That’s the propaganda we are arguing against.

Did I say the slave trade was an industrial genocide?

You are cherry picking parameters to try and make the Holocaust some kind of unique tier of atrocity.

In the same time frame 20 million Slavs died.

On certain islands in the Caribbean, 100% of the native population was murdered and displaced, which is more than 90%.

Yes, there are certain aspects of the Holocaust that are unique, but it is not in a unique tier by itself. There are many metrics that make other atrocities worse.

I also don’t know exactly what the next step is.

Obviously, protesting and civil disobedience.

Looking at historical precedents, I also think targeted sabotage should be part of it. Nothing like the Reichstag fire or the assassination of Ernst vom Rath that would fuel a civil war.

In WW2, our resistance performed targeted sabotage on (for example) rail lines, pipelines and electrical networks that did not hurt anyone, but which did weaken the German war effort.

One big disadvantage compared to WW2 is the massive surveillance state.

During slavery there was also the underground railroad. I would definitely set up a system like that to bring targeted activists to Canada. You really don’t want to lose your intelligentsia. Let them provide resistance from Canada.

I hope others have better ideas on effective tactics though.

Yes, there has been. Neonazi propaganda is bad, but so is Zionist propaganda

The transatlantic slave trade put 12 million people on ships from Africa to the Americas. 2 million died and 10 million lived awful lives no better than that of the Jews in concentration camps.

Once you add their descendents (we don’t know the total number) we have 10s to 100s of millions of people living in work camps for 20 generations spanning 350 years.

Never has there been any compensation paid to descendants of slavery. Even today, there is still compensation paid to descendants of Holocaust victims, and the time difference between the end of slavery and the Holocaust is less than that between the Holocaust and today.

And it’s not just this one. Germany more or less ignores the genocide it committed in Namibia.

Even when it comes to WW2, the focus is always on the 6 million Jews and not the 20 million Slavs. Even though Slavs are a more homogeneous ethnic group than Jews. It was just inconvenient during the cold war to see the USSR and its citizens as a victim worthy of compensation.

And then finally, this live streamed genocide in Gaza. Which in some respects is worse than the Holocaust, even if the absolute number is lower.

My grandparents were resistance fighters in WW2. They knew Jews were being picked up and sent to camps, and they saved a few from that fate, but they didn’t know the truth about Auschwitz until after the war. The images were not publicly available in occupied Europe. They were shocked. And the same is true for most Germans. The Nazi’s never had popular democratic support for the war and genocide.

But in Gaza, we can all see it. It is being denied, while being live streamed. The Israeli’s, Americans and the Germans can see the starving kids in Gaza and still provide popular democratic support to its continuation.

The Germans of WW2 never reached that level of moral depravity, only a few Nazi’s did.

For one, we already give it away. The biggest customers of ASML are not European as it is.

Second, it will bring in billions for the European economy and it will allow ASML to better hold its leading position in the long-term, since China won’t need to compete with ASML. That’s beneficial for the European economy

Third, how does it hurt us?

If the USA is gonna be a prick, then I propose we give Russia and China EUV technology in exchange for peace in Ukraine.

Bibi is hoping the hostages all die soon in a way that the blame isn’t put on him.

Then he can proceed with his final solution.

Zionists really are the Nazi’s of our time.

That’s how they always do it.

It’s usually terrorism, sometimes treason. But there is always an unproven accusation of some heinous crime, which is why most people will just accept it, because “it only affects the criminals”. And it is also how they motivate their henchmen to do the dirty work.

Communists and Jews in Nazi-Germany were accused of causing millions of Germans to die in WW1 and of causing poverty in the depression through exploitation. And this is why the Nazi henchmen worked diligently to get rid of the Jews, because they had lost family members in WW1 and lived through Depression poverty and they wanted to help their country become great again by getting rid of all the undesirables.

Of course, I totally agree with that

If that email needs to go to a client or stakeholder, then our culture won’t accept just the prompt.

Where it really shines is translation, transcription and coding.

Programmers can easily double their productivity and increase the quality of their code, tests and documentation while reducing bugs.

Translation is basically perfect. Human translators aren’t needed. At most they can review, but it’s basically errorless, so they won’t really change the outcome.

Transcribing meetings also works very well. No typos or grammar errors, only sometimes issues with acronyms and technical terms, but those are easy to spot and correct.

It is definitely here to stay, but the hype of AGI being just around the corner is definitely not believable. And a lot of the billions being invested in AI will never return a profit.

AI is already a commodity. People will be paying $10/month at max for general AI. Whether Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Llama, ChatGPT, copilot or Deepseek. People will just have one cheap plan that covers anything an ordinary person would need. Most people might even limit themselves to free plans supported by advertisements.

These companies aren’t going to be able to extract revenues in the $20-$100/month from the general population, which is what they need to recoup their investments.

Specialized implementations for law firms, medical field, etc will be able to charge more per seat, but their user base will be small. And even they will face stiff competition.

I do believe AI can mostly solve quite a few of the problems of an aging society, by making the smaller pool of workers significantly more productive. But it will not be able to fully replace humans any time soon.

It’s kinda like email or the web. You can make money using these technologies, but by itself it’s not a big money maker.

Agreed. Algorithms, bots and fake news work together to create and perpetuate harmful narratives.

I think the DMA has the right idea and it should be extended. Any platform with a large user base should be heavily regulated and controlled.

We can still have mostly unregulated and uncensored free speech on small platforms, since those aren’t harmful for our democracy.

Also, a lot of people, myself included, make it a point to go to the bathroom before swimming.

And I don’t usually consume food or drinks until I am (almost) done with swimming. A four hour stretch of just recreational swimming and chilling is easy without food or drink.