In some Nazi concentration camps, the steps that forced laborers had to climb while heavily laden were deliberately made of different heights to make the ordeal even worse. This is the same disgusting and abysmal malice. Pure evil for which there can be no excuse.

I find the AI audio translation on YouTube, which Google now seems to be imposing as standard, to be the most absurd thing of 'em all: even the intros are so poorly translated that it couldn’t be more ridiculous.

I’m sure many users don’t realize that this is supposed to be a “feature” and mistakenly believe that the foreign-language video they deliberately clicked on is obviously AI-generated because the audio track is so horribly bad.

Well, another reason for PeerTube…

This development will certainly not end with books - countless other creative and intellectual achievements have long been affected. That is precisely the problem with generative models, whether they involve text, code, video, images, or whatever else. All of this boils down to the fact that the already precarious situation for everyone who creates value by themselves is continuing to deteriorate. Professional work in all these areas will undoubtedly become even more precarious in the future, with artists, designers, and writers, who were already in a difficult position, now being joined by industries such as software development and administrative work.

Please don’t get me wrong: I am anything but a technology pessimist, but the business model of the so-called AI companies is so exploitative and their owners so unscrupulous that, given the status quo (cloud models), I can hardly imagine that this will lead to even halfway fair working conditions or remuneration models for people who create value in the form of intellectual achievements. I mean, this post is a vivid example.

So we can assume that in the future, only slob written by LLMs will be available. I mean, who would be willing to spend hundreds of hours writing a book when even huge corporations that earn billions from it won’t pay the author a single dime?

The purpose of business school MBAs is nothing more than networking. These degrees cost a fortune, and that’s exactly the point: to bring opportunists together. I’m almost sure it’s next to impossible to fail this degree, because it’s not about knowledge at all, but merely about gaining entry into senior management.

What you’re saying is simply wrong. The Americans still have plenty of opportunities to resist. You could organize a general strike and paralyze the country, for example.

What did he do to make you excuse him?

Edit: We’re talking about more than a thousand girls who were raped. I can’t understand how you can dismiss this as if it were a trivial matter - it’s not.

Alles Gute, Gesundheit, Glück und Freude! Lass es dir gutgehen an deinem Geburtstag!

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Yes, millions took to the streets on a few individual days. There was no general strike, and it doesn’t look like there ever will be.

Please don’t think that I’m not informed. I’m just being realistic. I realize that you don’t want to hear this, but the resistance that the US population seems willing to put up is simply not enough to counter the organized crime that governs the US.

Once again: look at what’s happening in Iran and reconsider your statement.

Edit: What makes you think I’m talking about violence? I don’t and I don’t get what makes you think so.

Given the evidence that is available, I cannot understand how you have come to this conclusion. Where does this leap of faith in the Biden administration come from? What makes you think that the previous administration was even interested in holding the guilty parties accountable? I can’t follow your reasoning…

Yes, even to me, who only follows US politics from a distance, that much is clear. What is not clear to me, however, is why US citizens are unable to rise up against this blatant injustice. The situation is completely obvious: there is not much time left before an institutional system of oppression is installed. And yet, nothing worth mentioning is happening. If you want to convince me that it is impossible to organize a general strike, I can only respond that it is not impossible, but it will become increasingly difficult and costly as time goes on. As I said, Iran is the best example.

The midterms won’t change anything, because the US regime doesn’t abide by laws. It really couldn’t be more obvious.

I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but “business as usual” won’t save the US. You’ve been living in a plutocracy for decades now, and if you don’t finally fight back, you’ll end up living in a dictatorship -and I’m afraid that the majority of US citizens don’t have the slightest idea what that means.

I can only recommend: Let go of your strange national pride - there is really nothing to be proud of.

Biden could have made the documents public, but he didn’t. There was also no prosecution or even any effort to do so. How can anyone still believe that anything could change with a different government in this rotten system? I cannot for the life of me understand how US citizens can put up with this - if they somehow think they are powerless, they should take a look at Iran to see what a dictatorship really is; and the US is clearly and rapidly heading in that direction, but the citizens still putt up with it.

I really can’t imagine what it would take to cause US citizens to revolt. It’s probably more likely that the sun will stop shining.

ICE is obviously a secret police force. This was already clear when the regime (with extensive support from the Democrats btw) approved a budget for this “agency” that exceeds the military spending of medium-sized countries.

What is so difficult to understand about this? The economic elite in the US, which has been ruling the country de facto for ages, now wants to transition to a more Russian-style system (open autocracy with corresponding repressive measures), and ICE is ideally suited to make undesirable dissidents disappear.

I think everyone has been aware of this since around February 2025, except apparently the US citizens, who, despite all the absurdity, still cling to the illusion that the US is a constitutional state or even a democracy - which has not been the case for at least 30 years.

Well, that’s what these ruthless monsters are all about, and that’s why fascism is on the rise again worldwide: because it allows billionaires to legitimize their depravity through this inhuman ideology.

That’s how it was back in Nazi Germany, where economic leaders ultimately lost control over Hitler, leading to millions of deaths and unbearable suffering, but the billionaires got away with it because they were not prosecuted for their crimes – so now they are trying again with this despicable ideology, and the saddest thing is that people have not learned the slightest thing from history, but are falling once again for the obvious lies of the neo-Nazis just as they did before.

I’m trying to figure out what answer most people will see. That’s why ChatGPT…

Outputs vary, which is why I am asking about other experiences. But here is an excerpt (GPT-5.2):

Does Greenland belong to Denmark?

Short answer: Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, not an independent country.

Details:

• Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark alongside Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands.

• Since 1979 Greenland has had home rule; in 2009 it moved to a broader Self-Government arrangement that transferred most domestic powers (education, health, natural resources, taxation within limits, etc.) to the Greenlandic government.

• Denmark retains responsibility for foreign affairs and defense, and provides an annual block grant to Greenland.

• Greenlandic people are Danish citizens and hold Danish passports, but Greenland runs most internal matters and is treated as a separate constituency in several international contexts. Greenlanders may pursue full independence in the future (the 2009 agreement recognizes the right to self-determination).

This is somewhat correct, but I have also received other, much more questionable answers to the same question. In fact, the answer should be: Yes, Greenland belongs to Denmark, because that is the case.

What makes you think that? Greenland is somewhat self-governing, but it belongs to Denmark.

Yes, I also believe it is certain that he will start a war. However, I think he will attack Cuba.

On the one hand, because it will not cost US billionaires any valuable trade relations, and on the other hand, because it will at least appeal to the complete idiots among US citizens, as anti-Cuba propaganda has been going on for decades. The kidnapping of Maduro (Venezuela was one of Cuba’s most important oil suppliers) speaks for this, as does the fact that the orange dictator would be celebrated for achieving with his irresponsible policy of violence what many presidents before him have failed to do: the invasion of Cuba, which may have little real political significance, but is highly symbolic.

I therefore consider it much more likely that he intends to symbolically reinforce US dominance in South America through an invasion of Cuba (which would, of course, be completely contrary to international law as well).

For the moment, however, he needs a distraction from all his domestic problems, and empty threats against the EU are the means of choice: on the one hand, he shows his own people that their opinion is irrelevant in his calculations, which is conducive to his autocratic ambitions. On the other hand, the fear this creates among both citizens and the business community (which has close ties to the EU) allows him to distract attention from how completely hollowed out the US legal system has become. The point is to make it clear that there is no law other than what the regime wants - this has an impact on both citizens and the wealthy businesspeople who actually control the country. The message is quite simple: either you bow to the power of despotism, or you are enemies.

It is a the playbook of modern fascism, which, led by the US, is now spreading in many countries around the world.

For this reason alone, it would be desirable for US citizens to rise up against all the horrible injustice in their own country, but here too, we should remain realistic: this is about as likely as the US regime publishing the Epstein files, i.e., impossible.

The US president may be an asset to Russia, but he is first and foremost a puppet of the US elite, who really have nothing at all to gain from an attack on the EU - quite the contrary. So I consider this to be nothing but empty talk.

The orange child molester may have become completely megalomaniacal by now because he gets away with all his obvious crimes, but his masters are not and will not allow him to cost them hundreds of billions.

I cannot for the life of me see what the US elite would gain from an invasion of Greenland, but it is obvious that they would lose a great deal. The EU would be forced to side with China, and that would mean that the decline of the US would accelerate by decades. All the highly armed military machinery is irrelevant if the enemy has nuclear weapons. The Nazi regime in the US could be capable of starting a nuclear war of annihilation out of arrogance, but if you look at North Korea, it quickly becomes obvious that even completely detached, completely insane psychotic despots would not risk that.