the collector and the seller know

So you have never bought or inherited an old collection - large boxes rather than single books? “Going to sort them later…” :)

It is not only critique. There’s much more in it. For example, there are lots of suggestions how to do it better, in many different aspects. This thing hasn’t been written in an hour.

I would assume that every serious collector of books, everybody who has more than a few shelves full, has not read all of them.

Article 5 doesn’t actually oblige NATO members

I do not share your interpretation (although I know that it has been the popular one recently).

I read it like this:

1. The obligation is out of any question: they “will” assist.

2. The goal of all measures is defined: “restore […] peace and security”.

3. The choice of measures isn’t totally free. It must fit to that goal.

So, yes they can decide whether or not no use force, but they cannot follow random political agendas there.

And not fold paper airplanes instead of real ones :)

Greenland is not a nato member

That’s like saying your right arm isn’t a human.

Greenland is simply a part of Denmark, so it is a NATO member.

USA itself would violate it’s own membership. With such an act it became the enemy of the NATO.

P.S. Volunteers needed for the Mars mission as well.

Are you saying Harley drivers are fair game?

so it won’t show up in the stats

Hopefully they wised up by now and record these stats properly…?

Even when it is just milliseconds before the crash, the computer turns itself off.

Later, Tesla brags that the autopilot was not in use during this ( terribly, overwhelmingly) unfortunate accident.

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So they actually tested LLMs for being AGIs?

Should have asked me… I would have told them the best ants in the world fail the test for being snails.

Mujahideen in Afghanistan or on the front lines of Korea or any of a dozen other proxy wars.

I do not count these as the Cold War.

Proxy wars have their special funding and maybe false motives, but they are hot wars. Real wars.

The Cold War consisted of threats. Piling up weapons, bombs, nukes, and counting and comparing who’s got more of them. These threats were made mainly by politicians. Maybe I was wrong in saying they “fought” it.

This is how people brainwashed by capitalism would use it to deprive us all of the post-scarcity future.

That doesn’t work out. Unfortunately.

Reason:

When it was politicians who fought the Cold War, they were few who had actually a say, and these few got some minimum brain, at least.

But in your scenario, it is random jerks who execute that scheme everywhere. There will be some who pull the trigger just for … all kinds of stupid shit that has triggered them. So you’d have nukes going off somewhere, at least every few days, and then nobody can really rule the world anymore with them. The power of the threat will be gone.