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It only works if either party gives a shit. But Russia doesn't give a shit about sanctions, if they can find a willing fool to either buy or supply they don't care. Hungary doesn't seem to care either, and that's the reason it doesn't make sense.

Apart from that there are no US threats against anybody dealing with Russia since Trump became president. All American sanctions against Russia have been void for half a year now. Which makes the story make even less sense.

Congress is trying to change that except not really, because they are waiting for the go ahead from Trump, which allegedly he gave yesterday. Or did he? We don't really know, because American politics are all about gas lighting.

Yes it's completely insane, I have no idea how that is legal? AFAIK it clearly isn't legal under the American constitution , where you are considered an American if you are born on US soil. And the base in Germany is AFAIK US soil.

But AFAIK the treatment of everyone is illegal if they don't see a judge before being expelled.
It's absolute insanity, and it's insane Americans are allowing it to happen.

This story sounds very strange, how would American sanctions determine whether Russia can deliver anything to Hungary?
On the other hand EU has strict regulation for nuclear power-plants, which last I heard, Russia does not live up to.
Also it is pretty common knowledge that USA has not enforced sanctions against Russia since Trump became president.
So the whole story lacks details about obvious questions.

Anyways, if this is true, EU must quickly sanction it so EU doesn't buy nuclear tech or any other form of infrastructure from Russia. Why would we work our ass off to stop Russian gas in 2 years, if we allow Russian built nuclear power plants?

Well IDK about that, but they are not sent to prison in Venezuela, they are being sent to their home country.

To be fair they have also expelled people who are as white as can be from Germany, Norway and Denmark that I have read about.
The Dane was married to an American woman and had American born children, and had worked in USA for many years.
But without the right paperwork, you get thrown out, also if you are white. Maybe the risk is smaller IDK, but nobody is safe.

He also claimed he wanted to make self driving safer than humans. You can't do that well if the car has the same visual limitations a human has.

Yeah it's far from perfect, but it's still better than most countries in most ways.
Child protection however is an extremely difficult area, because getting it wrong is horrible, despite they think they are helping the child. In other situations, there really is a need to protect the child.

I don’t know if this woman has gotten her children back

Probably not, the standard mode for social workers/services I've seen here in Denmark, is to double down, no matter how wrong their original decision was. It was their decision, and they are right by law, and it basically can't be questioned.

simply being Greenlandic will be enough to get the attention of social workers.

The tests cover attachment, personality traits, cognitive abilities and psychopathology, and take about 15-20 hours. It is almost impossible to pass them, says Nellemann; even he and his colleagues have failed to do so.

I remember reading about this late last year, and I remember not trusting that social worker or the process one bit.
I once watched a documentary about this kind of "social service" and some of their methods are 100% unscientific, and don't take personality traits or just moods into account, like whether a person is extro- or introvert. I even posted about it on feddit.dk, but was met with much skepticism. One of the things I saw, was that if a baby doesn't seek eye contact with a stranger holding it, it should be a sign that the mother doesn't give the baby enough attention! Yes really it's that stupid! When obviously it's more likely the baby doesn't appreciate a stranger.

I can't put into words how much I despise that kind of quackery! Because that's what it is.
But quackery is unfortunately standard procedure in social services. And social services even trump real doctors, meaning quackery trumps real doctors by law!!
Quackery is illegal in Denmark, except in social services where it's an everyday phenomenon.

I hope you find a way. 🤞

But we’re pre-dating the common distro hopping discussions

No we aren't, Linux fora were full of them even before Ubuntu more than 20 years ago. Debian, Suse, Fedora, Mandrake, Mepis, PCLinux.
Distro hopping was always a thing people debated.

The rest of that sentence is a bit confusing, who are we? And how am I supposed to read minds? And going back was kind of where we started, because you claimed it was a new thing for Debian. Debian was definitely recommended to general users, for many good reasons. Stability and huge repository among them, but also user friendly install procedure, and good package manager, that handled dependencies way better than Suse and Fedora.

I think this points to the idea that knowing why an answer is correct is important.

If by knowing you mean understanding, that's consciousness like General AI or Strong AI, way beyond ordinary AI.
Otherwise of course it knows, in the sense of having learned everything by heart, but not understanding it.

Debian was never talked about as a serious contender in distro hopping

Back in 2005 when Ubuntu was all the rage, the first alternative to Ubuntu was almost always Debian. Only later when Mint became a thing, that was also an obvious alternative, because it was similarly focused on being easy to use.

Good summary. 👍

Debian. I do see Debian mentioned now a lot more than it has been in years.

I haven't noticed much difference, Debian has always been the go to distro if you wanted reliability and repositories that cover almost everything. Debian has always been an excellent choice for productivity. It's not by accident that Debian for more than 20 years has been the distro with by far the most derivatives.

By that standard Arch is the only distro that has achieved something similar, and it may be somewhat telling that SteamOS switched from Debian based to Arch based. Arch is way smaller in scope, and more nimble and easier to maintain. But AFAIK they do not have the democratic process Debian has, so I'm not sure it can really be called community based distro like Debian. Arch has more of a top leadership.
Debian is probably the most true to the Free and Open Source ideals among the big distros.

Why is it rong to forgive the one you love ?

Whoever you were unfaithful with probably hadn't promised your boyfriend anything, so definitely it's irrational to blame "the other guy".
If you had agreed to be in a monogamous relationship, you broke that agreement, and for most people that's a very serious thing.
I do not however buy into your claim that this issue is something men care about more than woman. On the contrary women are generally the ones complaining about potentially unfaithful men, and I've heard many women generalize that men are often unfaithful, to a degree one would think that is much more common. But statistics clearly indicate that since there are more men than women, chances are that on average, women are more frequently unfaithful than men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle

it doesn’t know or understand

But that's not what intelligence is, that's what consciousness is.
Intelligence is not understanding shit, it's the ability to for instance solve a problem, so a frigging calculator has a tiny degree of intelligence, but not enough for us to call it AI.
There is simply zero doubt an AI is intelligent, claiming otherwise just shows people don't know the difference between intelligence and consciousness.

Passing an exam is a form of intelligence.
Can a good AI pass a basic exam?
YES.
Does passing an exam require consciousness?
NO.
Because an exam tests abilities of intelligence, not level of consciousness.

it can only guess at the next statistically most likely piece of information based on the data that has been fed into it. That’s not intelligence.

Except we do the exact same thing! Based on prior experience (learning) we choose what we find to be the most likely answer. And that is indeed intelligence.

Current AI does not have the reasoning abilities we have yet, but they are not completely without it, and it's a subject that is currently worked on and improved. So current AI is actually a pretty high form of intelligence. And can sometimes out compete average humans in certain areas.

they keep growing.

I haven't seen that. No kings was a good effort, but it seems to have fizzled out.