It’s not about making money, not only at least. The other reason why the US, China and other countries are obsessed with AI, LLM, NN, ML is because it may prove decisive for their militaries.

What is thought by most militaries today is that we are at a turning point of sorts and the next generation of weapons will be powered by AI in some capacity, and the more we go on, the more AI will be involved (target acquisition, reaction, drone and missile guidance, APS, AA, etc)

Cause I could shoot you on sight, claim you’re a Nazi, and it’s now on you to defend yourself… from the grave

That’s the papal state, not Vatican city. The papal state ruled over central Italy for centuries until it lost most of its territories leading up to the unification of Italy in 1861. Then lost Rome in 1870 and ceased to exist. The Pope retreated to the Vatican where he assumed the position of “prisoner in the Vatican” while the Italian government tolerated for the most part the Pope ruling over the basilica and its territories.

The modern Vatican State is a new entity created by Mussolini and Pius XI in 1929 with the Patti Lateranensi. With the creation of this state Mussolini gained the approval from the church, which was extremely important to solidify its grip over Italy, while the Church abandoned all claims from the former papal state.

Does anyone know why the Vatican State exists? The answer is, because of a pact with Mussolini to support his regime in exchange for a state and the involvement of the church in education.

Sp, who’s really surprised?

Well, Vatican city was already an Italian possession after the unification. The fascist regime gave it back to the papal state in exchange for the Church supporting Mussolini and fascism (Patti lateranensi).

The west didn’t even call. Russia just fumbled and revealed all their cards on their own, showing everyone it was all just a bluff. Now they’re playing the “you didn’t actually see all of the cards” game, which would work if we didn’t already see them all…

Why would that be? If h265 is anything to go by, MPEG will probably charge an arm and a leg for h266, and the entire industry will pivot away from MPEG and move to AV2. I’m not even sure YouTube will ever implement h266

The US is still playing the same game of wait and see. During WW2 it’s not like the US didn’t supply the allies with weapons (lend lease act) for years before sending in troops.

Hopefully Ukraine will be able to neuter Russia before the US or the EU have to get involved with actual boots on the ground.

It’s not just Americans. It’s anyone who stays on social media for too long. You can actively defend for some time, but if you spend 4-5 hours a day on Facebook, you’re bound to get trapped in this shit.

Hell, even here on Lemmy there are instances full of nutjobs circlejerking over the political flavor of the week…

Yeah, it’s already stale and expired by now

Hopefully they’ll get slapped with a fat GDPR fine

Google Shopping

is Google Shopping really used that much?

Also for those that are magnetic

Eh, I thought the same, but then after reading their comments, it’s like going from one authoritarian extremist ideology to another authoritarian extremist ideology. Especially when both pro Nazis and pro commies seem to both boil down to being just pro Putin fanatics. I’m wondering if the propaganda doesn’t come from the same place trying to capture both spectrums.

Unlike China who can definitely get real buddy buddy with everyone around them.

Eh, I don’t know. I think they fucked up lots of relations with their neighbors as well due to the same imperialistic politics. They have shitty relations with Japan, SK, Taiwan, all the nation in the South China Sea, Vietnam and India. Relations with Russia, and USSR before that, have always been a bit tense (Mongolia issue, plus claims over Vladivostok). The rest are minor nations, mostly under the sphere of influence of other empires.

From what I can see, they are trying to create a sphere of influence of their own in Asia, propping up the new dictatorship in Myanmar, helping the Pakistani and trying to snatch up the central Asian “-stan” nations from Russia’s influence. Success is mixed.

Anyway, economically speaking these are not real partners like the western block, but more like client states. The real economic partners of China remain the western nations. Without them China’s trade would be non-existent.

It needs to be as much plug and play as the physical SIM is. Just send me the installer or whatever, one click, done. Also, it needs to be worldwide compatible. If I’m going on holiday in Ecuador say, I’d need to be able to just add a new e-sim for the duration of my holiday, and switch it as soon as I’m back. All on my own, no extra fussing about.

But something tells me e-sim will be implemented in such a way that’s high friction and difficult to easily swap, so that you are more likely to stick with your carrier and use their overpriced roaming rates, rather than buy a 10$ sim abroad with unlimited gigs. Also more of a pain in the ass when trying to change carrier.

I still remember the early 2000s, when you had to change your number if you wanted to switch carrier… That was a fucking nightmare

Yeah, this reminds me of this scene from the dictator

Yeah, I hear you, but what if we add another 7 lane highway that cuts right through the center? I think that would solve the issue

-random US city response, probably

Doubt that. It’s probably the value of the land and building.

They’ll develop their own 7nm chips, with hookers and blackjack!

In fact, forget the 7nm chips!