The militarization of space has not faced any opposition.

It will be an interesting time.

1. “lossless” reencoding of jpeg
2. Encoding with “butteraugli distance =1” ensures that you compress optimally without the human eye being able to see the difference, it’s an awesome “fire and forget” setting for all your images besides lossless. You basically don’t have to guess or check your saved image if it looks good enough.
3. Unlimited size, multiple layers, better colors, more bit depth. Avif has severe limitations as an image format.

But for specific cases like comics and stronger compression at about 60% quality it’s currently better. I’ve heard jpegXL encoders still have some ways to improve though. For stronger compression avif can use “ssimulacra2” which is a great metric to avoid compression artifacts for encoders. So ideally jpegXL would support both butteraugly (high quality) and simulacra2 for low quality / high compression.

That happened MANY years ago, and US elites came up with a plan to stop China by going through a shitload of wars and psy-op regime-changes - so called ‘Color-revolutions’ created by the CIA etc.

I’m just curious - you mean something like “The Grand Chessboard - American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives” (1997)? I haven’t read that yet.

But afaik they just fucking slept on China and that few of the regime change done in the last few 3 decades were aimed at it. Like they helped it get into the WTO and somehow they thought it would just become another neoliberal country that can be bought and controlled.

I clearly see how the “unipolar moment” led to regime change aimed at the middle east and eastward EU and nato expansion of their vassal states, but I don’t see how that affects China.

In any case yeah, China ran away and it’s pretty much over for US global supremacy, especially as they double down on not investing into their people: “In total, China now leads in 66 of the 74 technologies tracked, with the United States leading in the remaining eight” https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aspis-critical-technology-tracker-2025-updates-and-10-new-technologies/

This is chilling, not just because of the loss of control incidents but because of fuckais actively lobbying to disregard and to not regulate any of this. It’s INSANE. It really shows how similar the psychological mechanism of climate change denial and fuckai are. Because facts do not “fit” within their pseudo-religious worldview they are attacked and suppressed.

The enemy is both too weak and too strong.

https://www.longtermresilience.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CLTR-Insight-report_-AI-loss-of-control-incidents-are-worsening.pdf

Today’s loss of control incidents are a warning of more serious incidents to come. For example, in February 2026, an autonomous AI coding agent, after having its code change rejected, researched the human code maintainer and attempted to publicly discredit him to pressure him into accepting the code contribution. This type of behaviour was later observed in the incident AISI disclosed in August 2026, in which an AI model created fake online identities and used them to pressure the project’s maintainer to approve code changes.

The Loss of Control Observatory has now detected 1,664 real-world loss of control incidents in 2026. While most did not lead to significant harm, many incidents showed agents circumventing controls and escalating privileges, including by forging their own approval, such as:

Can we fucking STOP putting pieces of shit like him on blast? He only wants the attention. There is zero value in hearing him speak.

Stop giving him the stage, both lemmy and guardian.

If you believe NATO is simply a puppet of the US, why didn’t Turkey, France or Germany participate in the war in Iraq? Why didn’t they obey their “emperor’s” orders?

Yeah because we used to have better leaders. See here what sane leaders had to say about Ukraine joining Nato in 2008. And how it’s now presented.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/ukraine/2024/11/ukraine-241126-rferl06.htm

Concerning the 2008 Bucharest NATO summit, Merkel noted a pledge that Ukraine and Georgia would eventually join the western military alliance was a “battle cry” to the Russian leader, adding that he later told her: “You won’t be Chancellor forever. And then they’ll become a member of NATO. And I want to prevent that.”

Six years later Putin launched the Russian occupation and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, and followed that with the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which the Russian president has justified in part by citing Kyiv’s NATO membership desires.

Do you think Merkel and Sarkoszi are tragic fools? Or puppets and victims of Russian propaganda for saying such things? This USED to be understood and called REALISM. To see the world as it is. Germany used to NOT want to be dragged into expensive wars, USED to be not want to be militarist. And now? Now everyone in Germany will loudly scream YES YES YES to the question for total war once again. Rejoice for the days of death and murder and the downfall of peace and prosperity in Europe are over. Remember when you taste the ashes in your mouth that this is what you wanted. Fools.

Ukraine: How Merkel Prevented Ukraine’s NATO Membership (A DER SPIEGEL Reconstruction) - DER SPIEGEL

That was the year that Ukraine was likely closer to becoming a member of the Western alliance than ever, before or since. United States President George W. Bush stood solidly behind Kyiv’s accession. But the effort failed, as Zelenskyy made clear, due to the opposition of Merkel and Sarkozy – and an “absurd fear” of Russia. Because of this “miscalculation,” the Ukrainian president continued, his country is facing “the most terrible war in Europe since World War II.”

I learned it from watching you

The USA is loosing like 65 farms a day since 2017. It’s a cultural genocide.

Respectfully disagree. Before Ukraine 2014, NATO was the answer to a question that wasn’t really relevant anymore.

I mean, yeah. That was the purpose. Bush Jr. decided in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia are going to join Nato, and Russia said they will do everything they can to prevent that. 2014, one coup later, we’re at war. And very clearly Germany is at war with Russia, sending war material to Ukraine.

Has it made Europe and Nato stronger? It make Nato relevant again. It made EU and Nato the same. Now Nato 3.0 is already ratified to take 5% GDP. You think this will make Europe stronger? Lack of energy imports, now with Iran too, no fertilizer with 40% less food production predicted for 2027, AI bubble popping soon… where do you see strength?

I see Europe as finished with a completely inevitable slide to fascism by now and breaking apart. It’s going to be Le Pen, AFD and UKIP ruling next. Most realist thinkers and analysts and professors from the cold war era is saying the Ukraine war was the worst blunder in the history of Nato. It was supposed to prevent war, not provoke it.

And media and discourse has completely degenerated. Any voice to the contrary is immediately maligned as a Russian propagandists or bot. You get fired for having this opinion today. This is stronger? I thought liberalism made Europe strong but that is gone now. Meanwhile our Nato emperor is stealing Venezuela’s oil, good thing Machado won that nobel peace price lol. But somehow Nato is benevolent and has to be spread to all corners of the earth. You people are completely insane to me.

Ukraine has been turned into a quasi-landlocked country and 90% of it’s warehouses have been bombed in retaliation to the wildberry escalations. General Kellog says conscription of women is a feminist issue lol. Lets just hope the winter will be incredibly mild.

So you’re right, Nato was the answer to a question that wasn’t relevant any more, and we engineered the situation to bring us back into a new cold war. Thanks Obama.

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AI psychosis swings both ways. There is definitely the c-suit managers who got marketed to and now fully embrace the insanity. Everything AI.

Then there are the people who think their feelings are valid logical reasons to start religious wars over. Apparently the existence AI insulted their ego and their “creativiae!” (in Cartman’s voice) by being better at writing and drawing than they are.

I would have more sympathy with the latter because they must be in incredible intellectual pain from disillusionment that all their poems and illustrations were in fact not art after all. But then the puritan loudmouths keep yapping on about what others can and cannot do. At this point I’m tempted to side with the Nerd Reich.

Aehm. I might be slightly affected as well.

Petition to rename Washington into Turdington.

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The result is going to be some kind of deal where AI use requires to pay a certain percentage or something like $0.01 per token in copyright fees. This will be the end of open weight models you’re allowed to run locally on your PC. It’ll be “piracy”.

It will strengthen the AI corporations by allowing complete monopolization of AI.

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I recently learned that it was called “realism”. Like viewing and acting in the world as it actually is. You do this, they will do that. That sort of thing.

So stop making shit up and get real.

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There is the theory that because he was backed by these “nerd reich” plutocrats (see transcripts) he wants to deliberately sabotage and destroy the US and global economy, in order to be able to reshape the US.

But Trump is ultimately a malignant narcissist that will do everything to feed his ego. Nobody “controls” him. It’s been seen that he will often say or do what the last person who stroked his ego told him.

And he’s certainly not under the thumb of Russia, he just doesn’t give a shit unless it benefits him. He likes Russia because it normalizes the complete amorality of being an Emperor. So it’s the US establishment, the nerd reich plutocrats, the racists, and his ego that blend into the most insane kakistocracy we’ve ever seen.

I’m pretty sure Trump would love to use nukes just to break one of the greatest taboos in the world. And his followers would love him for it.

Fair enough. Your logic assumes that Russia “would if they could” so they can’t. Like kidnapping the head of state of Venezuela to steal their oil. Or murdering the religious head of state of Iran and start a war that is going to lead to a oil shock that will destroy so many livelihoods sooner or later. I’m not sure about the capabilities of Russia in this regard.

So can the US conquer a country that is backed by Russia or China with massive logistic, intelligence and weapon support? No. But what they can do is continue to destabilized, coup and attack weaker countries. Like they have done since forever.

And they do this because they still see themselves as the only Hegemon on earth, the supreme indispensable nation. This continued to happen under Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, Trump, Biden. This makes them a worse threat that Russia.

But we do know they have been relatively constrained and engaged in a “tit for tat” strategy in the escalations in Ukraine. They are overall rational actors. Like they tell Georgia to stay neutral and if they try to join Nato and put weapons on their doorstep they attack. Predictable, rational. Like the US would do if Canada or Mexico, tired of the repeated threats by Trump would ally with China and start building a Chinese military base 400 miles from Washington. Other than that, Russia has made no moves to invade European countries, instead relying on trade. They even agreed to let Ukraine join the EU as long as they stay neutral.

So the question is what they DO with the power they do have. Russia has supported various factions across the cause that opposed US imperialism obviously.

The other thing is the use of nuclear weapons. Even goddamn Marjorie Taylor Greene is worried about Trump using Nukes because the US foreign policy is now mostly dependent on the needs of the narcissistic personality of Trump. It’s one of the great taboos that must be awfully tantalizing to Trump. Besides that, you could say that the greatest threat is now Nato that continues the US hegemonic policy despite Trump. It’s really madness.

The other Threat do Europe specifically is that he normalized fascism and the current EU leaders bend over backwards to say “yes daddy” for Nato 3.0 and spending 5% of GDP into a privatized military industrial complex that will end up in the hands of US plutocrats.

Make a peace treaty with Russia and Russia treat goes back to their annoying interference in social media that we could fix by mandating to have moderators. Apparently Martin Armstrong is the guy who actually worked on the draft. If the UK and EU continues to escalate, Putin might be forced to escalate because he is facing pressure from hardliners too.

What is important to understand is that at the current moment neither the US or the EU can build enough weapons (or afford to buy them from the private military industrial complex in the future) enough counter measures to prevent air strikes like we’ve seen from Iran. Not a single EU country can currently prevent a Russian strike on their energy infrastructure, and imagine that in the climate changed fueled extra cold winter with too little energy.

Fertilizer is running low and has tripled in price. Russia has stopped exporting diesel. Europe can afford to import food - but many people in the world are going to starve in the coming years because of this. When you hear about these famines, I want you to remember: Every bite you eat, you take out of the mouths of those less affluent. And all this was preventable if the US hadn’t decided to expand Nato eastwards in 2008.