But behind Washington’s repeated call for Europe to “do more” usually came a second one: “Not like that.”

This is right on the nose. The US wants the EU to pay its own way, but also continue doing exactly everything the US wants.

That whole “the French are cowardly” trope in the Anglosphere was born and stoked entirely not from France’s actual war record, but in response to France’s post-war reluctance to toe the US line; first by de Gaulle ejecting US nuclear bases from the country, and then again decades later when they refused to join the US’s Middle East misadventures.

OP missed a trick here by not simply responding to every question with “fuck off”.

There isn’t, though. Every time AI gets posted the response is always like this.

People love being able to create stuff without making an effort, but NOBODY likes having soulless low-effort crap flooding their feeds unbidden.

https://www.donegaldaily.com/2016/01/22/how-many-bales-of-hay-can-you-get-into-the-back-of-a-donegal-car/

Poe’s law strikes again. OOOP has to be joking right? I mean it’s not like they’re loading up that hay to take back to their apartment in the city. Anyone who’s in a position to be moving a bale of hay around, will have used a regular truck before and will have seen hay.

Thank you.

“I don’t have to know CS201 Data Structures and Algorithms to do my job”, says a thousand D-tier coders online, whose code is costing their employers a small fortune in unnecessary cloud compute bills because they just blindly imported a ton of python libraries and went with the least suitable data structures and algorithms for the task at hand, because that’s what the defaults were for that library. “It fulfils all the requirements from the client perfectly, bow to my experience and skill in delivering customer value”.

It’s classic Dunning-Kruger, incompetent people who are too incompetent to know they’re incompetent.

Bonus points when they cite the fact that they were involved with a project that cost a hundred million dollars, as “proof” that they’re a world-class expert, when it probably would have been a ten million dollar project with an actually competent engineer…

Basically the US was the worlds police until recently.

For the most part, only they saw it that way. The very fact that America refuses to recognize the ICC tells you everything you need to know about how good faith their “world policing” actually is.

What they’ve actually got a history of doing is describing foreign incursions to protect their own economic interests as “police actions” rather than formal declarations of war, in order to ignore various laws and international conventions. America has not been the good guy since 1945.

Yeah it’s just so nakedly transparent how dishonest their posturing is about Europe not doing enough on defense.

Turns out what they actually meant was “our entire economic system is predicated on infinite unending YoY growth targets, and we’ve run of ways to grow, so now you all have to start spending more money on feeding this fucking beast we created”.

Also this theme of “how dare you take advantage of us all these years” is exactly the kind of talk domestic abusers use.

Darn. Problem with the Fediverse is you don’t know how things will render on other people’s clients.

Trump has now ordered NIST to reverse their recommendation on Rust.

The arrogance of assuming that anyone who didn’t vote or who voted third party, just automatically owe your party their vote.

The entrenched two-party system has done more to cripple democracy in America than any other factor, and yet it’s so pervasive that y’all whip each other into line trying to shame anyone who tries to break free of it.

I’m sure the numbers are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but it still brings me satisfaction to upload loads of long videos to Facebook, all set to Visibility: Just Me, just to cost them more in storage than they earned off me in ad revenue.