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• The EU does restrict state interference in the economy. It doesn't forbid it, but it does restrict it.

  on Tony Blair says Britain should work towards rejoining EU in next 10 years in c/europe@feddit.org · 6h ago

• Late answer but Re:Zero probably fits. I don't think it's impossible, but I'm not sure how I'd make the story work without the isekai element.

  on [Discussion] Isekai that is really good, in your opinion? in c/anime@ani.social · 6d ago

• You're not supposed to like Tanya, but also it's not about fascism. The mechanics of the actual fighting are closer to WWII, but for the most part this is the more "everybody here sucks" framing of WWI. That said the second season does have plenty of condemnation for fantasy Germany; it's just not condemnation of fascism per se.

  on [Discussion] Isekai that is really good, in your opinion? in c/anime@ani.social · 6d ago

• Because generative AI has been built off the backs of everyone, whether they consented or not.

  This is covered by fair use, and in any case intellectual property is bullshit.

  Because AI companies (Nvidia, Facebook, pick a company) have pirated enough material to keep any individual in jail for life, and yet they have no consequences and can profit off everything.

  Legally, downloading stuff illegally is a civil content, so you can't in fact go to jail for it, only pay fines. Morally, the whole concept of piracy evolved out of government-granted monopolies and was pushed by rich pricks as a way to get richer at the expense of everyone else, so there's no reason to give it any moral weight.

  If generative AI can not be used for commercial purposes, it also cripples the ability to replace artists, writers, etc., with an AI that stole all their work in the first place and is regurgitating it.

  "Protecting jobs from competition" is very low on my list of things I want enforced via state violence. Maybe it's high on yours, but I'd like not to get state violence'd to satisfy your sensibilities thank you very much. Otherwise you can't complain when, say, conservatives use state violence so enforce their sensibilities on you.

  Take the profit out of it, and we can all (to some degree) benefit from it. Take the profit out of it, and stop them from hoarding and destroying books/knowledge, destroying the environment, destroying your economy.

  Uh... what? What's your reasoning there?

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Ban generative AI for commercial purposes.

  Because?

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• I mean, that makes perfect sense. Game development is mostly programming, so if you're an aspiring game developer these are probably inconvenient bits you want to get out of the way rather than what you're there for.

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• My impression is that AI stigma generally isn't mainstream in Japan, so that makes sense. Also wow, y'all are salty.

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Anything that grows out of the ground is expensive in Japan in general, so it's not just the strawberries. You can easily get a situation when making food at home where a simple vegetable salad is as expensive as the rest of the meal combined.

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• It's fanart of Mushoku Tensei referencing the latest episode.

  on Idk what they are, but these purple sprinkles sure taste great! in c/animemes@ani.social · 15 Sep 2026

• These still take actual industrial capacity to build; they're not something you could build on your own even if you could afford to. I'd be more concerned about homemade bombs on drones.

  on Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• I mean, making pipe bombs has never been particularly hard.

  on Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• If true, that's not sabotage; that's a terror attack. Yet another way dilly-dallying on backing Ukraine keeps blowing up in Europe's face.

  on French police suspect train derailment was sabotage in c/europe@feddit.org · 12 Sep 2026

• Good one.

  on This Sentence Is Not A Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026

• May I rest in peace.

  on Ireland Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026

• Okay pedantry incoming.

  Yes and no. The problem here is that "colonize" refers to both economic colonialism (India, Malaysia+Singapore, etc) where you just extract resources from a region and settler colonialism (America, Australia, etc) where you actually export people to the colonized region in large numbers. Given the focus on actual British people, the joke works better with the latter, but there's actually a lot fewer of those. Also, British settler colonies were usually so thoroughly colonized that there are barely any natives left to complain about it (not that there are none, but they're an overwhelming minority in most cases). Ireland is thus unique as a country that Britain subjected to settler colonialism but where there's a clear majority of natives who can quip about it. The only other example I can think of is New Zealand, and even then it only kind of works.

  Conclusion: Ireland was the best country for that joke by far.

  on Ireland Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026

• Tenmaku no Jaadugar. Seriously go watch it right now, it's a fictionalized biography about a (real, she has a Wikipedia page) Persian woman who gets forcibly taken to Mongolia during the Mongol conquests of the early 13th century. I could technically describe it as a court drama, but it's much more human than that.

  Selling points:

  -Nuanced and human takes on difficult topics like slavery and conquest; it has a way of making you have strong mixed feelings (in a good way) about characters who would be either whitewashed or made comically evil in lesser works. This extends to the court politics, and you get to see the human motivation behind what everybody is doing.
  -An impressive depiction of the emotional struggles of the protagonist trying to process a new and difficult situation; you really feel the confusion she has about what she's supposed to feel alongside her conviction.
  -A whole cast of realistic, strong and independent female characters. Helped partially by the setting (Mongolia was somewhat egalitarian for the time period), you get a feel of how they'd act to get their way in a position where they for the most part have little formal authority.
  -A wonderfully historical depiction of, well, basically everything. The author has clearly done their research, making it alongside everything else a very informative experience about how the Mongols of that period actually lived. This also gives grounding that makes everything else hit that much harder.

  If you like it, you should then try Apothecary Diaries and Orb: On the Movement of the Earth, which are both amazing recent additions to the historical fiction genre, though they both take more liberties than Jaadugar.

  Okay obligatory shilling over. There's actually an ongoing faithful anime series adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell manga, so you should probably watch that if you aren't already. There's also an ongoing adaptation of a manga by the author of Full Metal Alchemist, so ditto for that. They're respectively The Ghost in the Shell and Daemons of the Shadow Realm.

  Now for more shilling: I haven't actually watched to completion any of the stuff you listed (currently keeping up with Ghost in the Shell) so I can't give informed recommendations, but if you like comedy you can't go wrong with Asobi Asobase, Hinamatsuri and 'Tis Time for Torture, Princess.

  on Recommend some anime for me in c/anime@ani.social · 7 Sep 2026

• That ignores... literally everything about how the EU actually functions. The EU has a few good decisions under its belt, but for the most part the it's absolutely controlled by lobbyists, and the decisions "kneaded by many hands" tend to be produce weakness when decisive action is needed (see: Ukraine).

  on Pierrakakis: EU cannot afford to be 27 countries | eKathimerini.com in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026

• People will support/apologize for shit like this and wonder why fascists are gaining power where they live.

  on Sweden confirms 458 Britons deported or forcibly removed since Brexit in c/europe@feddit.org · 5 Sep 2026

• Sellers was aware that Brexit might affect his right to stay in the country and, without any communication from government authorities, he considered his best option was to apply for Swedish citizenship.

  This he did in September 2021, before the Brexit deadline of 31 December that year.

  Seems like he did everything by the books.

  on Sweden confirms 458 Britons deported or forcibly removed since Brexit in c/europe@feddit.org · 5 Sep 2026

• It's not that big of a deal when it's people from the middle east getting deported, but when it's Britons?

  There's definitely a good amount of first world hypocrisy here, but also Sweden's conduct flies in the face of the withdrawal agreement Britain signed with the EU, so there is a story here.

  on Sweden confirms 458 Britons deported or forcibly removed since Brexit in c/europe@feddit.org · 5 Sep 2026

• Wow, so that's where these are from.

  on Even Irasutoya knows what's up in c/yurimemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026

• Rare AI bro W. Fuck copyright.

  on US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• It’s not possible to eliminate IP rights under capitalism.

  It is. Independent artists already gain basically nothing from IP law, because they can't afford to defend their claims in court. The fact that their art (usually, before AI) isn't stolen is a testament to the fact that there's just not much money in doing so, while the fact that their art got stolen once AI hit the scene shows that the law doesn't actually stop the rich from doing this stuff. Press the socialism button anyway, but in any case it's mostly corporations who benefit from IP law.

  on US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• EU leadership's collective spine would have to be more than a rounding error first.

  on Will American Power in Europe Run Out? in c/europe@feddit.org · 1 Sep 2026

• I mean, the parent commenter never explicitly said "the EU doesn't do influence operations due to its moral integrity," but that tends to be the subtext with comparisons like these. Maybe I'm just too paranoid.

  on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026

• I mean, the lack of necessity of trying to change the voting behavior (because you're dealing with a dictatorship/oligarchy that doesn't respond to popular opinion) isn't exactly a point for the EU here; getting caught up in the method is missing the forest for the trees. The point is that the EU isn't above forcing using its influence to force bad policy on foreign countries for its own gain, so when it loses the propaganda war with America/Russia it's not due to some moral standard. I absolutely count using its economic clout to force unequal trade deals on weaker countries as "influence operations;" what America and Russia do is just how you do that with democracies. There's also that one time it forced disastrous austerity on Greece. The fact that the EU doesn't have its own Murdoch isn't a testament to its moral integrity.

  on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026

• CTRL+F "fish" in the article, or you can google "EU fishing West Africa" for more details, but TL;DR: The EU has a number of fishing agreements signed with questionably/non-democratic West African governments, to the detriment of the local population who needs to fish to eat.

  on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026

• The EU doesn't do influence operations but its adversaries does.

  It does.

  on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026

• EU doesn't have any army or common defense policy.

  It does, the Common Security and Defense Policy.

  on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026

• I think IP law shouldn't exist, because it assumes that ideas can be owned and leads to predictably absurd results.

  on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• It's really hard to tell where things are going from here (one important but difficult question being which European countries will or won't go full Nazi), but that is not happening. The Eastern Bloc was the result of aggressive industrialization and modernization during the interwar period by the USSR; Putin isn't interested in anything like that (because it requires not being tremendously corrupt) and nobody interested in anything like that is in a position to succeed him.

  on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 30 Aug 2026

• They’re not going to walk back copyright law

  Why not? These laws exist the make the rich more money; if the interests of the rich people trying to make money change it's very possible for the law to change to match that.

  on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• I love intellectual property theft.

  on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• Japan: We are not a vassal state (no really they say this in an argument with the Japanese Communist Party).

  Meanwhile Japan:

  on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Europeans: We are not vassal states.

  Also Europeans:

  on U.S. preparing to force Netherlands to ban ASML from selling to China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Weird, the few times I've used it I had no problem with my VPN.

  on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• So long as copyright is being enforced at the individual level for consumers, large corporations shouldn't be allowed to get away with infringing on it for profit.

  Sure, but my conclusion from that isn't "IP law should be enforced on the big corporations too;" it's "IP law should be abolished and also down with capitalism." Why should I want an unjust law to be enforced even more vigorously?

  on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• Yeah that's the thing: I don't believe it's wrong to profit from people's content without their permission, because I don't believe they own that content after they share it with humanity and I absolutely don't believe they should get to enforce that "ownership" via state violence. Everyone should get to use anything they want in derivative works, whether for profit or not. The fact that this could plausibly affect people's livelihoods (but IMO wouldn't; if there were significant profits in IP "theft" corporations would already be doing it) is a failure of capitalism and frankly not the reproducer's business.

  on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• I mean, a key element of the anti-AI movement is that AI "steals" art, but I fundamentally believe in that art (and ideas) can't be owned and therefore can't be stolen. Ditto for code or what have you.

  on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• The data theft is another story, but there's clearly an IP theft angle to anti-AI arguments, as seen in the other person response.

  on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026

• Such a pro-AI position also ignores the enormous amount of theft that these tools are built on.

  Or, less likely, it could be that person knows and just doesn't care. I certainly don't because I believe intellectual property is bullshit.

  on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026

• Not in America at least, which is a problem given that America is the single biggest market in the world.

  on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026

• Oh damn. I guess we just can't have nice things.

  on Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating /// Government introduces several measures, including monitoring of computers, for pupils aged 16 to 19 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026

• That's just a good thing overall assuming appropriate accessibility measures.

  on Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating /// Government introduces several measures, including monitoring of computers, for pupils aged 16 to 19 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Aug 2026