@SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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- on Vexilrulegy in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5d ago
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on "Apolitical" rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 Sep 2026
It’s perfectly reasonable to have an opinion on a topic based on the information you’ve had access to so far, while also being open to or seeking out new information that might change your mind.
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on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 1 Sep 2026
That’s a fact.
Yes
I oppose “freely sent help” to a country/territory that opposes us in the EU.
Fair. But how is it Greenland’s or Denmark’s or anyone’s fault if e.g. France voluntarily sends support? Isn’t that France’s own fault?
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on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 1 Sep 2026
Denmark demands nothing, where are you getting that from?
Any troops or military aid sent to Greenland were sent freely and independently by individual states.
What exactly do you think has happened?
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on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026
What tax money? Greenland’s defense is funded by Denmark. If your country uses its military to aid Denmark and Greenland that’s not Greenland’s or EU’s fault, that’s a decision made by your government.
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on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026
They are. It was Denmark who asked other EU countries to help.
Under the current rules, the Greenland premier isn’t even allowed to talk to foreign leaders without a Danish representative present.
In a sense, Greenland has no foreign relations beyond those mediated by Denmark.
What did Greenland do to piss you off?
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on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026
That’s true - but Greenland’s defense is managed by Denmark, who is indeed a member of the EU, so your argument doesn’t really hold.
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on Iceland rejects EU accession talks plan in referendum in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026
Iceland is part of EEA, so it hasn’t really rejected EU I’d say, they just don’t want to talk about giving up sovereignty.
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on Hentai logic vs real world in c/animemes@ani.social · 28 Aug 2026
Why is Mr Clean on this picture?
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on Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point.
What a strange article. They realize that LLMs choose words based on chance, right?
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on Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
No, rather my suggestion is to start rooting yourself in the reality around you, understand the relationship between that reality and the media reporting on it, and then try to understand international events through that lense.
If certain media reports on things in your area in an unreasonable way, it might be that it’s a fundamentally unreasonable media. If some group’s messaging and ideology doesn’t match the reality you see around you, it might be a group detached from reality. Use these learnings to build critical thinking and find media and sources you can trust, or where you at least understand their angle and blind spots.
Of course, it does really help to see the situation around your own country and in other countries with your own eyes. Not everyone has that opportunity, but if you do, seize it, and talk to real people in the community.
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on Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
I think you’re on the wrong track. Reality is still immensely accessible to you if you go out in the world and critically check the information you’ve been given against the human reality out there.
Don’t lose yourself to the despair or confusion.
In a way, it’s also kind of blatant if you look back at the past 10 years and how nothing seems to socially make sense in a natural organic human way. Like orchestrated social event planning to manipulate psychology to lead to a certain path. (Look into generations of warfare, specifically 5th and 6th iirc.)
Plenty of things make social sense from the last 10 years in local communities, national contexts and international contexts. Both the good and the bad, e.g. a broad normalisation of LGBT and a backlash against it, progress in renewable energy and fights against different diseases, the rise of vaccine skeptics after COVID, the pandemic itself.
Or look at the “Ceuta crisis” in Europe. Images spread, right wing panic ensues, critical media investigates, it’s clear that the real situation is completely under control, the whole story becomes about an opportunistic right wing trying to create panic about immigration and left wing Spain.
All of this has played out in a natural, organic human way. Yes, social media has been a big, ugly shift in how communities work, and yes, they definitely work on purpose to simplify things that would previously die off most likely. But if you go outside and open your eyes, the world can make plenty of sense without some inhuman conspiracy beyond regular greed.
And please don’t say that anyone that disagrees with you are just victims of propaganda, that’s the ideal way to detach yourself from reality.
Technically Christian symbols. The Anglican church also recognises saints.