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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • If French troops were sent into Ukraine and were then hit by Russia, would that then trigger NATO agreements?

    Article 6 says:

    "For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:

    on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France 2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer; on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer."

    Aware this might be a situation where the spirit of the agreement ends up being more important than the legalese.









  • “According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because Air Canada essentially argued that “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,” a court order said.”

    Can you imagine the hellscape we’d be living in if precedent went the other way? Companies could just run every unsavory decision through some machine learning system and then wash their hands of it afterwards.

    “Oh you were illegally fired? Sorry, that decision came from the Overmind, not from us.”


  • I agree with you that the DNC, and lots of democrats, are often terrible at messaging.

    I’d quibble with your framing about some of these things not connecting with average voters, but I’d rather take a step back a bit.

    I guess my main idea is: If we care about the project of government being involved in people’s lives in a helpful way, we owe it to people who are less privileged than us to walk and also chew gum here. We, the people who have time and resources to research this stuff and debate instead of picking up a second job to make ends meet.

    Maybe you don’t have time for this shit. I don’t blame or judge you if that’s the case. I’m speaking to the terminally online people who have time to worry about this stuff.

    And when I say “walk and chew gum” I mean:

    1. Vote in the primary against shitty centrist dems when you can,

    2. Vote for them over their fascist opponent if they win the primary anyway.

    3. Have conversations about solutions that are simple and straightforwardly helpful to people’s lives to help broaden that Overton window. Including criticizing the DNC when they fail to offer those.

    4. Do the DNC’s job for them on communication about the helpful policies we do get. Because we have gotten some. Positive conversations about government programs that are currently being implemented are not happening enough.

    They do take time to implement, and they’re not enough, and on and on. I agree with the negative sentiment about it. [Edited out some unhelpful whining here] That said, there’s too much work to do for the problems with the DNC to be the whole conversation. If you don’t support fascism, we’re on the same side.