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It's only ever the European far-right, it's not even all of them and most of the ones which are influenced by America are pretty selective about what they take in because most of that shit in Europe is seen as seriously retarded shit even amongst the far-right here (for example, religiousity doesn't land well nowadays unless you're talking about really backwards places like Hungary, outside maybe the UK, nobody gives a shit about the ideas of the transphobes and there is zero support for the kind of gun ownership laws the US has).

Sure, some shit does leak, but the fully packaged message from people like Charlie Kirk would just not work anywhere around here.

My bet it that it was a handful of total unknowns amongst the European Far-Right who maybe get money from American sources (some European Far-Right parties were created with the money Bannon brought some years ago very openly to "create far-right parties in Europe" and I would be surprised if certain American interests had stopped buying such politicians in Europe) that suggested this and the others just went along with it.

When it, naturally, failed miserably to gain traction beyond that handful of obscure politicians, the newspaper owned by Germany's very own Murdoch-clone then described the reaction to that refusal by the overwhelming majority of the EU parliament to do it, as an "Uproar"

Proton is integrated with the Steam app in Linux, so usually you just install the game and then run it from Steam and it just works in Linux even though it's a Windows game, without you having to know anything about Proton.

Similarly you can use something like Lutris or Heroic which does the same for Wine and game stores like GOG (it's even integrated with the store and downloads the game for you, same as the Steam app does for the Steam store).

For some games you might have to learn enough to tweak settings, though for Steam and Proton that's often just changing the Proton version you're using for a game in its game launch settings in Steam, which is hardly complicated.

The need to really understand what's under the hood is generally only when leaving these standard paths: for example if you're trying to run a pirated version of a game (which might even be for perfectly legit reasons: for example one of my Steam games won't run in Linux no matter what I do, but the pirated version works fine, probably because of the DRM in the official version) or some old obscure game CD you have around, as the scripts in Steam, Lutris or Heroic that silently configure Proton/Wine correctly for a game might not at all exist for those unofficial or older installers.

It's almost as if they shamelessly lie...

It's actually a general rule for humans:

"I'm beautiful"

"I'm confident"

"I'm strong"

"I'm intelligent"

"No you're not, if you were you wouldn't feel the need to tell it to others because they would find it out themselves."

When people or organisations unprompted harp about some qualities they have, it's safer to assume until proven otherwise that they lack those qualities.

It's funny that what looks like a whole Hasbara team has descended on this, including an account used to moderate a very large lemmy.world forum.

Really shows that this kind of thing really worries the Genociders.

It makes sense - evildoers are fine if they can hide behind Country or Organisation because it lets them evade personal consequences for their actions, but when they personally, as individiuals, with no hidding behind some responsibility diffusing entity, suffer consequences for their own participation in the evildoing, it's a whole different story.

You actually see their fear of their collective cloak being torn down in some of the very "arguments" they're using here, such as how Israelis should not be held accountable for the actions of Israel (even those who refuse to simply say "I do not support the Genocide in Gaza"), which is exactly about maintaining the nation working as a responsability diffusing cover.

This tells me we need many more actions like this one in Belgium - make accountable the individuals mass murdering Palestinians or supporting that mass murder.

It's not the AIs which are crap, its what they've been sold as capable of doing and the reliability of their results that's massivelly disconnected from reality.

The crap is what a most of the Tech Investor class has pushed to the public about AI.

It's thus not at all surprising that many who work or manage work in areas were precision and correctness is essential have been deceived into thinking AI can do much of the work for them and it turns out AI can't really do it because of those precision and correctness requirement that it simply cannot achieve.

This will hit more those people who are not Tech experts, such as Lawyers, but even some supposedly Tech experts (such as some programmers) have been swindled in this way.

There are many great uses for AI, especially stuff other than LLMs, in areas where false positives or false negatives are no big deal, but that's not were the Make Money Fast slimy salesmen push for them is.

"This is the technology worth trillions of dollars"

You can make anything fly high in the sky with enough helium, just not for long.

(Welcome to the present day Tech Stock Market)

More specifically my point is that most Western societies have by now better values than Israel.

There's a lot of West in the West and most Western countries do seem to have evolved beyond the values they had back when pretty much all of them though that white colonialists had a right to take whatever land they wanted anywhere they wanted and if the "savages" in those lands were "violent" then any and all means to suppress them were valid.

Note that I'm not saying that most of the West has actual Humanist values (as you well point out, they don't, or at least the elites holding most of the power in the West don't), what I'm saying is that the values in most of the West are beyond the white-colonialist (and even NAZI-like) values that Israel has, especially amongst the broader population.

You will notice that most of the public opinion in Europe is by now against the Genocide by a large majority (the Politicians, on the other hand, are still their usual sociopathic selves, at best being "pragmatic" about it since the US supports Israel which means at the very least refusing to act in any way form or shape against Israel and its interests). Compare this to how in Israel over 80% of the population is in favor of the Genocide.

I would say that a better segmentation would separate the US from the rest of the West and then the elites from the broader population, as all the resulting 4 segments seem to have quite different moral views on this subject from each other (that does mean that I think the majority of Americans have different moral values than the majority of Europeans).

I'm in the same position but I'm wary of any and all cars, European or otherwise, because what 40 years in the Tech industry and paying attention to this kind of subject has taught me, is that if they have the means to do it all large companies will collect as much private data from you as they can.

Whilst the GDPR theoretically would protect you if you're in Europe and it's an European company, what the Diesel Emissions Scandal has shown is that for such "too big to fail" companies, even when their law-breaking causes actual deaths (over ten thousand people are estimated die in Europe every year due to diesel emissions), European governmments won't do anything beyond a little hand slapping and maybe scapegoat and emprision a few low-level Engineers.

So I would only ever go for an EV solution with no connectivity, which in the absence of no-connection EVs, might be an electric motorcycle or involve an EV conversion kit.

Then again at the moment I refuse to get a car, both because it's financially one of the worst uses of money imaginable (if you live in a city it's too costly per-hours-travelled, both upfront and in ongowing insurance and maintenance costs, since it's seldom needed for commuting within a city so you only use it a very small fraction of the time and it mostly spends its time gathering dust), environmental considerations (even EVs polute, mainly from microparticle release from the tires when in use and emissions related to their manufacture) and health considerations (I actually walk around 15 minutes to work and the same back every day, and walking at least 30m a day has been proven to decrease the likelihood of many health problems, most notably cardio-vascular one).

It's a supposedly Democratic nation, so unless it has been totally controlled by a very tight elite for 8 decades, the project's "britishness" has long been diluted by a society which is by now overwhelmingly composed of people with a totally different cultural background than British.

Even if that's not the case, the British culture back when that project started in the early 20th century (so, even before WWII) was as imperialist and racist with complete disregard for human life as Russia was at the time it was the greatest source for new Israeli nationals (mid 20th century and onwards) - remember that Britain itself commited several Genocides in their Empire, including one by none other than Churchill in India, and until the NAZIs invaded Poland the British elites loved the NAZI ideology.

In my experience with immigrants from my homeland, and looking at examples like the Afrikaners in South Africa (who are descendant of 17th century Dutch immigrants), little islands of the culture of a nation when detached from the "motherland" stop evolving alongside the culture of the "motherland".

Absolutelly, the cultural values in such "islands" do evolve, just not in the same direction as those in the "motherland".

Israel has, at best, late 19th Century Western European values heavilly influenced by mid 20th Century Russian values.

I supposed you could call it a Western Project in the Historical sense, but the idea that it still is a Western Project (as in, guided by Present Day Western values) is a lot harder to justify given that they've detached from it almost a century ago and almost all of the cultural influences it has incorporated in the last 8 decades aren't those of the West.

It's the campest mass distributed show on Earth.

Most present day Israelis come from or descended from people who came from, Russia, by a large margin, as shown here

Europe is the second or third area of origin (lots from Europe but also roughly the same from the Middle East - I couldn't be arsed to add up the numbers from the various countries to figure out exactly which was highest).

If you consider Russia to be an European nation, then you are correct. Under that assumption, Russia would also be the most regressive nation of Europe, which explains a lot about Israel - Israel's self-proclaimed "Western values" are the same as Russia, hence the imperialism, racism and complete total disregard for human life.