Sometimes Trump is a useful pawn and his whims align with the long term strategic objectives of the Blob, sometimes he has wrecker tendencies that just cannot be reconciled with anything other than Mercator-brained map painting. The duality of America.
I mean that's exactly what they tried to do with Iran but ole Donny boy didn't take the bait. Maybe the US still strikes though, who knows.
Wow, really? I guess context windows have been going up but did not realise they were so ruinously expensive. Where can I read more about this?
The security to not buy Russian oil.
Disobeying an order to use "cool" military hardware is never gonna happen from this current crop of generals.
Not only can Trump veto it, he could just ignore it and do it anyway. He's in control of the military, not the Senate.
Diplomats from European countries, who declined to be identified because the subject is sensitive, said discussions are ongoing in capitals about how to push back against Trump. Easier options include delaying tactics, lobbying efforts among Republicans in Washington, sending allied troops to visit Greenland, and even a publicity campaign in America.
But the possibility of cutting off support for American military deployments has come up, including radical suggestions to take back control of U.S. bases, one of the diplomats said. “Discussions are ongoing on how could we put pressure and say ‘Hey, you need us, and if you do this we are going to retaliate in some way,’” the diplomat said. “But at the same time, nobody wants to speak out about this.” At the moment, Europeans are not mentally ready for the kind of escalation that such retaliation would unleash. “We have to be prepared,” the official added.
Within NATO — where any discussion of punishing the Americans remains largely out of bounds — some emphasize that doing so would be a double-edged sword. “Using bases as bargaining chips for leverage — and it can be done — would result in mutual damage,” said one NATO diplomat. “Europe would further lose security guarantees … and the U.S. would lose its most valuable forward operating platform.”
Seems attitudes in the EU are shifting regarding the Americans. Likely to be diplomatic bluster at the moment, but real conversations are happening. And such measures would be popular with European electorates, who are broadly opposed to the United States at this moment. Per https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-europe-greenland-threat-military-defense-allies/
I mean given they're now openly saying they will declare war on the United States if they go for Greenland, something not even Denmark has said, yes it seems they have.
"North American Treaty Organization (Chinese tributaries)" is definitely the good ending
The expensive part of LLMs is the training though. Actual token output is rather efficent and quite cheap. For example, for Deepseek to generate a 200 token paragraph of text it costs about $0.000084. Image generation is also rather expensive, but most of the data centers and cost are around training models, not serving LLM output. It still might be more expensive than advertisers are willing to pay, but not crazy expensive.
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It's madman theory, right? Nixon was the pioneer of this. You play up the craziness as a neogtiating tactic. That sense of ambiguity is also what Trump outlines in his book from the 80s, and it works. I agree that Trump is largely "contained" and his ridiculous outbursts are usually channeled towards what the Blob wants anyway, but he does have his moments of true divine insanity.