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#1

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Zanza - February 24, 2026, 11:52:55 PM

What changed compared to the last times you decided against accession talks?

I mean it's not about actually joining yet, right?

It could be thqt the US/Greenland situation is doing to Iceland what Russia/Ukraine did to Sweden/Finland.

Especially since Trump did say he wanted to take Iceland. 

Sure.

But I guess Iceland had good reasons to put their previous accession talks on hold. Not sure which reasons these were (the ever popular fishing?). Are they willing to compromise these good reasons?

Maybe the new  situation has changed their cost benefit view though.

#2

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Valmy - February 24, 2026, 11:21:19 PM

Our real news sources are continually being compromised and corrupted.

Also the number of horrible things happening is so often and continuous it is hard to keep track.

["Any Country that wants to 'play games' with the ridiculous supreme court decision, especially those that have 'Ripped Off' the U.S.A. for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to," he wrote on Truth Social. "Buyer beware."]

#3

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - February 24, 2026, 10:25:08 PM

"Any Country that wants to 'play games' with the ridiculous supreme court decision, especially those that have 'Ripped Off' the U.S.A. for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to," he wrote on Truth Social. "Buyer beware."

Full panic mode.

#4

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Razgovory - February 24, 2026, 10:24:43 PM

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01245620.pdf

The above is a victim statement given in 2019 by the FBI from a victim who was abused by Epstein in the 1980s.  It is in the Epstein files produced by the DOJ. During the interview when shown a picture that had Epstein and Trump on it, she asked that the Trump picture be redacted because she feared "retaliation." 

Follow-up interviews were scheduled for this witness, identified as 3501.045 and three additional interviews occurred: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00095751.pdf  (page 8)

However, none of the notes from the other three interviews were produced by the DOJ. They appear to have been removed prior to the production, leaving non-sequential stamped numbers.

NPR's review of the witness statements indicates that this witness matched the description of the witness listed on 18 of this FBI report, relating to allegations against certain prominent individuals: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660622.pdf.  It indicates the witness accused Trump of sexual assault in the witness interviews that were purged by DOJ.

NPR story is here: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell

That is surprising.

#5

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - February 24, 2026, 10:24:17 PM

It isn't just Trump's European Ambassadors, in addition to the U.S. Ambassadors to Belgium and France acting like clowns, the Ambassador to Israel (one Michael Huckabee) recently asserted that Israel could conquer the entirety of the Middle East. This understandably caused some consternation among Middle Eastern capitals and the U.S. has had to offer "explanations" to our various corrupt oil sheikh friends.

Don't pretend you're concerned.  It's not like Israel will stop at Gaza and the West Bank if it has support.

#6

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by crazy canuck - February 24, 2026, 10:15:17 PM

So basically the Pentagon is not willing to accept no mass surveillance of Americans and no autonomous killing as safeguards.

The scary part is that there's not much negative reaction to this.

Neither is there much outrage on the Netlflix board thing.

That is because few Americans consume real news sources anymore.

#7

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by viper37 - February 24, 2026, 10:11:24 PM

So basically the Pentagon is not willing to accept no mass surveillance of Americans and no autonomous killing as safeguards.

The scary part is that there's not much negative reaction to this.

Neither is there much outrage on the Netlflix board thing.

#8

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by mongers - February 24, 2026, 08:04:06 PM

I saw someone refer to ai as "the asbestos of the internet" in terms of how widespread it is and how difficult and costly it will be to remove in the future and I think it is a heck of a comparison.

...minus the whole fact that asbestos actually *did* do a good job in its original purpose when it was put in everywhere. 

Thanks Sophie, that's a good line. 

#9

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by mongers - February 24, 2026, 07:59:52 PM

'Cronos' neat compact horror film, under 1hour 30 minutes too! 


Also 'Paris, Texas' - the child playing the eight year old steals every other scene from Harry Dean Stanton, which takes some doing.

And the BFI stream I watched was a superb piece of tele-cine, if that word is even applicable nowadays?

#10

Off the Record / Re: [Gay] Gay News from Around...

Last post by grumbler - February 24, 2026, 07:46:45 PM

The troon craze is being killed off in the US mostly by lawsuits from former clients. The US medical industry is backing off from it because instead of getting lifelong paypigs they're having to pay millions in settlements. As an ideology it will still exist but it'll retreat back to where it belongs, Reddit/Tumblr fetish subreddits. Aesthetically and culturally it'll return to being in the same league as scat fetishists. The normies are off the hook, we no longer have to tiptoe around these perverts.

I ran this through my gibberish-to-English translator and it still came out gibberish. This ia an English-language board, so maybe you could repost this in English if you want to express an idea?