Yeah, makes sense from his perspective. If they were individual small countries, he could strong arm them and play them against each other. But unified they are a threat to his power

If lab grown meat becomes readily available and reasonably cheap, that may become a reasonable argument.

Yes, because just because you bought a book you don’t own its content. You’re not allowed to print and/or sell additional copies or publicly post the entire text. Generally it’s difficult to say where the limit is of what’s allowed. Citing a single sentence in a public posting is most likely fine, citing an entire paragraph is probably fine, too, but an entire chapter would probably be pushing it too far. And when in doubt a judge must decide how far you can go before infringing copyright. There are good arguments to be made that just buying a book doesn’t grant the right to train commercial AI models with it.

The green and red thumbnail made me somehow read Portugal instead of Poland which left me confused for a second

We really do have a Trump-light as our Chancellor now in Germany. He’s only been in office for a few days and he’s already flooding the zone with outrages at a faster rate than it’s possible to process them. At least his office doesn’t hold nearly as much power as the office of POTUS, and he needs the votes of the SPD to decide basically anything

And yet, despite having instant access to the Internet you write this utter bullshit. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

But that’s kind of the point of the Turing test: a true AI with human level intelligence distinguishes itself by not being susceptible to probing or tricking it

It is so disgusting that Merz deliberately prevented this with pleasure when the traffic light coalition was still in power.

The traffic light coalition, or at least the remaining red-green part of it, is still in power. The new Bundestag is elected but has not constituted yet. Merz now tries to use the majorities of the parting Bundestag and government to secure funds for his time in office, but his proposal will have the next governments run into pretty much the same problems again.

Great summery, but I have one addition: The CDU tries to use a qualified majority that could have formed at any time before the election but will be gone after the new Bundestag constitutes. That also means that while they will likely lead the next government, right now they are still the opposition