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  • Not really. The people criticising society are doing so because they want to live in a society but a better version of it. The alternative of building another society is monumental.

    The people booing AI seem to fundamentally oppose what it has done, what it is doing and what it will do. But they choose to directly support this product through contributing to the user count, funding, data collection, imrpvoement, normalisation. The alternative is them losing next to nothing by ignoring it. They probably even gain by not using ai.

    But comment was not about the audience specifically because I’m sure some of them avoid ai. It was directed at the article claiming that young people hate AI and me saying but they use and they do have a very high adoption rate. If I recall its something like 80% use it weekly highest of any age group.






  • No not really. With sap you get enterprise support response, a massive pool of specialists to hire from and a base that makes it easy to build exactly to your needs. If your business is good it doesnt matter that you spend more on sap because at the end of the day it gets out of the way and let’s you focus on your business.

    I dont see many businesses that want to build their own solution and maintain it.








  • You cannot say “Soviets sided with the Nazis lie" its objectively the truth. You can give reasons and excuses why they did but you cannot say that they didnt. The summary of your argument was Soviets were the only people fighting facism using the spanish civil war as an example. The Soviets were the only ones who saw the threat of Germany and they pursued aliiances to counter hilters rise. The made generous offers of support and it was refused. I dont even get your point about poland its just gross and doesnt help at all. They had to make an alliance with Germany to buy time for them to build up their military.

    Overall I think those are pretty weak arguments when you have the full historical context. In order for me to be convinced to your side you would need to make the case that the soviets were genuinely opposed to facism and were not just acting on opportunities that were beneficial with/without ideology. You would need to show that the Soviets attempted to form a diplomatic alliance against the nazis. You would then need to make the case that the USSR was forced into an alliance with the Nazis.

    It all falls apart when you start going over the context of each of these events. Look at the soviet motivation for assisting in the civil war, they were paid good for all the support they provided and benefited by gaining and ideological foothold in western europe as well as valuable military testing. Even with all that they couldnt help themselves and were purging the people that were supposed to be on their side during the fight against facisim. Also you completely ignore the fact that the countries around were democracies that were ideologically split and had just gone through a great war.

    There is a lot say about this but I really dont want to spend hours digging through all the communications so this is off the dome. Russia is a very very bad faith actor in europe. They had just killed off their entire officier core. The only way they could assist was crossing countries that would absolutely not let them cross and most of Europe knew that once the red army arrived in those countries they’d never leave. To act like they were really pushing for a security pact is weak, there is no reason why any of the western powers should have trusted the soviets there was nothing to gain and they risked escalation in doing so. Keep in mind that the Soviets were also building relations with germany and as they got a deal with germany they dropped Litvinov and divided up europe. At the time this happened there was no threat pushing them to rush into this deal. They liked what they heard from Hitler they liked the idea of working together to carve up europe.

    Lastly the soviets didnt just work with germany to buy time, they provided full direct war support to allow germany to wage war against europe. There were no signs that the soviets had any plans to change anything until Hitler backstabbed them.

    There is so much more to be said about this argument and many people way smarter than I who have fleshed out this case. I could talk about appeasement but I don’t believe its relevant enough to change any of the points here. I believe this argument is completely settled between scholars and the only people still repeating the soviet side are doing so for ideological reasons and do not care for the historical accuracy.