Norwegian fuel company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced it will cease supplying fuel to U.S. military forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.

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[–] 133 points 2 years ago (73 children)

This will continue (the whole of America suffering) until someone wrangles in Trump...

... or he gets us into a major war we can't win.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (58 children)

    This will continue (the whole of America suffering) until someone wrangles in Trump…

    When Republican Senators profits or jobs become at risk, because of what Trump's doing, then you'll see some wrangling done.

    This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (47 children)

    Genuine question: why is this comment licensed under creative commons?

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    He's the equivalent of one of those Facebook people that thinks "if you put this at the end of your posts they can't steal your comments". It's nonsense and doesn't change anything. Just ignore it and keep scrolling.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    I miss the old web, where if someone wanted to RP as a alien or a cat or something in all their forum posts, we just kind of rolled with it. The internet was strange and diverse.

    So many people are dog piling this guy because, in essence, he isn't conforming. He's including a little forum signature on his lemmy posts in 2025.

    Just ignore it and keep scrolling.

    I agree, but not in a "this guy is an idiot" kind of way, but in a "do whatever you want and keep the internet diverse and strange" kind of way. Let the guy have his small protest. Folks need to stop dog piling him. It shows up in many of the threads he's in, and judgments about his little signature dominate over anything he actually had to say.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I remember decades ago, this one guy on Slashdot would end all his comments with a period on a line by itself like he was using SMTP. It was dumb then and it's dumb now.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago*

    Hm, interesting. So this guy was posting all weird on slashdot, and you remember decades later? And you carried that with you, and it inspired you to type this comment. That's a lot of commitment on your part for a stray period.

    That's pretty funny. Thank you for sharing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It shows up in many of the threads he’s in, and judgments about his little signature dominate over anything he actually had to say.

    Yep, yep. Like right here for example. And this was going on 9-10 months ago too, its a bi-daily thing.

    A single line of text that is a link to a Creative Commons license really shouldn't be pissing off so many people.

    I mean, do people also get pissed off when they scroll down the bottom of each and every Wikipedia page, and see the CC license there? Or read an news article that has a license footer at the end of the article?

    To be tinfoil hatty about it for a moment, I really do believe at this point that I'm being attacked repeatidly (every 48ish hours) by a bot brigade used by someone(s) who really doesn't want others to start doing what I'm doing, licensing their content, by harassing me off of Lemmy.

    My licensing is not just to tell for-profit entities that they can't use my content for free, its to tell non-profit open-source projects that they can use my content for free.

    I agree, but not in a “this guy is an idiot” kind of way,

    Yeouch. I thank you for the support, but damn that hurts too.

    For the record, I truly believe that the Safe Harbor laws, and that Laws trump ToS, means that I truly own the content that is being posted here (and so do you and everybody else who posts/comments, for that matter). Even if its not being inforced today, the laws are on the books, and this will come to a head a some point.

    I mean, look at whats going on right now with Mozilla/Firefox and their ToS changes. Corporations sure are not shy to use licensing of their content to the best of their abilities.

    Why should only corporations avail themselves and be protected by the law? Why is everybody else so quick to surrender the little protections under the law that they have, and to ridicule others who try to use the law to their benefit?

    Take a moment, and really think that one though. Its like there's a Corporate version of Order 66 going on or something. 😜

    By the way echolalia@lemmy.ml, while I started to reply to you directly, the above is really a response to everyone who would be intellectually honest in judging my actions and take a moment to think it though before replying to me.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think that you should keep posting with your signature if it makes you happy. I have some sincere doubts it will force a corporation to exclude your content from any aggregated data, though, nor do I think anyone is giving up their rights by not properly licensing their comments here. Copyright is automatic in the USA. The problem isn't the licensing, its the fact that no court is properly enforcing these rights. And, too few governments have data privacy laws on the books.

    I'm not interested in relitigating those points though, I'm sure you've heard them. I guess I'm just typing that up so you know where I'm coming from.

    I do think your signature is valuable when it makes people consider who owns their data, and why the CC license is important.

    Personally I think you should put an explanation in your bio. I think your message will be served better if you can point to a pre-written explanation (or even an old style FAQ). But, I don't think you're obligated to do so. Its all gravy. People are going to fight you regardless.

    Did you see that post from that guy mad about a period character on slashdot? Lmao

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In this way the ai bros won't use that comment for training LLMs. Because they care about copyright and they would never, for example, download a torrent with 81 terabytes of pirated ebooks

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It does nothing, but some people think it messes with AI and keep doing it.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hasn't it been abundantly clear that no group training an AI cares about the sourcing at all?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    What if Elon has already bought them all? It doesn't take much for a jizzilionaire like him

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    His wealth is mostly imaginary. If he actually moved to solidify any significant portion of it, it would all collapse as its tied up in very few companies.

    When he was at a listed value of 200 billion he had to get 20-30 other groups and governments together for the whole twitter takeover. Which should have been easy for him at the time based on his net worth alone.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago
    1. It's always better to spend the money of others.
    2. It doesn't appear that bribing congresspeople is all that expensive. IIRC, it only took $60k to bribe that one congressperson who got caught.
    3. Just the threat of financing primary challengers appears to be enough to control Republican congresspeople. He's probably privately doing the same with some Dems too (offering not to finance challengers; he's already said he will finance challengers to all Democrats).
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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I’m hoping the Canadians invade into an area I live so I can join their side.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I still think Mexico is looking pretty cool lately with their badass President.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I doubt anyone really wants that, other than possibly the USA and Israel. I hope the rest of the world will curb our worst impulses, since we're clearly refusing to do it, ourselves.

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