This is my suspicion as well.

That is indeed quite interesting!

But one of the biggest issue with these people is the total disconnect from actual normal life and communities. They see everything as computer program or tech device.

Just like that millionaire trying to extend his life with thousand dollars worth of pills a month and daily schedules impossible to normal working people. When what research has shown is that people who live the longest have plant based diets and are active members of their communities.

That should be the headline. Assuming it was done without consent, which lets face it, it most likely was.

Edit: It came to my attention that Japan has a more open stance to AI training on copyright materials. It does however say that

Accordingly, the focus is that ingestion of copyrighted material is prohibited if the intention is to output products that can be perceived as creative expressions of copyrighted works, including mimicking the style of specific creators.

Not a laywer but all these memes created by the ChatGPT look like creative expressions that mimic the style.

Read more here

Where would military equipment to rival the one from the US come from?

Edit: Did a quick search on the largest military manufactors and out of the top 10, 1 is English, 3 are Chinese and the remaining 6 are American, so none are European.

If the US decides that Europe can’t buy equipment they are in a good position to do so.

I forgot how good HxH is. Need to rewatch it again sometime.

Many many years ago, a friend of mine installed a remote control plugin on another friends Foobar (music player) without their knowledge. He then proceeded to troll by messing with the volume and the track playing, not only when he was visiting but also when he would pass by the house. He would check if Foobar was being used and then would troll a bit before continuing. This went on for about 4 months. The other dude was going insane trying to figure out what was happening.

Thanks, I Hate It

This was the same reason for me.

To be fair that advice does work for Index Funds which are low risk and meant to be gathering interest over many many years. For stock trading yeah, you have to be on top of things