Let’s see how US ambassadors and diplomats will feel in 5 years, with all the bridges to allies that are currently being burned.

Dane here. Can we just give him Hans Island, and tell him it’s all that’s left of Greenland and Canada now that the ice has melted?

They have to understand that they are more or less allowing Trump to set everything on fire. Every single one of US allies at this point hate him. He has alienated Canada, and all of Europe. He’s destabilizing NATO, and therefore the entire foundation of western democracy and defense. I doubt Australians, the Japanese, or any other established country is particularly fond of him either, or they won’t be, when he sets his sights on them.

Long-term this is a massive shot in the foot. He may be able to throw his weight around in a cage like a gorilla right now, but as allies slowly realize that the US can fundementally no longer be trusted, that cage is going to shrink. In the coming years we will likely see massive military escalation across all non-US western nations, and EU as a whole are already making moves to pull ressources out of the US.

Now that France actually is deployed in Greenland, annexation would mean instigating war with a nation with atomic weapons. Not to mention that the whole exercise is pointless - the US have always had the right to deploy in Greenland, they have always been able to establish a military presence. In fact, if he wants the golden dome there, there is an established procedure he has to follow, which historically hasn’t been a problem.

Denmark has done so much shit for the US through the years. We allowed them to hide nuclear missiles in the ice during project iceworm. They never cleaned up after themselves, and now Greenland has a nuclear hazard. We even forcibly removed a whole people (Really shitty of us too), the entire city of Thule (Uummannaq), because the US wanted a huge fucking base right where they lived. Guess who paid for those reparations 40 years later to compensate the Inuits who had their entire livelihood and home destroyed? Denmark did.

To top it off, there literally is no threat there right now. Not from the Russians. Not from the Chinese. The only threat is Trump. Yes, the Russians are trying to sabotage infrastructure, and the Chinese are trying to make investments. But NATO has pretty much been able to handle that.

Might have to be a saving throw actually

At nedsætte en arbejdsgruppe er sådan et herligt dansk diplomatisk våben. Det er overhovedet ikke Trump agtigt lol

Yeah it’s honestly hard to understand for me and come to terms with. Most Americans I know don’t want any part in this either. At least some things do give me hope, Fox News interviewed our foreign minister (Also former prime minister), and… Well I never thought I’d say this about Fox News but… It was actually really sensible and a good interview?

I mean… Even the most Trump fanatical Republican must be experience a bit of an identity crisis by now, surely?

I’ve played dungeons and dragons a lot. Does that count?

I put on my wizards hat

Edit: God, I realized that the joke I referenced is so old and niche by now in internet culture I have to provide a link: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja

Danish citizen here. This is really weird. The US have been our allies for decades, but apparently here we are.

I am mostly worried about the people of Greenland in all of this. I’ve met many people from Greenland, and they’re great people.

My group plays 2014 edition, and already here I feel like every class perk is frontloaded and stacked really early. There doesn’t seem much point to level beyond 7-10 in some cases.

Also, there are so many extra rules, extra features, extra options that experienced DM’s will include that it’s intense to learn on top of also having to adjust to a new setting. In my 90’s DND group our homebrew rules tended more towards simplification in many ways. But maybe it’s just my nostalgia glasses.

None of it is a dealbreaker though, it’s just a different way of playing. The only thing I still don’t like is how excruciatingly long encounters sometimes take, with everyone having to go through a whole turn of deciding what they want to do, rather than declaring it up front like we used to.

My DM back then also did a lot to cut down how long combat took.

Brb, setting up a Lemmy server in Red Star OS

Yeah, maybe a lot of movies are mixed for the theater experience. I have a JBL soundbar with detachable back speakers, and I do struggle a lot with modern movies.

I quickly adjusted to the new AC rules, but classes and races sure have changed lol. Tieflings? Apparently they were a thing in Planescape, but I don’t remember them. And playable orcs, and Dragonborn surprised me too.

Also, so many magic wielders. With the old wizard style of magic, it felt a bit more rare and magical to me. Magic is almost too easy to come by in newer editions. Maybe its just me.

All in all, if feels like DND has exploded in a variety of options and possibilities which is cool. Also, old dual class system and multiclassing we never used at all. Newer systems actually seem solid.

It’s weird how nice most people are when you are face to face with them. Spend enough time on X, and you forget it.

Oh I wish those were still around here. As a kid, we had an actual mom and pop owned cornershop. I went there as a kid one time to buy my dad cigarettes, and back then people knew each other and they’d call my home line asking if I was allowed.

Shop closed because the gas station opened their own competing store, and a big brand supermarket moved in. These days I’d kill to be able to walk into a small store nearby and be able to grab locally grown produce and walk out of there.

During lower points of my life, I used to drink and smoke and watch his podcast. It felt like hanging out with a friend. But it sure isn’t a friend whose opinions I’d trust on anything. More like someone I’d shoot the shit with, and then completely ignore when he switches to serious topics. I believe he knows his stuff when it comes to martial arts, but beyond that I don’t care much for his takes. Sure, tell me about aliens and how a chimp could fuck me up. That’s what I’m here for. Keep the politics out of it.

This wasn’t a thing a couple of decades ago. To this day I can still watch movies from the eighties just fine, but need subtitles for anything made within the last 10 years.

I wish people would do thinking themselves, instead of aligning their beliefs with these influencers. Rogan is and has always been fucking weird. I like his interview style, he is good at interviewing rock stars and putting the spotlight on people who are critical of the system.

But damn dude… One thing is that he is so into Trump. The whole Alex Jones saga is even more crazy to me. He has spent so much time defending Alex Jones, who is just the epitome of this kind of nonsensical rambling. I mean, I literally have a diagnosis that leads me to experience psychosis, and even I can tell that many of the people he interviews are completely spinning.

How can he take people seriously on his show, when they are literally rambling off every insane impulse on politics out loud without a filter?

Edit: I should mention though that I respect Rogan for actually speaking out. People in the Trump cult are so afraid of criticizing him, and they go along with anything he says. It’s nice to see someone from that camp actually have a nuanced opinion.

I’m from Denmark, and reading this thread is really scary. What the hell is going on over there?

What’s your hardware? I have an NVIDIA GeForce 5090, and I got the impression that debian wouldn’t be the best choice from my searches. I went with pop os instead, and while Wayland and driver support works great (Safe for some vendor specific issues like LCD and sensors not working), cosmic is honestly too much of a hassle to use right now.

I’ve always loved debian. There’s a reason it’s a favorite on servers, and so many distros are built on it. Stable, reliable, gets the job done really well. As long as the job doesn’t require the newest packages.