I canceled ChatGPT because I would be on vacations. Codex was pretty great, but I thought "Let me put 10 bucks on Deepseek API and plug it into Claude Code".

I was completely blown away. I found it even better than Claude or Codex. And those 10 bucks? It lasted for more than a month.

I don't see myself coming back to Claude/OpenAI.

I heard that argument more than one year ago, when chain of thought and reasoning cycles started to be hudden to protect against distillation.

Meanwhile, models as DeepSeek and MiMo are nothing short of excellent nowadays.

Ever since I switched away from OpenAI to DeepSeek I never felt the need to go back.

Thousands of years? Are you talking about celts?

Because Romans later arrived in Britannia and founded Londinium. Is it British when it was founded by those pesky Romans?

Or are you complaining about later populations, such as Vikings or Normans? I mean, they haven't been to the British isles for thousands of years. How can Britain be British with those smelly frenchmen?

Unless what you really are trying to do is complain that Britain now has too many brown people.

What the EU needs to get rid of is of the veto power. Otherwise I welcome our neighbors to the east as long as they are willing to play by the rules.

My guess is yes.

It's one of the best things that the EU brings.

I am still to see a solid counter to what he brings up there.

If this was AI generated (which I am not convinced of given the full text), it escapes my alarm bells.

Does not dodge responsibility, offers a good explanation, agrees that current vetting process is imperfect.

Why would I bother talking to you about Bundesliga, Champions League, Libertadores Cup or whatever else?

Also, I worked with many people from Eastern Europe. Apart from Lithuania, I think all other countries are interested in Football more than in Basketball.

Go to places where you find good Basketball players. Germany, former Yugoslavian countries, Spain, Argentina... All those places are primarily Football countries.

You will find a few people interested in the sport, some youngster might be playing it for fun, but still very much behind football.

It's just not comparable.

Maybe the only parallel to soccer I can think of is sports like Rugby in UK and some English-speaking countries, Cricket in India, and some sports endemic to countries (such as GAA in Ireland).

The best way to compare the US to other countries in a sport that is similar in terms of interest among other countries is something like Volleyball. Which the US tends to be very good at, with many major competitors. I can't think of anywhere that volleyball is a #1 sport that sees a lot of unstructured play.

All this was obviously about team sports.

I was managed by a fair share of those that had absolutely no fucking idea of how I did my job.

Plenty of options for chat apps where your account is essentially your phone number. People would quickly organize around one of the options.

It also has no path to become profitable.