@patrickcmiller yes, we know this. The reason that governments are not keen on encryption, is that even they have trouble getting at your stuff.

So they'd rather oppose geographically based sovereignty than encourage cryptographically based sovereignty.

@munin already planning the risk assessment.

if Whisky Pete forces Anthropic's hand, good people will leave and the product will fall behind anyway. So, yay! Pyrrhic victory.

Oh and $380B gets wiped off the stock market.

The US really needs to get rid of these guys, just saying...

@Ilka4You and the Mercy is undergoing a refit, so it really is just flooding the zone.

Kindly forget I said anything ;)

@randahl

@Ilka4You my point: it depends how long the hospital ship is stationed there, lets say 6 months, that might be 700 referrals that would otherwise go to Denmark that could be taken care of nearer home.

Of course the situation is a little more complicated than that, as to fly from one area to another in Greenland you may need to take flights via Denmark anyway - only a third of the population lives in Nuuk.

I agree, it's total Bullshit, the question for me is, does it bring Trump, arch Populist that he is, nearer to his goal of persuading Greenland's citizens that joining the US is a good idea?

Not to forget, that It also puts the DK or Greenlandic governments in the awkward position of refusing "help."

Currently the Mercy's is showing as in Mobile. The Comfort's transponder has been silent for 17 Days - so it may be underway with one of the task forces.

IDK It could all just be Trump living rent free in our heads again by flooding the zone. Probably this.

@randahl

@randahl so the US has two hospital ships the USNS Mercy and the Comfort both with about 1000 Beds all told. This is 10 times the capacity of Greenland's own hospital facilities.

For a lot of maladies Greenland's people are sent to mainland Denmark far away from friends and relatives and referred to the Rigshospitalet.

So while, for US citizens picking up the bill, this might seem questionable, as a hearts and minds exercise it may not be that stupid.

I guess the real question is, what happens when the orange one gets bored or offended or starts a war with a country with some military capability. Will Denmark suddenly find itself having to ship 1K patients back to Europe?