OK, das mag sein.
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Dubai is likely the most well-known part of the UAE, so you may have heard people mention Dubai as if it were a country (because the audience might associate more with "Dubai" than "UAE"), without them meaning to imply that it's a real country.
There are certainly irredentist movements in many parts of the world that want to restore previous states of geopolitics, including the existence of the Soviet Union.
A country is ultimately a country if it is recognized as such by other countries. There are videos on the Internet that give greater details (search for keywords like "how many countries are there"). There are many places that some other countries say are countries, others not.
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Out of the ones you mention, Dubai is in fact not a real country and I have not seen anyone claim that it is; it is a city and region of the country called the United Arab Emirates.
Israel isn't universally recognized by all countries because some countries claim it is illegitimate (for religious reasons, because they say it is a colonialist project, etc. etc.).
Belgium is a country with different parts speaking different languages also spoken in neighboring countries, that is why some people have claimed it's not (culturally) its own country, but I don't think anyone seriously refuses to recognize it as a country.
As for Latvia, no idea whatsoever what you're talking about.
So the question as asked is unanswerable because you're giving confusing and inconsistent examples.
2010-ish: copying is not theft, stealing a thing leaves one less left, copying it makes one thing more, that's what copying's for... 🎵🎶🎵🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
2025:
I'm myself not overly enthusiastic about AI, not at all. I think LLMs are mostly bullshit generators with very little practical use. But from a public policy point of view, the stance that training AI should require consent of or payment to the copyright holders is IMHO wrong; if we accept it, what is next? Humans summarizing and paraphrasing sources (e.g. for a wiki article) should require consent/payment? Humans learning from sources should require consent/payment? I think wanting a free and open society means taking the side of AI operators, not copyright holders, in this matter.
Du sprichst mir aus der Seele. Ich finde persönlich auch warme Temperaturen deutlich erträglicher als kalte. Ich war heute fast den ganzen Tag draußen (bin im Urlaub) und hab das sehr gut ausgehalten, bei 10 Grad Celsius würde mir das im Traum nicht einfallen.
Trotzdem ist der Klimawandel real und sollte thematisiert werden.
probably not, maybe you could ask a former sysadmin of lemm.ee whether they have a copy of the database and can extract this data for you, but if that doesn't work, they're probably gone