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  • The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran

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  • No. For gawd sakes. They ain't talking to God, y'all.

    They are looking at what Putin and the Russian oligarchs have, and looking at what the Saudis and the Oil Oligarchs have, and saying "I want that!"

  • The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran

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  • Oh please. I wouldn't believe this administration cumulatively attended 10 regular Sunday church services in the past 20 years.

    It ain't got nothing to do with God or any religion. They are as religious as Russia. It's about creating a global oligarchy with themselves at the top.

  • The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran

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  • Oh, I'm sure we bombed the snot out of not-iran during the exercise. But the lesson is that technology advantage doesn't win wars. (Didn't win Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan either. Also didn't help Russia win Ukraine or Afghanistan.)

  • The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran

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  • In the 2000s, the American military held a massive joint exercise on the invasion of a mountainous middle eastern nation. (It was obviously Iran without saying Iran.) The exercise was supposed to be a demonstration of America's military to show Iran that America really would wipe them out if a war ever happened, which looked inevitable at the time.

    A very talented US General was chosen to lead the not-Iran side. He was given the resources that Iran was believed to have at the time. And through a series of very expertly timed and choreographed attacks he won. He crushed the US Navy. The whole exercise was a massive embarrassment for the military. The big media announcements were obviously all cancelled.

    Granted, the General that was put in charge of not-Iran was extremely brilliant and had very detailed knowledge and experience of US capabilities and how to exploit vulnerabilities. But it's still studied in the military schools as a case study in not underestimating your enemy.

  • How in the Hell Did Joann Fabrics Die While Best Buy Survived? It Wasn't Amazon

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  • Vampires is great way to describe them. Out of the debt they use to buy the company, they pay themselves huge "management fees". So they are taking on crazy debt to buy a company, paying themselves millions, and leaving the bank a rotten corpse to clean up.

    I really don't understand who keeps giving these people money?

  • How in the Hell Did Joann Fabrics Die While Best Buy Survived? It Wasn't Amazon

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  • Yeah. It was taking a company that is only barely financially solvent because it was grown very conservatively and had no debt, and flooding that company with debt. I mean it's not Nobel prize economics stuff here.

    Who keeps giving these VC guys money? Unless the goal is specifically to close the company the business plan made no sense.

  • More than 1,000 Kenyans lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine war, report says

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  • Misspelled "kidnapped and forced to fight".

  • Billionaire Les Wexner tells lawmakers he was 'naive' and 'conned' by Epstein

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  • Oh, you see? He was the real victim.

  • The AI bubble is NOT going to burst

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  • The bubble won't burst so long as there is more money being printed and companies can just inflate their way out of debt.

  • In just one year, the performance of the robots from China changed radically! 🤯 🤯 🤯

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  • Both of those video were clearly choreographed and sped up. Ask yourself, why do they need to fake it? (Because they are all competing for VC investment that they desperately need to continue development.)

    Find any one of these companies that released a video with a reporter present and you will see the real capabilities of these robots.

  • In just one year, the performance of the robots from China changed radically! 🤯 🤯 🤯

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  • Yes. Industrial robots are designed and programmed to do exactly one single useful thing very well. These are not industrial robots. The promise of these humanoid robots is that they will one day be generalist robots. That they will be able to do any task a human can do. That's a very very different engineering problem to solve then current single task industrial robots.

    As it stands right now, these robots, even the ones depicted in this video, can do exactly zero useful tasks. The only function they can serve is novelty entertainment. Just like AI slop. And just like AI slop, the novelty will wear off really quick.

  • In just one year, the performance of the robots from China changed radically! 🤯 🤯 🤯

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  • I highly doubt they are robust enough to assist with rescue.

    Didn't get me wrong, they are very impressive machines, but at best they are still just engineering experiments.

  • In just one year, the performance of the robots from China changed radically! 🤯 🤯 🤯

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  • No, it's still just AI slop. Even if the robot is physically moving it's still not doing anything useful. It's the physical equivalent of a slop picture.

  • What was good while it lasted?

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  • I was guilty of that very thing once. During my first programming class back in college, I wrote an Asteroids clone as a project. My professor kept sending it back telling me to fix it. I really racked my brain trying to figure out what he was sending back to me (he wouldn't tell me, I was supposed to find and correct the error). The game ran just fine. Finally a gave up and asked him to tell me the answer of what my code was doing wrong. He showed me that I had one line of code that was basically making a new instance of the entire game for every screen refresh. (I wrote it in Java, so Java was just correcting it for me in real time.)

  • What was good while it lasted?

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  • It's funny to me to see people mythologize how perfect video games were before they could be remotely updated.

    Sure, game developers rely on fix-it-later updates much more than they should today, but games had bugs back then too.

  • The Democratic Party, ICE, Trump: 13 Democratic Voters Discuss

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  • Progressive voter: "I'm sick of how old cowardly the Democrat party is."

    Me: "Are you going to run for office."

    Progressive voter: "Uh... No. That's too hard."

  • If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?

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  • One executive order. It could literally be one sentence long.

    With the exception of the spending bill, everything that's been done by this administration has been done by executive order. The real problem is that the administration ran off all the skilled and knowledgeable workers.

  • F.D.A. Reverses Decision and Agrees to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine

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  • This is, in fact, the opposite of a stable regulatory environment.

  • Is there an Episcopalianism community on Lemmy?

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  • Did you make a group?