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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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    US war on Iran | MEGATHREAD #2

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  • It's not just media figures saying this, it's literally members of the US government crediting Israel for starting the war. I think Israel's days as a useful US outpost are coming to an end and there's a propaganda campaign to sell the idea to the US public.

    It's basically the only way the US can back out of this war without losing too much face or spilling too much of its own blood.

  • Over 1,300 strikes recorded by Iranian Red Crescent; Senate blocks war powers resolution on Iran; 66,000 displaced in Afghanistan-Pakistan fighting

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  • WW3

  • Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices

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  • I wonder if this war is going to change the West's calculus on green energy. Recently, mostly due to the US, there's been a retrenchment of fossil fuels and a rejection of solar/wind/electric cars/bikes/etc. If there's an oil shortage everything changes.

    Or they'll turn to liquefied coal.

  • racist ai

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  • A knife doesn't pretend to be your friend and convince you to sever your arteries. Categorically different.

    Answer my question. Why would it be bad for Sam Altman to be tried for murder? If we decided that the owners of AI companies were culpable for the behavior of their chatbots and the consequences of their actions, wouldn't that solve the problem?

  • Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant

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  • Courts generally agree that a reasonable person could believe claims made in official promotional material. That's why it's not legal to outright lie in marketing and they need to go through so much trouble to properly word their statements so that they're technically true. In this case, they're just lying. They're saying the AI is safe to use for these tasks and it is not.

  • Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant

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  • More a problem with the marketing, right? Imagine if guns were marketed as safe and helpful back scratchers, and then someone shoots themselves because they used the gun to scratch their back.

  • racist ai

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  • I'm losing patience. I'm obviously fucking not talking about regular fucking objects, a knife doesn't fucking talk and convince you to kill yourself. There's an obvious categorical difference between objects, and tools designed to trick you into thinking they're intelligent. It's murder. Someone needs to face consequences.

    Why would it be bad if Sam Altman went to prison? Would the world be a worse place? Why are you protecting him?

  • they are not sending their best.

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  • How does that meme go? It sounds like Israel is feeding troops to Hezbollah.

  • racist ai

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  • Selling tools that kill people, knowing that they are dangerous, should have consequences.

    Would the world really be a worse place if Sam Altman were tried for murder? What's the problem?

  • Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

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  • It doesn't sound like people would bend over backwards to give me a job. I work in a factory and live in a trailer. They bend over backwards to give rich people jobs, and it has literally nothing to do with being queer. You're getting mad about gender, but you should be mad about inequality.

    Just as planned.

  • Hot take: Saying Americans don't fight back against the US because they're comfortable is incorrect and harmful to the left.

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  • It's not comfort, but they have something to lose i.e. three jobs is better than no jobs. They're keeping their heads down to preserve what scraps they have, because they know it can all be taken away if they don't behave. It's a very effective system of control.

    At least, it's effective as long as there are jobs.

  • U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February

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  • The difference, here, is that the wars were popular in the beginning for Bush. The people wanted war in Afghanistan and Iraq, because the regime put in the effort and spent the time necessary to propagandize the population. The wars became unpopular.

    In this case, the war started unpopular. That's the difference. Wars aren't inherently popular, there needs to be a mass mobilization of the propaganda networks to drum up support for war. They have the whole thing backwards, they're forcing the war on us and the pundits are trying to convince us its good after the fact. That absolutely won't work, it's all downhill from here.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • Right now, Iran doesn't have to set every ship on fire. The mere threat that they could has paralyzed the insurers.

    If the insurance was backed by the US they could eat the risk for the sake of keeping shipping open. Iran would be forced to attack every ship, and that would be unsustainable. Then again, like I said, that only maybe reopens the Strait. It's like you said, crews would mutiny if they all knew any voyage could be their last.

  • US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

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  • Is every strike a double tap? Or was this one picked deliberately for some reason?

  • US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

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  • Did they double tap every building?

  • U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February

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  • The War on Terror had a massive, long-term propaganda campaign behind it to win public support. They didn't bother this time. The media are trying but they didn't let the propaganda campaign cook long enough, so actual public support is very low.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • Also, it has more to do with insurance than Iran's actual force projection.

    The only way the US could maybe reopen the Strait is if they backstopped all insurance with direct government funding.

  • U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February

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  • ... how would paralyzing global energy markets distract anyone from affordability? That's just going to make things more expensive.

    I think he's just not very smart.

  • US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

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  • The double tap contradicts this. They waited for a response before hitting again, which implies eyes on the site.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say

    www.cnn.com /2024/02/21/politics/biden-considering-executive-action-to-close-southern-border-sources-say/index.html
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    Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/israel-says-ground-forces-operating-across-gaza-strip-offensive-builds-2023-12-04/
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    ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded

    www.theguardian.com /world/2023/nov/15/all-men-16-years-and-above-raise-your-hands-how-al-shifa-raid-unfolded
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    A recent argument forced me to see that "genocide" has been turned into an imprecise word, and I don't know what to do about that?

    www.un.org /en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? | Financial Times

    www.ft.com /content/95c5fcf1-c756-415f-85b8-1e4bbff24736
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed - The New York Times

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    What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?