matlag

Go explain that to Iran's leaders. Good luck!

On 9/11, the message sent was very unclear ("we hate you for your overall activity in the middle-east and the rest of the world" and/or "death to America").

This time, it may be very clear: "that's retaliation for the unjustified bombing of our country" (though Iran had its share of chanting "death to America", so yes, YMMV).

I agree with you, you know: more deaths will lead to more retaliations, from both sides. Someone has to act like a true adult responsible pragmatic leader now. But there is none in power on either side.

Or Ukraine's civilians. Or the 500k--2M dead civilians during the war against Iraq. Oh, sorry, those were "collateral"...

Usually citizens are not considered fair targets. They're just targeted all the same.

Iran does not have the military capabilities to fight off Israel, let alone the USA. So they will most likely use terrorist attacks, targeting civilians, because that's the best hope they have to end the war: when the people back home get serious about ending it as they're taking losses.

Unfortunately, and as usual, the very important people who decide to keep going or stop are also the least likely to see their life at risk. And in this case, they also happen to not give a flying fuck about civilians lives.

They've invested way too much to admit it's almost totally useless, and only useful in niche app, using sketchy conditions (training material IP...) and under tight control.

So they engage into heavy marketing and comms ops to convince the world that "AI" (very vague term BTW, what they offer right now should rather be called systems resulting from stochastic learning, credit for that naming suggestion is not on me) was a revolution and whoever doesn't get on board will be left behind in the dust.

It worked really well: corporate world is embracing the "AI everywhere" idea.

So now, everyone is competing to provide "the best AI assistant". And believe it or not: some people do ask for it!

It's not just the funding, it's the business overall. Public companies need to show growing revenues year to year, and worse: growing revenues with a minimum yield. A product can grow by attracting more users up to a certain point. Then the only way to grow is by making more money out of the same users base. If the revenue is based on ads:

• Extend the product so that the user's engagement increases (channels/others kind).
• Add paying features (freemium approach, that includes blue stars or whatever the hell you want it to look like…)
• Serve them ads

Freemium is not always working well and Meta never used it. They have no new great idea to extend the product without eating their other products users bases. So the only one left is more ads.

Funding is not the issue, for-profit companies are. Non-profit is the way to go. Federation is even better as individuals/families/small organizations can run their own servers.-

That's why France 's De Gaulle wanted its own bomb in the first place: he was convinced the US would not risk mutual annihilation if the USSR really invaded western Europe. See also how shy the west has been shy with supplying Ukraine because Russia kept threatening to use a nuke in the area.

France nuke's umbrella for Greenland would be but a PR op only. Neither Macron nor anyone after him would ever nuke the US over Greenland.

That should help:

https://newschecker.in/fact-check/princeton-universitys-3d-rendering-of-adam-looks-like-vin-diesel-heres-the-truth-behind-viral-claim

This is a repeat of a satire.

Wow! Adam was trimming his beard so nicely!

After all, wxthout proper ID, there is no reason to believe they are ICE and not some street gangs in the kidnapping for ransom business.

Well, they're supposed to snatch innocent people, kids, break apart families, so I think it's granted they must be some kind of sadistic psychopaths.

After that, the way they try to get around the illegality of what they're doing suggests they're also very, very, very dumb.

"Well... if they promise that this time it will be different and they will only deport criminals and not the others..."

But so you know well that a party committing to change the voting system will have a change of heart after realizing the current system brought them to power. (I'm in Canada too ;) ).

This illustrates the issue of having only 2 political parties. You used to have left and right. Then the right extended all the way to batshit crazy nazi while losing touch with the centre-right, and it collapsed to keep only t̂he nazis. Meanwhile the "left" extended to centre then all the way to the economic right.

Now you have a nazi party and an everything else party, and people ask the last to "get their shit together", as if socialists would sort out their differences with neo-liberals and conservatives over a quick diner and build a common ground plan.

That just can't work.