MrPiss [he/him]

Honestly not a bad idea, and they can also let him organize or host the award shows too. He would love deciding all the decorations, pageantry, and the possibilities for celebrity gossip.

Getting to the point where tech bros are handed out bullshit military ranks like Israeli soldiers just makes sense. They’re not a junior web developer, they’re actually brigadier general of the home page.

Things happen but they don’t change much, just isn’t as catchy.

Trump is a parody of himself. He’s always doing things that are surreal and sound like a joke like with that McDonalds dinner for the athletes or whatever.

It’s a fascist tradition to have an incomprehensible death drive.

English also has no organization to oversee it like French or German does, so the rules are more described by custom than formally defined by an organization and nothing is done to make things coherent.

They have no empathy, and I expect them to learn nothing from this other than the strength of Iran’s military might. They have only learned to not punch a bear in the face and will still brutalize others when they can.

It’s something that’s been popping up in the news more frequently in the past year or so. The avian flu has been going through and destroying wildlife populations as well as farm animals. Factory farm condition make it a lot easier for the disease to mutate which scares people since we have gone through covid.

More doomer parts of the internet circulate the stories and act like it will kill a billion people and collapse the modern world. It does have a high case fatality rate currently (~60% of people who end up in the hospital) but if it transmits human to human then it will fundamentally be a different disease and less lethal. We already have a vaccine for an old strain which is good news.

It is something that should be taken seriously, but modern, neoliberal countries don’t care about having a functional society so it’s a waiting game for something to happen and see how bad it gets. No idea how long evolution will take to make it happen though.

Edit: also people who survive commonly get to have completely fucked up neurological issues.

We’ll never really know because antivaxxers are running the department of health and human services. RFK Jr. and his buddies are destroying public health in the US so we won’t have any good numbers.

I disagree because they’ll report it only after it’s wreaking havoc. Imagine if covids first city crippling outbreaks had been in the US and you basically have what could happen with the bird flu if it starts to transmit human to human. It would be a complete shitshow but they’ll go through weeks of denial and “it’s just the flu”.

Their airspace was going to be closed eventually. What ultimately matters is that the Israelis are feeling a fraction of the terror that they’ve inflicted on others and they can’t take it. These aren’t the original settlers that were violent true believers put there by the British, deeply scarred holocaust survivors, or WW2 vets who saw brutal fighting and lost part of themselves.

We’ve seen the videos of modern Israelis being genocidal cringe lords who are only really comfortable when they have overwhelming dominance. I don’t know how sustainable the zionist project is at this point but we can see a lot of it buckling. Ultimately, Israel has been getting everything that they wanted and it’s destroying everything that they’ve built.

Can’t believe Iran is denying their right to return.

That said, the US government is not interested in seeing this conflict between Israel and Iran escalate.

It’s supposed to be a policy of controlled chaos in the middle east, and an actual direct war between Israel and Iran probably isn’t what they had in mind. I don’t really know where the US wants to go from here, but I doubt direct military intervention from the US could last too long before they get a black eye.

On another note, this whole thing is really making it feel like Iran could have ended all this a long time ago by responding this way the first time around.

Important to remember that this is Operation True Promise 3. We are in a much different position from the previous two because Israel has had a pretty good winning streak of weakening the axis of resistance. During previous rounds of Israeli violence Hezbollah was a real threat and Syria was an area the resistance could operate in on Israel’s border. Israel has been getting what they wanted and their hubris (and the material conditions) brought them here to where they thought they could get away with direct attacks and escalate to this point.

A true message to rally the people.

Short term it’s probably going to be like how Israel uses it. Basically, set it up to do some data analytics and then say “the robot told us to murder those children because they were Hamas terrorists”. Offloading some of the responsibility for the genocide to the machines. Sort of reminds me of how tech bros keep making racist big data algorithms because all the training data for crime is racist and just perpetuates the status quo.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

Medium term it’s an expansion of the surveillance state and maybe some semi autonomous systems with human intervention. Probably some new wonder weapons as well. A lot of grifting will happen so it’ll be hard to know what really works until we learn how nice it burns in a riot.

Also, relatedly, I read this website that I saw on reddit the other day and it’s so laughable how little these people understand how their own tech works and how the real economy works.

https://ai-2027.com/

Structurally the article is the tech industry asking for investment and state backing but it’s very laughable when you question what is written. They don’t understand how long it take to make the basic infrastructure of their own industry. They are just reflexively racist towards the chinese at every chance they get. They also think the chat bots can generate more data to train the next chat bots until it becomes self aware. It would really just continuously eat it’s own shit until it becomes too unreliable.

I don’t see it happening anytime soon. We are several tech advances away from a real artificial general intelligence.

Right now the actual existing technology is a very advanced chat bot that can generally summarize and regurgitate information that is put into it, competent image identification, and a few other smaller things. They all generally rely on being given in a lot of information to plagiarize from. In the future these would be components of the bigger scarier AIs but they are not at that point or close to that point. (AGI is totally just five years away so invest now or be left behind)

The killer robots and drones will always require industrial production and there would need to be a big push for industrial expansion to fully roll them out, unless they’re going to be luxury weapons for the larger police forces and special operations in the military. I doubt the US would have the commitment to make mass produced cheap drones when companies can make overpriced and overengineered crap for the cops and military. We likely will see more drones in the future but nothing as cheap and reliable as what Russia had started to use in the SMO.

In 2050 things might be there but by then the Fourth Reich will hopefully have fallen out at least be contained.