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— and when looking for the war machine art, I found these ones I also made in Jan 2020, which now have me wondering what other ops might be in store for 2025… 🤔
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Al Manar: The US president, who has said that Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon, has been weighing the possibility of military intervention against Iran for several days.
NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on […]
Die globale Weltordnung ersetzt durchs persönliche Empfinden einer Berdohung von jedem der gerade eine Waffe zur Verfügung hat - als neuen moralischen Standard für die Welt.
>>Israel's Heritage Min (sigh) Amichai Eliyahu: "We set a new global moral standard: if someone threatens your life, you act without hesitation to neutralize the threat. This is both moral & just. That's why we are now also working with the Iranian opposition–which is a blessing"<< (Gefunden bei Noga Tarnopolsky
Die Moral in diesem Standard ist dann nicht "wir gehen gemeinsam unter Beachtung von Recht und Gesetz gegen eine Bedrohung vor".
Nein. Sondern das ist das Verständnis von einem rechtsextremen Anhänger von Verschwörungserzählungen, der jemand Maske tragen sieht und total ausrastet. Oder der in seiner Stammkneipe im Biergarten jemand mit dunkler Hautfarbe sieht und sich bedroht fühlt und den Typen einfach mit seinem Kumpel der einen Baseballschläger hat zusammenschlägt.
Auch ein Spiegelbild zur Armee in Gaza, die einem bestimmten Bereich Palästinenser sieht & das direkt gleichsetzt mit Bedrohung und tödliche Schüsse abgibt.
Das alles hochgerechnet auf die globale Ebene als neuen Standard in der Welt läuft dann darauf hinaus, dass man alle Waffen die man zur Verfügung hat nutzt und alle potentiellen Feinde einfach platt macht. Weil man es kann & weil man die Logik verinnerlicht hat. Eine faschistoide Haltung die absolute Dominanz verlangt & in Weltkriege führt.
In the next weeks I anticipate we will hear a lot about Iran's ~400 kg of 60% enriched uranium, which they will probably refer to using the more scary phrase "Highly Enriched Uranium" or HEU.
They will talk about how it is "out of control," which means the IAEA doesn't have tracking of it.
This COULD be enriched to weapons-grade, and used for a bomb, IF they have an enrichment facility to do it in. That's a very very VERY big if. There's a very high chance their only three facilities were just destroyed.
I think the odds of having a secret facility outside the knowledge of the international community is low. Not only are they hard to hide, but they're almost impossible to build without raising flags. As it turns out, a lot of centrifuges require very specialized equipment and parts. You can't build a nuclear facility in secret very easily.
This is RIPE for fear mongering. I'm not a non-proliferation expert but I'll do my best to keep folks informed, as well as boost any voices or sources I find on the matter. As always happy to field questions.
This is all an estimate. Because as it turns out Trump pulled us out of the JCPOA like a goddamn idiot, so all of the JCPOA-related surveillance was removed.
I was also under the impression (not a nuclear expert, do know something about centrifuges from working with a variety of them) that getting from 60% to weapons grade is very difficult. The closer you get to the higher grade the more difficult/time+power consuming the process becomes to enrich for the desired isotopes.
And per your centrifuges comment: I've tried to mimic 2-4 h in a 200,000xg centrifuge by running a 20,000xg for 48 hours and it was just starting to get to what I wanted? Trying to use off the shelf/not the right stuff for this would probably make it totally impractical.
They will embrace W-Cheney's so-called 'One Percent Doctrine' heading into Iraq II ... namely, that if there's a 1 percent chance of something bad happening, it's reason enough for committing the country to stopping/defending it.
Fearmongering fringe probabilities makes it all the easier to do.
FT - Germany and Italy are facing calls to move their gold out of New York following President Trump’s repeated attacks on the US Federal Reserve and increasing geopolitical turbulence. ft.com/content/e39390cc-ea02-4…
"A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he does not buy cars and does not borrow money to buy. He does not pay for insurance policies. He does not buy fuel, does not pay for the necessary maintenance and repairs. He does not use paid parking. He does not cause serious accidents. He does not require multi-lane highways. He does not get fat. Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. They don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product). On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself." Choose carefully: cyclist or McDonald's? It is worth considering. P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles. P.P.S. If you have read this far and still don't get it, this post is SATIRE. Reread it with this in mind.
If anyone has an AI subscription and wants to see if it can transcribe into piano sheet music the following song, I'd be happy to review/test the results.
Complaining about retaliation after you strike a country unprovoked using false pretenses is the best example of the MAGA grievance complex in recent memory.
Like, Israel's politics are so MAGAfied and Trumpian to be a parody of MAGA.
"but the Iranian regime" (that America helped create) "But the WMDs" (that they dont have) "You're a terrorist for opposing war with Iran" (war with Iran is itself an illegal act of aggression)
The Hasbarists can't even spell Khamenei correctly.
Fascists in general have an extremely unjustified victimhood complex that they use to justify everything they do.
Every strategic misstep and every retaliation is actually a big conspiracy on a part of the "enemy" population to destroy the "master race" in the eyes of these people. Every uprising is framed as an assault on the "master race" itself that must be suppressed by any means necessary. It doesn't matter to the Nazis the grievances of the people they oppress, because "yuo see they aren't people 🤓"
The Germans believed, through a contrived and self contradictory argument, that the Holocaust was self defense against the "Judeo-Bolshevist" threat.
It doesn't matter that the Nazis nearly conquered all of Europe. They believed themselves to be the victim of the Jews and the Communists until the end, when Hitler shot himself and Goebbels poisoned himself and his children.
Fascists simultaneously want to have the leeway of being an aggrieved and oppressed victim while simultaneously possessing enough military and political power to achieve world domination.
I see the same contradictory mess of "we're the master race" in conjunction with "we are in existential danger because of the untermenschen" in Israeli politics and US politics both.
Yes, you are very right. It should be added that The State of Israel serves as a model for nazis everywhere and even for conservatives who don't openly out themselves as nazis. It's a lawless country that breaks all human conventions and commits blatant crimes against humanity with impunity. It's their utopia.
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Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter joined CN Live! on Sunday morning to discuss the U.S. bombing of Iran, its impact and what might follow.
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(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)
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"It's the Christians' fault!" Lol. What's funny about it is religion is not even needed to base an argument on. It's common sense. I never use it that way. It's automatically rejected without a 2nd thought. I know atheists who think the same as I do. It makes for great discussion and we lead by example.
The strikes mark the largest B-2 operational strike in U.S. history, with officials estimating the three targets struck in Iran had 'sustained extremely severe damage and destruction' ■ Vice President Vance says U.S.
#Zionists presses #US on #Fordow nuclear facility "We won't wait two weeks, we will attack on our own" #warcriminal Netanyahu believes the window of opportunity may be closing and that the two-week window for diplomacy is wide Tense phone calls with Netanyahu, Vance and other top US officials.
@ecpoir And the nightmare continues end of tourist revenue lost revenue from boycotts political and social division over Iran's retaliation resulting in thousands of residents leaving One step before total destruction
There's a definite place for software piracy. The only reason 40 year old me pays for a subscription to PhotoShop (that's out of my pocket), is because teenage me stole PhotoShop and got really comfortable with it.
@CSB I used generative fil last year and it wasn't terrible, but not overly impressive either. It's been a long time since I've tried it again so maybe it's gotten better.
Israel has admitted to arming an ISIS-linked gang in Gaza. We talk to Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada who explains why.Read more here: https://electroni...
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker Source: Attributed, not found in any of his writings, originally mistakenly appeared in Barlett's Familiar Quotations
OSINT is a psyop invented to spread western propaganda. It was co-opted with the Ukraine invasion. It existed prior to it as a list of research tactics online.
Osint as a fad has been completely coopted. Osint as a function is still going strong on this side. It's just a fancy word for what /cow/boys were doing a decade ago, while /sg/, kiwifarmers and similar are doing nowadays.
Their online Ukraine psyop has been their most successful this far. They have been trying to copy GG and Trump2016 type of online organization for years and they were finally successful. An irl friend of mine was completely mind broken by it.
“If there’s nothing to hide, let the journalists in.”
Speaking on the BBC, British journalist Piers Morgan delivered a scathing critique of Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza and its refusal to grant access to international media.
He condemned the humanitarian crisis, accusing Israeli forces of starving a civilian population already devastated by war, and targeting people queuing for limited food aid.
Morgan emphasised the gravity of reported shootings at aid distribution points, calling the situation “shocking” and urging greater transparency. He questioned why international outlets, including the BBC, are being denied entry to Gaza, suggesting that such restrictions indicate an attempt to hide the true scale of the crisis.
Notice how Whataboutism had to be reinvented in 2016 when Trump got elected so that double standards of democrats cannot be pointed out, because that would be Whataboutism to point out double standards and automatically discredited
Sankoré, the famous medieval mosque-university at Timbuktu (in present-day Mali), was set up around the 12th century and is proof that Africans have always pursued knowledge. (I remember a senior professor who was quite shocked to discover that Timbuktu exists...)
I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @karenhao's Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished the book, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It needs to be required reading for everyone in the tech industry, or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.
The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company.
I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI. I've never been to fully articulate why I had such an aversion to them, but once you read Empire of AI, you'll understand.
Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it.
Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.
Just finished it and... wow. The absurd energy demands of GenAI completely divorced from reality. Data annotation sweatshops. Sociopaths trumpeting a better future as they fail again and again to make a better now.
A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.
That being said, some games simply can't be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won't. If it's an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.
I’ve seen some folks complain about its size, but it’s like 8 or 9gb. Small price to pay if you ask me for how turnkey it is. Besides storage is cheap now.
Especially when you consider Windows is like 20-30GB
I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going.
No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.
In Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom, Israeli anthropologist Maya Wind, a researcher at the University of British (…)
thierry 3b2 If Israel is eventually brought to heel, it will take years to deprogram this society. It will take a long time for them to comprehend what they were like.
Are they crazy enough to assassinate Iranian leadership or even use nuclear weapons? Yes.
They murdered hundreds of thousands in Gaza in front of the world and they shoot innocent people trying to get food every day. They absolutely will assassinate leaders and use WMD
One of anthropology’s great cautionary tales involves the American anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead travelled to Samoa in the 1920s and described in her book Coming of Age in Samoa a society totally free of the Western world’s sexual taboos, to its great benefit. The book captivated Western audiences and seemed to suggest a happy alternative to our damaging complexes and hangups, a world of joyful love and sex without guilt and shame — until it was revealed, decades later, by Derek Freeman, that Mead’s informants had been systematically lying to her about their sexual lives because she was an outsider and a woman. The whole thing was a dream. Mead’s Samoa didn’t exist and never had.
Critics of liberalism and multiculturalism, especially critics of the postmodern variety, see them both as a kind of Western imperialism, whilst denying that they are such. These people are right. Presented as neutral political and interpretive frames that allow the world’s great multitude of peoples to live happily side by side and “be who they really are” in peace and harmony, liberalism and multiculturalism are nothing of the sort. They smuggle in values, not least of all a commitment to moral universalism, to individual over group, to law over custom, that are utterly partial in their origin and force, and to which the vast majority of people throughout history have not subscribed and probably couldn’t even if they wanted to.
The multicultural experiment forced on Britain and other Western nations by their ruling classes is not a genuine encounter with the Other. It’s a dangerous fantasy, a delusion of shared humanity that ends in disaster. We’ve been told these people are just like us, though they may wear a different skin colour and worship a different god — but they’re not. Just how different they are is a lesson our rulers still have yet to learn, if they even care to learn it at all, but one tens of thousands of young white girls will never be able to forget.
@LaurenWitzkeDE America sent the man on the left, with a bright future ahead of him, to die for this filthy creep and his business interests on the right.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:3 KJV “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:3 KJV bible.com/bible/1/mat.5.3.KJV
From someone who was blessed enough to see on television the #ColdWar, the #GulfWar, the invasion of #Iraq (with Saddam Hussein hanged in #Baghdad to mark a job well done, take note, #Khamenei), #911, the #Afghanistan campaign, more intifadas and Gaza wars than one could possibly remember, and all kinds of raghead dictators firing AK-47s in the air for the cheer of their loyal supporters, here's how all of this is going to play out unless #Iran backs down: the #USA is going to go in there, they're going to be kicking in doors in #Tehran by the time you can say mid-term elections, and for the next 25 years they'll be there trying to have free elections and make decent people out of religious fanatics who they end up calling the Iranian Police Force.
For any space mission to launch, thousands of hours must have been spent iterating new technologies to make the spacecraft fly. The Biomass satellite, which today shared its first science data, is no exception. The probe, which carries just a single instrument on board, will perform a five-year census of all the trees on Earth to teach us more about how climate change and pests are affecting the world’s forests than we’ve ever learnt before.
I was reading that illegals are still coming and the Mexicans across the border are rioting against them. The cartels will kidnap young girls and kids for slavery from there.
After a week of anticipation, the U.S. struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Iran accuses the U.S. of “betraying diplomacy” and violating international law and the UN Charter.
"Senior officers in London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have accepted invitations to address an Israeli think tank linked to its government and intelligence service, Mossad..
A number of high-ranking MPS officers have also accepted gifts or hospitality from the Israeli embassy in London, despite MPS guidance stating that such offers be refused"
Senior Metropolitan Police officers are regular attendees at a think tank closely tied to Israel’s military and intelligence services and have accepted hospitality from its embassy in London.
While the world’s got its eyes on the war between Israel, the US, and Iran, the Zionist death machine keeps grinding on in Gaza. Our friend Hamza just dropped a gut-wrenching piece showing the brutal desperation of Palestinians trying to grab aid while dodging bullets. Reposting the video from @dropsitenews so y’all can see what that nightmare actually looks like.
L'argument selon lequel l'Iran ne peut avoir l'arme nucléaire parce qu'il est dirigé par des mollahs est l'argument le plus stupide que j'ai pu entendre. C'est parce que les USA étaient dirigés par des mollahs qu'ils ont largué 2 bombes atomiques contre la population japonaise ?
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Portland, OR, everyone. This is DHS not only starting the violence but escalating it. This is what Trump and his thugs want, the entire west coast up in flames, and they, and they alone, are inciting it. It's why they have nearly 30 tanks now stashed at the Port of LA.
Trump's trade deal with China is a rollback to the pre-trade war status quo, but with Americans paying a higher tariff rate.
Trump's tariffs will cause more economic pain to the US than China, with the World Bank projecting US growth to slow significantly. China, as the world's largest goods exporter and leader in processing critical materials, has leverage in the global economy and can respond to US restrictions with its own.
La seule chose qu'ils ont réveillé en Iran, c'est le sentiment patriotique. L'appel au soulèvement du traître Reza Pahlavi, fils de l'ancien Shah d'Iran, a été accueilli avec mépris. Désolée pour les anti-iraniens, le peuple fait bloc et sait qui l'attaque
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