It isn’t meaningless.
It is not enough in itself and being like “well i said it, now all is done from my side” is problematic.
Still it is important to call it out as a mean to pressure those with direct power to enact consequences to do so.
When was the last time Iran invaded land to settle it with its own people?
There is also the Hannibal directive that was used against Civilians that die.
Israel killed a non disclosed number of its own Civilians to prevent them being taken hostage. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-07/israel-hannibal-directive-kidnap-hamas-gaza-hostages-idf/104224430
Attacking Civilians and killing yourself are haram.
Also note how they guy initially planned to target Shia muslims.
“The witness observed the user of Crazz3pain state they were willing, as reported by the Witness, to ‘kill Shia Musilms at their mosque,”
Fuck Wahhabis, Salafis and their toxic influence on Islam while being in bed with the US and other imperialists.
I strongly recommend you to listen to Ilan Pappe. He describes well how Israels society has deep internal rifts as the narrative of Zionism ultimately failed to build a cohesive society.
So ultimately Israel needs the eternal war for two main reasons:
See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9rr3j7vZGo
Special systems = indiscriminate bombing of residential building at night to maximize civilians murdered
More like:
“Should we publish your search results, that text with your affair and have your teenager arrested for his drugs? No? Then come over to the office on Friday at 4 PM and suck our dicks. We mean that literally by the way. Brush your teeth beforehand.”
Quality over quantity.
Great places to socialize are sports-clubs, social-clubs, volunteering, activism, religious communities…
I’d much rather spend five hours a week distributed over two or three occasions with people i share interests with, than with people i share work with. Meanwhile at work i am mostly engaged in small talk, that is quite repetitive as i see the people every day and i have to guard what i can say and what i cannot say more than in other circles.
Also bring an ID and some cash. E.g. to buy some snacks/meal/water if the day goes longer than you planned for.
You just described that he is in fact indifferent.
It is not like we don’t have easy to access knowledge about authoritarianism and how it plays out. It is not like we lack information about the criminal and murderous stuff Palantir is involved. FFS the company is owned by a guy who lets himself be “refreshened” with the blood of younger people.
Anyone who does a minimal level of due diligence in looking up his employer knows what kind of company it is. And it is an intelligence company, so the type of people working there must bring a higher level of research and diligence skills.
They know exactly what they are doing and they are fine with it.
Police issues a dispersal order, but blocks all routes to safely leave the area.
Congratulations, you will now be charged as having committed a crime and good luck proving in a court that there was no realistic option for you to leave.
Also police seizes your phone. Congratulations now they access your data and either go after people you have had contact with or they claim you to be part of a criminal organization as they pin other charges on people they found a connection with.
I recently had an online event about using “AI” in my industry, construction.
The presentor finished on “Now is no the time to wait, but to get doing, lest you want to stay behind”.
She gave examples of some companies she found that promised to help with “AI” in the process of designing constructions. When i asked her, if any of these companies are willing to take the legal risk that the designs are up to code and actually sound from an engineering perspective, she had to deny.
This sums it up for me. You get sold a hype by people who dont understand (or dont tell) what it is and isnt to managers who dont understand what it is and isnt over the heads of people who actually understand what it is or at least what it needs to be to be relevant. And these last people then get laid off or f*ed over in other ways as they have twice the work than before because now first they need to show to management why the “AI” result is criminal and then do all the regular design work anyways.
It is the same toxid dynamic like with any tech bro hype before. Just now it seems to look good at first and is more difficult to show why it is not.
This is especially dangerous when it comes to engineering.
Not just Russia.
Israel, US, China, North Korea, India and other countries… Nuclear Lobby, Fossil Fuel Lobby and countless other industry lobbyists… Private companies advertising their products…
I know that people here generally like to shit on Brave, but it seems that the claim “Privacy by default” has held up in this context.
Using machine learning including neuronal networks, generative AI based off of neuronal networks and so on exist well longer than since the past few years.
“DeepDream” was released as a software ten years ago. Research into LLMs exists since at least the 90s.
“AI” also has been a hype term in many industries since a decade, just that it reached the general public with the ChatGPT hype.
“our crypto is backed in value by bitcoin”
If i understood it correctly, meta wants to slap its own crypto-currency on everything.
LLMs among other things lack the whole neurotransmitter “live” regulation aspect and plasticity of the brain.
We are nowhere near a close representation of actual brains. LLMs to brains are like a horse carriage compared to modern cars. Yes they have four wheels and they move, and cars also need four wheels and move, but that is far from being close to each other.
We have never been at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with East Asia