Claiming that "Windows is for power users" is ridiculous. In Windows, you're still stuck with a DOS prompt or PowerShell if you like that. In MacOS you get a full Unix prompt.

Microsoft became hostile to power users when they made the "Wizard" their primary UI design pattern. It still has some good core but with every release it gets worse.

The funny thing is that the whale LLM would be able to produce songs that the whales would find meaningful (even having conversations), but the LLM would not be able to translate it into English because the LLM has no clue what it is actually saying.

Any feature that can be produced by the vocal cords will eventually be used for language. So it's not really surprising that there are parallels in whale talk.

Indeed.

Trump didn't go to war with Iran because Israel pushed him, although they support it. Trump went to war because Saudia Arabia and the gulf states pushed him. They have been MUCH more anxious of the military power in Iran, not in the least because Iran threatens them more.

In every country there are people who want peace, and people who want war, always. Events and things change the balance of power (political power, or decision making power) in favor of those who want peace, or those who want war. We should do things that push the balance of power towards those who want peace.

In Iran, Trump is definitely pushing the balance of power towards those who want peace, effectively by killing those who want war. Hopefully he will be successful in completely pushing the balance towards those who want peace and Iran will turn into a normal country.

However there are ways to push the balance of power without killing people, and we should do those.

If you use more than you produce, you are going to run into shortages.

The rest of the world can produce enough oil to make up for the oil lost in the straits, but they can't ramp up quickly. It would take years.

btw the biggest fear right now is that Pakistan might give nuclear missiles to Iran. It's something they've talked about in the past, and if I were Iran, I would be using all my persuasive power to get one from Pakistan.

If the missile works, if the missile still exists, if it gets past missile defenses, if mine sweepers don't clear up the mines, etc.

A treaty needs to be ratified by the senate to be legally binding.

Note that Ukraine has caught on to this trick, and is now insisting that any defense treaty make it through congress. Earlier we promised to help Ukraine, but the Budepest Memorandum wasn't ratified by congress.

The Iraq war only affected Iraq.

Closing the straights affects oil from Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.

As an American, I'm still just hoping we don't end the Trump presidency in WW3.

The real question is, how will the government abuse this?

We've seen that every time we give the government power, they abuse it. This will be the same.

This would not be a problem if it weren't for war.

We should work towards world peace.

If your point is that vaping is bad, ok, I can agree with that.

If your point is that cigarettes are better than vaping, no you are wrong. Smoking is much worse. The mechanism is well understood.

Switching to vape from cigarettes will give you immediate health improvements. If a dermal patch works for you, then do that. If vape works for you, then do that. But stop the cigarettes.