That's too much. The management class doesn't really understand math, they don't understand statistics, they don't understand technology. They are just bullies hoping to make money somehow. They are like Trump, but not as mouthy.

The people actually building the AI are mostly just trying to build the best thing they can, or alternately, just do their job and get paid. There's no grand scheme, but if given the chance to make a billion dollars, a lot of them will take it, nevermind if it ruins the economy.

Trump will continue to be annoying for the foreseeable future.

if you're not willing to look at facts, then you can't understand the situation.

The first thing that comes up from your link is anti-government protests.

Don't make things up. Pay attention to facts, even if the facts are uncomfortable.

Where did you get this? There is no free speech in Iran, there is no public polling, you have no idea.

Again, it's extremely hard to take you seriously when you keep making things up.

It's really hard to take you seriously if you try to claim that the IRGC is not killing its own people. It's a well verified fact.

You are a fact denier.

You say that, but then ignore the funding source and board of directors for the orgs that Lennart worked for... sure. Totally just a coincidence.

In other words, they've made largely superficial changes (except 9x -> NT) quite consistently which haven't added much in terms of value.

Because Lennart Poettering is basically the Linus Torvalds of fucking up Linux for Microsoft: systemd, avahi, pulseaudio, and associated shitware bloat which have made linux less stable, less secure, and increasingly difficult to diagnose or integrate.

He's always been a proponent of doing things on Linux the Microsoft way, seemingly as an agent of chaos.

Yeah, true - most of those systems are trash, bugzilla specifically.

They really should be built more like a CRM.

With the current generation of AI, reading/listening just makes me feel stupider. The prose is not quite tight, and it makes my brain go to sleep. The fact that I'm never sure what I'm listening to is true or not doesn't help.

I could see this being useful as a bit of a replacement for white noise, but even for that, there are so many good podcasts around that I will never run out.

Trump is not diplomatic, that's for sure. But somehow a bunch of countries are sending ships to the straights of Hormuz. I don't know how he got them to do that.

It seems like they must be planning something, but it's not clear what. Maybe a landing operation to seize the land around the Hormuz strait region of Iran, or maybe just naval escorts for tankers. If shipping through the straits restarts, then Iran will have lost most of its negotiating power.

If it were me, I would not want to restart military operations until there were better anti-drone defenses set up. But idk, Trump is also not good at planning, maybe he'll try to go ahead with it anyway.

Trump is never quiet: https://x.com/Scavino47/status...
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/inte...

This is the guy to track. This is how to deal with underground facilities. If you do have to enter tunnels, they can be entered with drones leading the way. No need to be surprised around the corner. The important tunnels are large enough to drive a semi through, they aren't tight.

Your idea is that the Iranian regime is MORE stable right now than it was six months ago?

The violence in the Middle East dates back to the early Bronze Age. The Shah was violent and assassinated political rivals. In the 1940s, half of the Middle East sided with the Nazis.

The violence did not start in the 1970s, it didn't even start with Islam. It predates all of that.

Blaming individual X or modern event Y is to ignore the violence and open warfare leading up to those.

Only an idiot fixates purely on Iran. One genocidal Syrian despot has been replaced with another genocidal Syrian despot. IS is back on the rise. Egypt is a military dictatorship. Libya went from military dictatorship to perpetual civil war. The Arab Spring was ultimately crushed not because of a hatred of freedom but because the entire region is riddled with corruption.

Iran is a minor side show.

Company treats customers like trash, treats employees like trash.

Anyone who cared about morale left Facebook a long time ago.