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Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate
- TurdF3rguson 7mo agoI wonder what's stranger. That they think Trump will care about OpenAI's datacenter in Abu Dhabi, or that we're getting this news from tomshardware.com
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- bigyabai 7mo agoIt's not a terrible target. Long-term it puts stress on US/UAE cooperation, and short-term it mirrors the destabilization inside Iran with escalation outside it. From the armchair perspective, these sorts of strikes are exactly what I'd imagine that China is advocating for behind closed doors. A few well-placed drone strikes can cause more economic damage than any SAM shootdown or embassy attack could, tactically accelerating the war and strategically entrenching Chinese technology.
- ivan_gammel 7mo agoHe may care in the end, because TACO. Looks like this is a pattern of modern war where both sides are testing the escalation levels by attacking the infrastructure. It‘s like MAD, but going up in smaller increments rather than hitting with everything after one or two limited strikes like nuclear. Basically, you hit my power plant, I‘ll hit yours. It‘s the same path Ukraine went on: they initially showed restraint in responses, but now they are matching Russian pressure by choosing the same civilian targets.
- nubg 7mo ago> by choosing the same civilian targets not sure what the point of this propaganda is? ukraine doesn't shoot rockets at appartments. hitting (dual use) energy infrastructure is a completely different level then targeting civilian homes.
- ivan_gammel 7mo agoNobody except Israel is setting civilian homes as targets for their rockets. Not all energy infrastructure is even remotely „dual use“ (and this label is itself propaganda used to justify strikes on non-military targets).
- idiotsecant 7mo agoAll Russian infrastructure of all types would be perfectly safe tomorrow if they just stopped brutally invading their neighbors. Let's be plain and clear here: the Russian moral position lies somewhere 10 miles below the floor of the deepest ocean trench. The moral high road is pretty easy to achieve.
- ivan_gammel 7mo agoI don‘t think „moral high roads“ have any relevance in context of this discussion. If such conversation triggers you, try to breathe and think why first.
- idiotsecant 7mo agoYes, I find that quite often morality becomes temporarily irrelevant when it's inconvenient for the party acting immorally. Nevertheless, this is the one of the vanishingly few conflicts where there is a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes the universe gives us a break from endless grey areas. This is one of those! If you find the idea of an autonomous sovereign state defending it's borders 'triggering' I might suggest some soothing jazz and a warm milk. All the best
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- wewewedxfgdf 7mo agoSeems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff. But I must be missing something.
- paulryanrogers 7mo agoTrump must save face. Publicly backing down is only possible once there's some kind of out, probably involving Iran loudly compromising.
- grafmax 7mo agoTrump would also have to navigate the loyalty the US state apparatus has to Israel. Iran has made it clear that the ceasefire option is off the table this time round. So I just don’t see the US extricating itself from this quagmire barring some extreme political upheaval. But who knows, if you take Trump’s incompetence, plus the possibility of global economic collapse, plus the possibility of global food shortages, we just might see it.
- paulpauper 7mo agoTrump is old and a lame duck. I think he sees not backing down in as his last hope of creating a legacy
- CamperBob2 7mo agoThat "lame duck" still owns Congress lock, stock and barrel. Don't underestimate the damage he can still do. The only question is which country he's hurting more, the US or Iran.
- joquarky 7mo ago"Lame duck" doesn't apply as cleanly when Congress is complicit.
- lazyeye 7mo agoThe view from the couch is such that everything seems pretty easy really.
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- k310 7mo agoIt started as "Weapons of Mass Distraction" from Epstein. Completely overplayed. Epstein (and fiends) will be the cause of more mass slaughter, starting with a school full of little girls. Of course, little girls. The world is being run by a gang of narcissistic, sociopathic fiends thanks to all the idiots who fell for their racist, misogynist, nationalist, religious fanaticism. Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda: To end the human institution of war, to relegate it to history with such barbarous practices as slavery―at one time also considered a natural, inevitable, “part of human nature”―we must establish respect for the inviolable dignity of human life as the core value of our age. Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
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- palmotea 7mo agoGo for it!
- mskogly 7mo agoSays «Tom’s hardware». Get verification from a trusted source before sharing
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- queenkjuul 7mo agoThe article has a link to the video direct from the Iranian spokesman, idk what more you need
- mikkupikku 7mo agoOh no! ...anyway... Seriously bros, this is a war where one side is making wildly inflammatory, specific and credible threats against the civilian infrastructure of the other and this is a response to that, hardly even a response in kind. If they strike these assets it will cause financial burden for rich people, not plunge millions of civilians into darkness as the POTUS is credibly threatening to do. Iranian attacks on US soil: Fuck all! So why is America fighting Iran? Insane ziofascist cultists picking fights on the other side of the planet to provoke the Apocalypse so they can all be raptured to paradise. (Translation: boomers are getting old and they want to see burning flesh one more time before they die.)
- graemep 7mo agoIran has threatened to destroy water supplies in the Gulf states, which would kill huge numbers of people.
- cineticdaffodil 7mo agoNot only threatened it did some "teststrikes"
- mikkupikku 7mo agoAfter America attacked them, sure, and in any case they aren't even attacking America, so again, why is America involved?
- 21asdffdsa12 7mo agoBecause Iran attacks them relentlessly by proxxy? Hoothis, Hezbullah, Hamas, etc. It also wars with the kurds and had some fun in afghanistan? Iran is not passive - iran is active, a wannabe us (lets call it micro-satan) - that wants to do what russia did along its borders.
- mikkupikku 7mo ago> Because Iran attacks them relentlessly by proxxy? Hoothis, Hezbullah, Hamas, etc Iran doesn't use any of these to attack America. You seem to be confusing Israel for America, a common problem in American politics.
- stavros 7mo agoThe US really pulled a Russia with this "special military operation".
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 7mo agoboth wars are equally unjustified, but the US has lost what, <20 people by now, in over a month? Putin loses >20 people per hour of his war.
- OwlsParlay 7mo agoTrump has avoided a ground invasion up to this point for this exact reason, even trying to take one of outerlying islands would have heavy casualties due to drone warfare. There's speculation that the mess over the weekend was the result of a SOF mission gone wrong.
- matusp 7mo agoRussia is actually gaining people in this war. The occupied territory they intend to keep has a prewar population of 10M.
- krige 7mo agoThat would be true if they were keeping the native population there alive. We know they were importing presumably loyal people from deep Russia. What happened to original occupants? You can guess.
- TiredOfLife 7mo agoThe mass graves they are making in occupied territories say otherwise.
- stavros 7mo agoI'd say "I agree, the US should lose more people" but I wouldn't wish casualties on anyone. Still, the fact that the US can kill people without any cost because they send drones to do it doesn't sit well with me at all.
- PedroBatista 7mo agoWait, are stargate data centers a real thing? I thought it was a financial/political vehicle to pump the markets and kick the can down the road.
- ben_w 7mo agoThey can be both. I'm of the opinion that while e.g. xAI is in a pump game, OpenAI is at least trying to make money. But even if they're not, even if the DCs are as you say "a financial/political vehicle to pump the markets", they can still be physically real things. That said, I have no idea how close to complete the Stargate UAE site is.
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- ceejayoz 7mo agoEvery military targets high-value targets if they can manage it. That's hardly controversial. It's not out of some kind of kindness Iran is doing, it's just good strategy.
- yanhangyhy 7mo agoits very smart move...for Iran. really <art of war> thing.
- comrade1234 7mo agoWould this be a war crime in the same way destroying a bridge only used by civilians is a war crime?
- ceejayoz 7mo agoNo. https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/ https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-o...