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by tdeck 7mo ago
Unfortunately the current Iraqi government has a record of torturing people too. You just don't hear about it ever because they're a US client state. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Trump literally said it was about the oil on television?
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by tdeck 7mo ago
It's interesting that they're all flying the flag of the Shah.
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by tdeck 7mo ago
For lazy folks like me https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10114-5/figures/5
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Why do I have to explain that to you? My comment wasn't about that. Why can't you engage in a discussion about a claim you made?
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by tdeck 7mo ago
I asked Grok to rewrite your comment and it did it in 2400 words. I hope you know you'll be obsolete soon.
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Folks should Google "PBA card". I was shocked when I read about that practice.
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Maybe the feeling will be "I can't believe I didn't get out of there while I still could".
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Remember how much toppling Sadam Hussein, killing a million Iraqis, rounding up and torturing thousands of random Iraqi civilians, destroying most of the country's vital infrastructure, and selling their oilfields to American companies
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by tdeck 7mo ago
I mean, some of the stuff actually wasn't legal. But accountability for wealthy elites is limited to a strongly worded letter https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748l0zv4x8o Just look at the fallout from the E
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Despite this varied ethnic makeup Israel's basic law says that > The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people. Which is why there are plenty of racist laws like this https:
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Trump won by less than 50% of the vote and there are many polls that show the Biden administration's genocide was massively demotivating to democratic voters.
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Apparently you don't even have to give Americans the neocon foreign policy spin anymore, we generate it ourselves. To wit, after Maduro was kidnapped and the exact same regime kept in place (minus selling oil to Cuba), and Trump openly
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by tdeck 7mo ago
Your claim was that Biden tried to rein Israel in. What do a few token airdrops of aid by the US and the ridiculous pier have to do with that? I'm specifically responding to that claim, I don't have much interest in the "whic
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by tdeck 7mo ago
There's zero evidence that Biden tried, and a lot of evidence that he didn't (including statements by Israeli government officials). What he did was occasionally pretend (not very convincingly) to try, while telling the Israelis s
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by tdeck 7mo ago
I thought 1 was going to be this link https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/aid-groups-say-israel-mis... The Biden administration publicly set quotas for Gaza aid that were supposed to condition their continued milit
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by tdeck 8mo ago
Why should we take this tweet at face value? It seems like every one is OpenAI's "values" lasted exactly as long as needed to outgrow the risk of backlash to something they were doing.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
This is why we should be skeptical of companies that want to tie themselves to the military industrial complex in the first place.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
The US is already autocratic when it comes to people in many other countries, where the US government didn't like their democratically elected governments and decided to pick a new one for them instead.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
IIRC from reading the paper years ago, they chose the tones for each row in the column so they would provide distinct combinations of concordant and discordant sounds.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
There are some modern systems that convert whole frames from a camera to sound. Apparently some people have learned to interpret information from them but it seems impractically difficult. E.g. https://www.seeingwithsound.com&#x2
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by tdeck 8mo ago
Expensive for whom? US taxpayers?
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by tdeck 8mo ago
This is one of the worst pro-Israel arguments; I can't believe people still make it. Israel isn't going to drop a nuke on the "holy land", where they want to start building Jewish settlements, a few dozen miles from Tel
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by tdeck 8mo ago
Even the famously pro-Israel New York Times did an analysis and didn't find this rocket story convincing. https://archive.is/1GSOt
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by tdeck 8mo ago
This soldier couldn't https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/21/middleeast/gaza-war-israe... You have to read pretty far into this very sympathetic piece to discover he was running over hundreds of living
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by tdeck 8mo ago
The correct answer is: because the Biden administration told them there were no red lines. Israel is completely dependent on the US, Reagan picked up the phone and got them to stop bombing Lebanon in 1982. As Israel continued to ramp up the
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by tdeck 8mo ago
You're very lucky to have high frequency transit. I've lived in several places (in cities) where the bus routes ran every 20-30 minutes. So if you don't feel like waiting at a bus stop for 20 minutes, often these days one wit
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by tdeck 8mo ago
How many people visit either kind of business these days? I'm almost 35 and have never once gotten any garment tailored. I think one reason is that clothes are so cheap you can just keep looking and you'll find something that fits
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These days you have to wonder if some form of bribe took place.
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by tdeck 8mo ago
Am I missing something? Why was the parent comment flagged? Why are all this user's comments dead.

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