If you re-read my comment you’ll see that I’m nowhere defending Iran’s conduct, so let’s address that.

When unilaterally attacked by a terrorist state neighbour supported by the largest military in the world, I do feel Iran has the moral right to use assymetric warfare to survive. Even more so when that doesn’t cause mass civilian casualty.

Do I condone the oppression the Iranian government did before the war? No.

Do I still believe Iran has the right to sovereignty? Definitely and absolutely.

It is no business of the US to meddle in the political internalities of a country not a credible threat. And even less so at the behest of a rampaging genocidal state using terror to keep neighbours from intervening.

To put it into a simplified analogy: are you arguing dishonestly putting words in my mouth? Yes. Does that give me the right to burn your house down? No.

In the real world it’s both the US treating dishonestly and doing the burning though.

There’s this whole argument about World Policing being Bad ™. But even besides that:

The US is also currently murdering, kidnapping and disappearing thousands of it’s citizens, so it’s not for the moral high ground they’re bombing civilian infrastructure.

Besides, the war will almost certainly lead to more suffering, and probably also lives lost, as a consequence of the destruction, fear, oppression and power struggle following it. So it’s not for humanitarian reasons they’re disrupting international trade and relations.

The US has also made it very clear it only intends to follow international law and treaties when it benefits them, as evidenced with Greenland, Venezuela, Cuba, trade wars, trade and protection treaty violations. So it’s not for any rules based order they’re planlessly and goallessly staging a billion dollar/day terror campaign.

It seems the US is just exercising it’s might and terrorising the world because it wants to. I wonder how long before someone gets fed up with it…

Well put.

I guess this is also why sympathies from wronged friends and allies are running dry.

Unfortunately, I’m of the sort who doesn’t believe that flipping the table will be to the gain to anyone but those with the preparation and resources to grab what they may (which is what they’re doing)

The divide is too deep, and those people too greedy to do anything but provide for their own. The downtrodden won’t come out better from this, either we stop them, or we wait for the next revolution where people will be even more desperate.

The latter leads to more suffering, more death and more blood, if history is any guide.

So what you’re saying is that the country collectively decided Trump was more promising than Harris?

And you’ve found it’s someone else’s fault, so now you don’t have to do anything but sit in the mess?

Good for you.

Now, pardon us as we try to do something about it.

My whole point is that those two are indistinguishable from the outside.

(Although conservatism in general rather than the radicalised form that is fascism)

You don’t get to use that excuse when you re-elected him.

Perhaps the opposition could have done more, results argue that they couldn’t.

Besides, Trump is only the latest of a long trend of GOP candidates and policies all in line with the exact current policy. The opposition may have fought valiantly, and lost ground. From the outside, that looks exactly like a national shift towards the GOP/conservative/christo-fascist.

But do you love them?

How is this different from overthinking?

Overthinking is a way to try to assert control in a situation where you cannot entirely decide outcomes, and have anxiety about them. It’s a way to self soothe that can become maladaptive when done in excess, and typically requires mental health support, with internal or external intervention, to break out of.

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Since about the 1500s we use double booking in bookkeeping, meaning the accounts look like that so that the balance sheet can balance and show 0 missing money. In most audits you don’t “summarise” error accounts, you check the balance accounts, statements and you check for why there’s stuff lying in the transaction accounts.

You should probably have stayed on a couple more days of your accounting class.

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It doesn’t reason, and it doesn’t actually know any information.

What it excels at is giving plausible sounding averages of texts, and if you think about how little the average person knows you should be abhorred.

Also, where people typically can reason enough to make the answer internally consistent or even relevant within a domain, LLMs offer a polished version of the disjointed amalgamation of all the platitudes or otherwise commonly repeated phrases in the training data.

Basically, you can’t trust the information to be right, insightful or even unpoisoned, while sabotaging your strategies and systems to sift information from noise.

EtA: All for the low low cost of personal computing, power scarcity and drought.

That’s one way to escape Epstein’s island.

It’s 212 % of the hot, how else can there be more hot than all the hot? It’s gotta be all the hot from at least the next couple of rooms, might be everywhere, depends on how much hot is hogged by the oven I’d wager.

ITT: Water requires over double of all the hot just to boil.

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It’s not so much that they can’t meme, it’s that they have only one joke: “Look how I can make this person fear me”.

Although the 12 hours aren’t divided in day/night are they?

And depending on where/when you’re at, it can easily be light out at seven and seven, even in the same day.

What the 12 hour clock does well is to track when the sun goes up or down relative to the only convenient time marker: midday. It also does so in a pleasingly symmetrical way: it gets light and dark at about 8, rather than 4 hours before and 8 hours after midday.

I’d argue if you want to track time, rather than record the ends of daylight, a linear scale for the whole day makes more sense. If it should be reset daily or not, be divisible by 24, 86400, 100, 1000000, a second or whatever is mostly a choice of convention. If you have constant access to a clock, Internet time seems convenient, for humans without clocks we use daylight and units like hours and 5-minute increments.

For that the 24 hour clock seems simple and convenient, although it would be nice to be able to calibrate without a watch (is it two or three hours before midday? How many more hours until wake-up time?). 24 hour time isn’t perfect, but it’s much better adapted to modern life than the 12 hour clock.

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