That’s long and kind of interesting, but also super pop-sci-y.

The opening talks about how music physically reshapes your brain, but what doesn’t?

A professional athlete’s brain is going to develop differently from a professional chef or professional writer or professional mathematician. Whether you regularly exercise or take drugs or do whatever will all change which regions of your brain get more or less prominence and resource and change it’s wiring. That how the brain works.

The rest of the points all follow in a similar manner. Some are interesting and can be taken at face value, a lot have glaring obvious questions unanswered that make it sound like someone is boosting a nothing study result.

Overall, they don’t add up to a particularly interesting or cohesive point, it honestly feels AI generated.

If you’re talking the US government, then no, they don’t need political capital from the people, they just need capital capital and they can use that to swing elections and bribe politicians.

Regardless, some AI companies will inevitably survive. It is legitimately useful in solving a ton of problems that were near impossible before. Literally this xkcd. Now it’s not “I’ll need a research team and five years”, it’s “sure, easy API hit, we’ll just have to manage cost / use”, in the future, it will be “sure, we’ll just add a background task client side”.

If they lie like that peacefully and contently then it’s because they find it comfortable.

If they’re active and trying to get your attention, but don’t want pets, then it’s because they want to play.

Promote fair digital trade by prohibiting unjustified data localisation requirements and forced transfers of software source code, thereby protecting businesses from protectionist practices and fostering confidence in digital markets.

Assuming that the EU is taking the position that the GDPR is justified, does this signal we might be adopting something similar? 🤞

I was like “ok what’s the principal”, then I scrolled looking for it and saw how long the article was and was like “Jesus Christ I’m not reading all of that”, then I started reading it and found myself at the end.

A lot more compelling of a lens then I was expecting.

I mean, we know for a fact that they used Palantir’s system for planning the invasion which is an automated intelligence analysis system.

That alone makes it entirely possible for them to have information and not know about it, on top of all the other existing ways that information can be compartmentalized, or thorough analysis and double checking can be skipped.

We do know that the US was targeting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), and the school is in an IRGC compound.

The most likely explanation seems to be that they intended to target an IRGC building, but instead hit the school. Whether that’s an issue with the missile’s guidance system, the plane’s targeting system, outdated maps, or a flaw in whatever process the military is using to select targets, is unknown.

It’s of course, possible that the US intentionally bombed a little girls school, but it seems somewhat unlikely. Even the most hawkish war mongerers recognize that randomly slaughtering hundreds of school girls is not going to gain support for your war.

No, it wasn’t, he got lucky. You want to know what a high Cha score looks like, look at Obama.

Trump is mid cha at best, he was just born rich and does evil shit so can get ahead at others expense.

I feel like in DnD terms, Bush would have low-mid Int, high char, mid wisdom.

Trump, would have low Int, low wisdom, low-mid char but high luck.

Good. Get off the internet and do anything else.x

This is literally how he always acts. There’s a reason that many instances do not federate with lemmy.ml, his instance.

He’s incredibly pro communist, pro Russia, pro China, and will ban you for even mentioning that something could be foreign propaganda.

At the end of the day, hopefully your instance builds their server code from source and inspects it to make sure there’s nothing nefarious. It would be nice to use a decentralized Reddit like platform not coded by him, but no one else has the time, resources, ability, and/or dedication, to step up.

I would still rather use Lemmy over Reddit, though I did switch to donating to piefed, the Canadian instance runners, over donating to him.

Also a fair point

Why the hell would you sail a warship around without any munitions…?

Because they were invited to an international naval exercise that required them to be unarmed…

Yeah, no one’s arguing that whoever was ordered to push the button was ordered to push the button, the point is that it was a shitty order to give.

It’s also rich to be like “we had to attack them, we’re at war”, when you illegally and unilaterally started the war several days earlier.

Are you a vegan?

Fair that they’re not mutually exclusive, but you did imply that that’s why the majority don’t switch.

There’s also lots of people who become developers because they want to build the best software they can and don’t care to spend time thinking about whether one open source hosting platform is better for their code over another if they accomplish the same thing.

Your response is insanely narrow minded and judgemental, not everyone chooses to fight the same battles you do.

I mean fair point, I can’t find any info on whether or not anyone verifies that the ships are unloaded or if it’s self reported. And it does seem unlikely that a nation would let another country inspect it’s warship.

If they had no intelligence of the ammunition situation (doubt) it could be risky to try to board a warship.

I mean, there’s literally no way the US didn’t know it was on the way back from an ammo-less exercise. The Indian naval exercises were very public, with 74 countries participating.

Wow that’s fucked up on multiple levels.

1. to attack a literally defenseless warship … Could you not have, you know, boarded it instead? Forced it to surrender? Feels like at that point you can just threaten to do what you did and they would have to comply.

2. if you’ve seen the released periscope footage of the attack, and realize that that explosion was fully from the torpedo and not from an ammo store blowing, it makes it look that much more like an intentional massacre. Is there really no smaller munition on board that sub that can be used to disable a defenseless target?

Literally every Samsung Android phone has come with their Dex desktop for like 10 years too.

I fucking hate Google at this point. They’re just an even shittier version of apple now. Locking down their shit for no reason, and claiming decades old innovations are actually new and theirs.