Trump wouldn’t be capable of that, either intellectually or psychologically.

That’s why Trump never wins at 4D chess.

There’s also a strain of fascist eugenics in the Trump regime, which believes only those who are “superior” deserve to live. Harming everyone else is, in their mind, a way to encourage inferior people to die off. Many of their policy decisions make more sense when you recognize that they think most people dying would be a good thing.

Why would you help the USA when it has shown repeatedly how ready it is to completely screw you as soon as you have helped it out of a predicament of its own making?

He was annoyed that Iran might make money from charging ships to pass through. So he made sure they can’t. In the process he gets himself into a trap he can’t get out of, but he is unable to think that far ahead.

It’s possible he also wants to be paid for letting ships pass, but who would pay him for that when Iran will stop the ships anyway? He might pretend the USA can give them safe passage, but the USA’s inability to win militarily has already shown the world that it can’t.

So the world’s economy gets tanked and more people everywhere suffer and starve. Maybe he thinks this will pressure the USA’s “allies” to come and help the USA fight Iran, but who would help a country that demonstrates upfront that it’s this willing to fuck you over?

I haven’t seen the movie, but was Palpatine a Grade A Fucking Moron?

Once again the whole world has to suffer because of Trump’s insatiable ego and greed, and his bottomless stupidity. May he be gone soon.

Frey told Ars he was shocked to see a platform as big as Discord relying on such poor support infrastructure.

It’s exactly what we can expect from tech companies these days.

You can’t do full-disk encryption without the signed driver, and Microsoft is preventing them signing the driver for new releases. So Microsoft is making it impossible for them to publish updates for the Windows versions of their software.

I like the way just about anyone here will score at least 80% on that list. I think I get a perfect grade, as long as “extremism” means wanting to treat people with kindness and respect.

Microslop, who bundle their OS with a competing encryption product that probably has government backdoors, “accidentally” shutting out open source encryption software. Nothing to see here. Perfectly legitimate business behavior.

For anyone unfamiliar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre

Netanyahu is a liar and a danger to the world. “Most moral army” is a sick joke. The IDF are villains, not heroes.

Spain’s government actually seems to have some principles and speak the truth about Israel and the other fascist powers spreading death and destruction.

If a physics simulation doesn’t agree exactly with experimental data, it is often difficult to figure out why and tweak the model until they agree. With AI, incorporating a few experimental examples into the training process is a lot more straightforward, and it’s not necessary to understand where exactly the model went wrong.

That’s not too bad if it’s only ever used as a rough guide in the early stages of design, with proper testing done later. But do we trust corporations not to get lazy and pressure their engineers to skip the accurate tests altogether, especially when they can then brag to their investors that AI is replacing expensive engineer time? What would Boeing’s management want to do with this tech?

Around 100 sites in the country were bombed in one 10-minute period alone in what the IDF dubbed “Operation Eternal Darkness.”

Israel needs an “are we the baddies?” moment.

“The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

Yes, you have lots of guns and bombs and you’re very big and strong. But the Pope was offering a moral criticism. You know, about morality, doing the right thing. Have you or your “Christian” colleagues ever heard of it? Turns out it doesn’t often align with who is most eager and equipped to kill anyone who looks at them the wrong way. Even Jesus (heard of him?) had a thing or two to say about that.

He lost the war weeks ago.

Rein. No one wants to reign in a dog.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement in English, saying that the PM supports the US decision and claiming that “Iran no longer poses a nuclear, missile and terror threat to America, Israel, Iran’s Arab neighbours and the world.”

Remember that for next time he starts claiming the opposite.

That’s what a ceasefire is, for Israel. You have to stop shooting them, while they continue to shoot you. And if you shoot back then that’s an unprovoked violation of the ceasefire and they get to shoot you more.