You complained that regular people aren't doing enough. I explained that regular people are doing stuff and now you are complaining about the way they are doing stuff. It sounds like you are the one ineffectually complaining.
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Do you think the Democratic Party decided to block DHS funding yesterday because they suddenly awoke to justice? The Democratic Party only felt comfortable doing this because they have seen there is widespread disapproval for the actions of ICE. I don't think it's a stretch to claim these protests have resulted in political action by elected representatives.
Iran does not need to test California's air defenses. An easier way to hurt the USA would be to bomb US assets in the middle east or closing the Strait of Hormuz. Those are much easier to do for much bigger, immediate benefit.
The cost benefit analysis of striking California doesn't make sense. The War on Terror showed how the USA would respond to a strike on US soil. The last thing Iran wants is for the citizens of the USA to be galvanized to increase military action in the middle east. Iran would have to be as stupid as the USA to overextend like that and they have not shown any signs of being that foolish.
And yes, beyond all of this, I still think it is not possible for Iran to drone strike California anytime soon. The idea of secret Iranian sleeper cells in the US is absurd, on the level of secret Japanese sleeper cells during WW2.
Does that gunpowder originate from Iran, a place the US has placed strict sanctions on and is under constant surveillance by US allies?
There is no point in Iran striking California. They are doing plenty of damage to the US by closing the Straight of Hormuz. The cost benefit analysis doesn't pan out. Iran would have to be as stupid as America to overextend like that.
Are you claiming that Iran has had a boat floating around the Pacific loaded up with drones for the express purpose of striking California? Because Iran would have had to launch that boat a long time ago to be relevant right now.
Driving a truck into your neighbor's backyard is very different from sending a boat loaded up with flying go-karts to act as retaliation. That kind of MAD only works as deterrence if the threatening party informs others of the threat.
Ah, I see. I thought you were claiming it was feasible or possible for Iran to attack California. You are more talking about the US doing a false flag on its own citizens.
I want to believe that US citizens learned from the jingoistic nonsense of The War on Terror, but the US people are currently falling into fascism. Our best bet is the general distrust in mainstream media the average US hog feels to not trust such an obvious false flag scenario.
Are these things capable of flying across the ocean? If so, why would Iran send them across the Pacific instead of the much closer Atlantic? It would make more sense to hit Washington or New York than California.
Ukraine drone striking Russia is a very different situation as Ukraine is not seperated by 8,000 miles of ocean from Russia. It is much easier to secretly load trucks with drones than it is to secretly load boats with them.
Iran is doing enough damage bombing military US assets in the middle east and closing the Straight of Hormuz. It would be nonsensical to overextend in this manner.
It seems absurd to even entertain the idea that Iran would send drone strikes to California. It would be a stupid action only the USA would attempt to do since it seems obvious such an attack would galvanize the US into more military action, which Iran doesn't want.
Is this solid candidate in the room with us right now?
The elections would not be decided by a couple of percentage points if the Dems just ran with popular policies. Bernie Sanders has clearly shown time and time again that even people as far right as Fox News fans would support him because of his progressive policies. Zohran Mamdani won despite active hostility from Dem Leadership and his opponent getting billions of dollars of support because of his progressive polices.
What this tells me is that if the Dem party threw their weight behind progressive candidates, they would do FDR numbers. In fact, it seems obvious that FDR doing progressive politics is the reason FDR did FDR numbers.
I do not think the USA is uniquely misogynist. It's not like the USA is more misogynist than Mexico and they elected a woman as president. South Korea is at the forefront of misogyny; Andrew Tate is considered tame there, and they had a woman president.
I bet if your manager was presented with a woman president was promised universal healthcare would vote for her. The sentiment would likely be, "Yeah, I don't like her attitude, but I'll take the healthcare" or something along those lines.
Good policies will win over bigotry every single time. The USA, beacon of chattel slavery, elected a black man twice because he promised a better future.
Bro, the AI delusion is destroying the USA. Environmental protections are being rolled back to power it. It's inflating US econony with fake deals. It is being shoved in our faces by clueless C-suite admin.
The Tech Bros are the ones repeating over and over again that "GenAI" is the future while outputting garbage at real human cost. This artist wants to express their frustration with the constant badgering.
I must be misunderstanding your meaning because it sounds like you are claiming this tech will eventually become advanced enough to kill people all on its own. I'm making the argument it's the people controlling the tech who will kill us, regardless of what the tech can or cannot do. The tech is largely irrelevant here.
Different people can have similar opinions. Nothing is lost from multiple people expressing similar ideas in different ways. I'm glad my comment resonated with you, but maybe someone else will better understand this idea from chuckleslord's explanation.
The danger here is not the tech developing into an uncontrollable beast that will kill us all. There is no way that GenAI can advance far enough to develop conciousness; that's a completely different tech tree. It is not a baby whose development we need to guide, it is a puppet dancing on strings.
The danger is the people in positions of power who are pulling the strings. The idiot C-level admin who thinks GenAI will magically develop consciousness and replaces a bunch of essential staff. The incompetent CEO who can't write an email to save their life believes GenAI is just as useful for all their workers and forces workers to babysit AI Agents. The unscrupulous politicians who relax regulations to allow AI companies to suck up resources that the rest of us need. These are all people who will benefit from the GenAI boom at the cost of literally everyone else.
The focus should be on these irrational, powerful people who are destroying the planet and ruining lives to make their puppet dance a little more convincingly.
GenAI doesn't "know" anything. A 15 year old who spends a year copying his friend's physics homework will learn a tiny bit of physics. GenAI is just generating something new without actually learning information.
It's a fancy auto-complete that looks at the entirety of human writing and guesses what word should come next based on statistical probability. That isn't learning, that's rolling dice 10,000 times and seeing what number comes up most often.
GenAI cannot "intend" anything. It cannot develop consciousness any more than Akinator or a Tickle-Me Elmo can. The correct way to handle this technology is to treat it with reality: as a tool that can quickly look at a lot of stuff and not as a developing mind.
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If the DNC wanted immigrants to vote for Harris, they should not have messaged that they will build the wall and prosecute immigrants. Instead, they courted racists who obviously decided to vote for Trump promising Hitler style mass deportations.
If the DNC wanted the peace lovers to vote for Harris, they should not have advertised accepting the Cheneys. Instead, they welcomed the architect of the War on Terror with open arms while Trump lied about being a peaceful dove who never caused any wars.
If the DNC wanted the disaffected youth to vote for Harris, they should have promised change. Instead, they promised that nothing will change, that the economy is doing great right now, actually, while Trump represents a sledgehammer to our society. A horrible change that will affect everyone negatively, but he just lied about the negative bit.
If the DNC wanted progressives to vote for Harris, they should have adopted progressive policies. Instead, they aggressively courted "Moderate Republicans" with stuff like promising to put more Republicans in the Harris Cabinet. The people who want more Republicans in positions of power are obviously just going to vote for Republican administration.
The DNC threw away every advantage they had. Their messaging was, "We're only a little bit better than the Conservatives" and people believed them. The informed voter obviously knows that Trump is 1000x worse than Harris, but most people aren't well-informed. The DNC failed to understand that and failed to inform the voter base, instead relying on the psychopathic message of, "It votes for the Harris or it gets the Trump again".
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Naww, people don't like Hitler shit. The average Trump voter has been tricked into supporting stuff like "mass deportation", but once you ask 'em about specifics, they are not on board.
The problem is that the DNC didn't call any of this stuff out. The Democrats should have constantly asked, "How are you gonna do mass deportations of 20 million immigrants? Are you gonna kidnap people from their homes? You gonna put them in concentration camps at the border? Tattoo numbers for easy organization?"
The DNC failed in their messaging of calling out the Hitler shit, instead choosing to adopt the Hitler shit. "We're gonna build the wall to keep bad immigrants out. We're gonna deport the bad immigrants who are here. We won't build camps though, only because that would be economically unfeasible."
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The Stay At Home Party is humongous every election. They represent a giant source of potential that the DNC keeps ignoring in favor of trying to sway some Conservatives. The DNC is picking at crumbs when almost half the cake is sitting on the table.
I too wish that laws still mattered. Thankfully, they still matter a little bit, so there's still a chance for us to turn things around.