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The US intelligence community long ago gamed out all the risks surrounding a conflict with Iran, including the possibility Iran would close the Straits of Hormuz.
If the Trump administration and Hegseth are surprised now, it's because they've never listened to, and sidelined, the experts.
@petergleick I used to think this was a war for oil. Then I thought it was a war for stupidity. But now I think I know what it’s for:
It’s a war for boosting falling church attendance..
quarter hours per revolution
#BBC Inside the Australian hotel where Iranian footballers escaped to claim asylum https://w.st/arsqq
Matthew Lugg ( @mlugg) landed a 30,000 line patchset into the Zig compiler today.
Honestly, e-bikes have been the technology that has improved my life the most in the last five years. I live in a hilly place, and with my first e-bike a few years ago, I suddenly became able to commute by bike. Then, with the cargo bike last year, I suddenly became able to take my eight-year-old places by bike.
She sometimes actually hugs me while we're out on the bike. Best damn thing in the world, and it couldn't happen in a car.
@lindsey yeah, my spouse loves her ebike in hilly Wellington. Leaving the house is easy, but getting back is a bit of a mission on pedal power alone; I try to not do it more than once a day.
Frosty, my leucistic squirrel, has made it through this really tough winter. She looks great. This is her 4th year here!
@idoubtit mAdE iT tHrOuGh tHe WiNtEr if you ask me winter survival when you're WHITE is kinda CHEATING
@SwiftOnSecurity need to return to the time where there were only 2 EQG movies. Aaaahhh good MLP times...
I forgot to mention this when it happened, but we recently hit 500 miles on the used cargo e-bike we got last summer! During the school year, we really only use it for short trips with our kid a couple times a week, but every one of those trips is one we didn't have to take in a car. 🎉 I love that sitting in traffic with my kid in the back seat is now a rare occurrence.
Honestly, e-bikes have been the technology that has improved my life the most in the last five years. I live in a hilly place, and with my first e-bike a few years ago, I suddenly became able to commute by bike. Then, with the cargo bike last year, I suddenly became able to take my eight-year-old places by bike.
She sometimes actually hugs me while we're out on the bike. Best damn thing in the world, and it couldn't happen in a car.
I took some computer science professors into the desert! this is always a lot of fun. this time we had special guest @sree from Rochester!
@regehr I love the swell. I wish they hadn't plowed an interstate through it, but it's a beautiful drive.
@lispi314 @leo @pinkRhododendron I need vulkan, webgpu, sdl_gpu and complex audio routing. If I can't run flatpaks I'm going to have really big problems. I have a webcam, I have a video capture card, I stream using OBS, I expect my AMD video compression acceleration to work. I expect to use my computer as a computer. I *am* looking at btrfs for my backup drive :(
@lispi314 @leo @pinkRhododendron I have a Steam Deck for games. But I still need to be able to run OBS on the laptop, what if I run the Steam Deck into it
@lispi314 @leo @pinkRhododendron I need vulkan, webgpu, sdl_gpu and complex audio routing. If I can't run flatpaks I'm going to have really big problems. I have a webcam, I have a video capture card, I stream using OBS, I expect my AMD video compression acceleration to work. I expect to use my computer as a computer. I *am* looking at btrfs for my backup drive :(
Hormones doing hormone things again. 😭
@maloki very rude
Pretty disgusting, technically mutual aid meta
You've got to be a low-down good-for-nothing vicious loser scumbag to report mutual aid posts. You are the scum on the bottom of my shoe. You are the pubes stuck to the floor of the humid pool changing room. You are the leftover product that people spit out when chewing tobacco.
When it's guillotine o'clock for the billionaires, nasty NIMBYs are next in the lineup as far as I'm concerned. FUCK y'all
RE: https://blackqueer.life/@tillshadeisgone/114258294552009642
Reposting this every time someone sends a report for mutual aid posts. I think some folks forgot how it works around here
RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116208265536215757
Geopolitics is complicated, except when it is not. We truly are ruled by dipshits
From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.
@Gargron Also the idea that gen AI will just get better and it's now only a question of years that "they" will be "as good or better than a human expert" is so naive and misses out a very important detail.
Today's gen AI/LLMs already has all the training data from humanity even that data that they have no permission for. To make AI better you would need 3 or 4 times the amount of people on earth. There is no physical principal that dictates that AI will become "better over time".
@Dknuffke @pluralistic as an OCD owner of 300 shower gels and 500 eyeshadow palettes: if you own that much of anything something isn't working right up there.
@Dknuffke @pluralistic if you have one billion - you are basically a hoarder at this point.
@pluralistic I love the collage for this post! Never noticed it before, but these particular security cams look like uncanny eyeballs, especially in the context of the rest of the image. Really drives home the point of the article.
