The Epstein files law requires they release the names. Prosecution can be left to the states.

The families of our troops.

So maybe a hundredth of what’s needed to invade Iran?

I think the bigger problem is going to be too much support for solo play. A big part of what made EQ work was getting people into groups and guilds and the connections made in that pursuit. Without it, the game was just a boring grind, the game play and story lines were all very basic.

You’ve also been exposed to brain eating ameba, repeatedly.

It’s not even a question of winning the battle, it’s that Iran could very likely turn the island into a smoldering fire pit in a dozen different ways without even stepping on the island. From Iran’s side, they’re not going to win a face to face confrontation and they know it. If they spark up that island, oil prices shoot for the moon the next day, which puts Trump on a path to impeachment surprisingly fast. The right wing only reacts when things affect them personally, and gas is touching every one of them in their no no place, the wallet.

So we’re going to send troops into the enemies most valuable place, they know this, and the entire place is a giant bomb before they even knew this?

Huh, I wonder how that will turn out.

So is there a resale value on these? And what kind of serial number system are they using?

How long until someone bombs the blind spots because that’s where the world leader is hiding?

8gig isn’t even enough for 4k right now. There’s a guy that took his 3070 up to 16gig and it really shows the cards are ram limited. And also it’s a serious pita to change vram without melting the card.

A core tenant of fascism is that there is no law above dear leader.

Sure just double the vram and your AI can run, unfortunately you can’t afford that vram because billionaires are running AI.

Poll taxes are, and always have been unreasonable. Not only will it disenfranchise 40 million women, and force them to pay to vote, no matter what they pay, they will miss the mid term elections. Because the government cannot process 40 million passports or name changes before then.

As an individual data point an AI response is essentially worthless. What I was gauging was the change in response over time. LLMs are statistical engines with creators who put large thumbs on the scales of the statistics. By seeing the change over time, you see what they are weighting, as well as what overcomes the weighting.

I’ve been asking AI about the likelihood of civil war for most of the current administration. Not because I trust it, just as a random data point along the way. Every single time I’ve asked, odds have gotten more likely.

Integration of corporations into government is by definition fascism. At least according to Mussolini,

Communism would be the nationalization of industries into the government, which transfers their ownership to the state.

The key difference is that under Fascism, corporations are still autonomous in that they can control their own policies, and also make those policies law. Under communism industrial units are told what they can do by the state, because the state decides the law.

It’s akin to an autocratic oligarchy vs monarchy comparison, except without the birth right succession. And technically a real communist nation would have a state controlled by extremely democratic systems, though in the real world the democratic portion of communist societies have all been a show for the people under the rule of a strong man autocrat.

China already saw this coming, that’s why they pushed so hard on solar and battery tech. Last year they dropped in 250GW of solar, and they’ll probably do more this year. It’s not there yet, but they’re not as worried about this as you might think. It’s a problem, but not a crippling emergency.

Europe on the other hand doesn’t have good options. Regardless of what they could do, what they don’t have now is the infrastructure to do it. And their biggest problem to clear out the Strait isn’t Iran, it’s Trump. European prosecutors are taking banking records from European banks about the Epstein files. While they can’t prosecute Trump directly in any way, they can hand over anything they want to congress, or the public. In short, they are a threat to Trump, and he knows it, and he will attack anyone who threatens him, or Putin.

There’s a lot darker option. US and Israel tag team the populace in a genocide, shut down Iranian oil production while protecting the rest of OPEC. Leading to massive profits for Russia, some profits for US oil companies, and massive bankruptcy in Europe while crippling their manufacturing base. Which leaves the US, Russia, and China with functioning autocratic economies that can carve up the rest of the world. And the other nuclear powers are left to dismantle their own military to feed their people.

From what little folks have been saying about the classified briefings, there is no plan. There is no Iran war goal, there was no thought about consequences. It’s all just an orange guy saying random shit so he can get paid.

Nixon didn’t actually get into anything in the middle East. He armed up Israel and put our troops on alert, but didn’t get into any shooting. Granted, that’s because he was busy with atrocities in the far East. So it’s more just a case that he was already busy.