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[Tyler @Teedub012]

@PaulSkallas Find things to advertise and sell to them and consume more of their attention

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@LzTake2 @4_Ben_Media Ukraine was invaded by Russia meanwhile we are the ones attacking Iran. Ukraine has nothing to do with Biden admin.

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@BNONews Plane crashes will continue until morale improves

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@brandonjcarl @k_ra_mr Everybody knows the ai bubble will eventually pop. But it doesn't seem logical to conclude that it's going to pop because AI is getting that much better. That only makes the hardware more valuable and further justifies the debt that has already been established so far.

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@unpronounsybil @WeLivetoServe @LottoLabs Y'all still haven't figured out jevons paradox on this one. Any efficiency gains are only going to make demand for memory higher.

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@hasanthehun Unfortunately we are on the railroad tracks and the steam locomotive is not really stoppable. Plus even if we could somehow steer this thing, it is unclear whether that would work and if we have the means to do it, that which I doubt very strongly.

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@opiumrae @DEEP_RED_BELLS Scrolled for this one

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@DynamicWebPaige So AI is accelerating guys, it's accelerating the end of human creativity. Where are the eacc guys, is this what y'all meant?

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@sama @anabology aaaaannnddddd its not even close

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@ton_aarts Yeah these cars need lfp batteries, with fast charging technology there's just no need for nmc cells anymore. We can reduce the number of fire related injury down by at least an order of magnitude and have longer lasting cars with lfp.

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@flashytrans @IsThisA3DModel Sure everyone thinks it will, but when is the question.

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@MorbTMenace @OmegaNekoSimp

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@quantumNoJutsu @QiaochuYuan We will evolve along side ai, but yes it will likely be a chaotic process, and there is good reason to be worried about it but in the end as individuals we can't change much and we certainly aren't going back to the stone age as a society, not willingly at least.

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@xakuhh @giffmana Its all stochastic parrots all the way down bois

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@MAnfilofyev @BernieSanders Nice ad hominem, ai companies are giving their warning signals so they have an I told you so if it all goes to shit. Its becoming increasingly clear ai agents are dangerous. Is there even benefit to us from agents? Or are we just playing with fire that can spread globally.

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@BernieSanders It is not too late to stop ai development, but the financial incentive for these companies is too great and they have control of our politics. It is almost certain that by the time we realize its too late, we won't be able to stop it without massive consequence.

[Tyler @Teedub012]

@bigblueollie @RepThomasMassie @TheJusticeDept Cause Trump is in the files

[Tyler @Teedub012]

This may be one of the most baffling yet also completely expected expressions of injustice that capitalism completely normalizes. As long as you press a button that kills thousands it's ok, but if you are to slightly interrupt the status quo then you are crucified.

[Connor Ratliff 🎭 @connorratliff]

Drug-addled billionaire says he can't bring himself to shoot people in a make-believe crime game but he will cut off food & medicine leading to the deaths of millions IRL without a moment's hesitation

[Connor Ratliff 🎭 @connorratliff]

Drug-addled billionaire says he can't bring himself to shoot people in a make-believe crime game but he will cut off food & medicine leading to the deaths of millions IRL without a moment's hesitation