I remember these discussions being had in the 90’s, and the excuse was always: “But it’ll cost a lot and take decades.”

And now here we are. Decades.

To be fair, it wasn’t people “simply forgetting over generations.”

The other contributing factors you mention are correct, but it’s eminently fair to say people simply forgot. Until 9/11, most Americans had no real connection to anything even resembling war, and the vast majority have no empathy whatsoever for the US genocidal foreign policy.

Hell, we still have whimsical snacks on grocery shelves called ‘bomb pops’ that are colored in red, white, and blue.

The hat thing is just a natural extension of no one in his orbit holding him accountable for decorum ever, which is most evident in his language. Sad to see, but yeah.

It would be nice to see someone, somewhere finally hold him accountable for refusing to pay his bills.

You’re not wrong.

We have the Mad King in charge of all this, and to him, it makes perfect sense to carpet bomb tens of thousands of people in order to feel like a big boy.

Abso-fucking-lutely they will. Our people, by and large, are truly ignorant when it comes to the realities of war.

Man, I wish I could live in a world where I could have any hope for a positive outcome from US military intervention, but I’ve ready too many history books. The only positive thing here is that Iran is fighting back, because capitulating to Donald only makes things worse.

I wish I knew how to make Americans more empathetic and anti-war.

History has demonstrated over and over again that it is wholly possible to piss people off enough that they’ll attack a fortress, even a $750,000,000 one. (But of course, none of the people leading the US Government right now have ever cracked open a history book.)

I hate that the only chance the US has at becoming anti-war is having a war fail so spectacularly that the next generation doesn’t want anything to do with foreign interventions, and then the generation after that always forgets how shitty it was to always be at war.

Ugh.

The service has been quite good for ten years.

Guess it was good while it lasted.

Just one more turn, bro.

Then you’ll totally go to bed.

Not ‘settlers’.

Murderers, rapists, and raiders.

GenAI has already trained on the entirety of human content, and it still screws up basic inquiries. I think it will get worse as it cannibalizes its own hallucinated data and the problem of hallucinations gets worse as a result.

The US will not regulate, but regulations originating from international jurisdictions will roll downhill to some extent and force the bad actors in the US to establish some guard rails in order to continue to be able to offer their products in these big international markets.

I think the most significant change in GenAI will be social. People’s poverty and isolation is only getting worse, and it’s likely there will be an economic crash due to the concentration of wealth in this sector and its failure to deliver on its promises; However, there is genuine demand for frictionless relationships and that is one thing generative AI does very, very well. In a decade these models will have artificial bodies and people will be literally publicly dating their AI companions. These companions will also be another great way for companies and governments to spy on people, so expect them to get more cost-effective in order to ensnare as many users as possible in the coming years.

I hate that our country is run by the dumbest people and they’re also massive douche bags.

LLM’s have been proven to manipulate their users into doing terrible things. That’s what happens when there isn’t any meaningful regulation of a harmful product.

OpenAI will settle, NDA’s will be signed, and people will forget this ever happened.

Iran gets a vote.

And that’s it. This war is going to at least last through November because Iran now wants to hurt Donald politically.

The same shit Donald is doing. In reverse.

Amazing you’ve seen Donald accomplish so much with almost no congressional participation and you’ll still argue Dems are powerless, and probably will again when President Newsom lets affordability get even worse.

I agree.

Americans’ #1 issue is affordability, and it is the only reason they voted for Donald. He thought he had a mandate to rebrand and rebuild the Gestapo. He thought he had a mandate to dismantle the government.

No, Americans were tired of being priced out of their lives for the last four years, hated Democrats for doing nothing about it, and believed his lies about making America an affordable place to live again.

Ironically, not even the SAVE Act will be able to save him. Tens of millions of Americans are already working multiple jobs and 100 hours a week just to overpay for their rent on a roach-infested studio. The mid-terms are going to be an absolute bloodbath for Republicans. (Though most of the Democrats we elect won’t do anything to make America affordable either.)

Yeah.

We noticed.

They’re literally just improvising this war, because the point is to create chaos in Iran and they don’t care how bad it gets. These bastards want another Sudan.

Only the five-second tweet from our Energy Secretary who asserted the US would escort ships through the strait.

Which was summarily deleted.

Kitty is in the mouse-killin’ bidness, and cousin’ business is a’boomin’.