I'm all in favor of the impeachment but I worry that it makes it more likely that he wants to nuke Iran. If he's going down he'll take everyone with him. Hopefully the people around him are enough afraid of Nuremberg 2 that they stop him.
"we’re hearing from strategists in Netanyahu’s party, talking about the use of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki models. We’re hearing from the PM and from his defence minister about crushing Iran, about decisively decimating the country, about having a hit list of the power grid in Iran that is just waiting for the go-ahead from the US president."
Doesn't even have to be nukes per se or occur in a single, focal event. Look what Netanyahu's IDF did over months to Gaza's cities and its children with American taxpayer-funded conventional dumb and smart bombs via indiscriminate destruction of the majority of buildings. Weaponizing WWII- and Vietnam-era de facto carpet bombing by lobbing large quantities of bombs haphazardly with a pretense of right to self-defense and surgical application of force is yet another neocolonial, imperialist crime against humanity no matter which country does it.
There's only a single civilization-scale weapon effect in the inventory, and its usage reflects something more impactful than a mere "war crime".
Once the First Use Taboo is broached, nuclear explosives will be used for everything. Wherever you have a spare 100kg of payload and a hardened or area target - nuclear explosives, from a weapon effect perspective, are simply too good not to use, once the cat's out of the bag. It'll be like machine guns in the early days of WW1 - where they broke the taboo of using them on _civilized peoples_ - but in this metaphor each bullet being the most powerful device made by Man.
Breaking First Use - particularly against a non-existential[1] threats - might rank among the worst single decisions in human history.
That's not how that works. War crimes are war crimes, just like crimes are crimes whether the laws that define them are enforced or not is not relevant.
Morality starts with definition, and there are other ways to deal with these things than courts. For instance, boycotts.
3% pay reduction is laughably optimistic. I had to take a 25% pay cut after 3 months of unemployment. My manger did the same after 6 months of unemployment. We both have pretty impressive resumes.
We ‘joke’ that we’re one layoff away from exiting the IT field altogether. I’d happily leave it all behind but it would mean further salary cuts while the price of everything increases. And I’m considered one of the ones in a good position. There are entire generations of workers who will be fighting over Walmart jobs just to get insurance.
I am in 40s and going to be made redundant this June. In future only people who can afford to keep things like Claude, OpenAI and most importantly create value using them more than what others can do be able to survive. Otherwise, game is more or less over, and I question what's next for my own future while I learn to use Claude in FOMO.
Got laid off last year, took about 6 weeks to find something. Similar comp, slightly better WLB actually. Might have just gotten lucky but 3% sounds about right for most people I know
> We ‘joke’ that we’re one layoff away from exiting the IT field altogether. I’d happily leave it all behind but it would mean further salary cuts while the price of everything increases. And I’m considered one of the ones in a good position. There are entire generations of workers who will be fighting over Walmart jobs just to get insurance.
Indeed, a few years ago I considered making a leap to elsewhere, but damn near anything I’ve ever considered as a career is basically a dead end now. All that’s left is a direct downgrade.
But he’ll, maybe I can get a nice gig as Sam Altman butler if I invest in sycophantry skills enough.
It does not make sense, to rescue an electronically geolocated pilot via its beacon, to land hundreds of special forces and four airplanes, 200 kms away from the pilot...The true will come out...slowly...
It’s quite hilarious to me that Iran is essentially kicking Trumps ass. How do you deal with a military vastly larger than your own? Cut off a large part of the worlds oil supply and let business handle it.
It's also a long-established principle in warfare that there's a large asymmetry between the force required to invade or occupy a foreign territory vs defending one's own land. The American Revolution, the US war in Vietnam, and Afghanistan are just a few examples of this.
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