Might be mostly referring to USA in which case the proper response would be “FU” but if it isn’t maybe those allies should be more focused on pressuring USA & Israel to end their special military operation instead.

You’re probably right. Just seems almost every post in an AR community is going to have some privacy implications considering that cameras are very rarely not involved and this video doesn’t detail anything especially serious when it comes to those.

Not very surprising, Rubio sold out on most of what he supposedly stood for the moment he joined this lawless Trump administration.

The probably more interesting number here is the 10,000 troops being sent because of the war. Guess it suggests a very limited operation… Are there any other suggestions for what this could be besides Kharg, some other islands and some kind of a uranium retrieval operation from the middle of Iran?

Not sure why all the downvotes in this almost unused community. I thought it was interesting to see glimpses of the various displays. For most of these glasses there’s clearly a lot of work to be done on usability since the process of using these features is far too involved for everyday use.

Will be interesting to see how this goes. The videos I’ve seen of pony.ai’s vehicles operating in China didn’t really convince me they’re ready to roll out elsewhere.

Love The Soul of a New Machine as a retrocomputing enthusiast, probably the best book I’ve read covering an engineering project. Too young to have experienced the minicomputer era but I’m fascinated by it. Rest in Peace.

Reminds me of the Bellingcat system where they crowdsource an effort to help identify locations and other helpful information in images related to child sexual abuse. I imagine AI will be really helpful for this kind of work in the future if it isn’t already being utilized.

I don’t care to continue this discussion, but it’s clear you shouldn’t make any allusions to someone looking uneducated when your own portrayal of what Trump is doing makes you look like you understand geopolitics at the level of a five-year-old.

So let’s be clear: your only example of what was happening under Biden is the thing that Trump has turned up to eleven while also doing all the other things I listed.

other articles I found seem to be saying Hungarian police believe this to have been an accident.

We’re talking Iran, Venezuela, Iran again, Cuba next, threats against Greenland and Canada within a few months. You really have to be clueless to pretend this is just the same thing that was happening the previous four years under Biden.

Ah, but it’s not just those who voted this way. It’s more those who actively supported this idea and were pushing for people not to vote because of it. We’ll never have certainty about how much of an impact it made on the actual vote but I think any reasonable person would concede by this point that the consequences of the result they were advocating for have been much, much worse than just picking the lesser evil even if you believe that lesser evil allowed an unrestrained Israel to conduct genocide. I do think the facts contradict that claim anyway since we’ve seen Israel’s actions rise to a whole another level after Trump has truly let the Netanyahu government loose but even if that wasn’t the case there’s a lot more harm being done both domestically and abroad in addition to that all continuing.

It’s also not just the presidential election by the way, in a world where the House had been under Democratic control we’d probably have seen Trump limited in meaningful ways over the past year.

NATO has no duty to support the US anyway unless we’re talking about an attack on the US which this isn’t looking like any way you slice it.

what exactly are you referring to?

Why do you say that? Americans not caring about democracy and freedom wasn’t on my personal bingo card prior to the 2024 election so it did come as a bit of a shock to me.

Agreed, I don’t mean to suggest anyone should go back to viewing the Republicans as a normal political party if they do. It would be purely opportunistic on their part.

There’s also value in making him even less popular at home as this is very likely to do if it drags out with no clear end. If the dems got control of the both the senate and the house in November everyone probably would have to deal with less of his bs. Even better if the majority becomes big enough for them to do more. There’s probably even a point where even his own party would start to finally distance themselves from him more.

Hasn’t he done that already? What is the US doing to help Ukraine at this point?

It was just another post on “Truth social”. Full version of this particular ramble here:

Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Clearly that is doing more than just saying they “may have interest”. It is expressing a desire for them to on his part. I guess it’s not pleading but it is definitely him publicly urging them to do it. It’s also interesting that in the same message he claims that many countries will be sending warships before expressing this hope that some he lists would.