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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 28 minutes ago

as a side effect, it's a phenomenal accountability sink. people almost forget that usaf can make entirely human-made fuckups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter_bombing

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 30 minutes ago

i think you can say that at least some people of iran already turned against their government, except those with guns. historically the parts of strategic bombing that worked were targeting of military leadership (in progress), communications (?), weapons storage and manufacture (in progress), energy production (no signs so far). not sure if there is any plan beyond strikes, leave it to them to turn operational success into diplomatic failure

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 36 minutes ago

i had no idea that you can buy anti-ship missiles in any corner store. not sure how do you make sense of how both of these militias mentioned decided to do nothing after the guy signing their checks and sent them weapons was killed

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 40 minutes ago

last time i've checked, wandel durch handel style approach was determined to not work as intended, not that it matters in this case anymore

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 59 minutes ago

i also think that americans are currently allergic to boots on the ground involvement* so it's not likely. my best guess is airstrikes only, then ??? then i guess they expect regime change to materialize out of thin air. only time will tell

* unless it's not theirs, but for example kurds, this way they don't care

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago (12 children)

i don't give a shit about sam harris. if iranians were broadly fine with theocracy, there wouldn't be 30k+ dead protesters last month, or major protests every year for a decade. like every other country on earth, you can expect that iran secularizes, except that apostasy or conversion is capital offense, or any significant dissent for that matter, so any survey unaffected by self-censorship would be hard to conduct

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems -1 points 5 days ago (18 children)

there is some reason to think this way. also keep in mind that a segment of that anti-americanism was funded by sales of iranian oil. not all of course, but houthis wouldn't be a thing without it, or large parts of hezbollah, for example. of course what people want and how it shakes down after the bombs drop is different thing entirely, i guess we'll see, eventually (i assume that decision to strike was already made)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

join some matrix room that you like and look around for people's homeservers

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

ai is crypto 2 episode 373275

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

there was chrome (and firefox probably?) extension that went through your all fb liked pages and unsubscribed from them so that when it's done timeline is gone entirely. fb went after its dev, removed that extension and banned him forever because it kept people off fb https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bans-unfollow-everything-developer-delete-news-feed-2021-10 doing this all manually still worked back then, not sure about today

Facebook's letter took him by surprise, he said, adding that Unfollow Everything had only 2,500 weekly active users and 10,000 downloads.

"It was definitely growing, but it wasn't huge," he said.

"Apart from that I just very much saw it as something that improves the Facebook experience for Facebook users," he added, saying he got "amazing feedback" from people saying they "were using Facebook in a way that was much healthier for them."

slightly healthier relationship with attention devouring parasite in your pocket? not on zucc's watch, ALL contents of your skull are to be sourced from and licensed to meta platforms inc exclusively

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

i bet they have some preferences about contractor

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago

a hellish vision has been revealed to me

https://mander.xyz/post/47729411

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