smooth_tea

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[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fewer mistakes might be a side-effect, but the real reason why this will be welcomed by the military and our dear leaders is because they don't have to stir up the public emotionally so that we give up our sons and daughters. It will further reduce our opposition to war because "the only people dying are the bad ones". I can't wait to read how the next model will reduce the false positive rate with another percentage point. Of course, I think it requires little imagination or intellect to figure out what the net result will be when the most noteworthy information we get from a war is the changelog from its soldiers, who have zero emotional response to taking a life.

Just like tasers were introduced to reduce gun incidents and are now often used as a form of cattle prod, they will function creep the shit out of this, and our adaptation to the idea of robots doing the killing will be over before we've perfected the technology.

It was unavoidable though, someone always has to have the biggest gun. It's not our technological advancement that has to adapt to our mentality, we have to adapt to technological advancement. Perhaps the nuclear bomb was simply not frightening enough to change our ways.

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why don't you drop the effort and just start grunting?

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

historic grievances again

Oh the irony.

and I myself am not attempting to broaden context in order to force an angle the article isn't making.

Why are people who defend Israel always such insufferable weasels?

You're hiding behind an article that already takes things out of context and then you act as though it is the right thing to do to not provide any.

Of course you can't "broaden the context", or your entire point would fall apart. This is what Israel and its supporters do, they pick an arbitrary point in time, pretend that the conflict started then, and use that as an excuse to escalate.

I find it extremely insulting to mine and our collective intelligence when someone tries to argue otherwise. Nobody buys your victim complex anymore, have some decency and self respect and stop peddling it.

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'd go mesh and possibly some tobacco replacement to "dilute" the hash a bit, depending on the quality, and improve the burning.

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Do you use a mesh for the pipe?

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These comments are so mind numbing. Have you seriously been sleeping through decades of war mongering media? Is "manufacturing consent" alien to you?

https://fair.org/home/20-years-later-nyt-still-cant-face-its-iraq-war-shame/

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/30/new-york-times-iraq-war-error/

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

So he was a fascist/racist who spent his entire life in politics without ever showing a sign of that ideology, was he waiting to spring his trap?

I'm not here to vouch for the guy, I'm just on the outside looking in, but this seems like a bunch of conjecture in its purest form.

Also, am I reading you correctly that you think racism is a great vehicle to sell the idea of libertarianism?

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Your entire theory hinges on a racist remark that he didn't even write and was possibly unaware of. Unless I'm missing something groundbreaking on page 2 and 3 of that article which I can't read because it's paywalled.

Is there anything Ron Paul did politically that would suggest fascist ideologies? The word is thrown around a lot these days.

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Bit easy to dismiss millions of people because they aren't cynical or bitter and then equating that to basically being young and dumb. Perhaps reality is what it is because it's always the Bush' and Clinton's, who only marginally affect the status quo, and never the Ron Paul's, who see inherent issues with the system, or 'reality', and at least have somewhat of an inclination to improve it.

 

Not sure if this is a (very annoying) feature or a bug that popped up recently, but when scrolling posts and encountering an ad, it will start playing with sound even though it shows the muted icon, unmuting and muting again has no effect. Sometimes this also happens when there's no ad in sight, like while reading or replying to a thread, which leaves you with no option than to endure the ad.

This is on v24.03.04-23:28 with Android 13 (T1SSMS33.1-121-4-8). Not sure what other info I can provide to help with the issue.

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