The US military base in Bahrain was there for much longer than the administration. While it may have been sufficient for operations in Iraq, it makes absolutely no sense to supply an aircraft carrier operating outside the Persian Gulf from within the Persian Gulf... I don't understand how any planners thought this made sense. They knew Iran could shut off or severely endanger passage of the Hormuz straight.

How could the base resupply the Lincoln even if it wasn't destroyed? Did the US really have no logistical capabilities in the Arabian Sea? They have facilities in Djibouti and Oman.

I think we are letting Hegseth's stupidity take the fall for a clear diplomatic or military planning failure.

Meta is absolutely aware its algo is pushing content from sexual predators for other sexual predators. I've been flagging some stuff for months and Meta's system repeatedly refuses to do anything about it. It's sickening. I was really close to start letter writing different politicians in my area to get it banned in Canada.

Its genuinely the worst platform I have ever seen in my life. The worse subreddits or 4chan pages were not this blatant.

I don't think people understand how bad Facebook has gotten. It is full to the brim of criminal activities of all kinds.

Lots of people end up on welfare and in social housing under similar situations. We stigmatize those people so much that it never enters public discourse in the same way.

People who are unhoused tend to have even more severe difficulties resulting in that situation.

I feel gig work locks you into a cycle of poverty and dependence. It's not transferable experience and it usually locks you into car ownership. Not sustainable for getting into the workforce.

Yeah its been the same people with too much disposable income or margin for a while. The whole scheme is selling "clout" for a few hundred a pop.

There has to be a point where the people who still buy into this don't give a fuck anymore?

You guys are a bit optimistic if you think Mitch McConnell's absence isnt a test run for something.

Whatever, it's a better retcon than everything J.K.Rowling said about Harry Potter.

The Matrix having a bunch of trans themes > Dumbledore having a throbbing gay sex backstory and the 1 jewish student being named Goldstein.

The Matrix actually supports those themes and readings within the work.

Trump 2028 will be run dead or alive, exactly.

I'm sure they already have the LLM ready to run his socials.

He did say to buy AMD stock back in a 2017 or 2018 video... I did and it was worth it. His main contribution to my life. lol

NCIX was the bomb. Built my first PC off there.

In general, any large vehicle like a pickup truck, will do horrific damage to animals (or people). It has far more to do with speed and weight, than the "hardness" or "sharpness" of the materials used. Crumple zones are more there to protect the occupants than whatever they hit.

High speed car accidents and roadkill are some of the most violent injuries one can witness.

It shows the importance of diversifying energy production. In Quebec it's all hydro, but sometimes the weather means the reservoirs can get low over the years. It affects production in a serious way and can take time to build up again.

Wind and solar are also affected by weather patterns in their own ways. Maybe less so or at least maybe different factors. Hedging and balancing grid production is going to be a new challenge.

Fossil fuels did have the advantage of being pretty easy to ramp up or down, whenever, for whatever reason. Some countries might want to keep around older but very efficient fossil fuel plants as backups for these kinds of events. That or waste incineration for example.

All renewables are subject to some kind of weather impacts. A challenge with the grid is adapting to spikes in demand like if it's really cold or hot one day in particular. You cant turn up the sun or wind on demand.

We've been having brown outs in Canada for the first time ever in the last few years. Its crazy to imagine since our electricity is so abundant. Same with France struggling with this heat wave.

An app is always a red flag, especially if it's the only way you can interact with the device.

May be an orange, but you sure have a smart system to alert you if the kibble is late.

And they convinced several generations that using them is necessary for dating.

Farming equipment is a particularly annoying one, that and construction vehicles, are becoming increasingly locked down by proprietary software and impossible to maintain yourself. You can't even employ mechanics outside the dealer network in some instances and it will be more so in the future.

They actually don't take them down even if reported. I've been flagging stuff like this for 6 months. They refused. I appealed the refusal, a human supposedly reviewed it and it still was refused. The algo thinks I like that shit, so it shows me more and I report more of it. Nothing ever comes from it.

I'm talking about obvious CSAM or allusions to it. Accounts run by cybercriminals using images of minors to lure marks. Fucking shit that anyone with a working morality would remove.

I've been flagging these on Facebook, which I have a blank account only for marketplace. Facebook NEVER does anything about it and I've been increasingly concerned. My reports get closed as "content does not break terms of use".

The things I see through Facebook ads are not necessarily ai generated. They are just disgusting images, or allusions. Like an anime image of an old man surrounded by young boys with captions about a romance dating sim.

Yes, it is full of ads alluding to or including CSAM.

It's been like this for a while. The suggested shorts frequently imply sexual content with minors and Facebook friend suggestions on blank accounts frequently include 14-16 year old girls.

Don't believe me, create a fresh Facebook account and just browse the feed. It's vile. The second you click it to report it, the algo will show you so much more.

Edit: There's also a large number of fake user accounts promoting onlyfans or phishing scams including photos of under 18 girls in swimsuits with captions like "would you date someone young like me?". Facebook also closed those reported tickets as not violating community guidelines.

I flagged one of these in January, I just found it and the user is celebrating her "birthday" holding balloons 1 and 3. Still active.

I've appealed some of these reports they closed and they claimed a human reviewed it and it still didnt violate guidelines.

They at best don't give a fuck, at worst actively want this space to flourish within their platform. I think Facebook is behaving in a criminal way, either through negligence or complicit.

Don't assume all this content is ai. It's just as likely trafficking networks are producing these images or stealing them from minors' accounts. These images could have been produced ages ago as well.

These cybercriminals absolutely have CSAM they will show as a means of achieving phishing or pig butchering scams. Facebook allows its space to be a launching point for this.