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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • If you want to get technical about the situation, it’s a genocide. It fits the UN definition of that activity.

    Israel is making conditions horrific for Palestinians, likely with the long term intention to push them out of the area.

    That being said, Palestine is not a country. It has never been recognized as a country globally, and it’s likely it never will be. The people in especially Gaza shouldn’t really be there. The population of Gaza during parts of WW1 was only 17,000 people, down from about 40,000 before that. It’s not like there has been a million people in Gaza for centuries, the vast majority of people there are either recent immigrants, or only a couple of generations of births (they have a stupidly high birth rate)

    The historical crux of the matter, is that Israel was formed because the previous government in the area(The ottoman empire) collapsed after supporting the wrong side in the first world war and the territory was divided up by the victors.

    The biggest issue that I have with how people are treating this situation, is that people seem to think that because the territory was taken in a war (WW1 or even in the current war) it should be returned. These same people when asked when they will be returning their countries land to it’s previous occupants are not in favour of returning anything that might impact them personally.





  • This shit is too grey for the courts to handle properly.

    Even with a video or audio recording, it’s impossible to know state of mind.

    As we see with this case, they can actively be saying yes or engaging with people and then say they felt they had no choice but to participate.

    Without video or audio recordings, these things almost always come down to context at best, or just they said/they said at worst.

    How can our justice system find anything to be true in these situations “beyond a reasonable doubt” at that point?

    I’m not detracting from sexual assault being bad, it is, I’m just pointing out that there isn’t a reasonable way to fix it that I’ve heard so far and we can’t just believe every victim because we know that it’s being abused (even if it’s rare) by malicious actors to punish people that committed no crime.

    The only actual solution I have at this point is we should just all start fucking robots, because people are stupid.









  • Why would China or Russia agree to an anti-ai treaty? Those technologies benefit their objectives quite heavily.

    Even if they said they would, unlike military assets like missiles, hiding a datacenter’s use case is trivial.

    It’s not like Russia(or the US) has been following existing treaty rules scrupulously even with the current stuff.

    And no, you can’t regulate bias. Deep fakes… Some of it, but definitely not all of it. Commercial stuff from Microsoft or meta may be able to he regulated, but if there’s any benefit to not doing so customers will just purchase services from outside the country to accomplish that.