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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlMto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneUSA rule
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    4 days ago

    Not a whoops. The girls school was specifically targeted by Israel as it is adjacent to a naval base and attended in great part by the children of naval officers.

    The US military knows that targeting civilians, especially children, is not only bad optics, it also makes their jobs exponentially more difficult as they always depend on local support. The IDF’s strategy is to inflict maximum pain in order to break the enemy. This is especially attractive when you cam make others (the US) do the killing for you and take the blame.

    Normally, US intelligence selects and monitors the targets, but this shitshow of an administration has let a foreign entity (Israel) drive.

    Regardless. The killing of those girls was not a whoops.












  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOPMto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneHalftime rule.
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    27 days ago

    My pilates instructor argued with me for a good ten minutes. She was convinced PR was a different country.

    Me: It’s just like the US Virgin Islands

    Her: Well that makes sense, they are the US Virgin Islands

    Me: So if Puerto Rico renamed to “US Puerto Rico”, only then would they be part of the US?!?

    Wow. Just…wow.

    EDIT: I was wrong. USVI residents are US citizens but USVI Nationals (whatever that means). Puerto Ricans are US citizens AND US Nationals.




  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlMto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneubi rule
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    27 days ago

    I use to be what’s called a social liberal / fiscal conservative. In the early twenty teens my company was invited to work with what was then an unknown “chat bot” technology. It was plain to see where things were headed. Overnight I was a proponent of UBI. This is before Trump’s 2016 win. My friends and colleagues looked to me like I was crazy when I told them that within 10 years they’d be out of a job. I missed the mark there since majy of them turned into AI Bros, but I was close enough.

    If we do not implement a safety net, REAL SOON, this entire society is going to collapse. There just won’t be enough means for people to survive. That’s not hyperbole.