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@Mr_Andrew_Fox @JockGlasgow @israelnewspulse Again, I am more likely to trust people who are getting shouted at and praised by both sides. As stated above I have more often than not found this is an indication of truth-seeking character although neither that nor the inverse would I carelessly state as universally accurate.

@CharlieBeer1 @JockGlasgow @israelnewspulse It just means I get all sides shouting at me - but thanks!

“Do as we demand or we’ll commit war crimes” is one hell of a take.

@JockGlasgow @Mr_Andrew_Fox @israelnewspulse I have more time for people who demonstrate this willingness than people who religiously adhere to a predefined group ideology.

@JockGlasgow @Mr_Andrew_Fox @israelnewspulse Maybe he just isn't captured by either left or right ideologically and simply says what he thinks is true... For me when he says things he knows will upset people who just agreed and supported him on another issue, shows integrity is more important to him than pandering to groups

@NeckPinch @Mr_Andrew_Fox @israelnewspulse Don't jump to general conclusions about me due to this correction but the analogy does not hold up. It is always a war crime if you bomb a hospital with the PRIMARY objective of disrupting its intended function as a hospital, even a military hospital! Same with power plants!

If those power plants have any military connection or function whatsoever - and most such plants do in the heavily-militarized Islamic Republic - they are legitimate military targets under that very law of armed conflict. That means if the IRGC, Basij, etc. are tapping into the electric grid, the plants powering it are likely legitimate targets. If the guards at those plants are IRGC, if the IRGC vets all who work or visit those plants, etc, they aren’t exclusively “civilian” in nature. I mean, hospitals are protected by international law, but if terrorists make use of them (either inside or beneath), that opens up a military to targeting them. They’ve lost their exclusive civilian function. Same goes for power stuff in the IRI.

@Mr_Andrew_Fox @reportingLibya I appreciate that rock, hard place is the succinct version of your answer to this, but why- if that is what you think- would you argue that allowing Iran nukes is favourable to the (clearly also negative) consequences of this war. Genuine and non- loaded truth seeking question.

@reportingLibya Rock, meet hard place

There is probably a better than 50/50 chance that the Iran war is going to be a global economic disaster. It’s going to make the 1970s look like a cakewalk unless Trump ends it, sharpish.

@bayer04_en @Arsenal Classy club

Two hard-fought games 🤝 Well played, @Arsenal, and best of luck for the rest of your season.

@KonstantinKisin Mostly agree- it's unlikely we all die. But it does seem somewhat different to other situations. Reading between the lines: 1) This could take a while. 2) as Trump implied it could well involve boots on the ground. 3) it likely has wider implications for international politics.

It's the third time WW3 has broken out in a year and as many smart people have predicted we're all going to die. Like the last two times. It's been a pleasure knowing you all and I hope to see you in the afterlife. Or just back here tomorrow reading the same panic slop.

@Mr_Andrew_Fox @middletonmark1 I don't think that that's the only reason that he would be unelectable but it's important that this is mentioned and settled before other matters when people vote. It's the same reasoning that should be applied to AFD in germany where I now live. Elon wildly wrong to back either

@middletonmark1 I really like some of the things he says/does but he’s backed up but absolute lunatics who make him unelectable

I was kind of Reform-neutral until Braverman and Jenrick defected. My boss is Reform; I don’t always agree with him, but he’s a good bloke. Recruiting a raft of ex-Tory headbangers though… nah. They were the reason I hesitated in voting Conservative. For now, it’s a no brainer.

@BenGreenJeru Whilst I agree that Gary is wrong- the most generous take is he is tunnel visioned- he has a strong moral conviction to stand up to perceived injustice. If someone like that believes the lies then the reaction is expected. Damagingly wrong but should affect tone of our response

“The most important film of our time”. This is a crazy assertion. Obviously this film is disputed. Happened in a war started & maintained by Hamas. But for once on X you get a glimpse of how obsessed Lineker is with Gaza. Over on Instagram, this is just the output for the last 8 hours. Lineker has no skin in the game. Never mentions Hamas refusing to disarm. Never mentions the Jihadist death cult. On a daily basis, Lineker posts propaganda from Qatar and Turkey “news channels”. Obviously Iranian protestors are never mentioned. Gary Lineker’s obsession with demonizing Israel is sick.

@ColinLeMahieu @ganyicz Even if you take what AI is best at- languages- the end product still reads like AI. It's obviously better in some ways than most people could achieve, which is already worrying. But it's not yet better on its own than an above average author or playwright or essayist.

@ColinLeMahieu @ganyicz I'm not going to bet against solutions being found to this although in the meantime they are stalling more than they let up. Will still need human coders just less. In almost all areas I've seen AI used-at a high level the end product is only as good as the human guiding it.

So, have we all decided to just accept this?

@ColinLeMahieu @JUSTICELOVEMER1 @SenSanders Or if they have it working for them, builds them up

@JUSTICELOVEMER1 @SenSanders Yea, compounding interest grinds people down.

Yes, Elon. I do lack "any sense of adventure" when that "adventure" will, as you have made clear, force tens of millions of workers out of their jobs. The goal of AI and robotics must be to improve life for all people, not just to make you and your fellow oligarchs even richer.

@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders To answer about Bernie. I think like many socialists he is an ideologue which is always a precarious thing to be if history teaches us anything. I think it's important to concede that his criticisms are often fair. But as you say it's the solutions which are usually the problem.

@CharlieBeer1 @SenSanders What evidence do you have of political destabilization? The simplest explanation seems to be that Bernie is a socialist that thinks the economy needs to be planned (by him).

@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders This is impossible to separate entirely from general discontent about the corn laws and being not too long after the french revolution. But historians usually see it as a contributing factor to the situation nearly culminating in revolution.

@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders Well there are many examples. It's impossible to decouple them entirely from other contributing factors but one example would be machinery replacing jobs leading to the luddite rebellion in Britain and then the climate of discontent continuing until revolution was avoided 1834.

@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders Yes I totally agree with this. Zero sum arguments are getting tiring in general. Both left wing and right wing are infested with this type of thinking. Trump has the same problem with his delusional tariff thinking

@CharlieBeer1 @SenSanders Even in places where top incomes have gone up, median incomes have also gone up. From what I've seen this position is held by people that assume wealth is zero-sum; under that assumption seeing a wealth gap implies some people lost for others to gain. This isn't reality.

@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders This is also basically what I was alluding to with short term/long term. Except my point was that these periods of structural unemployment took time to resolve- short in one sense but long enough to destabilise things politically and open the door to radical movements.

@CharlieBeer1 @SenSanders It's called structural unemployment #technological-advancements-and-automation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">grokipedia.com/page/Structura… and we do know what happens because we've look at what's happened historically with these shifts: Specific jobs and industries decline and maybe never come back but there is no massive unemployment.

@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders Sorry clumsy wording. I am well aware that we are objectively living with highest standards in human history. People who think otherwise are delusional. Our participation in society and our voice also counts for more than ever -but this specifically seems under threat

@CharlieBeer1 @SenSanders It's not just better off on paper, it's better off actually. The lowest quartile of earners today live far better lives than at any point in history.

@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders AI seems highly likely to lead to an exacerbation of this. Most people will be left with comparative scraps even if objectively everyone might be better off on paper.

@ColinLeMahieu @SenSanders Also even if you broadly agree with free market capitalism like we both do, it's not just hard lefties who are deeply concerned about an increasing wealth gap and an increasingly oligarchal/plutocratic power structure of our governments.