I'm not reading OPs comment as being about the media not covering the war. That would indeed be an absurd statement, I read it as a statement that the media not covering it as Trumps warm and not linking these earlier tweets about him being aware of using an Iran war to cover up something.

Yeah, I don't really get these "this has always been possible" comments whenever it is about AI. Yes you could do this before, yes you could manipulate or even completely and convincingly make up photos before AI.

The point is that now is that it actually took some time, skill and effort to do that before, but now this has basically been made easily available to everyone, taking no effort or time. So that now any malicious moron out there who wants to do something destructive and evil are actually capable of doing it on the spur of the moment.

Yeah, but hops is by far the most expensive ingredient of the beer. Especially the hops used in US IPAs. Easier to make, but definitely not cheaper.

The "quietly" is aimed at Microslop. They didn't grandly announce it on every platform like they do with everything else.

It is perfectly fitting in this context.

I made the deliberate decision years ago not to play multiplayer games even though having almost exclusively played those. It was just to get away from all the toxicity and competetiveness.

So from then on I have only played singleplayer games, and it have been such a positive change for me. Much more entertaining and no stress at all. And the bonus was of course that it made switching to Linux gaming so much easier, since I didn't miss out on anything I wanted to play.

Except of course that getting lifesentences for simply being an anti-fascist is now the tradition in the US.

Yeah, I think the most classic rookie gardening mistake is thinking that plants only need water. They need nutrients just like the rest of us. By only giving plants water they basically starve to death when they have depleted their growing soil of nutrients.

As someone who was using internet forums back then, it was so bizarre to experience the facebook breakthrough in real time.

"So you are using your real name and posting photos of yourself for everyone to see?"

"Relax, everybody is doing it. It is no big deal, and it makes it so easy to find old friends."

A lot of unnecessary shit happened which could easily have been avoided.

"Shit happens" is not a good defence for anything.

You are deliberately using two different standards though. Biden didn't let himself get fooled into starting a war with Iran either. Only Trump did that.

It is remarkable how simple the stock market really is:

No AI = line goes down

More AI = line goes up

It is lucky noone is exploiting that simplicity.

This has nothing to do with any of that. twitter is a fascist run fascist social media. You don't go there because you don't go hang out with fascists.