That’s the point.

Israel doesn’t want a deal. They want US boots on the ground in Iran. They want the entire country under a US run puppet government that will be friendly to their interests. Or, failing that, utterly eradicated.

Trump and Netanyahu have fundamentally different goals here. Trump went into this war to secure some kind of deal with Iran that he could tout as being better than Obama’s. The specifics weren’t important, it just had to be “better” by whatever nebulous definition his supporters would accept.

Netanyahu went into this war to eradicate a regional adversary. And right now what Trump wants to do is make that adversary stronger. So yes, of course Netanyahu is going to deliberately tank this deal, because it runs completely counter to Israel’s interests.

This is the trap that Trump put himself in the moment he started this war. He can’t get out of this without picking one of three politically devastating options:

1. Begin a lengthy and costly ground war in Iran.
2. Find a way to put Israel on a leash.
3. Abandon Israel to fight Iran on their own.

It’s not a question of thinking they’re a good idea. It’s a question of recognizing that global indifference to Russia’s territorial ambitions put Ukraine in a situation where they don’t have the luxury of thinking about long term consequences. If their choices are “Live in a world where we brought about the existence of AI killbots (a technology that is inevitably going to be developed by someone, somewhere, probably the people currently killing us, even if we do nothing) slightly faster” or “Just fucking die”, they’re going to pick the first one. That’s not stupidity, it’s just survival. The guy who cut his arm off to escape being trapped in a ravine wasn’t thinking “But what if I can’t open jam jars?”

Long term thinking is for people with the luxury of long term prospects.

I hate to break it to you but the development of AI weapon systems was always an inevitability. It has been an inevitability since the first ape hit another ape with a rock.

Now we can decide, collectively, that we don’t want to permit the use such weapons. I’d certainly support such a decision. We can treat them like nuclear weapons, something that should be too dangerous to contemplate using. We can work to put in place international safeguards against their use. Those would be good goals to work towards. But they didn’t suddenly spring into existence because of some guy in Ukraine, and acting like they did is ignorant and asinine.

If you’re under the impression that this is, somehow, a one-sided development on Ukraine’s part - that Russia, along with every other major military power in the world, is not currently racing to develop their own autonomous weaponry - then you either have an insanely optimistic view of the world, or you’re a Russian propagandist. The only reason Ukraine is the first country we’ve heard of using such weapons is because they’re in such a desperate situation that deploying untested military hardware directly into battle makes sense. One of the key advantages they’ve been able to hold over the Russians is how rapidly they iterate on their technology, but that advantage comes from an approach of building small production runs, testing them directly in the field and then reviewing the results. They do this with their drones, with their anti-drone defenses, and everything else besides. It’s not a safe, careful, thoughtful way of doing things, but it is effective, and when you’re facing total annihilation you will always choose effective over safe.

If you want to stand up for the idea that autonomous weapons are too dangerous to be allowed to exist, you won’t hear any disagreement from me. But if all you want to do is wag your finger at people fighting for their lives then you really to stop and consider whether this comes from a place of genuine concern for the world, or just a need to feed your own sense of moral superiority.

Oh no! Are they saying there’s a chance he might survive? That’s awful!

from the /g at the end (and the spaces on the edges) i agree it looks like a malformed attempt at an awk/perl/etc substitution

The /g at the end is the global operater. It means, roughly, match across the entire input string.

This is completely valid regex, not a malformed attempt at anything. It’s just that the delimiters and operators are often omitted from regex in practical use so you may not be used to seeing them.

Russia brought this horror into the world when they chose to invade a nation that was no threat to them. Everything past that point is on their hands.

Tanking any ceasefire is literally in Israel’s best interest. Their goal is the elimination of Iran as a regional power. They don’t want to help Trump get out of this war, they want him to fully commit to it. American boots on the ground is the best possible outcome for them.

If the leaked details are remotely accurate (they’re consistent with previous leaked drafts, so they do sound credible) this is a total capitulation on the part of the United States.

They don’t need to. They’re winning, and widening the conflict now can only hurt them. All Iran has to do is sit tight, lob a missile at the strait every now and then, and wait for the US to fold. They’ve found the perfect strategy for this situation and opponent.

How do you improve perfection?

Show’s coming back baybeeeeee!

Ukraine are fighting for their survival. You can’t put someone’s back to the wall and expect them to make the most moral, clear-headed, rational decisions.

What they have right now is Western armaments and funding. What they don’t have is an inexhaustible supply of manpower. And their enemy has a much bigger supply of manpower than they do. Developing more and better autonomous weapon systems is the most rational choice in the horrendous situation they’ve been placed in.

The ultimate moral responsibility here is not with Ukraine. If the world had taken Russia seriously as a threat when they took Crimea, if we had moved to provide serious and meaningful security guarantees to Ukraine and apply meaningful, effective punishments to Russia (like dumping their oil and gas, as we finally, begrudgingly started to do in 2022), none of this would have happened. Instead we threw them to the wolves, and now you’re here wagging your finger at them for defending themselves any way they can.

Real engineers write everything in machine code. Programming languages are a crutch. Reproduce everything from first principles every single time or don’t dare call yourself a programmer.

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Yeah, the US really does have a debt problem. I’m a big defender of government debt - governments have an ability to carry debts in a way that regular households absolutely cannot, and that’s without even getting into ideas like MMT - but US debt to GDP ratios are getting truly reckless. Raising taxes, along with reigning in their absolutely demented levels of military spending, are going to be the only reasonable way forward.

Not really. Israel’s primary concern is removing Iran as a regional adversary. I’m not saying they would say no to stealing their oil industry, but it’s not really the primary motivator. They’d be perfectly happy with the US swooping in and controlling Iran’s oil industry as long as it left them free to basically act unobstructed in Lebanon and Palestine.

Again, that comes back to the fact that Israel and the US have fundamentally different goals here, which is a huge issue for Trump.

Honestly, this is so hilarious. The Russians threatened to publish their address, and Sentinel’s reaction has more or less been “Thanks for the free advertising, but could you include our email and phone number as well?”

It’s pretty clear that at no point did the US plan for Iran closing the state. They should have. Every previous US government considered it the primary danger of a war with Iran. But Trump doesn’t surround himself with smart people.

Also there’s credible reporting that their belief that Iran would not close the strait was reinforced by the AI planning systems they recently invested in. So that’s fun. The blind leading the stupid.

While this is true, to my recollection Venezuela actually does produce the right kind of oil for the US to refine. That’s believed to be what made it attractive (the other option would be Canada). Ironically the US does not have the ability to refine the oil they now produce. That’s why they export it instead.

But the idea that they’re actually going to get any oil out of Venezuela is laughable. Every company that Trump pitched the idea to turned him down, because it’s far too volatile a region and political situation for them to go in and set up billions in infrastructure.

This, by the way, is how data centres work only worse. Even a hyperscale data centre in the gigawatt range is very unlikely to employ more than a hundred people. After initial construction - which will often be handled by out of state specialists, not locals - their effect on employment is basically nil. They’re sold to voters as a big deal for the community they’re in but in reality they just make noise, drink all the water and jack up power prices for no benefit.