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Comment Re: A good nuclear bombing will learn everyone (Score 0) 58

Not really. Those who need the lesson the most are the ones that actually used them against people for fun. The lesson they learned last time was that nuclear weapons can be used against people for fun, profit and draining the earth of its natural resources and life sustaining capacity.

Comment Re: Not wars over water (Score 3, Insightful) 58

It can be many things at once. Israel was awarded the vast majority of arable land and stole/occupied the Golan Heights specifically for its water resources. They continually destroy Palestinian cisterns and irrigation systems. They're occupying/stealing new parts of Syria and Lebanon for the same purpose. Water is very much a scarce resource they hoard as well as use as a weapon.

Comment My experience (Score 2) 120

My experience is that you have to double check everything any model tells you. They don't "think" or understand. I find them most useful as a search engine when I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the specific terms I'm looking for. Also, they're good if you just want to generate text, but aren't too concerned with the specifics. With image generation, even nanobanana, they have never given me anything remotely usable as they have extremely strong attractors towards producing images that already exist. I typically am more interested in the subject of an image than the composition and they've proven incapable of creating a unique subject.

Comment The real plan (Score 1) 113

Make it unrealistically difficult and expensive to cleanup a meltdown. The problem with Fukushima was that it was realistic, but insanely expensive to deal with. By burying this further underground they can ensure even approaching the meltdown is ridiculously difficult since the radiation and leakage will be channeled into tight tunnels.

Comment Re: The song: "Our father is Bandera" (Score 1) 139

The Soviet Union was established in 1917, they raced to prepare for WW2. They were the actual primary target for Germany's Lebensraum. Their options resistance or annihilation. The U.S. and European allies couldn't have won the war without the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union couldn't have won without Western assistance. What's telling, after Germany was defeated, the West immediately turned around and began preparing to fight the Soviet Union. They even went so far as to employ Nazis under "Operation Gladio." Western Germany did some really weird stuff under their rule, like housing orphans with pedophiles to "rehabilitate" them.

Comment Re: Indonesia also (Score 2) 135

My point is simply that Islamophobia isn't a valid model for predicting dysfunctional governance. I would blame capitalism, but in this case it's not even capitalism from within Iran. Without sanctions Iran could have sought solutions to their water problems in Tehran. Without sanctions food could have been imported instead of grown there. I've seen that anti-IR - pro-monarchy activists have been sabotaging their own country by dumping water in Tehran.

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