Mark my words: generative “AI” is the tech bubble of all tech bubbles.

It’s an infinite supply of “content” in a world of finite demand. While fast, it is incredibly inefficient at creating anything, often including things with dubious quality at best. And finally, there seems to be very little consumer interest in paid-for, commercial generative AI services. A niche group of people are happy to use generative AI while it’s available for free, but once companies start charging for access to services and datasets, the number of people who are interested in paying for it will obviously be significantly smaller.

Last I checked there was more than a TRILLION dollars of investment into generative AI across the US economy, with practically zero evidence of genuinely profitable business models that could ever lead to any return on investment. The entire thing is a giant money pit, and I don’t see any way in which someone doesn’t get left holding the $1,000,000,000,000 generative AI bag.

Palestinians can do no wrong at this point.

You may want to read up some about how LGBTQ people are treated in Gaza before you come out with gems like that, amigo…

Don’t choose to be brainwashed. Both Israel and Palestine have done horrible and atrocious shit throughout this >80 year conflict. There is zero excuse for the blatant disregard of innocent civilian lives that we have seen on both side over the last 14 months alone. This is not a blank-and-white, good-vs-bad, situation.

Ooh, the ad homenim into family guy meme baseless “you’re racist” strawman argument.

Now you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel of stupid shit to say, aren’t you?

You’re the one bringing race into this and I can only hazard a guess why…

As far as I know, no one has been convicted before a court for the October 7th attacks. We shouldn’t talk about the massacres then, right?

Nice one “bro”, but there are hundreds of hours of high-resolution video footage of October 7th, much of which was recorded and published by Hamas militants themselves. Innocent people being fucking shot and killed, their homes and communes ransacked, men, women and children taken captive (about 100 of which are still unaccounted for today).

Is this your idea of good argument? Denial of a objectively horrible and well-documented massacre of people in broad daylight?

If so, that pretty disgusting. You dropped this 🤡

IF the evidence behind October 7th was “I dunno maybe it happened because someone says that they saw someone who looked like Hamas do something near something else but maybe not”, then I would also have a very difficult time accepting that as fact. I would want to some actual evidence of that, wouldn’t you?

Someone like you, who is more biased and hateful, would gladly accept something so inconclusive as a fact to justify their feelings of blind anger and tribal vengeance.

This holy war will go on for another 80 years because of people like you who are willing to believe anything that makes them feel better about whichever side of this pointless bullshit that they happen to subscribe to.

I’m a secular atheist democratic libertarian socialist. Very little of that factors into my view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Face it. You guys are just being pissy because I asked for the receipts, and it turns out you don’t have them.

• If caring about what is true or not makes me a “zionist” (it doesn’t, fyi), then I guess I am.
• If advocating for the release of the remaining Israeli hostages from Gaza makes me a “zionist” (it doesn’t, fyi), then I guess I am.
• If wanting a peaceful, cooperative two-state solution where both Palestine and Israel are run in a secular democratic manner makes me a “zionist” (it doesn’t, fyi), then I guess I am.

Frankly, at this point I’m starting to think that many of you guys don’t even know what a fucking “zionist” is. It’s just become a mantra and a meme to some of you guys.

Imagine being this fragile and butthurt when someone asks if there is evidence behind a claim…

Believe whatever you want to believe. If you want to join the holy war and believe in the Torah or the prophet Muhammad then that’s your own [bad] choice. As for me, I’m still going to choose to believe in objective facts.

I like how quick you are to shift the goalposts from “there’s no evidence. None at all” to “oh that evidence you provided?

Go ahead and explain to me about how a UN memo saying that something “may be” happening is “evidence” of anything?

Is it happening or is it not happening? If this was something that there was undeniable evidence of, do you think the report would say that it “may be” happening or that it “is” happening?

That’s not moving the goalposts, that’s just basic reading comprehension–something you clearly lack.

Keep cheering for genocide if that’s what you want to do, there’s no need to pretend this is about anything else.

Ah, here it is, the strawman we’ve all been waiting for!

I’m against any Israeli desire for genocide against the Palestinian people, just like I am against any Palestinian desire to genocide the Israeli people. I have always and will always believe in a peaceful two-state solution in which Israel and Palestine learn to cooperate, respect defined boundaries, enshrine equal rights for minorities, and run their nations in a democratic and secular fashion instead of a theocratic authoritarian one.

I mean… I get it, dude. It’s cool.

I don’t have a side in this holy war that has been going on since long before I was born. In fact, both the Israelis and the Palestinians have proven themselves to be barbaric shitheads who are more than happy to violate the norms of war and target innocent civilians in the name of their personal brand of violent genocide.

Like many other people on this website, you simply don’t like it when people challenge your oh-so-nuanced “Israeli Jew bad, Palestinian Muslim good” viewpoint by asking for even the most basic thread of evidence to back up your provocative story, and so you get frustrated when the best evidence that you have is that some Palestinian witness claims to have seen an IDF soldier in the general vicinity of the thing happening.

That’s fine, I guess. I’m still going to ask to see the receipts when people make outlandish claims.

This is not a court proceeding, so saying “hearsay is not evidence” is pointless.

You’re right. In fact the stakes are much higher than a court proceeding, as is the need to be accurate and certain about allegations.

Witness testimony before a court would be evidence.

It would be, if the witness was someone deemed to be credible and if what they saw was consistent with other confirmed facts.

You should be glad that we happen to live in a world where “I saw them do it!” alone isn’t enough to convict someone of a serious crime.

The details will have to be proven in court, when they eventually get their Nuremberg.

Good! And if/when that time comes, and the details are proven beyond a reasonable doubt with hard evidence, then it can be said to be a fact. What a concept, eh?

As of now, what you are describing is little more than a conspiracy theory akin to “stop the steal”, flat earth, birtherism, and so on. All this conversation has shown is that the Lemmy groupthink is just as prone to believing conspiracy theories and propaganda that conforms to their biases as some of the wack-jobs on the far right.

If the story was flipped and we were accusing Palestinians of burning down an Israeli school I’d be making all the same points. You know why? Because If your standards for truth and objectivity morph and change depending on which side of the holy war you’re talking about, then you don’t really give a damn about the truth at all, do you?

Hey look! Performative European bureaucratic theater that will amount to nothing. I think this is what people call “virtue signalling”, no?

More than a year into this shit show chapter of an 80 year conflict, war criminals, authoritarians and genocidal maniacs on both sides, no mechanism to compel arrest or enforce anything, and the Hamas officials that were named are potentially already dead. I can’t believe that people don’t know empty political gestures tossing red meat when they see it… 🙄

Netanyahu should be a man and go face the ICC himself in response to this warrant. After all, if the facts show that he has acted within the various laws and conventions of war, then he has nothing to fear. He obviously won’t however, nor will anyone bother to arrest him in the US or EU.

“Bound by contract”, lol…

Are you familiar with Donald Trump?

Make no mistake, this war is the culmination of multiple decades of extremist Israeli and Palestinian politics in which the worst possible human beings on both sides were propped up by a populace that has been blinded by decades of hate for the other.

This is what Netanyahu and Hamas have always wanted, and what they were always working towards.

America will never cut off the supply of weapons to Israel, as they are not only our most important ally in the Middle East, but also a key symbolic homeland for millions of Jewish Americans that happens to be under constant threat of attack and annihilation from multiple regional neighbors, including Iran.

People won’t like to hear this, but Bernie Sanders could have been president in 2023 and he still would have sold weapons to Israel in the wake of the October 7th massacre.

The best you can realistically hope for is weapons sent under preconditions.

Idiots believe “media”, intelligent people believe concrete evidence, of which there is none to back up the original claim.

The memo said that one gang leader established a “military like compound” in an area “restricted, controlled and patrolled" by the Israeli army.

A “UN memo” saying that the gangs “may be benefiting” from the Israeli army isn’t exactly conclusive evidence now is it?

Gaza’s police force

A.K.A. Hamas

Meanwhile, food prices have skyrocketed.

Because Palestinian gangsters have stolen all of the aid that Western countries have donated to them, while Hamas’ allies in Iran and Russia laugh their fucking asses off at us.

This entire famine created by Israel is deliberate and intentional.

Gaza is right on the Mediterranean Sea, where people have been thriving off fish and produce since prehistory. At some point you’re going to have to stop blaming Israel for all of Palestine’s problems and failings, especially since (as you rightfully pointed out) it is Palestinian gangsters who are stealing the aide, not Israelis.

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza because it was not linked to an immediate release of hostages taken captive by Hamas militants in Israel in October 2023. [Source: https://apnews.com/article/un-gaza-resolution-veto-hamas-israel-hostages-b5281432fc2acdc1860adb3015392c0b]

Despite the knee-jerk reaction from uninformed people here, they were absolutely right to veto it.

Any ceasefire deal should obviously demand the immediate release of every remaining Israeli hostage.

There is simply no justification for the withholding of these hostages who have been tortured and raped in Palestinian captivity for >13 months. The civilians of Gaza do NOT benefit from the continued torture of Israeli civilian hostages, so what is the rationale for not calling for their immediate release? Release the damn hostages, and only then can we have a meaningful path towards a ceasefire.

Residents of the area said

Hearsay is not evidence.

leaving the school surroundings

Being near something is not evidence of having done it.

approved by the military to enter northern Gaza

Why would the IDF attack a convoy they they themselves approved?

Witnesses said

Hearsay is not evidence.

Reports also said

Reports by who? With what evidence?

Clearly objectivity and media literacy are at an all time low. What a shame.

I’m laughing at the patently absurd and ridiculous conspiracy theory that the local Palestinian gangs lead by the Palestinian Abu Shabab are “backed by Israel”. A claim that has literally zero evidence or basis in fact behind it.

This isn’t about me, other than the fact that this is about Palestinian thugs stealing the humanitarian aid that my taxes have helped pay for from other Palestinians.

You might as well tell me that the Earth is flat and the aid trucks fell of the edge. It’s ridiculous coping bullshit that one can only assume was made up to try to remove all nuance from the discussion by blaming it on the Israelis.

Is there evidence that the Israeli soldiers did it?

“The UN says it’s the Jews fault that Palestinians are stealing from Palestinians!”

Funny how Palestinians can apparently do no wrong. 🤣

What began in the spring as a largely random phenomenon of desperate civilians stealing from trucks has now morphed into an organized criminal enterprise, aid groups say, and the gangs responsible have become increasingly violent and powerful — compounding the struggle to deliver food, hygiene items and cold-weather supplies to 2 million displaced and hungry people as winter approaches.

I believe in free speech but I’m more concerned about freedom from religion than freedom of religion.

Democratic secular society is on a sharp decline all over the world.

Sure, that’s definitely nice in theory.

In practice, however, because the client is closed source and there’s no way to self-host and instance, BlueSky users will eventually find themselves at the whims of the people/person who controls the software. What’s to stop some Elon Musk type from buying BlueSky next and then adding things to your algorithm without your consent?

That’s why I’m very skeptical of BlueSky’s pseudo-federation, as it feels like people are just making the same mistakes (with regard to corporate social media) over and over again. Unlike Mastodon (which I understand is less popular right now and thus the network/peer effect is weaker for people), the users have very little control over BlueSky as a platform, and that feels like a mistake.

With all that said, priority numero uno should simply be to get people off of shit like X.com and TikTok, which aren’t just at risk of becoming toxic playgrounds of oligarchs, but already are. If people choose BlueSky as the next corporate platform to go to, it’s a small step in the right direction, but it’s worth proceeding with caution.

Uhhhhhh what does that have to do with a 7 year old starving to death in Gaza?

What does “a 7 year old starving to death in Gaza” have to do with anything we were talking about?

People have been successfully living, thriving even, on every edge of the Mediterranean Sea since human pre-history, If people who lived there ~4000 years could figure out how to fish and farm, then I’m sure the Palestinians can to, regardless of how much they’ve failed to elect effective and reasonable leaders in favor of Islamic militant groups like Hamas. Put down the AK-47 and pick up a fishing rod, and the starvation issue goes away.

Honestly you just showed your hand. Good bye bigot.

Like all religions, Islam is a cult, an ideology that people choose to subscribe to and potentially become radicalized by. It is not above scrutiny or criticism.

Other than that it’s just a matter of historical record that the Arab League attacked Israel in the 1940s, entering a war that they ultimately lost and thus ending up in a worse position with lost territory as a result. The very definition of “fuck around and find out”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League_and_the_Arab–Israeli_conflict

I already have you blocked and screened

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