As another commenter said, Israel is still attacking Lebanon, so, as usual, they ignore any and all ceasefire agreements

Since I’m personally connected, I don’t want to use superlatives. But yes.

While that is true, I think that many of the most successful at building a following are true believers. Hitler is a pretty good example.

I think Mao or Pol Pot also started out quite idealistic and then we’re warped by power.

I suppose it’s very difficult to really say one way or the other, and I would argue that true evil is only possible when the intent is purely self serving.

Even with sociopathy, they may genuinely think they are doing good without feeling empathy for those they harm. However, it’s a very good point that many of those that rise are sociopaths or become sociopathic.

I think that where we are today, it’s more important than ever to really recognise that there is absolutely no “evilest” person. And moreso, almost all of them genuinely believed they were being a force for good.

The main reason for there being no “evilest” is because there are not just tens, or hundreds, but thousands of people who have committed horrific atrocities which even as individual acts would be in contention for the evilest.

Just within the Holocaust, you have so many individuals perpetrating such evil. The croatian fascist groups always stick out in my memory for the raw personal brutality.

However, there are so many comparable situations throughout history that we know very little about. Sacking of cities, mass rapes, Jeffrey fucking epstein, what’s been happening in Sudan, what happened in Ethiopia a few years ago, the Holocaust, the Mongols, the ottomans, the British empire, south American dictators, the Japanese empire, the russian empire, the soviet union, al Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, the IRA, the Vikings, and on, and on, and on.

Yes, arguments can be made about how much more evil things are when they are organised etc. However, in my mind, organisation is just a tool that we have improved. We need to be hyper vigilant that anyone, at any time can end up being so radicalised that they are willing to perpetrate evil. Including ourselves. We are not really different from these evil humans.

Henry Kissinger is up there as quite a villain of modern times. Puppet master of most of the fucked up modern world order.

Ottomans were quite vile as well. My grandmother grew up watching ottoman soldiers slicing open pregnant women’s bellies because they were Greek and laughing.

Pol pot is definitely up there.

So many people just have this “oh it was written on the internet, it can’t be illegal”. Mate when you are calling for people to set fire to hotels to burn migrants for their skin colour it’s fucking illegal.

Iran is a completely different beast to Iraq.

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How did he not notice though…

I think they prefer stroopwaffels

Ah yes. That obviously dangerous, terrorist rocket launcher disguised as a… checks notes… Bridge

The term alpine divorce references a book about a murder/suicide/framing plot of a couple going in a mountain holiday. (Check

So the term implies that it is attempted murder.

The article dives into more nuance. The hypothesis being that it could have something to do with instances where men feel more of a need to be able to “complete” the “objective” of the hike, or may go on hikes which are more demanding than their partner may be ready for, or also that they may be ready for.

Similarly, one of the experts in the article goes on to say that this they don’t particularly like making it a gender thing, but unfortunately there is some stark correlation

This was my first take too, but I think that was mostly true in the first years when the rot in the russian military was more prevalent. They have been steadily cleaning up and ramping up production across their MIC and they also have local Shahed production now set up by Iranian engineers afaik.

That means that the main limits on Russias ability to get drones is now primarily financial, rather than production volume. So while they lost some of their effective production, they have made so much money out of this, that even if it ends today, their biggest challenge, their economy, is hugely improved. If it continues, they will be able to afford even more production.

With the effectiveness of the Shaheds, I wouldn’t be surprised if China is also pumping them out and Russia can buy them there. If NATO dumped a bunch of money into reverse engineering and setting up production, Iranian allies sure as hell should have.

Most of the NATO countries training Ukrainians have been doing this since Day 1 (Mostly UK, Germany and Spain afaik). It’s one of the main reasons to offer continuous training at local bases rather than ‘just’ sending officers to Ukraine.

This is the first conflict between two modern militaries since the Falklands. And that wasn’t broadly applicable for many many reasons. From a pragmatic point of view, militaries have been absolutely desperate to ingest lessons learned from the moment we started sending our materiel.

Anyone who has spent any time in the US shouldn’t be surprised by him winning. It was and is still shockingly frustrating and disappointing, but unfortunately that’s only because it’s an emotionally difficult pill to swallow how awful so much of it is.

Sort of how no one is surprised when Israel bomb indiscriminately, the US invades/coups/bombs another country, Saudi executes a bunch of people, Russia is excessively brutal, massacres in African conflicts if not genocides and ethnic cleansing that most of the world ignores.

No matter how predictable, it is always shockingly horrifying, but not surprising.

At least in Germany, about the same amount of warnings. When a debt collector shows up for example they don’t immediately seize everything, they do an assessment first and tell you what will be seized if you don’t pay up.

I have limited dev experience, but most Devs at my company utilise AI heavily for generic code generation.

For example, writing out the core functionality, and then having the AI propagate variables, error flags etc.

I like your point that it really should be a “Copilot”. (Although ew MSoft.)

I think it’s important to continue to experiment with new tools as they improve, and try to use them responsibly.

AI always produces extremely generic, slightly verbose phrases though. So it’s important to generate in small enough chunks that you can use the structure it creates and then add the specificity and accuracy for your purpose. And cut out the waste.