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At this point, it's likely that an attack on Iran has already been decided upon. These negotiations are doomed to fail from the start. Why? Because the US and allies are demanding that Iran have no nuclear enrichment capability at all. Not not enriching beyond reactor levels, but no enrichment at all. Enriching nuclear material is a right every nation has under international law. They're trying to impose harsher conditions on Iran than numerous other non-nuclear weapon states.

They know Iran wants to build a nuclear power grid. They're offering a fig leaf program that would provide fuel for their power plants, but in a way that would give them zero independent control over their own reactor supply lines. They want Iran completely incapable of creating any nuclear enrichment whatsoever. And this is after the US and allies have already violated previous agreements with Iran more than once.

Imagine what that would look like. Iran agrees to Washington's terms. They become completely dependent on the US and allies for their reactor fuel. But they're still geopolitical rivals with Israel. One day AIPAC starts up the propaganda machine again. They start applying pressure in Washington to cut off the Iranian reactor fuel shipments. They succeed, and now Iran's cities are in the dark.

Considering the diplomatic history, there is zero chance Iran is going to make its power grid dependent on the US alliance. It would be willing to sign an agreement preventing enrichment beyond reactor levels, (same as the old agreement.) But there is zero chance Iran is going to agree to give up enrichment entirely.

The US and allies are demanding something they know that Iran cannot possibly give them. This is why it's likely that a war has already been decided upon. You don't make a poison pill your unshakeable demand, unless you want them to fail.

My prediction? The Iranian nuclear facilities will be destroyed by Israeli nuclear bunker-busting bombs. The first nuclear weapons ever fired in anger since WW2 will be used against the sites. Israel will not admit this. Rather, it will continue to refuse to officially say whether it even has nukes at all. Residual fallout and radiation will be blamed on the nuclear material found inside the facilities.

It also gives "content removed" if you tell the AI it's an abomination.

Tried a similar prompt.

They seem to be living their best lives.

Oh, hey, it's Pseudotsuga menziesii.

Mostly this is just an issue with the nature of science. There's fundamentally just a lot we don't know about what these creatures looked like. Thankfully, in the last 20-30 years, we've learned a lot more. We've become a lot better at finding evidence of feathers and other surface details. We may have gotten better at estimating the musculature? I'm not really sure what the current state of knowledge is here.

But the key thing to consider is that science, as a project, is incredibly conservative. Science is all about precisely defining your claims and clearly justifying them, ideally via quantitative analysis. The reason old renderings of dinosaurs look like this is that these represent the threshold of the known. They are scientific renders, containing only the details that we can be reasonably certain actually existed on these animals. You can of course go further and fill in missing details with imagination and reasonable speculation, but this will always be more an exercise in art than science, a speculative exercise. Yes, dinosaurs likely didn't have this "shrink wrapped" appearance. But what their real appearance was is a guessing game. Yes, it's plausible spinosaurus had big back muscles rather than a fan, but there are likely also other speculative models people could propose. Maybe the spine isn't a fan, but the base of some giant peacock-type tail? Maybe it wasn't a fan, but a series of spikes. Maybe it wasn't one vertical fan, but two horizontal sheets? Who knows?

Science is an inherently conservative exercise. We tend to forget this. Political conservatives hate science because they hate when reality disagrees with their dogma. But while political conservatives call science woke or liberal, the truth is, institutionally, science is conservative. Ideas move slowly. Major paradigm shifts only occur when overwhelming evidence forces them to. Ideas often take decades to slowly percolate through academia, sometimes only changing because the old generation retires or dies of old age.

Scientists as such are, generally, biased against making unfounded claims and speculation. A lot of scientific training focuses on precisely defining your claims, including the precise limits of those claims. And this bleeds over into scientific renderings. From a scientific perspective, it is often better to make a rendering that you know is almost certainly incorrect, rather than make a likely more correct rendering that you cannot support with evidence.

Seriously. Physical third places have been dying for years. Of course people are going to meet their partners primarily online.

By setting them in fire, cyber trucks are recycled. They return to the Earth from whence they came!

I'm going to respond to your post with a previous post I made in response to right wingers conflating protests of Israel with anti-Antisemitism.

Only a Nazi conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

Those on the right, being Nazis, use the Hitlerian definition of anti-Semitism. In this Hitlerian definition, Jews can never actually be full citizens of any other nation besides Israel. Regardless of their personal loyalty or belief, any Jew in the US or Europe is suspect, only a partial citizen, a foreigner at their very core. This is Hitlerian, as it is the very way the historical Nazis viewed Jewish identity.

For modern Nazis, being a Jew and being Israeli are interchangeable. A criticism of the Israeli government is an attack on Jewish people in general. Nazis like the modern Republican Party believe that Jews can never be real Americans, and that they will always have some connection and loyalty to the Israeli state. This is the very logic that justified the Japanese internment camps. If you think every Jewish person must be loyal to Israel, you are literally a Nazi.

Only a Nazi conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

Those on the right, being Nazis, use the Hitlerian definition of anti-Semitism. In this Hitlerian definition, Jews can never actually be full citizens of any other nation besides Israel. Regardless of their personal loyalty or belief, any Jew in the US or Europe is suspect, only a partial citizen, a foreigner at their very core. This is Hitlerian, as it is the very way the historical Nazis viewed Jewish identity.

For modern Nazis, being a Jew and being Israeli are interchangeable. A criticism of the Israeli government is an attack on Jewish people in general. Nazis like the modern Republican Party believe that Jews can never be real Americans, and that they will always have some connection and loyalty to the Israeli state. This is the very logic that justified the Japanese internment camps. If you think every Jewish person must be loyal to Israel, you are literally a Nazi.

To me, the hardest part seems to be - how do you keep your small web from being infected by AI slop? Currently the slop spammers aren't focusing on these small web rings and web 1.0 communities. But if they did start to become popular, the AI slop would inevitably follow.

Perhaps such sites need to run on a 100% no-advertising model. Individual hobby sites or those supported by subscriptions and donations only. That would cut out most of the vast, vast majority of the slop. AI slop currently can't produce content that people are actually willing to pay to subscribe to. If sloppers can't bring in revenue via ad impressions, they won't have any incentive to create slop AI 1.0 sites.