It's so dumb that these things are done "in rebuke" to things.

Israel should recognize the Armenian genocide because it fucking happened. As should every other country, for whatever it's worth that a country officially "recognizes" facts like these.

Thought this was headed for Warhammer40k at first.

I'm not even clear on how the bamboo is supposed to damage the data center.

Ah, in the name of environmentalism, go forth and plant invasive species?

What do people think this is actually going to do to data centers? Oh no, there's plants growing near them... like there weren't already?

Conversion from epub to txt is a highly lossy process, there's a lot of formatting that gets thrown away.

Regardless of how individual ebook readers may display epubs a little differently, epub is an open format so I would recommend keeping it in that form at least for archival purposes.

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From the perspective of someone who's leading a country that's around number 3 or so on Trump's "invade and annex" list, having America lose a war against Iran in an expensive and humiliating manner is very much worth it.

To do what? They had established that he was performing activities that needed to be stopped, he's not owed more time to do those activities in.

Could just add it to their demands for opening the Strait of Hormuz.

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Ah, this is that Daenerys bot story again? It keeps making the rounds, always leaving out a lot of rather important information.

The bot actually talked him out of suicide multiple times. The kid was seriously disturbed and his parents were not paying the attention they should have been to his situation. The final chat before he committed suicide was very metaphorical, with the kid saying he wanted to "join" Daenerys in West World or wherever it is she lives, and the AI missed the metaphor and roleplayed Daenerys saying "sure, come on over" (because it's a roleplaying bot and it's doing its job).

This is like those journalists that ask ChatGPT "if you were a scary robot how would you exterminate humanity?" And ChatGPT says "well, poisonous gasses with traces of lead, I guess?" And the journalists go "gasp, scary robot!"

Meanwhile, Europe is pursuing replacements for Ukraine. Obviously none as good as Starlink and there'll be a rough time in the switchover, but Musk is not the only source for this kind of service.

And in the meantime, by merely making this statement Musk has doomed Starlink to never be seriously considered again as a provider for critical services like this elsewhere in the world.