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  • Tower@lemmy.ziptoNews@lemmy.world•US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
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    3 months ago

    Third hand info, but I heard on a podcast a few months back that the building had been an irgc hideout… like 10 months prior. With the administration’s complete knob-gobbling of AI, and no assets on the ground to provide updated intel, it’s likely that the AI said “shoot that one”, no one bothered to check before pushing the button, and the fathers and brothers of 150 little girls became all the more radicalized against the US.

    So I wrote that, then decided to do more research than the DOD did and double-check things.

    It’s worse than I wrote.

    It was an IRGC building adjacent to an IRGC compound… in 2016. (the podcaster misspoke and said months instead of years)

    [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying](This article from The Guardian) details it quite well.

    The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.

  • Tower@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.world•fr fr?
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    3 months ago

    My use of kickback goes back to late 90s / early 00s.

    A kickback was more “formalized” than just hanging out, but smaller than a party. Same general premise of there being drinks and food at someone’s house at a certain time and date, but the expectation is that it would be much more chill. Maybe 6-10 people or so, hang out, drink some beers, maybe smoke a bowl, that kind of thing.

  • Tower@lemmy.ziptoNews@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    9 months ago

    Not the one you replied to, but…

    I was agnostic for quite a while. I viewed it with an air of “scientific smugness”, thinking “since there’s no way to prove one way or the other, of course agnosticism is the only rational view.”

    What finally pushed me to full atheism was 2 thoughts:

    • Whether there is a god or not, the universe operates as if there isn’t. By that I mean, we’ve chipped away at the “god of the gaps” and found scientific explanations for every natural phenomenon that was previously attributed to god.
    • If there is a god, and they are omnipotent, then surely they would understand why I don’t believe and would not punish me for that view. If they’re truly omnipotent and want me to believe, they know exactly what kind of evidence would be necessary to change my mind. Since that hasn’t happened, either there is no god, or there is and they’re ok with punishing me for something they could resolve immediately, in which case fuck them.