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  • This came following her call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

    For people who didn’t watch the video, she says, “Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment,” and the guy jumps up and rushes the stage.

    It sounded sort of like he was saying that Rep. Ilhan Omar should resign or something. But what a weird trigger. You got to wonder what kind of a loser would jump up to defend Noem.

    Or maybe he wasn’t defending Noem, and was just waiting for Rep. Ilhan Omar to say something that he could shout back at her. The most childish and mindless of retorts.

    I can’t see how this guy could possibly be anything but a total loser. He turns violent presumably in response to propaganda.



  • Legal scholars have said the strikes, launched against civilians in boats far from the US, are violations of domestic and international law. The Trump administration maintains they are legal, under a secret opinion written by the justice department that argues the US is in an armed conflict with cartels and that the laws of war apply to the strikes.

    Let’s see about this “war.”

    War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

    Obviously, Wikipedia isn’t the absolute authority on defining what “war” means, but it does a great job at checking your common sense. Like, a war isn’t always between established states, but it’s also distinct from enforcing laws in places where they don’t enforce their own laws or where their own laws don’t suit you.

    Even if you assume that everything the Trump administration has said about these people is true, these boats were not carrying out anything like a military operation. Drug running isn’t a military operation. They’re not supplying front lines with drugs for battle.

    These people were accused civil offenses, not military operations, and we in the US do not give the death penalty for running drugs.

    And of course, the Trump administration lies as naturally as it breathes, so I have no reason to think the men from this article were running drugs in the first place. This is all just showing that even the lies Trump has told are not sufficient to justify the military actions he’s ordered.


  • BillyClark@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.worldIt's going to happen
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    The word “robot” can be defined in many different ways, and that affects whether this has already happened, or how soon it may happen in the future.

    If robot means remote controlled machine, think Battle Bots, or if it means something with a robotic arm, then it’s probably already happened.

    If robot means human shaped machine, then I’d guess if it hasn’t happened yet, if only because of the expense.

    If robot means sensors, processing, and actuators, like I learned in school, then I’m guessing it hasn’t happened yet, simply because it’s more work than a machine that follows a routine, but I could easily be wrong.

    If robot means fully functional human sized android type robot with integrated processing then who knows? If it also requires AI, then I’m guessing it’s a ways off.