It is looks like the attack on the school was deliberate.
The compound they hit was initially completely IRGC but over the years parts were split from it for public uses. The IRGC still had about a 1/3 of the location on the other side of the compound in use for military purposes. Israel or US hit that side and the school with precision munitions leaving the rest of the area untouched.
Similar attacks on schools, clinics/hospitals and police stations are being reported all over the area of Iran that stand off munitions can reach.
This kind of attack is SOP for Israel, break the population, get the other side to back down by killing the civilians the other side is supposed to protect, hope that the civilians will revolt.
With regards to the video game footage. Iran specifically designed their transport erector launchers (TEL) to look like normal cargo trucks.
Combine this with, currently, a lead time between detection and interception of 30+ minutes, and that is if a drone is observing the area, while it takes 15 to 20 minutes launch then leave and the number of hits after the first two days of the war on TELs has dropped drastically.
Similarly the Iranian air force is a joke due to sanctions. Heck they tried to intercept a F-35 with a Yak-130 which is normally an unarmed training aircraft. So video of planes being blown up is video of "we need to waste ammunition, time, etc. just to make sure that what is most likely a decoy is gone just in case it isn't but one of the few aircraft capable to take to the air for combat missions".
With regards to Catholics and vaccines.
At the point that vaccines became available for COVID Pope Francis started with declaring taking a vaccines was the right thing to do for Catholics. He eventually escalated that to not taking the vaccine was the equivalent of attempting direct suicide. And for Catholics any attempt at direct suicide that doesn't get absolved by clergy before a person dies is a go straight to hell sin.
You really missed the point.
Worse you just made the argument that there are no journalists when you made that denial of being a shill.
If I have a phone and record what law enforcement (or people pretending to be law enforcement while actually trying to be brown shirts using intimidation tactics in service of their fascist overlord(s) ) then you have to consider me a journalist.
Why? Doing anything else turns the people that do not want to be recorded by journalists, whether professional or amateur, into gatekeepers determining who is allowed to record them.
Further in the USA the right of journalists to observe/record is based on the broader 1st amendment right of freedom of speech, just specifically enunciated. All the attempts at creating restrictions on who, or how someone, is allowed to record law enforcement have been struck down by courts for that reason.
The blame should be directed at EA. BioWare is owned by Electronic Arts and just develops the games. EA determines what happens with a game and in case of a shutdown how it happens (and since making it so that fans can operate it costs time and money, oh and it is EA' intellectual property so EA goes how dare you suggest they sort of put it in the public).
Anthem is just one of three games being shutdown by EA this month.
The reason why we should care is that it doesn't just target the people deciding that their kids don't get vaccinated.
Their kids do not decide to not get the shots.
Then there are the people who for some reason cannot receive vaccines (for example the immune-compromised).
The people who get the shot but where it doesn't take.
The people who the shots worked but are fighting of something else.
Don't forget the babies to young to get vaccinated. First shot for measles for example is 12 months.
And if that isn't enough; Not enough of the unvaccinated die to have it work as natural selection. Ending up with long term effects tends to be more likely (for example the wipe of the immune system long term memory as a result of contracting measles).
Doesn't always work. Just check some of the reactions (including Catholics) to the Pope doing just that when, and after, the COVID19 vaccine became available.
It’s very interesting just how much one god or another enjoys infecting their believers with measles.
I suggest to add "according to those same believers." to the end of that line.
The leaders of (at least the big) religions tend to tell their followers to vaccinate.
If that’s not evidence of a profound cognitive failure that warrants serious discussion about fitness for office, what is?
They had him undergo what sounds like a dementia test (That person, man, woman, camera, TV line by Trump) and found it not a problem that they felt the need to give their candidate a test like that.
The reason that Measles doesn't mutate to bypass vaccines is not that it sticks to the unvaccinated. Since every single time it tries to infect a vaccinated person that is a test to see if that strain of Measles can bypass the vaccination.
Which is why antivaxxers are so dangerous, they not just harm themselves and their kids, they create a larger, for lack of better description, pool of test subjects to see if a vaccination against a disease can be bypassed.
Why in the hell do we have to wait for those horrors to resurface before we put this diseased genie back in the bottle?
That is the "good" news. You don't have to wait. It'll be conspiracy theories and excuses all the way to the intensive care and then denials about reality.
This will take a generation or two, until the point where people surviving vaccine preventable diseases as invalids are a daily encounter on the streets again. And even then the denials will keep coming.
Don't blame the content creators for a possible data winter blame the owners of the various advanced chatbots (and that is what they are even though everyone dresses them up in buzz & hype words as to get money to burn) for that.
It is a combination of
* the crawlers absolutely hammering websites with requests. And don't you dare to impede that in anyway as the result is an even worse flood in an attempt to bypass the restrictions.
* The search engines damaging the content creator income by AI slopping said creators website in a blurb stopping people from actually visiting those sites (even if due to the mixing of multiple sites the chance that what comes out if correct is worse then betting on a coin toss if the subject in question is not settled).
* What is being produced by those bot is slop, it takes at least as long to check what is being produced is usable and fixing what is wrong as doing the work yourself.
In aggregate a data winter would be a boon for content creators. If the bots keel over that means less costs to maintain a server, more income from actual people visiting the website (hopefully doing other actions that boost visibility/income) and about the same time to do the work as before the bots existed.
Those are power games.
Zelensky came to Washington hat in hand to ask for alms. Trumps people told him to come in a suit seeing that Trump earlier commented to them on Zelensky not wearing one (this would have earned him brownie points with Trump and thus would have made it more likely that Trump would listen to his pleas). Zelensky decided that he had enough power that he could ignore that and still get what he wanted.
Oh you mean when Musk used one of his other companies to buy Twitter/X at the $44 billion that Musk offered and had to pay for Twitter/X instead of the 1/4 (or less) that it is/was worth at that point?
Yeah the good news is that thanks to that they could pay the bridge loans in full instead of having to roll them over resulting in Twitter/X only losing about 3 billion a year instead of 4 billion a year.
The only thing it efficiently accomplished was proving that putting conspiracy theorists and tech bros in charge of life-and-death decisions with no oversight, guardrails, or expertise is a recipe for disaster on an unprecedented scale.
They can get away with it because the people they do this for don't know better and/or have no choice.
So you need to educate the masses. It won't be fun because critical thinking is hard, logic is something most people have heard of but can't actually do without a class per trimester for two years and having to redo at least half those classes once (and then they'll ignore what they learned since applying it is hard and takes effort).
Poverty is another deal breaker. If people are busy to survive they don't have the time to actually spend time to understand an issue.
Complacency, a combination of laziness and not wanting to rock the boat since people have a pretty decent living situation as far as they know. Not much to do about this one even though people were warned that keeping a republic takes effort.
Tribalism, us VS them, fear of the other. So you vote for your pol even if you need to go on an empty stomach and clothespin on your nose when you vote. Hard to counter since humans are a group animal (not a herd one as people like to claim) but education can blunt the worst.
Reformation of how voting on the federal level works. The current system encourages extremist positions. There is nothing to punish politicians for taking one since there generally is no alternative and the people who vote to get a politician on the ballot tend to like such positions (this is also why the previous point is so bad, minimal engagement would shut down the people voting for extremists since they generally represent only a small portion of the total population). If you think Trump and the MAGA crowd is bad then study up on the Know Nothing movement. That is what was needed when the political system on the federal level was less ossified as today to actually break a party due to taking extremist positions.
TL;DR:
Wanting the politicians to behave is treating symptoms, you need to address the base problem and that is the voters. Some of the hurdles for that are explained in this post.
There might be legislators that need to be educated but I'm going to give you categories to show why that will only work on a limited set.
You have a group that knows but uses it for virtue signaling, vote retaining, or something else to keep the people that (might) vote for them happy.
Then there is the group that has been educated, either from the education they had, or on the job (sometimes repeatedly) to which the adage "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his job depends on his not understanding it" applies.
And then you have the true believers. Education is useless against those since they think they are right regardless of how many lies (to them, not you) you use to convince them otherwise. So they end up blaming a bugbear or straight up deny when it gets pointed out they are wrong.
Uh no not everyone is aware, it is just that you think they should be. In fact a staggering amount of people are not aware to the point that they are absolutely stunned, if they don't go into denial, about the policies that Trump was going to enact.
There are (still) daily stories about people, who when interviewed have reactions running the gamut from disbelief to accusing the reporter in question to be lying to not even realizing their current predicament is the result of early actions by Trump (That last one a nurse, voted for Trump, who gave up their job to start working at the VA and was in the process of moving when Trump froze hiring).
Having an open protocol is not a guarantee that it cannot be hijacked.
The strategy to hijack an open protocol is: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
That is Embrace the protocol. Extend it with features that are not in the protocol but just for your version (do need to insure that they are wanted). Refuse to hand over the keys to those features and thus Extinguish the competition.
Takes a bit more effort but as IE6 and Chromium Manifest V3 show it can be done.
Now, while that seems quite unworthy of any sort of takedown notice whatsoever, BrandShield managed to somehow report that page for “fraud and phishing” for reasons I can neither get out of any of the reporting nor speculate using my own wetware.
I can think of several reasons for skipping copyright:
- Severity of the accusation. Copyright starts out as a civil violation and stays there for a long time. Fraud is criminal from the get go and even seeming to co-operate with criminals will get the government going after you.
- Not all countries in the world have a DMCA setup, if they have it do not enforce it, or only enforce it for people living in the country in question.
- Laziness.
- No counter notice system so stuff stays down or stays down longer due to the time it takes to refute the accusation.
It is looks like the attack on the school was deliberate. The compound they hit was initially completely IRGC but over the years parts were split from it for public uses. The IRGC still had about a 1/3 of the location on the other side of the compound in use for military purposes. Israel or US hit that side and the school with precision munitions leaving the rest of the area untouched. Similar attacks on schools, clinics/hospitals and police stations are being reported all over the area of Iran that stand off munitions can reach. This kind of attack is SOP for Israel, break the population, get the other side to back down by killing the civilians the other side is supposed to protect, hope that the civilians will revolt. With regards to the video game footage. Iran specifically designed their transport erector launchers (TEL) to look like normal cargo trucks. Combine this with, currently, a lead time between detection and interception of 30+ minutes, and that is if a drone is observing the area, while it takes 15 to 20 minutes launch then leave and the number of hits after the first two days of the war on TELs has dropped drastically. Similarly the Iranian air force is a joke due to sanctions. Heck they tried to intercept a F-35 with a Yak-130 which is normally an unarmed training aircraft. So video of planes being blown up is video of "we need to waste ammunition, time, etc. just to make sure that what is most likely a decoy is gone just in case it isn't but one of the few aircraft capable to take to the air for combat missions".
With regards to Catholics and vaccines. At the point that vaccines became available for COVID Pope Francis started with declaring taking a vaccines was the right thing to do for Catholics. He eventually escalated that to not taking the vaccine was the equivalent of attempting direct suicide. And for Catholics any attempt at direct suicide that doesn't get absolved by clergy before a person dies is a go straight to hell sin.
You really missed the point. Worse you just made the argument that there are no journalists when you made that denial of being a shill. If I have a phone and record what law enforcement (or people pretending to be law enforcement while actually trying to be brown shirts using intimidation tactics in service of their fascist overlord(s) ) then you have to consider me a journalist. Why? Doing anything else turns the people that do not want to be recorded by journalists, whether professional or amateur, into gatekeepers determining who is allowed to record them. Further in the USA the right of journalists to observe/record is based on the broader 1st amendment right of freedom of speech, just specifically enunciated. All the attempts at creating restrictions on who, or how someone, is allowed to record law enforcement have been struck down by courts for that reason.
The blame should be directed at EA. BioWare is owned by Electronic Arts and just develops the games. EA determines what happens with a game and in case of a shutdown how it happens (and since making it so that fans can operate it costs time and money, oh and it is EA' intellectual property so EA goes how dare you suggest they sort of put it in the public). Anthem is just one of three games being shutdown by EA this month.
The reason why we should care is that it doesn't just target the people deciding that their kids don't get vaccinated. Their kids do not decide to not get the shots. Then there are the people who for some reason cannot receive vaccines (for example the immune-compromised). The people who get the shot but where it doesn't take. The people who the shots worked but are fighting of something else. Don't forget the babies to young to get vaccinated. First shot for measles for example is 12 months. And if that isn't enough; Not enough of the unvaccinated die to have it work as natural selection. Ending up with long term effects tends to be more likely (for example the wipe of the immune system long term memory as a result of contracting measles).
Doesn't always work. Just check some of the reactions (including Catholics) to the Pope doing just that when, and after, the COVID19 vaccine became available.
The reason that Measles doesn't mutate to bypass vaccines is not that it sticks to the unvaccinated. Since every single time it tries to infect a vaccinated person that is a test to see if that strain of Measles can bypass the vaccination. Which is why antivaxxers are so dangerous, they not just harm themselves and their kids, they create a larger, for lack of better description, pool of test subjects to see if a vaccination against a disease can be bypassed.
Don't blame the content creators for a possible data winter blame the owners of the various advanced chatbots (and that is what they are even though everyone dresses them up in buzz & hype words as to get money to burn) for that. It is a combination of * the crawlers absolutely hammering websites with requests. And don't you dare to impede that in anyway as the result is an even worse flood in an attempt to bypass the restrictions. * The search engines damaging the content creator income by AI slopping said creators website in a blurb stopping people from actually visiting those sites (even if due to the mixing of multiple sites the chance that what comes out if correct is worse then betting on a coin toss if the subject in question is not settled). * What is being produced by those bot is slop, it takes at least as long to check what is being produced is usable and fixing what is wrong as doing the work yourself. In aggregate a data winter would be a boon for content creators. If the bots keel over that means less costs to maintain a server, more income from actual people visiting the website (hopefully doing other actions that boost visibility/income) and about the same time to do the work as before the bots existed.
Those are power games. Zelensky came to Washington hat in hand to ask for alms. Trumps people told him to come in a suit seeing that Trump earlier commented to them on Zelensky not wearing one (this would have earned him brownie points with Trump and thus would have made it more likely that Trump would listen to his pleas). Zelensky decided that he had enough power that he could ignore that and still get what he wanted.
Oh you mean when Musk used one of his other companies to buy Twitter/X at the $44 billion that Musk offered and had to pay for Twitter/X instead of the 1/4 (or less) that it is/was worth at that point? Yeah the good news is that thanks to that they could pay the bridge loans in full instead of having to roll them over resulting in Twitter/X only losing about 3 billion a year instead of 4 billion a year.
I think the guy is a conservative and is trying to get this the the supreme court before Trump finishes his term.
They can get away with it because the people they do this for don't know better and/or have no choice. So you need to educate the masses. It won't be fun because critical thinking is hard, logic is something most people have heard of but can't actually do without a class per trimester for two years and having to redo at least half those classes once (and then they'll ignore what they learned since applying it is hard and takes effort). Poverty is another deal breaker. If people are busy to survive they don't have the time to actually spend time to understand an issue. Complacency, a combination of laziness and not wanting to rock the boat since people have a pretty decent living situation as far as they know. Not much to do about this one even though people were warned that keeping a republic takes effort. Tribalism, us VS them, fear of the other. So you vote for your pol even if you need to go on an empty stomach and clothespin on your nose when you vote. Hard to counter since humans are a group animal (not a herd one as people like to claim) but education can blunt the worst. Reformation of how voting on the federal level works. The current system encourages extremist positions. There is nothing to punish politicians for taking one since there generally is no alternative and the people who vote to get a politician on the ballot tend to like such positions (this is also why the previous point is so bad, minimal engagement would shut down the people voting for extremists since they generally represent only a small portion of the total population). If you think Trump and the MAGA crowd is bad then study up on the Know Nothing movement. That is what was needed when the political system on the federal level was less ossified as today to actually break a party due to taking extremist positions. TL;DR: Wanting the politicians to behave is treating symptoms, you need to address the base problem and that is the voters. Some of the hurdles for that are explained in this post.
There might be legislators that need to be educated but I'm going to give you categories to show why that will only work on a limited set. You have a group that knows but uses it for virtue signaling, vote retaining, or something else to keep the people that (might) vote for them happy. Then there is the group that has been educated, either from the education they had, or on the job (sometimes repeatedly) to which the adage "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his job depends on his not understanding it" applies. And then you have the true believers. Education is useless against those since they think they are right regardless of how many lies (to them, not you) you use to convince them otherwise. So they end up blaming a bugbear or straight up deny when it gets pointed out they are wrong.
Uh no not everyone is aware, it is just that you think they should be. In fact a staggering amount of people are not aware to the point that they are absolutely stunned, if they don't go into denial, about the policies that Trump was going to enact. There are (still) daily stories about people, who when interviewed have reactions running the gamut from disbelief to accusing the reporter in question to be lying to not even realizing their current predicament is the result of early actions by Trump (That last one a nurse, voted for Trump, who gave up their job to start working at the VA and was in the process of moving when Trump froze hiring).
Having an open protocol is not a guarantee that it cannot be hijacked. The strategy to hijack an open protocol is: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. That is Embrace the protocol. Extend it with features that are not in the protocol but just for your version (do need to insure that they are wanted). Refuse to hand over the keys to those features and thus Extinguish the competition. Takes a bit more effort but as IE6 and Chromium Manifest V3 show it can be done.