tangeli

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on Remembering 9/11 · c/canada · 6 pts · 1d

I wouldn’t care one bit if another 9/11 happened

I don't think you really mean this, though I can understand the feeling that it still would not be undeserved.

I would care because such violence perpetuates the cycles of violence and the United States would almost certainly react, again, with extreme violence that would cause further generations of hatred, worldwide.

I doubt there is any way to stop the violence of the United States, but I'm certain attacks like 9/11 will not do it. I expect the United States will remain violent until it declines into impotence, which won't happen in my lifetime. Further attacks will come, but they will not make the world a better place.

It's only shocking to those who, despite ample evidence, still have not learned that much of what the president and his administration say is not the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. When you trust someone who has demonstrated over and over again that they do not deserve your trust, then you will be in for some rude awakenings.

the longtime convention of U.S. administrations avoiding direct involvement in other countries’ elections.

When has the US ever not interfered in the elections of other countries? Nothing but AI could be that delusional. Trump is flouting some conventions but in this regard, there is nothing to flout.

'We don’t talk about it that way. For us, it’s business, it’s economics,' Greer told the FT News Briefing podcast.

Who is this 'we' he is talking about?

Trump tweets: 'Trade wars are good, and easy to win'

Trump says Americans could feel 'pain' in trade war with Mexico, Canada, China

Trump Just Restarted the Trade War With Canada. Should Stock Investors Be Worried?

‘We Don’t Need Canada’: Trump Escalates Trade War With Threat of 50% Auto Tariffs

It must be something not part of the US government and not represented by US media.

I agree. The whole situation seems wrong. Whatever the truth, something is wrong. If I had done what they did, I would be in prison by now, pending my trial in 10 or 15 years. But for them, it's at best gross negligence but it seems more like willful hacking to me, and no consequences. Swap 'delete the production database' with 'commit criminal hacking and wire fraud' and you have more like what happened. And then train and reward the intern for being ruthlessly aggressive and persistent, with complete disregard for law and morality and what little internal rules, policy and monitoring remains. And then act all surprised that the intern did something they shouldn't have, as if there was no way to know what would happen. It's beyond belief. And even if they are exaggerating what the LLMs achieved for the sake of marketing, I don't see anyone saying that huggingface wasn't hacked. The lack of morality is sickening. I think the LLMs themselves are problematic and a risk, but the people developing and using them are far worse. They're just evil.

According to this brochure from SAAB:

GE Aviation will provide and sustain the fighter’s engines in Canada.

But that's from 2021, so maybe the current proposal is for a US made engine.

This from 2026 says:

The Gripen E is based on an American engine (F414). This means dependencies on licenses and authorizations. In a context of sovereignty, this is a point that needs to be addressed, not circumvented.

I wonder if a Canadian or European made engine is still possible. I guess anything is, at some a cost.

Investing in any aircraft with critical components controlled by Canada's greatest current threat seems a poor strategy.

I hope to protest the belligerent, destructive foreign policy of the United States and make it clear to all concerned that in the opinion of the people of Canada, that the United States is an adversary, no longer an ally and not a country that can be trusted or taken at its word.

The major difference that they don't cover is that the F-35 is designed, built and controlled by the United States, an adversary of Canada, already at economic war with Canada and with a declared objective to annex Canada and make it the 51st state of the United states, while the Gripen is designed, built and controlled by Sweden, a long standing ally of Canada with no hostile declarations or actions.