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I guess we just need bigger bombs?

So for like twenty years now, I have been having to listen to all these warmongering pundits, politicians, and Keyboard Kommandos basically masturbate as they describe this bunker-buster “mother of all bombs” thing. Only the United States has it, only US bombers can carry it (because—you know—it’s just SO BIIIGGG), it’s the only thing that can take out these underground installations, blah blah blah.

And if I understand correctly, we have now demonstrated to the whole world that for all that, it wasn’t enough to do the job and has set back whatever the Iranians were doing by maybe a few months. Furthermore we have done so not based on any imminent threat, but rather because this bunch of grifters and crooks wanted to be able to claim a piece of the action in an illegal war started by another country.

Thus Love at the Green River Festival

Thus Love, tearing it up at the Deans Beans stage on day two of the Green River Festival:

Thus Love playing live on
stage

I have done a shit job this year to even knowing what bands are playing at the festival. Usually, I would have made a playlist with the last album, EP, singles from every band a few weeks ago and been listening to it to figure out who I really wanted to see. Not this year, though. It’s not the bands or the festival that is to blame; it’s just that the world and everything in it is exhausting right now.

Whenever I hear some exec going on about AI and staff reductions

I think the right way to read any tech company’s claim that they expect to reduce headcount by this or that percentage in the next year because of AI is just that they expect to reduce headcount by this or that percentage in the next year.

AI is just the latest bullshit reason they have come up with to justify it. They have no real plan for how AI will enable them to do it, and it doesn’t even matter, really. They’ve got a target they need to hit in order to make things look good for the investors, so that’s what they are going to do. The bits about AI are beside the point.