You have a comically large magnet.

If you are close enough to a hard drive for a magnet to affect it, you are close enough to hit it with a crowbar.

Marijuana, Smile, 1. Skull is a stretch for the 3.

If it’s absurd, then an iron cross tattoo doesn’t mean white power either. So yeah it’s interpreted. But it doesn’t matter. So what if he had MS13 literally tattooed across his face? That’s not a crime.

He clearly has tattoos that could be interpreted as MS13. It’s not a false narrative.

But that’s not a crime.

Absolutely not, they’re white.

Magas are desperately trying to avoid the trap. He has tattoos that could symbolize MS13. So if a symbol is undeniable proof, then Hegseth’s Nazi symbol tattoos becomes undeniable proof.

But even if he had actual MS13 tattoos, it’s still ridiculous. Kids get all sorts of tattoos to look cool. Is Trump going to depart all the white trash girls with Chinese character tattoos?

I’ve had to block so many German Lemmy’s. It’s frustrating because I can tell it’s a good article and I believe European news more than US news now.

The article said, “access to OpenAI”. They didn’t even claim they are using OpenAI.

And yes, you get Microsoft’s AI called CoPilot when you buy Microsoft Office. OMG, Israel’s elite strike team has access to Clippy!

I’m not trying to dilute their involvement. It’s like IBM during the Holocaust. Are you similarly angry at Linus for not stopping Israel from using Linux? There are many distros and many are used in Israel.

Calling out “Microsoft AI is killing Palestinians” when the only evidence is Israel bought MS Office is beyond ridiculous. Meanwhile the US and Europe sells Israel food which if stopped would stop the Gaza attacks immediately.

There are companies selling bullets and you are angry with what cologne the killers purchased.

And I don’t care how smart AI and specifically LLMs are. It’s a spell checker on steroids. Acting like it’s something extraordinary that is directly killing Palestinians is ridiculous.

I don’t see how the Israeli military purchasing Microsoft Office compared to purchasing AMD CPU’s s different. They chose Microsoft for the services on an open market just like they chose Arm CPU’s. And yes Arm engineers do “deep integration” with military contractors just like Microsoft provides services.

"The documents reveal that dozens of units in the Israeli army have purchased services from Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, in recent months " https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/

Azure is used for running Microsoft Office or whatever other PC software they use.

They all “directly partner” AMD, Intel, and Arm are all deep in Israeli military.

Using AI to target strikes/etc

Image recognition was around decades before LLM’s became the new “AI”. Those weapons only function because of the Arm, AMD and Intel CPUs components What hardware is Microsoft cloud running on?

You said you boycott all of them. How are you posting a reply?

They all kill children and I boycott them all.

You know what actually supports Israel? Food imports. You should be boycotting American, Swiss, German and Dutch farm produce. Cut off their food and they can’t bomb.

Along with hundreds of other multinationals, Microsoft hosts its own research and development (R&D) centre in Israel,

Any company with an office in Israel? You boycott every large business? EVERY ONE? Apple, AMD, Intel, ARM? They are all in Israel. How are you even replying to this post without uses the CPU’s that you claim to boycott?

and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership

AI isn’t killing children. Israeli leaders are killing children. OpenAI is super charged spell checker. Have you even used it? It fixes the grammar. It helps write software. But so did autocomplete before LLM’s.

Claiming Gates isn’t heavily involved

Are you an executive at Microsoft? Because if you aren’t YOU DON’T KNOW THAT.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107724-sources-detail-growing-rift-between-sam-altman-satya.html

Saytalla seeking advice doesn’t mean Gates is making the business decisions.

And claiming Microsoft cloud services are worse than RTX’s actual bombs that kill children is a stretch.

I’m fuzzy on the timeline but wiki says the sco Linux lawsuit was 2003. Gates had already quit being CEO in 2000.

Bill Gates hasn’t been CEO of Microsoft in 25 years. He left completely in 2008.

The problem is that the theft begins by simply becoming a billionaire in the first place.

That’s why that was my first sentence!

Why did you cut your philanthropic efforts to fight climate change and disease? Why have you and your buddies fought for minimizing

The problem is that billionaires should not exist but come on. $80 billion already donated. $7 Billion more just for Africa. Hundreds of millions in malaria research.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/11/17/bill-gates-foundation-pledges-7-billion-to-support-africa-health-and-agriculture/

Could he do more? Sure. But attacking someone who is doing a little because he isn’t doing more doesn’t seem fair.

Years ago Elon said he was disappointed when he met Bill Gates because Gates only wanted to talk about philanthropy and climate.

Bluesky didn’t start with millions. Europeans chose it when there were none. Like Facebook getting its start because Savarin used his college frat connections across the country to get the ball rolling, I’m sure there were paid influencers who got things moving for Bluesky.

If there are ever free elections again and Democrats win, there must not be a “return to normal” like Biden tried.

Democrats must do everything that Trump did. Republicans must be taught about consequences. Being respectful of the office didn’t work. It only emboldened Republicans to be more deplorable.

Republicans can then campaign on the “return to normal” platform. If they want reason, they need to become the honorable party.

You know what happens if you fail to report some income? You get a notice 6 months later for the amount owed. That’s it. It’s no hassle at all.

It’s ridiculous that the US doesn’t send a tax bill to citizens like is done in other countries. You get the bill, amend it if there’s anything they missed, and send it back. If they know enough to audit you, they know enough to send the tax bill.

“And you, young engineer, you who dream of improving the lot of the workers by the application of science to industry - what a sad disappointment, what terrible disillusions await you! You devote the useful energy of your mind to working out the scheme of a railway which, running along the brink of precipices and burrowing into the very heart of mountains of granite, will bind together two countries which nature has separated. But once at work, you see whole regiments of workers decimated by privations and sickness in this dark tunnel - you see others of them returning home carrying with them, maybe, a few pence, and the undoubted seeds of consumption; you see human corpses - the results of a groveling greed - as landmarks along each yard of your road; and, when the railroad is finished, you see, lastly, that it becomes the highway for the artillery of an invading army…”

Peter Kroporkin, 1880

A hundred years later engineers are more jaded. They know what they are doing. At MIT in the 1980’s it was called “get your fingerprints on the murder weapon”.