Just like they did with the kids that disappeared during their family separation policy in Trump’s first term. My bet is that they were trafficked.

The “Israeli lobby” is almost entirely a Likud lobby. It only represents Israel’s interests to the extent that the Likud does. That’s a problem.

That’s the only way any of this makes sense.

Not at all. The other way that this makes sense is that Trump, Hegseth and mob are incompetent wannabe 19th-century imperialists out to grab whatever they can.

Is all this for a build-up to war or is something else afoot?

They’re incompetent and evil enough to blunder into a war. The bigger question is what kind of war? My guess is that it’ll be a war, allied with Russia, against Western Europe and modern civilization.

So it Latke going to fund the resources needed to validate whether AI will work or not?

explicitly built into systems like CDNs, git, and blockchain

Git only duplicates blobs; textual content is generally stored as deltas (look at git_repack for more details). And it’s bad practice to version-control blobs: the more correct approach is to control the source from which the blob is generated.

CDNs don’t all work alike so it’s impossible to generalize. I won’t comment on blockchain, since in my work as a developer and architect, I’ve never encountered a valid use case for it.

then MD5 checks will catch them

That can be trivially defeated.

That would be fine provided that it’s done correctly and civilized.

Tone-policing is never a good look. If you’re opposed to something, just admit it.

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IBM.

Is it coal-powered?

But I don’t see where that has any implications for international trade

That’s because there aren’t any.

How much they really understand is unknowable and irrelevant. The problem is that they’re in power. That has to change.

Some sane analysis of MAGA idiocy.

VAT is used in many countries. It’s not an ideal system, since it’s regressive, but it’s none of the US’s business.

Navarro’s other assertions require evidence. His word is as worthless as Trump’s.

drones and sabotage seem more effective

The drones need to be launched, and saboteurs deployed, near their targets. That means logistics.

Fucking up supply chains with brainless tariffs will massively damage logistics.

Marlin Monroe

There’s something fishy about that anecdote.

Yes, MAGA is an affirmative action program for dimwitted white males.

Make the billionaires who interfered in the political process personally liable.

It’d be nice to see some evidence of this increasingly productive AI. So far, it all looks like hype, except enshittifying customer contact centers by making it even more difficult to reach a human being.

a racist profile of what a gang member might look like

Brown. Extra points for tattoos.

Maybe they meant flounder.