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This should keep the LGBT+ community up at night, certainly its keeping them out of Turkey and Egypt.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-07-12 10:26 PM | Reply EYEROLL

It's hard to keep track of the crazy around this... oNe minute I'm told old Muslim dudes use young boys... the next they're throwing them off a roof... which is it?
My lifetime in this country... the USA... where Christian college kids robbed and beat a young gay man up and tied him to a fence to die... Where Christians stand outside Veterans' funerals with signs blaming the gays for the casualties of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as proof of GAWD's wrath... Where a pack of white supremacists in Los Angeles County... the cult leader/pimp/drug dealer used a combination of LSD and uppers, sex orgies and lengthy lectures inspired by Dyanetic, The White Album, and the Bible killed some rich people hoping to start a race war...Then there was the Veteran who blew up a government building, killing scores of people... The People's Temple... mass suicide...Branch Davidians in Waco... where parents would give their 12-year-old daughters to Koresh to boink... because that is what Jayzys wanted. The KKK is Christian-based... they kill anyone they don't like... Before I was born...Hitler was Catholic... The Mafia is Catholic... Church scandals... Nuns beating kids and killing babies.. Americas were colonized by Christian mercenaries hot to kill anyone... take the gold... and go kill some more!! Let's not forget... witches burnt...hell somewhere in the world right now..a witch is being burnt in the name of Jayzus
I'm typing the truth... and you know Jayzus likes the truth

ergo...GFY

I've met a gay Imam... he leads a congregation in a major city...

Prisons are full of killer Christians...It's all a matter of timing for them... ya know... as long as they ask Jayzus to forgive them before they die... Christian retribution is a lot like rape... most of it goes unreported.

Nobody is safe around religious fanatics.

*** 60 Ethiopian Migrants on Death Row in Saudi Prisons for Drug Offenses ***

"There is a clear pattern of Saudi authorities targeting vulnerable migrants. Often, their true crime' appears to have been crossing the border, in search of a better life.

A total of 356 people were executed in Saudi Arabia last year, the highest number in recent history. Of those, 240 had been convicted of drug offenses, most of them foreigners.

This is not justice: it is state violence, inflicted on defenseless people."

~snip~

Decapitation is the method of execution in Saudi Arabia.


Somehow, I don't think PM Mark Carney discussed this appalling situation with Crown Prince "Muhammad Bone Saws." The Canada PM office press releases do not mention human rights.

Nicky "the Ant" Santoro in the denouement of Casino (1995): "It took months for everything to calm down. But finally, my guys got out on bail and the bosses wanted me to send my brother Dominick out to Vegas. Always the dollars. Always the f***ing dollars."

Source: Murderous regime

And you buy that shit because you have no Imagination or ability to see anything but more Status Quo.

I recognize the reality that you idiots lose EVERY F*&^ING TIME.

The inconsistency between public support for "progressive" ideas and progressive's inability to get elected beyond the coasts has existed as long as I can remember.

What has also existed as long as I can remember is the reliable stupidity of progressives where a single round of wins turns into condescending lectures, moral preaching, budgetary free for all and an assumption that their social issues are as important to the regular voters who voted for them in that round, thus leading to a HUGE swing of the pendulum in the other direction.

This is the reality you idiots refuse to acknoweledge to the detriment of us all.

The Democratic Establishment turns on any Progressive movement.

They would Rather Republicans Win actually.

No, they wouldn't. They would rather you stop being childish morons, drop the self-righteous purity requirements and, oh I don't know, win more than one election before trying to cram your entire agenda through while you can't even agree on they/them vs xi/xe. Oh, and stop calling every slightly Progressive leaning Dem the next FDR with the next Big New Deal blah blah blah.

Y'all have terrible electoral track records and you're falling into the same patterns of failure you always do at a time when accepting a smaller win would have outsized effects on our Republic and would actually endear you to the electorate enough to maybe last longer than a single round of wins.

Anyways, the clouds have cleared here, so I'm going to go sit the dark back deck, drink a beer and marvel at the stars and Milky Way.

Analysis: The next killer AI feature? No AI at all
www.computerworld.com

... As artificial intelligence creeps into every corner of our lives, an absence of AI may soon be a premium experience worth paying for. ...

AI may well be creating a killer feature that people will be willing to pay to possess. It's just not the one most AI-fixated entities are focused on creating -- quite the opposite, in fact. ...

That, in turn, is creating a whole new category of productivity experience that people are actually lining up to pay for -- a premium feature of sorts, related to AI and its presence in our lives.

Ready for the most delicious irony of all? The killer AI feature of which we speak is a lack of AI -- or at least the ability to disable and avoid it and use it only if and when you want. ...


Update ...

The US launches more strikes on Iran as the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalates
apnews.com

... The United States launched several waves of strikes on Iran into Monday morning over an Iranian attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left a crew member missing over the weekend. Iran retaliated by targeting countries across the Middle East.

Missile alert sirens sounded at dawn Monday in Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. There was no immediate word on damage.

Iranian state media acknowledged the latest attacks on its soil early Monday, describing explosions in several locations with at least one person being killed.

Iranian attacks on Sunday stretched Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and even Oman " whose territorial waters with Iran make up the strait. The narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, which once saw a fifth of all oil and natural gas pass through it, has become the key issue challenging an interim deal between the U.S. and Iran.

Iran and the U.S. are nearly at the midway point of the 60-day period of that deal, which was supposed to set up talks for a permanent end to the war. Instead, it has devolved into a series of attacks over the strait and its future, worrying world leaders the Iran war could resume. ...



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#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-12 09:16 PM
The cost of AI tokens (cost per transaction) has risen significantly.


Cost of AI token is NOT the cost per transaction. - see drudge.com

* 18% of organizations now orchestrating multiple agents across workflows, up from 9% in the previous period
* A $0.04 chat can become a $1.20 orchestration when it requires tool retrieval, planning and subagents
* AI coding costs are expected to surpass average developer salaries by 2028
* Despite enterprises spending an average of $11.5 million on AI in 2026, most struggle to demonstrate any clear return on investment.

* Recent tests have shown Chinese models to be much cheaper "per task" (not necessarily per token) and do almost as good a job as best US models, like Mythos, that run on more advanced hardware.


Nor does it matter how much money you make "per transaction" (however you want to define it), if you don't have enough of them (volume) to make a profit based on your costs structure - it's basic economics... hence, as I posted:

They are not necessarily losing money on every transaction because defining "transaction" in AI is very complex and involves many different, non-uniform costs.
However, they are losing a lot of money because the costs are huge, and they will definitely need a lot of subscription volume and high revenue growth to pay for their infrastructure, recurring expenses and continuous upgrades.

"Cost per transaction" is just one, poorly chosen, unit of many factors in trying to evaluate whether "Will the revenue generated by AI catch up to the CapEx for the hyperscalers?"
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