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Images circulating online appear to show U.S.-made scatterable anti-tank land mines near a suspected Iranian missile facility outside Shiraz, raising questions about whether the United States has begun using area-denial weapons to hinder Iran's missile operations.

To me this smells a tad desparate

I thought it would be interesting to ask Google "what percentage of the workforce will be replaced by ai". Its response:

AI Overview
Estimates on AI-driven workforce replacement vary, with recent studies suggesting that roughly 11.7% of the U.S. workforce could already be replaced by AI based on current technical capabilities, a figure that is expected to rise to 25-30% of jobs globally by 2030. While long-term projections suggest that up to 50% to 60% of jobs could be automated by 2040"2050, most experts emphasize that AI will transform work tasks rather than cause mass, immediate unemployment.
www.nu.edu
www.nu.edu
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Current AI Workforce Impact (2025"2026)
Replacement Already Possible: A late 2025 MIT study found that 11.7% of the U.S. labor market could already be replaced by AI.
Immediate Job Loss: AI was linked to roughly 3,900 job losses in May 2023, and about 13.7% of U.S. workers report having already lost their job to AI-driven automation.
White-Collar Vulnerability: While earlier automation targeted blue-collar roles, generative AI significantly impacts white-collar work, with 49% of companies using ChatGPT reporting it has already replaced workers.
www.nu.edu
www.nu.edu
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Projected Impact by 2030"2035
6% to 30% Displacement: Forecasts for 2030 range from 6% of U.S. jobs being lost (Forrester) to 25"30% of jobs globally being automated.
Task-Level Changes: Rather than complete replacement, 60% of U.S. jobs are expected to see significant task-level changes due to AI integration by 2030.
Industry Impact: Jobs in administration, customer service, and data entry are at the highest risk, with some estimates suggesting up to 26% of admin roles and 20% of customer service roles could be eliminated.
www.nu.edu
www.nu.edu
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Key Factors and Trends
Net Job Creation: While AI will displace 85"90 million jobs globally by 2025"2030, it is projected to create nearly 97"133 million new roles, potentially resulting in a net gain of jobs, albeit requiring significant worker reskilling.
"New-Collar" Era: AI is driving demand for new roles, such as AI Engineers and Data Annotators, creating over 1.3 million new roles in recent years.
Gender and Age Disparity: Women face a higher risk of automation, with 79% of employed women in the U.S. working in high-risk jobs compared to 58% of men. Younger workers, especially those under 25, are seeing a decline in job opportunities in AI-exposed sectors.
www.nu.edu
www.nu.edu
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Jobs at Risk vs. Jobs Safe
High Risk: Data entry, telemarketers, routine customer service, and administrative support.
Lower Risk: Jobs requiring high-level human interaction, empathy, and manual dexterity, such as healthcare (nurses), skilled trades (construction, repair), and education.
Forbes
Forbes
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It sounds like the world had better figure out a way to prepare/retrain, and quickly. AI is coming for many of your jobs.

www.npr.org

Is this where it's headed?

And some perspective points

The NYTimes is reporting Iran has largely succeeded in destroying 13 US bases in the region.

The pride of our navy the USS Gerald Ford has been taken out of the war for months, if not over a year.

The USS Lincoln was chased out of the area by Iranian cruise missiles

AND AGAIN WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF INTERCEPTOR MISSILES

defencesecurityasia.com

The think tank estimates that at the current operational tempo, Israel could completely expend its Arrow interceptor stockpile by the end of March, placing the country only days away from running out of its primary exo-atmospheric missile defence capability.

The study further notes that the operational strain has been compounded by the damage or degradation of radar systems, forcing air defence units to expend more interceptors per incoming threat in order to maintain acceptable interception probabilities.

This dynamic has significantly increased interceptor consumption rates, intensifying the pressure on Israel's already limited stockpile of Arrow missiles designed to counter medium-range ballistic missile threats.

According to the report, the United States could be approximately one month or less away from exhausting available THAAD interceptor stocks if current expenditure rates continue without significant operational adjustment.

The Royal United Services Institute assessment indicates that replenishment timelines for high-end interceptors such as Israel's Arrow-3 and the United States' THAAD are measured in years rather than months because production depends on complex manufacturing chains, rare materials, and limited industrial capacity.

People seem unable to process what is happening and what is coming. Fuel/energy? Food? Plastics? We are on the edge of the literal abyss. There is zero evidence of deescalation, zero. The war is expanding and ground invasion is imminent. Iran will definitely respond to this aggressively and depending on how serious the assault could trigger existential destruction of various Gulf States. The world will not recover from that. 30% of the world's oil removed from the global economy for a LONG time? That is possible. Not just a temporary months long halt, but if the gulf state's oil industry is devastated it could take decades to repair. If the desalination plants are hit then, well deaths in the millions-there is no way to supply water to the MILLIONS that will lose it. And the US and Israel CONTINUE to target Iran's nuclear plants. Like WTAF! These freaking fools are playing with global annihilation. What the ---- do you think will happen if we hit an Iranian reactor? Chernobyl level event? We are repeatedly hitting their nuclear plants for ----s sake.

And now Piggy is going to send in ground troops, to what effect?

He has been lying constantly about negotiations. So this ground assault will achieve what. Say BEST case scenario we capture Kharg Island or seize the islands in the strait? SO WHAT? We've effectively removed Iran's oil from the global market-up goes oil prices. Iran won't retaliate? Is that their thinking? If we destroy or prevent Iran from selling oil they will, what? Quit? ARE THEY INSANE???

Iran will retaliate against gulf oil production

Oh and Israel and the gulf states and the US military will start running out of interceptor imminently and be completely out of the in a couple of weeks.

We are on the edge of the abyss and piggy is pushing hard.

Why again is this happening?

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