That’s why humans have brains, for situational awareness.

And it’s less about not breaking for an animal, as it is about not wildly swerving.

Also, you should probably revise your thinking on this before you visit any states that have large animals like Moose on the roads. Because if you plow into one with a car, it can easily kill you when it crushes you after impact.

I’d smash.

I’ve heard it both ways.

People here get really uppity when you point out that Ukraine’s enemy lossss and casualty reports are likely inflated, because that’s what all militaries do in all conflicts. It doesn’t even always have to do with wartime propaganda, but because it’s hard to accurately tally enemy losses during active conflict.

Anyways, when you point that out the usual responses to point out the patently ridiculous reports on Ukrainian losses that the Russian MoD puts out, as if somehow that means Ukraine’s are accurate.

The best I can say is that Ukrainian reports are almost certainly exponentially closer to reality than Russia’s comically absurd and fantastical figures.

I will finish it up by saying that there are good independent sources who open source intelligence to track verified losses, and air on the conservative side.

That of course means their loss reports aren’t accurate either, but they provide a good figures to be used as a floor for any estimate ranges.

Casualties are not the same as KIA, and not all WIA are permanently combat ineffective.

Someone who got shrapnel in the leg or abdomen and requires 6-8 weeks of recovery, before returning to combat, is a single casualty.

That same soldier can return to combat, catch a bullet in their arm, and be a casualty again.

That same soldier can return to service three months later, etc.

If after returning to service a 3rd time, they’re eventually KIA, then they would have been counted as a casualty three times.

Not saying this is typical, or that this is indicative of the normal WIA casualty. Just pointing out that a single soldier can be counted as a casualty more than once, and it’s not uncommon.

So I won’t use the Iraq war as a marker of morality…

In other words, you’ve nullified the murder of 1 million innocent people by Bush, in order to rationalize why Trump is worse.

But please, write another five paragraphs justifying why those deaths shouldn’t count here. I’m sure eventually you’ll figure out the right semantic argument that almost passes muster for someone of slightly below average intelligence.

I’d actually respect you more if you just said that you care about the danger Trump poses to American democracy more than a million dead Arabs. At least you’d finally be open and honest about the political and moral views you clearly hold.

That’s a lot of words to basically justify why the extermination of one million people isn’t that bad relative to myriad of shitfuckery Trump did.

Oh, and Incase you forgot, Bush did actually succeed at stealing an election. So…there’s that.

1 stolen election + 1 million dead arabs < Stormy Daniels and a failed attempt at stealing an election.

Your politics and sense of humanity have to be so so broken and destroyed by social media consumption to even entertain that idea, but you’re full on tripling down on it.

Damn. I hope you touch grass and see the light someday.

You’re comparing tangibles to intangibles, hypotheticals, and combining it with a very confused sense of morality.

The fact that you can’t see past Trump to understand that actually killing one million human beings is worse then anything he did, is depressing.

Do you not understand that Trump can be a malignant tumor and dangerous all on his own, without having to pretend that anything he did even remotely compares to directly killing 1 million innocent people?

Or maybe you don’t care because they’re Arab? I know you’ll balk at that, throw out all the right signifiers, and maybe even throw a “how dare you” my way, but I’m not left with many other options to understand to your rational.

Well it’s good to see that a million dead Iraqis is definitely not worse than fucking pornstars and embezzlement…

That’s dark dude, like holy shit your sense of morality and justice is so bent that I’m blown away.

You’re the type of liberal who actually believes Dubya is a good man, or a better president than Trump.

Nevermind that he killed over a million people in Iraq.

Trump is a malignant tumor, no doubt.

But so are people who campaign alongside Dick Cheney.

Don’t assume that the majority of people who vote for Trump, are MAGA.

Many, if not most, are the same as many Biden/Harris voters in that they hate both candidates, and are voting for who they view as the lesser of two evils.

As I’m a Lemmy user, you can safely assume I’m not one of them, but the point stands.

But, if you’re talking about people who have gone full on MAGA insanity, well they probably got there somewhere between 2016 and 2020, so there’s not a a ton of new converts to deal with.

And even with then, they’re the minority of a minority.

Of course, if someone is of the opinion that anyone who votes for Trump, no matter the reason, must be excised from their life, well that’s their choice, but I kind of pity them.

Trump is not Hitler. He’s too lazy and stupid to be Hitler. Let’s not pretend that voting for Trump is the same as supporting Hitler, it’s not.

He’s a piece of shit authoritarian, but on the scale of American Presidents, the areas where he deviates the most from the norm, is how stupid and crass his corruption and racism is, not that he was corrupt and racist.

I can see it now. This great AI mediator will reach the consensus that Eric Schmidt is correct. We shouldn’t worry about meeting our climate goals, we should cook the planet faster to accelerate AI development.

Eventually of course, the AI will save us.

Now some of you might think that’s a terrible idea, from bad actors, that simply suits their own greed.

Don’t worry. The new Google AI wouldn’t leave us without a backup plan.

That backup plan? If plan A fails, simply reduce human population by 35%.

Concerned about who will get picked for population reduction? Don’t worry, the AI has it covered…

The WWII allied strategic bombing campaigns are nothing close to what occurred here. The comparison is at best, ilconceived, but at worst, intentionally disingenuous.

This company manufactures weapons to sell to their government for a profit, which are then used to kill a particular ethnic group. That means it’s a part of their military industry, and as such is a legitimate target.

Terrorism does not require a non-state actor, I don’t where you got that definition from. Terrorism is any attack that is strictly against civilian non-combatants, for the express purpose of achieving a ideological or political objective. This was an attack on a military contractor who is actively profiting and engaged in this specific conflict.

A very lopsided conflict that Turkey has been engaged in for decades, so for Turkey to cry foul about this, and decry it as terrorism, is particularly loathsome.

Legitimate military target. It’s a military contractor and weapons manufacturer, whose systems are used to kill members of the group who likely attacked it.

Is it terrorism to attack military facilities and military contractors…?

This company manufactures drones and aerial platforms that are used to to kill Kurds, or at minimum, members of Kurdish militias.

If the Kurds had the capability to launch an aerial bombardment of their production facilities, we would recognize that as a legitimate military strike, of a legitimate target, but they don’t have those advanced capabilities.

If they followed executives home and murdered their families, okay, terrorism… But you can’t call this terrorism, while cheering on Ukrainian drones strikes on Russian industries, inside of Russia.

There’s actually a very good reason for this, and it benefits everyone, including anti-zionists.

For them to publicly acknowledge it, would force the hand of many countries in the region to develop their own programs, which could result in an uncontrollable nuclear arms race in the wider region.

There’s a lot more game theory and realpolitik involved on the subject then I care to delve into on a comment, but there’s no shortage of white papers walking through it that anyone is free to read.

So, speaking of someone who is looking forward to Israel’s upcoming demographic and economic implosions, I am still very happy they haven’t publicly acknowledged their nuclear arsenal.

My renewal is coming up. I’ve been a premium customer for probably 7 years or so, I’m not renewing.

This wasn’t a bug, this was a toe in the water to gauge the temperature.

Like it or not, this means they’ve chosen a path, and nothing is going to stop them from going down it. The only variable is the timetable.

The US is actually the one that trained, armed, and supported their previous military dictatorship, including Prabowo.

Here’s one example, but there’s no shortage of other crimes against humanity during this period, most sponsored by the US, either directly, or indirectly, depending on the incident.

Saying conspiracy implies, even if unintentionally, the idea of conspiracy theories, or fringe ideas. Whether or not, they’re ultimately born out to be true.

Those type of diplomatic moves are far from unprecedented, and I would consider a US leak as a reasonable possibility here. I’m not saying it’s most likely explanation, or even that I believe it’s what happened, just that it’s not a fringe possibility.

That is for all intents and purposes, horseshit.

Replace all of those words with “the Florida Cuban vote, octogenarian government, and bureaucratic inertia” and you would be exponentially closer to the truth of the matter.

And before you say, or think, that is reductive or flippant, that doesn’t mean it’s not a more accurate representation of the actual political obstacles regarding US Cuban policy.