When they have all the components manufactured and the enriched Uranium in “nuke shape” then y would also say they are developing one.

But while nukes arent that complicated to build in principle, there still goes quite some trial and design efforts into it.

This most likely includes doing tests with causing a nuclear explosion. Such tests would be detectable and a certain criterium for an ongoing development.

Remember how NKs nuclear weapon propgram got a lot of attention some 10 or so years ago? We knew because the seismographs picked up the shockwaves of underground explosions.

I am sorry, when reading i somehow mistook the “My grandfather” for “the grandfather”.

Of course i don’t know you or your grandfather and cannot judge that for him specifically.

It is not much yet as details remain to come out. Israel striking Irans Gas infrastructure aims at setting the entire region ablaze. This drastically increases the risk that Iran will respond to attacks on its Oil and Gas infrastructure by retaliating against US and Israel allied Oil and Gas producers such as the UAE and also locking down the Persian gulf for any energy shipments.

If it comes to this escalation, which Netanyahu seems to aim for, it will benefit the US and Russia in their oil and gas sales as the prices will likely skyrocket and could force the EU to ease its sanctions on Russia and weaken Ukraine significantly in its defense against the Russian invasion.

The grandfather most likely was on the side of the Nazi regime or indifferent. Mistakenly thought the statement was about grandfathers in general, not @Airowird@lemm.ee grandfather.

Anyways, Germany is not doing that out of historical responsibility or all the other stuff they talk about. This serves, or they think it serves, their own interests.

The whole “memory culture” only took off, when Germany was reunited and the European neighbors became scared of a newly powerful Germany. The supposed memory culture and subsequently support of Israel are the founding narrative of modern Germany. Changing the position on Israel would expose that narrative as flawed and would question the veracity of Germany not being a danger to the world.

Then since a decade or two the narratives around Israel also serve three goals. First it helps shifting blame for Antisemitism on “imported Antisemitism” aka “brown people”. This can be seen with one of the “combating antisemitism” resolutions that the German parliament passed last year. As examples for “Antisemitism” it did not mention a white German Neonazi attempting a terrorist attack on a Synagogue in Halle. Instead the presentation of the movie “No Other Land” at the Berlinale movie festival was given as an example in the resolution. (Without specifying what exactly was “antisemitic” there).

The second goal is to absolve Germans from the supposed left to the far right from their own racism against Arabs and other “brown people”. By pushing the blame of “Antisemitism” on “them”, discrimination against “them” is not racist. It is just necessary to uphold Germanys historic responsibility.

Finally this also serves greatly to repress anti imperialist leftists and climate activists. Challenging colonial and post colonial structures now can be attacked as “antisemitic” as it inadvertently engages with the colonial reality of Israel.

Meanwhile Jews who do not want to be lumped in with Israel or express an anti-Zionist stance are faced with repressions and attacks by German politics and mainstream media, instead of acknowledging the Pluralism among Jewish people. In the end the alleged “fight against Antisemitism” in Germany is engaged in Antisemitism itself, instrumentalizing Jewish people and what is considered Jewish identity to conform to Germanys own narratives.

That reaction from the German government was to be expected, Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Netherlands-based Counter Extremism Project, told DW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_Extremism_Project

The group is modeled on United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group led by Wallace which has had success increasing economic pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In 2017, GlobaLeaks obtained information allegedly originating from the email account of Yousef Al Otaiba, revealing a relationship between Otaiba, the UAE government, CEP and United Against Nuclear Iran. CEP and UANI are both led by Mark Wallace, who was employed as a senior adviser of The Electrum Group LLC by its chairman, Thomas Kaplan, the UANI’s top donor. Kaplan also maintains business relations with the UAE.

Nice. A Pro-US Imperialism, Pro-Israel, Pro-UAE, Anti-Iran “NGO” is quoted by the DW on German policy regarding Iran…

Schindler does not believe that the current military escalation will change anything around Germany’s position on Israel. “We’re not just any other country. We’re Germany, with the history of the Holocaust,” he explained. "In that sense there’s absolutely no other moral or ethical option than expressing solidarity with Israel.

Whan an evil ghoul he is. There is international law and human rights, which Germany has vowed to uphold and Israel is massively violating. Israel is fundamentally opposed to upholding these and has enshrined both in its constitution and laws that it will break these international obligations. The only moral and ethical option is to uphold these obligations and force Israel to abide by them.

During his visit to Cairo, Wadephul commented on the Iranian strikes that came in retaliation for the earlier Israeli ones. “We condemn the indiscriminate Iranian attack on Israeli territory in the strongest possible terms,” ​​Wadephul, a member of the CDU, said. “Iran is currently attacking Israel with hundreds of drones. There are initial reports of casualties. These developments are more than worrying.”

That is the reality of Germanys position and shows how completely beyond reason they are. Israel starts an unprecedented attack on Iran, bombs residential areas killing dozens of civillians and Germany calls that “self defense” while condemning the counter-attack as “indiscriminate” hours before anything arrives in Israel. Germany is a complete joke when it comes to upholding international law.

Israel engages in similar rhetoric. I wonder if the sentiment would be “Iran just preemptively defended itself” amongst our politics and media if Iran was to strike nuclear facilities and assassinate military leaders and scientists in Israel.

Also it gives an angle to investigate such companies for breaking the law and fining them.

Given that the Irish are much more critical of Israel, i am sure there will be a few people looking into these things.

No matter how many tires you are stockpiling, you aren’t manufacturing a car, unless you actually manufacture a car.

I never said that.

The key point is that we are still limited by what LLMs can and can’t do and fundamentally this is no new technology, just refined technology.

Think of it like cars. Cars exist since more than a hundred years. A modern car looks much fancier than a car a hundred years ago. But when it comes to the core aspect -moving passengers and cargo around on the ground- modern cars can’t do more than cars from a hundred years ago. They are restricted by the same restriction (usually requiring some sort of road, requiring refueling points…)

We are pushing the boundaries of what LLMs can do, but there seems no indication, that it actually is a suitable tool for automated programming. LLMs are most likely just cars, where you need something that can fly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Russia_relations#Drones

In April 2009, Russia purchased its first package of drones from Israel (the Bird Eye-400, eight I-View Mk150 and two Searcher Mk.2 UAVs). The deal was worth $53 million.[231] In a second deal, at the end of 2009, Russia purchased an additional 36 drones from Israel, in a deal worth $100 million.[228]

In October 2010, in a third deal, Russia purchased an additional $400 million of drones from Israel Aerospace Industries. The Israeli drones are to be assembled in Russia.[232] The production of the Russian-Israeli drones began in 2012, and delivery to the Russian military is scheduled for 2014.[228]

In 2015, one of the drones was reportedly shot down by the Ukrainian military near the city of Donetsk, Ukraine.[233]

In September 2015, the Russian Army purchased another $300 million package of drones from Israel, its fourth purchase of Israeli drones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Russia_relations#2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, stating “Russia’s attack against Ukraine is a serious violation of international order,”…

Lapid’s remarks were criticized by Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who urged the Israeli government “to speak less about what they don’t need to talk about” on Russia and accused the government of “too many unnecessary expressions and too many false predictions”.

Israel declined to co-sponsor a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Russian invasion, leading to an expression of disappointment by the United States.[118] Israel later voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the invasion.[119] At the request of the United States, Israel also pushed the United Arab Emirates to back the resolution.[120]

An unnamed senior Ukrainian official accused Bennett of having “proposed that we surrender”, claiming that Bennett urged Zelenskyy to “take the offer” of a peace deal from Putin. This report was subsequently denied by both the Israeli Prime Minister’s office and a senior adviser to Zelenskyy.[125]

Following the Bucha massacre, Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman condemned “war crimes” but declined to condemn Russia specifically, describing “mutual accusations” where “Russia blames Ukraine and Ukraine blames Russia”, drawing a rebuke from the Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel.[130] However, Foreign Minister Lapid stated that “Russian forces committed war crimes”.[131] Israel subsequently voted for a resolution to suspend Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

in February 2025, Israel joined Russia in voting against a UN General Assembly resolution reaffirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity.[189]

In February 2025, Israel lobbied the United States to allow Russia to maintain military bases in Syria, as a counterweight to Turkish influence there.[190]

In March 2025, Russia invited Israel to attend its 2025 Moscow Victory Day Parade, despite excluding most Western nations.[191]

Again, Israel has no allies as it extends no loyalty to anyone. It only has bitches doing its bidding.

Learning a language and forming and expressing complex thoughts in an efficient way are three different things.

Learning the syntax of a programming language doesn’t make you a programmer.
Being able to solve complex problems with the programming language makes you a programmer.
Being able to solve complex problems with the programming language in an efficient way makes you a good programmer.

You can 3D print a concrete hull with limited structural strength. All the rest still needs to be done by humans.

Also you could achieve the same effect in terms of manpower required for the structure just using prefabricated concrete modules.

A lot of the things that current “AI” is doing exist since the 90s or even earlier. It is just that now the computational capacity is big enough to make much more complex looking inputs and results.

This also applies to your manager and coworkers though.

It wasn’t the moral persuasion of Mandela that ended Apartheid though.

It was a sustained isolation and economic boycott combined with mass action, that the state would consider violent, like breaking the barrier and occupy places, which led to massacres like the Bisho massacre that subsequentlty increased pressure for negotiations, because people were absolutely not going to stay put with being massacred.

I feel like the story of the end of Apartheid South Africa is told in a very whitewashed version to undermine the importance of direct mass action, including responding to government violence by fighting back.

Mandela wasn’t some mythical figure that came and solved things by the mgaic of his words. It was the blood, sweat and tears of millions of people in South Africa and beyond that brought an end to Apartheid and it was not in the terms of what the state defines as “peaceful”.

We did learn that orchestrating these gets you paraded around by the “progressive” party in the US during the last election…

Israel has also been supllying drones to Russia. They even demanded Ukraine to surrender to Russia.

This is not to challenge your statement. I find it important to understand that Israel is neither on the side of Ukraine, or on the side of NATO. Israel has no allies, it only has bitches doing its bidding.

It is a prerequirement.

If you produce thick steel sheets, that is a requirement to build tanks, but it doesnt mean you are building tanks.

Now if you start welding those sheets together in a tank shape, while making all the other stuff that you find in a tank, now you are building a tank.

So if Iran starts building specific parts for nukes and processing the enriched Uranium in a way that is suitable for making a warhead, that would be building a nuke.

Imo. this is actually better in the long run.

People are waking up to the reality of the US deeply rooted problems. People are starting to challenge the oligarchy.

Under Harris we would have had four more years of “centrists” gaslighting progressives for wanting a livable minimum standard of life and Trumpism would have swung back even harder after.

Trump is a syptom of the system that the Republicand and Democrats maintain to exploit the people for the oligarchy.

There will be no political solution until the people take back at least one party from the oligarchy. And even now Democrat party elites are fighting tooth and nails to prevent that, instead siding with Trump over various issues.

Also bring an ID and some cash. E.g. to buy some snacks/meal/water if the day goes longer than you planned for.