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1. legitster · 1790105097 · focus · HN ↗

   > It found the U.S. “failed in its obligation to do everything feasible to verify” that the school was a military objective and that the failure “went beyond mere negligence.” The report said the United States “directed the strikes at the building of the school while being aware of a substantial risk of striking a civilian object and acting recklessly as regards the possibility that this would happen.”

   Reading the details, "AI" doesn't really seem like the culprit -it's a scapegoat.

   The intelligence that it was no longer a military target never entered the target database, the team that was responsible for vetting the target list was gutted, and said team was never even consulted.

   The White House wanted 1000 targets and pulled from their database without any due diligence. Whether it was an AI call or an SQL query - this was from pure human maliciousness and incompetence.

   1. 999900000999 · 1790125495 · focus · HN ↗

      If you want to understand the United States, or really most Western countries , just assume they don’t view non whites as people.

      It all makes sense. So what we had to blow up some savages to steal their oil. Whatever, you don’t expect Jeb to push his truck do you.

      The Russians , who have a different relationship to race than we do , have treated Ukrainians like Brown people.

      How barbaric. To treat “European Christians” in such a manner.

      Russia bad.

      Anyway with the price of gas never coming down I guess Jeb will need to buy a bike.

      1. morpheos137 · 1790125732 · focus · HN ↗

         Iranians are white. The name literally means aryan.

         1. [deleted] · 1790126633 · focus · HN ↗

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         2. 7bit · 1790141328 · focus · HN ↗

            Bullshit. Iranians are not white in the eyes of general white US Americans, regardless of whether your argument is correct or not.
         3. whateveracct · 1790143634 · focus · HN ↗

            this is pedantic lol

            i know plenty of iranians. they are not white passing in america.

            1. morpheos137 · 1790518761 · focus · HN ↗

               Depends on where they are from. Iranians from the north, the caspian coast can look very Nordic. I would say the average Iranian looks about as white as the average Italian or French man.
         4. IncreasePosts · 1790176559 · focus · HN ↗

            Where is it stated that white people are Aryan?

            Oh right, 19th century racial myths

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