• 1984@lemmy.today
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    Ice are just Trumps police. They will be used against all of you in the near future. The way I understand things now is that hormuz will remain closed.

    This will create shortages in fertilizer (used in food production, so it will create food shortages) and oil shortages for a lot of countries.

    America has its own oil, but food could be affected. This will drive prices up even more. Americans and others will start to get aggressive because they cant afford food anymore. This is why ice is needed. Because some of you Americans have guns and will use them if you get desperate.

    I just pulled all money off the stock market myself. I think people are not realizing the importance of hormuz for everything. Its just a delayed effect.

    The YouTube channel Predictive History is good to watch to understand the much bigger picture whats happening here.

    Some people will say “conspiracy theory” and sure, I understand. I just like to be careful. If hormuz opens, we can all say im stupid. :)

    Effects have started in some countries:

    In Asia, where most ​Hormuz oil traffic goes, many countries have already reached the logical endgame of low reserves. Refineries have been cutting their flows, governments have resorted ​to active rationing, and price-sensitive consumers are cutting back. The Philippines has declared a national energy emergency. India has halted commercial liquefied petroleum gas supplies — used ‌widely for ⁠heating, cooking, and vehicle fuel. Japan has curtailed bus and ferry services because of fuel shortages.

    https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/oil-markets-demand-crunch-is-about-go-global-2026-04-24/

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    I might be in the local minority, but I feel as though there are going to be major job shortages due to AI obsolescence. Since it will be a global phenomenon, this trend will lead to an influx in illegal immigration. Two new citizens will turn into ten new citizens in a few decades, and the quality of our universal basic income will be inversely proportional to the number of unskilled laborers.

    … with all this being said, I don’t understand why the people on the internet are against immigration enforcement. The majority-both Republicans and Democrats-oppose having an open border. I don’t understand why this is perceived as a Bipartisan issue.

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      Because its implemented poorly with the least amount of humanity. Some kids that went into that system have been lost due to poor paperwork, not to mention the legal citizens that were deported on “accident” for looking too brown.

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    Wrong. The glasses will misidentify in real time.

    The goal is to “accidentally” arrest and deport US citizens.

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    Why bother they just target random people anyway. I have never seen any indication that their behaviour is in any way directed.

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      Isn’t there some kind of weird reflective material that messes with it? Or is that just the stuff celebrities use so it crazily over excuses paparazzi pictures?

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    The glasses don’t have to work, they just need “plausible” excuses for picking up anyone who catches their fancy. $1,500 a head, be it man, child, or woman.

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    It’ll use AI and even if you have your passport and birth certificate on you, proving they’re wrong, you’ll be in El Salvador before you can plead your case.

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    Targets for what??? Being brown? They need AI to confirm their racism? Was the old peter griffin white/not white chart not doing it for them anymore???

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      My thoughts were that now they can ID people tagged as “dissenters” to widen the net.

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      You can’t be called a racist if a machine decides it for you, same as if a drone does the killing, it mean you can’t get convicted for murder even if you hit button to fire

      /s

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        If I point the gun, the gun evaluates the target, the gun automatically fires - then I’m not even doing anything!

        (I should rewatch psycho-pass…)

      • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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        Hmmm… no. The defense “the machine decided” and “but the drone does the killing” will not fly in any sane system (which exclude the US).
        Someone decided to use the machine|drone, this someone is responsible.

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          I would like to clarify that ‘/s’ means sarcasm and is no way a serious response, I understand not everyone is terminally online

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      I’m sure that’s what it will be: proprietary and questionable algorithms to identify anyone that might not be a 3+ generation American of European origin.

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        And to shove justification off to a black box. Awful hard to put an algorithm on trial.

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          They’re gonna fall back on the algo being racist and not the storm troopers with the nazi tattoos, those guys are just doing what the AI tells them.

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      They need AI to confirm their racism?

      Not confirm, but justify. “Hey, it’s not me - it’s this little machine that says you’re subhuman. I’m just doing my job here, man.”

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    2 days ago

    Always has been.

    Cameras are THE tools for surveilance, and adding more everywhere has always had only one goal.

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      I was thinking more Jokerz, but honestly ICP is cool by me. Not really my thing, but they’ve always been anti-fash and after Violent J’s daughter got into the furry fandom and formed an alliance, they’re solid in my book.

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        I think there was an article a while back about how juggalo makeup is actually very effective at blocking facial recognition

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    Notably the risks aren’t simply that this will identify the undocumented its that it will provide a pretext to disappear almost anyone who isn’t white.

    The question is does any given non-white person look enough like one of over 10M people to get falsely flagged given agents a pretext to remove almost anyone they stop. Facial recognition of one person against a large enough database will almost always provide at least on possible match this is especially true if it matches against possible aliens and not against possibly aliens and citizens. EG a query of both will likely turn up Betty Sue Smith is herself and maybe a possible match with Known Deportable but a search against only aliens may return only Known Deportable with agents dismissing any claim by Betty that her ID must be fake.

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      it will provide a pretext to disappear almost anyone who isn’t white.

      Pretty sure you don’t need a.i. glasses to figure out what colour someone is.

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        You use AI glasses which claim to identify aliens because you can use its constant false positives to pretend to be following the law.

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        No but you can say “The AI told me to detain them” and not take any responsibility. “I was just answering orders” is sadly too common of an excuse in doing the worst possible things…

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          And if anyone believes that absolves them of responsibility, they deserve all the police stating they get.