Dominating most of global oil and gas traffic is indeed very much a point that the US is trying to serve, albeit with arguable success. The same reasoning explains other crazy adventures like Venezuela and Greenland, as well as other more diplomatic endeavors in Panama, Gibraltar and the strait of Malaka.

The notion that the mighty US is going through all this for the sake of another country is bonkers.

And so was malicious vulnerability research.

However, that’s not to say that many designer jobs will be going away, simply because for many cases, cost beats quality. We’ll just have more things with a much lower quality.

You can compare it with mass manufacturing. While some things are better had than not, even with low quality, we’d probably be better off with some things made to last, in lower quantity. But for 99% of the population, e.g. low quality clothing is the norm.

With the core programming skills atrophying, who’s going to have the skills to audit AI’s work?

If every designer takes less time to do their job, you need less designers. There’s no getting around that simple math.

Seems like we’re on such polar ends, there’s no hope in discussion.

All the things you described are indeed horrifying on their own, and I believe there are cases where Israeli forces did some of these things unjustifiably.

You must be asking yourself what the hell could be justified. Well, I’ve heard first accounts of kids being sent first as scouts in the battlefield, into a kill box, trying to pinpoint Israeli forces. Once the scout goes back and reports on the force’s location, an accurate barrage of RPGs will be shot at them. You can’t go into the kill box to stop them by arresting them. What would you have done? I do not envy the person that has to make that call, they are now scarred for life.

Justified? No? You pick between the life of that kid and the lives of the people under your command. Both choices are bad, this isn’t Hollywood.

Most of what you watch is edited purposefully and doesn’t give you any context for the purpose of recruiting the public opinion. It’s working amazingly.

How can you even make this comparison?

P.S. downplaying their behavior to “distasteful”, is, well, distasteful.

Based on this cold calculation, bombing a school full of children would be counter productive, even if you believe the Israelis are just collecting children's blood to make matzahs (passover is just around the corner!).

On a more serious note, do you know the actual source for this claim? I don’t mean the news outlet, I mean what entity gave this to the news outlet.