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Another day, another day of no consequences against Israel. Such is life.

yeah and "we have a right to defend ourselves" says the one drawing first blood.

no doubt they will turn the narrative and say "iran attacked these many countries"


I would rather vote for a person from hackernews than any other politician right now tbh...

"both sides" still with this?

Same, this is disgusting. Actions like these need oversight by the US people.

How did the US justify this?

The way they justify everything in the modern time.

“The strong do what they will. The weak suffer what they must.”

If you are in the US, pray that you are never weak.


They stopped doing that, really.

You might've missed it but the "department of defense" is now "department of war'.



Weapons of mass destruction, as usual.

1. Iranians protested.

2. Islamists massacred them.

3. Trump said "help is on its way" ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/13/trump-promises... )

4. Now is the help.

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Trump also said that when he says things he means them, unlike Obama's red lines in Syria (his words). When he said that, it was pretty clear he couldn't back off of attacking Iran.

I assume it took so long because he's going for regime change, not just a few bombings. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, it took the US 5 months to launch a counter-invasion (mostly because of coalition building).


> Trump also said that when he says things he means them

He says all sorts of things. Remember when Iran's nuclear facilities were "obliterated" and any "suggestions otherwise are fake news"? https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/irans-nuclear-fa...


What is the point of this?

If this truly was written with AI it's really quite poor. Some of the employees at Cloudflare seem to be negligent tbh based off the fact they've been down so many times recently

Did you base the AI use on the emdash or is this an a common AI phrase (or both)?

"Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs, especially for sentences like that one which absolutely do not need it.

The Wikipedia article on detecting AI writing is a big help if you need to calibrate your sensors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing


Yeah it’s basically the prose equivalent of getting too much radio play - hilarious how the breakthrough of LLM content has ‘ruined’ “it’s not X—it’s Y” for so many of us now

Maybe, like overplayed pop songs, in 20 years or so we’ll come around to viewing the phrase fondly.


Thanks for the Wikipedia tip.

I see, thx for the article too!

I think I'll actually post the article here, quite useful

> "Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs ...

It's a bit of a "Karen AI" telltale sign. It's probably been trained on a lot of "I-know-it-all-Karen" posts and as a result we're bombarded with Karen-slop.


It's not just overused phrasing — it's the hallmark of LLM prose.

“It’s not X, it’s Y” is an absolutely ubiquitous AI pattern. Throw in an em-dash and it’s basically ai;dr

Thx!

It's also just an utterly meaningless statement. Filler words with no value whatsoever.

"Let's be honest" is another extremely strong tell.

How did they manage to spend 68M on it? Genuinely asking or is the number not accurate as it is clumped together with other stuff?

I don't know what event planning costs but running an event for ~10k people that includes flights, hotels, food, event space, etc. is expensive I guess.

At $6.8k/head, that's inefficient (a startup wouldn't spend like that) but not egregious if it was for e.g. a weeklong event or something.

Like any good company off-site. Strippers and steaks

Yep agreed, this isn't a nice thing they're doing, it's just a ploy for more customers. Shame.

I don't get these negative comments for them giving free credits. Either it's "Not many people fit these criteria" or "A ploy for more customers". It can't be both, and I believe it's neither. It's a nice gesture, in line with Github Copilot and JetBrains. Disclosure: I have free Copilot and just applied for 20x Pro.

I mean, some people can have one of your quoted opinions, and some people can have the other. That's fine, people can not like this for their own reasons.

I applied for this, but it puts a bad taste in my mouth. I've been working on open source for over 20 years now, and while I don't expect any compensation, being offered something like this feels a little icky. If they really want to "thank" me, give it to me for free indefinitely. They've benefited immeasurably from all the open source code they've sucked in as training data. Their product literally would not exist without it.


This isn't anymore of a "ploy" then releasing new features for claude code, or acquiring bun, or any other random improvement or promotion that essentially boils down to offering more value to claude users.

All the big LLM labs do promos constantly. Sure, this one's on the stingy side considering the amount of work OSS maintainers just give out, but there's nothing wrong with promotions.


No, giving a "free" subscription that autorenews and charges you $200 if you forget to cancel is definitely a ploy

> If you have an existing paid Anthropic subscription, your current billing will be paused for the duration of the Benefit Period and will resume at your then-current plan and rate at the end of the Benefit Period, unless you cancel. If you have an existing free Anthropic account, the Program subscription will be applied to that account and your free subscription will resume at the end of the Benefit Period, unless you cancel.

Wrong. They've explicitly stated it won't autorenew at the Max 20X tier.


You're right, I can't read

6mo is so low, from the title I thought it'd be unlimited tbh especially considering they'll continue to crawl the content 6mo in the future

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