Me only looking one way because my finances are a wreck

If there is a long US war or occupation, that would surely be a disaster for the Iranian people. But Iran already has many of the core mechanisms of democratic government. It’s not Afghanistan, it’s not even Iraq.

People vote for leadership. There has just been the “revolutionary” guard that operates the shadow government with the real power. The religious fundamentalist government has had the right to choose the candidates, but people really do vote from among those choices.

If the people can succeed in transferring military power to the elected government, then there is a real chance for permanent and stable change. The people are educated, the economy is sophisticated and diverse, and there are functioning institutions.

And to cover up their atrocities. We still don’t know if they killed 10,000 protestors or 36,000.

For the past 2 months, Iran has switched to a North-Korean model of information control.

The internet is still on total government blackout. Voice and video messaging is near impossible. Calling into and out of Iran is near-impossible.

This means that literally every single image, message, video, description, report, etc. that comes out of Iran is either government propaganda or secretly smuggled out at great personal risk. Western media has not yet caught on to the implications of this reality.

But at what cost?

For the sake of your people? You’ve already killed tens of thousands of them. They are the ones who want you gone!

Today I learned that I am well above average.

Slipping some wild conspiracy theories into a list of real atrocities

Again or still?

Redistricting for me but not for thee

I’m sorry, but you’ve lost the plot. This does not look at ALL like AI upsizing. There is no AI noise, faces are intelligible. Hands have the right number of fingers, and are attached to people. There is no AI noise. The stars are the correct number and in the correct arrangement (see overlay below). People have a range of expressions. The framing is natural.

Additionally, it is published and credited in a major news source with long-established editorial oversight.

No, image is by Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times

Not everything is AI

This kinda seems like a roundabout way of avoiding government /corporate age verification laws? Like it doesn’t require ID verification or biometrics and runs a local api to verify age.

Can someone smarter than me please explain if this is a good thing or not?

I think it’s insane to kill tens of thousands of peaceful protestors, but I guess some people are more okay with it.

Call off the Normandy invasion. What if an innocent person dies while we’re attacking Nazi Germany? Better to just leave them to do their thing.

Apart from that, I haven’t seen any source on this that isn’t just directly quoting Iranian state media propaganda.

This era is such a pointless attack against the smallest niche of users. I honestly don’t get it. How much are a few techie hobbyists costing Google/Samsung’s gargantuan bottom lines? They are stepping over dollars to chase after pennies.

Just let people who want to modify their phones. It’s already prohibitively hard that no one who doesn’t have the know-how is installing their own apps outside the stores.

Great app! If there were Android TV support, I’d switch today.

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations the deadliest protest suppression this century

FIFY

Sorry, folks. We live in a country of laws and those can’t just be ignored. There is simply no way to get around the rules.