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!

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?

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

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.

That’s already full of protestor bodies

Weird how every extremist party supports Russia, huh? Almost like extremism of any sort benefits Russian interests.

More of the typical “Arrest first, figure out the charges later” policing

Thanks for letting me know. Added archive link above.

To me, this would be like if VLC made an angry post about the evils of MP3 instead of just making a great player that can handle it (which they have). People still use VLC because we know that it will handle anything. Plus, they’ve kept the interface simple and intuitive, with most needed functions front and center, with lots of specialized features in menus and settings.

LibreOffice is losing ground because they don’t take design seriously and instead of making interoperability a priority, they would rather complain about user preferences.

I last ran serious testing a year ago. I ended up going with OnlyOffice. Despite some drawbacks, it was an easier switch that offered less friction and better file compatibility coming from MS.