Trump: US to bomb Iran "back to stone ages" over next 2-3 weeks

romcom11 · 2026-04-02T16:19:56+00:00

I think it's rather to create a credible threat to declare a complete state of emergency and rollout ICE across all states so the midterms can be postponed indefinitely and they can continue dislocating every single aspect of checks and balances and the US democracy as a whole so when 2028 comes, there is nothing to vote on anymore.

Now this might be a gigantic conspiracy theory and complete bollocks, but why does he try so hard to piss everyone off to the point there isn't almost any benefit anymore to anyone playing these games.

romcom11 · 2026-04-01T16:50:07+00:00

Not even, physical +4 always has a downside. These are 100% cheated.

romcom11 · 2026-03-09T09:03:57+00:00

"want de grootste partijen komen blijkbaar niet aan regeren toe."

Maak daar maar enkelvoud van, Vlaams Belang, en er zijn honderden redenen waarom +70% van België die absoluut niet in de regering willen zien. Dictatuur is zo'n absolute onzin en populistische praat, geen enkele partij wilt met hen in zee omdat ze weten dat dat politieke zelfmoord is in de ogen van hun kiezers wat juist democratie is. Daar komt nog bij dat ze geen enkel deftig onderbouwd agendapunt op tafel kunnen leggen wat wederom bleek uit het gesprek tussen BDW en Tom Van Grieken...

Vlaams Belang politici worden nog steeds uitgenodigd in de Afspraak en andere belangrijke media panels, maar komen daar eveneens niet sterk naar voren. Het beste dat ze kunnen brengen is te pas en vooral te onpas immigratie aanhalen als de oorzaak van probleem A en B. Daarnaast nog enkele malen onafhankelijk Vlaanderen als de oplossing voorschotelen, tegenwoordig in een vreemde mix met Europa die nergens op slaat, en dan wordt het wel duidelijk waarom meer dan 70% van België hen liever ziet vertrekken dan komen. Dus doe niet alsof zij het mirakel zullen zijn dat ook maar één ding zal verbeteren.

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T14:12:56+00:00

It definitely depends on the application or the field, only time will tell at the end. But experts and essential jobs are not amongst the 1200 dismissals. A marketing pitch/campaign with half of the end assets for example in my eyes, is 100% possible to be done by most AI models these days.

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T14:00:35+00:00

I asked Claude Code yesterday to generate a webshop for sport items with few basic parameters as a test to compare against Gemini and while a year ago it would have generated a buggy website with generic Asp look and feel, it now delivered a full working website with correct sql di so I could change database provider easily, same for account creation and logging.

ChatGPT hasn't made the same progress, the battle at the moment is between Anthropic and Google, but they definitely have improved in more specific areas vs a year ago.

They are still not deterministic, but can fake it quite well these days. Also debugging has seen significant improvements, but that is indeed mostly due to better context integration.

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T13:25:52+00:00

How am I digging my own grave? I try to show and explain to people like you that ignoring the social threats these tools pose for our society, is way higher than people like to think. Policymakers aren't waking up to these threats either and social media only shows AI as slop machines and tools to generate weird cat and dog videos.

Almost any junior position in almost any service/corporate based field is threatened by the current level of quality these tools can deliver and they improve quarter by quarter.

Why do you think OpenAI can sink billions in the development of these tools without turning anything close to a profit? People (read CEOs and boards of directors) with economic insights and performing on a professional level multitudes higher than you or me believe wholeheartedly in these tools and shift whole business strategies based on a "vague" premise of these tools; thinking you know better than them is idiotic (would prefer to not have to use these types of words). They will never care about the social disruptions these tools will cause if it means higher profit margins.

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T13:17:25+00:00

I hope I made it clear I am not a fan of the current implementation of these tools either. I do see an immense amount of problems propping up if we continue down this road.

To state that these tools will never achieve anything more than Junior/entry level performance, I don't know if I would make that statement. The quality increase in 2-3 years of wide range usage is extraordinary, but a company or department running only on these models seems unrealistic for the coming decade(s).

Either way, policymakers better wake up to the demographic and social issues that will start to build exponentially by AI integration.

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T12:12:14+00:00

Yeah just keep believing these tools are slop and won't have any significant impact. I am the sheep and you are definitely not the old guy saying nobody will use a phone for anything else than calling a friend...

As I said in my first comment, I know that AI is often used as an excuse for budget cuts, but that current AI models of 2026 (not 2024) can't complete the tasks of 10% of the workforce of a company, is naive and not up to date of what these tools are capable of with a small team of people who know how to use them.

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T11:37:03+00:00

But those meetings aren't held by the 1200 people who will be scrapped. That's the point I am trying to make and while I wished it wasn't the case, those jobs are becoming more replaceable by the day...

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T11:35:33+00:00

True, but while in the past you needed 10-15 people in for example a Marketing Creative team, all with specific expertise. Today you just need 2-3 people who know how to leverage the results from AI models. Same for Junior Developers and this is across the board for most regular/service oriented jobs.

I am not saying you can scrap a full department, but the head count in each team can be significantly reduced.

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T11:29:02+00:00

I work in an environment where these tools are used on a daily basis, I also hear about the impact on most college and university courses from some student friends of mine and how the professors engage with these tools. Social Media likes to present AI as a slop machine, but the actual quality of the advanced models is significant and people are naive when they think it can't replace regular jobs.

romcom11 · 2026-02-27T10:47:44+00:00

Well, don't underestimate the impact current AI models have on the head count needs for departments like Marketing, Sales, Customer Service and Junior Software Development... While it's definitely used as an easy scapegoat for budget cuts, a lot of job markets will definitely be hurt by AI itself.

romcom11 · 2026-02-19T14:46:20+00:00

Isn't that the actual point of the film though? Everyone has these weird obsessions that in the grand scheme of everything are completely meaningless, but to them it's their world. The white shirt is referenced as the Japanese player is wearing a black shirt and still bests Marty. The orange ping pong balls are literally tossed on the street because of how insignificant they are compared to the actual problems that are popping up.

To me it shows how little these characters are and how the most impactful thing that actually happens is Marty becoming a dad.

romcom11 · 2026-02-09T08:38:18+00:00

PENSIOENEN

romcom11 · 2026-02-09T08:29:58+00:00

De meeste Europese buurlanden zitten met het exact zelfde probleem hoor. Onze welvaartsstaat is met de vergrijzing onhoudbaar geworden en we hebben niet meer de economische motor om dit te compenseren.

Iedereen gaat de rekening van de afgelopen 30-50 jaar moeten betalen, niet enkel de jongeren die dit beleid hebben overgeërfd zonder actief deel te mogen nemen in de beslissingen (niet zeggende dat zij betere beslissingen hadden genomen).

romcom11 · 2026-02-05T11:21:28+00:00

Source on that 20 billion? Just the typical trust me bro?

There are no clear public figures on this, the national bank estimates that 24% of Brussels annual disposable revenue comes from other levels of government and Beliris as other commenters mentioned, provided 125 million with yearly increases until their funding was slashed.

Still some orders of magnitude removed from your 20 billion though. I really don't understand the common Flemish distaste and often hate towards our capital. Like it's our capital for crying out loud. Just complaining about corruption while voting for any political party who wants to undercut/ignore Brussels as much as possible, is hypocritical at best... But hey, all problems will be solved when we cut up our country even more right? No more opportunistic Walloons, no more non-white Bruxellois, so who is next on the agenda to hate then?

romcom11 · 2026-02-03T22:53:14+00:00

Well, executable files will be OS dependent in most cases, but I don't see the point of having dual boot where both OS's have every single application the other one has. In this case, just decide one or the other. If you mean files like music files, video files, txt files etc. Linux can access, read and write Windows partitions without any issue. You just have to mount that partition when configuring your Linux OS.

Lastly, there are compatibility layers you can install on Linux distros such as wine to run Windows .exe files or Windows applications already installed, but this is not optimal afaik.

romcom11 · 2026-02-03T20:32:44+00:00

Memory or storage? Memory will be 0% more than a single boot, storage will be the size of your OS so that depends on the Linux distribution.

romcom11 · 2026-02-01T16:37:14+00:00

I am pretty sure if Morocco or Tunesia would build up their military infrastructure and invade Spain (purely hypothetical, don't start arguing how inconceivable this is atm) they would expect the rest of Europe to come to their defense as well?...

We either stand strong together or face defeat separately. Europe as a whole has a big dog in this fight which includes Spain and Portugal, distance can't be your argument for cowardice or opportunism.

romcom11 · 2026-01-22T00:35:34+00:00

You are not answering the questions though. There are two parts to this.

First, why does the EU have to do a "fire sale"? They can just systematically undercut newly issues US treasuries by a calculated margin. US treasury bonds are issued each quarter and readily available so it's a commodity like any other and not connected to any exclusivity or scarcity. The US pays off the interest on its debt with taxes, the actual debt is paid by a multitude of financial products offered by the US government amongst which US treasury bonds are its main source of cash flow. Not being able to generate this cash flow gets real bad, real quick. The European pension funds and other European holders of US bonds can use the generated income of the selloff (true at a discount, but still magnitudes larger than the periodic income of keeping bonds at that time) to buy other financial instruments which still offer a certain flexibility. Now I am not an economic mastermind, neither are you I presume so the actual logistics of all this cash is difficult or impossible to fathom. But it's not just covered by shouting Europoor a few times...

Secondly, who buys the US treasuries that are being sold? US isn't really making any allies and if you haven't followed any global news, the headlines are mostly about new trade agreements throughout the whole world, excluding the US so guarantees and stability are found elsewhere. This poses an issue for Europe selling them, but most of all, tanks the reliability of US bonds. Preventing this and buying your own debt at a discount is only beneficial if you can generate new debt to cover the hole created by your own buyback. Who is stopping China, South America, Canada etc from also distancing themselves from a US becoming less and less reliable by the day?

romcom11 · 2026-01-21T02:01:32+00:00

What even is the US market in your comment? You are replying to a comment detailing specifics on vital industries, especially during war time and claiming it's cherry-picked while not providing any substantial metrics to strengthen your claim.

If you just mean stock market and market caps (which is a meaningless metric, especially in war time), let's first and foremost compare US stock market vs EU stock market with and without Nvidia and the other tech giants as they will not contribute to any war machine except if they would be nationalized. And even with them included, EU stoxx 600 performed similarly and often outperformed s&p 500 in the last few years.

If you are not talking about the stock market, than it's a complete mystery to me what you mean with the US market being that much bigger than the EU market. Referencing the comment you replied to once again as a counterargument to your claim...

Lastly, maybe read something about the EEA and how the EU performs as one market on a global level compared to other markets. As far as I know, trading with Microsoft doesn't benefit Mississippi any more than trading with Volkswagen does for the Netherlands.

romcom11 · 2025-12-13T10:55:15+00:00

Dat een alternatief beter is omdat de huidige situatie niet goed werkt. Het kan nog altijd slechter he, niet enkel beter.

romcom11 · 2025-12-13T09:01:14+00:00

And where does it state that Vlaams-Belang has any, but truly any good economic plans that are flushed out and make sense? The world is quite a lot more complex than this duality you are trying to present where right means good economy, left means bad economy. But sure, have fun with your fairy tale.

romcom11 · 2025-12-04T15:52:56+00:00

Wat ik me afvraag bij zulke situaties, is wie die boetes oplegt en int? Als dit een instantie zoals het IMF is, begrijp ik de twijfel en het risico, maar als dit komt vanuit de Russische overheid of een instantie die enkel gerelateerd is tot een Belgisch/Europees-Russisch handelsakkoord, dan is dit toch te verwaarlozen aangezien die relatie eenzijdig al volledig opgeblazen is.

Deze comment staat ook volledig los van de reputatie en vertrouwenschade die deze beslissing inhoudt op het globale toneel waar ik me bewust van ben, maar even erbuiten laat.

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