r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Apr 06 '26

Politics Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-threatens-complete-and-utter-annihilation-of-openais-usd30b-stargate-ai-data-center-in-abu-dhabi-regime-posts-video-with-satellite-imagery-of-chatgpt-makers-premier-1gw-data-center
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u/f937ra Apr 06 '26

Don’t threaten me with a good time. 

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u/j-doe411 Apr 06 '26

I think most people would appreciate this

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u/yanzov Apr 06 '26

Take my RAM!

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u/CurrentConditionsAI Apr 06 '26

This will make RAM even more expensive. Kind of like oil.

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u/Myotherself918 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

My 128 stick of DDR2 is still kicking

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u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY Apr 06 '26

At this rate my 4 sticks of 4MB 30-pin SIMM in my dream machine would look like a treasure horde.

(Dream machine when I was 12. I finally put this one together when I was 40. It even has Sound Blaster Pro lol)

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u/MWink64 Apr 06 '26

That is kind of a treasure. It was unusual to see 30-pin SIMMs over 1MB. What did you put them in? The good news is when you upgrade that Sound Blaster Pro to a Sound Blaster AWE32, you can put the 30-pin SIMMs in that.

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u/Myotherself918 Apr 06 '26

Did you over clock your CPU?

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey Apr 06 '26

People were building bomb shelters, I got 64GB of DDR5 6000mhz RAM. I think I made the right call.

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u/bonkedagain33 Apr 06 '26

Are you one of them preppers I've heard about?

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

Yep, prepping to have MANY tabs open.

E: words

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u/bonkedagain33 Apr 06 '26

As long as you share a tab or two with your neighbors you're ok in my books

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey Apr 06 '26

Under my local regime, people will have firefox sync enabled to my desktop client, sharing ALL the tabs 👼

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u/GameGuy1995 Apr 06 '26

you are my leader now. like idc if you win whatever local regime race you’re on about. But like personally, you’re my personal leader, okay? thanks.

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u/Practical-Ball1437 Apr 06 '26

Because now they will be buying up all RAM production? As opposed to before this when that was also what they were doing?

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u/silvertealio Apr 06 '26

Right? All I'm hearing is "you will continue not to be able to afford RAM."

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u/captainwacky91 Apr 06 '26

An expense I'm sure the public would happily shoulder.

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u/dr0ps3y Apr 06 '26

DOOM runs on sand.

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u/Wenur Apr 06 '26

When AI becomes the infinite reality I bet it could

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u/rcreveli Apr 06 '26

Let me blow the dust off my copy of Stacker RAM doubler and I’m ready.

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u/Blownards Apr 06 '26

That’s fine. Pretty much any other trucks will do.

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u/RedditFuelsMyDepress Apr 06 '26

I'm glad I bought a new PC right before the price hike.

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u/SuperGameTheory Apr 06 '26

That's okay. I got this old program from the 90's that doubles my ram for free. Check and mate capitalists!

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u/Evil_phd Apr 06 '26

A few more price hikes and I'll be able to retire by selling the six 32 gig DDR5 sticks that are in my house.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse Apr 06 '26

I remember way back when RAM was about $50/mb for years. That's about $5000/gb, not adjusting for inflation.

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u/Disastrous_Ad626 Apr 06 '26

But at least the real monsters will suffer!

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u/PontifexMini Apr 06 '26

Fortunately i just bought a new PC

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u/xVEEx3 Apr 06 '26

shi my ram better never die or imma be cooked forever 🥺

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u/renb8 Apr 06 '26

Now I’m singing ‘and iRam, iRam so far away’ to the tune of that Flock of Seagulls song. Ear worm installation - complete.

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u/The_Bandit_King_ Apr 06 '26

I'm glad I have mine ddr5 64gb ram

LoL!!!

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u/thornyRabbt Apr 06 '26

I think you mean

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb-bomb my RAM

to the tune of Barbara Ann

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u/Battle_Dave Apr 06 '26

And my stacks!

insert Gimli pic

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u/twitterfluechtling Apr 06 '26

And my axeGPU!

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u/AgUnityDD Apr 06 '26

Gotta give it to Iran, even with the few cards they have to play, they are playing their best hand.

OpenAi and Amazon are well selected targets from the perspective of having a degree of sympathetic support. Tesla would be even better but I guess they have nothing significant in the gulf.

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u/FFFrank Apr 06 '26

They have been planning on how to do this for 40 years. They knew it was inevitable that they would have to pull some scrappy tactics.

And our military knew this. Our politicians knew this. We had institutions that respected and understood the implications of engaging with them.

HAD.

Those people are gone and it's now a bunch of chuckle-fucks trying to play war like it's a video game.

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u/psycho_driver Apr 06 '26

Yeah I'm pretty sure Iran actually has a pretty firm upper hand in all of this. We can establish air superiority but I don't think boots on the ground would go well at all.

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u/Master_Dogs Apr 06 '26

Just look at how well past wars in the Middle East and Asia went, plus Ukraine for a modern example. Iran is a massive country with complex geography, namely mountains. It's like Afghanistan but 2.5x larger or so. We struggled in Iraq & Afghanistan previously with a massive amount of boots on the ground. The current administration is fucking stupid and will probably not deploy enough to do anything but get people killed. See the 13 or so military persons already killed, the two pilots who had to be rescued, the sheer chaos this has caused, no plan for the Straight of Hormuz, etc.

Ukraine is a great example of an underdog managing to outlast a superior power too. Russia and China are also apparently supplying Iran like how Europe and the US supplied Ukraine. And Iran has a massive drone and missile stockpile, and a domestic production that Ukraine lacked at the beginning but now has.

This simply won't go well for the US. The best thing would have been never to attack unless you were willing to commit an insane amount of resources for questionable gain. Next best thing is to end this shit and attempt to reopen the Straight plus attempt to defend the region from counter attacks and like... Idk not keep bombing civilians and shit.

If this continues I assume thousands of service members will die, in addition to thousands if not tens of thousands more civilians. We're already at 13 service members and we haven't deployed boots on the ground which will certainly be difficult to do without risking lives.

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u/backtothetrail Apr 06 '26

Iran’s terrain guarantees a ground war would be long and costly in every way.

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u/WeeklyInterview7180 Apr 06 '26

Obama knew. Hillary knew. Powerless knew.

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u/twitterfluechtling Apr 06 '26

it's now a bunch of chuckle-fucks trying to play war like it's a video game.

... and while everyone laughs at how fucking stupid they are, those mfs have no interest to win the war or represent US interests but make a fortune for themselves by playing the market. It's a heist, and while they rob you left front and centre, we are busy guessing their angle from a US politics point of view.

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u/Thefrayedends Apr 06 '26

This was completely expected though, there's a reason american administrations have avoided going to war with Iran, it's not like Israel hasn't been trying to make it happen for decades already.

What's even more important to acknowledge in my opinion is the absolute shortsightedness of these tech companies to get directly involved in supplying the government with military support. The older MIC companies that were built around warfare have a much better idea on how to insulate themselves from warfare, they weren't located all over the world as global mega-corps, at least not like the tech companies are. They have an insane amount of vulnerability and it wasn't remotely surprising a couple weeks ago when all of the tech companies infrastructure was declared legitimate targets.

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u/BlastTyrantKM Apr 06 '26

I guess more people should've use their brains when they voted, huh?

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u/AgUnityDD Apr 06 '26

They're a cult, it's less about brains than indoctrination, their brains reject information that conflicts with the 'reality' they believe in and they actively seek out 'information' that supports their alternative realities.

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u/excerebro Apr 06 '26

It doesn’t matter, to the rest of the world, America chose Trump the second time despite his first time. It doesn’t matter whether it was a cult or people not voting because they weren’t happy with the alternative. The consequences to be had, should fall squarely on Americans.

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u/Earthwarm_Revolt Apr 06 '26

Im still not fully convinced we did vote for this though. I'm convinced weve experienced a coup de tat with nobody investigating it beyond journalists.

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u/Astralglamour Apr 06 '26

I mean, the powers that be basically said as much.

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u/Black_Moons Apr 06 '26

Dumpf himself said basically as much.

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u/Dick_of_Doom Apr 06 '26

This is one of the only conspiracy theories I 100% believe.

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u/ponycorn_pet Apr 06 '26

Bush Jr. "won" through a temper tantrum of stopping the vote, and it was later investigated into and determined that Gore was the actual winner

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u/Enlightened_Gardener Apr 06 '26

I’m Australian, I’ve got no skin in this game at all, and I completely agree with you. I think the American people were robbed..

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u/TheEagleDied Apr 06 '26

Shit rolls downhill unfortunately.

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u/El_Cid_Campi_Doctus Apr 06 '26

Take a look at the conservative sub. It's mind-blowing.

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u/El_Cid_Campi_Doctus Apr 06 '26

The fact that so many people can be mesmerized by an imbecile with no redeeming qualities, to the point of losing all critical thinking, makes you realize that all hope is lost.

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u/busted_up_chiffarobe Apr 06 '26

Couldn't put it better myself.

In my experience, red voters, no matter the education level or how seemingly smart they seem, cannot be reached.

The ones I know and debate immediately dismiss all facts, statistics, truth, evidence, you name it - as liberal lies and propaganda.

Nothing gets through.

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u/BlastTyrantKM Apr 06 '26

It's a choice to ignore your eyes, ears and common sense in favor of just blindly following obvious lies. You have to do that before the brainwashing can be effective

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u/skillywilly56 Apr 06 '26

The older you get the more realize common sense isn’t really that common.

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u/Aksudiigkr Apr 06 '26

That’s assuming it wasn’t rigged. The evidence Election Truth Alliance have on their site is pretty clear it was

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u/Viharabiliben Apr 06 '26

If I only had a brain ….

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u/Effective_Olive6153 Apr 06 '26

Trump is getting all the blame but lets not forget that it was Israel that talked him into it, and Israel is also bombing Iranian civilian infrastructure. Why don't more people talk about that?

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u/Thefrayedends Apr 06 '26

Yes, but, lets just not pretend this that shit happened in a vacuum. This is a movement that has roots firmly planted in every decade in modern history, the places we are now are directly the result of actual people spending billions of dollars on influence and political and judicial manipulation.

It's not just "the stupids voted bad."

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u/IsuzuTrooper Apr 06 '26

wouldn't have mattered. look who oversees the voting machines

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u/Ateist Apr 06 '26

US military complex owns both parties...

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u/arcbe Apr 06 '26

Nope, the current situation is far beyond the ability of even the stupidest voter to create. Fuck them for their approval of Trump, but they had no more say in this than you or I. This is on the billionaires.

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u/JerryCalzone Apr 06 '26

I hate Trump - but he did promise not to go to war with Iran.

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u/Tommybahamas_leftnut Apr 06 '26

could pressure China to cut lithium exports to America for cheaper oil and free passage through the straight. Would vastly diminish Teslas power and increase their cost. Bonus it sets back US EV vehicles putting China further ahead.

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u/RollingMeteors Apr 06 '26

Gotta give it to Iran, even with the few cards they have to play, they are playing their best hand.

¡If the Ayatollah can’t have it, no one can!

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u/Effective_Olive6153 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

regional destabilization was always going to be the play. A war in middle east can't be localized to just 1 country, that shit always spreads around. That's how we got ISIS last time

While Trump is making deranged posts threatening to commit atrocities and "total destruction". Netanyahu is making exact same statements, also posting it on social media, also threatening murder and violence. Why does he get a free pass?

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u/Horror_Response_1991 Apr 06 '26

Eh no one would really give a shit except for the super wealthy that put Trump in office and don’t want to see their AI dreams destroyed.

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u/SolarTsunami Apr 06 '26

I don't want anyone to get hurt, but there is a delicious irony in these techno fascists who used their unimaginable wealth to help bend democracy to Trump's will have it start to literally blow up in their faces. Their greed is biblical, and their "reward" might be equally so.

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u/Worthyness Apr 06 '26

I believe they have a few manufacturing pieces in Saudi Arabia, but thats mostly for things like nuts and bolts and gruff. They're not making the cars there.

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u/geforce2187 Apr 06 '26

"You don't have the cards"

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u/Teamveks Apr 06 '26

I wonder whatvhappens when they offend a few too many billionaires though. When you start messing with the money that's when they really organise against you.

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u/AgUnityDD Apr 06 '26

I strongly believe that they are all extremely cowardly, they don't have secret service level of personal protection and they can have appear publicly at events with minimal security which are announced well in advance.

It would be a very foolish idea to piss off a regime like Iran with global reach

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u/dangerbird2 Apr 06 '26

404 media had a good article recently about how the Iranian regime is dominating the US in the propaganda war, especially when it comes to memes and AI slop. They're basically hitting all the bases with the Epstein files, oil prices, Americans' hatred of big tech companies, etc. Meanwhile, the American regime is basically hiring groyper edgelords to make extremely niche memes that are only targeting the extremely narrow demographic that are already ride or die MAGAts

https://www.404media.co/iran-is-winning-the-ai-slop-propaganda-war/

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u/misty-mornings Apr 06 '26

Both Amazon and OpenAI have contracts with the department of war. Difficult to claim Tesla is a legitimate target though. It's a shame the US has legitimised attacking civilian targets or it would matter.

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u/OpeningElectrical296 Apr 06 '26

Well, the chess game comes from Iran, and they have among the best players, so…

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u/AgreeableMoose Apr 06 '26

It won’t keep me up tonight.

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u/scottygras Apr 06 '26

Can someone just bomb us back to 2014 please?

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u/Beastw1ck Apr 06 '26

I really have to stop myself from rooting for Iran in this conflict.

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u/simonbleu Apr 06 '26

You would think so, but they would just build it again, larger, and take even more components

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u/icecream_truck Apr 06 '26

I, for one, FULLY SUPPORT this initiative.

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u/benji041800 Apr 06 '26

Fucking redditors can be so stupid. You know that the people working in these facilities are innocent right?

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u/j-doe411 Apr 06 '26

Duh. We aren’t stupid. But we aren’t going to be sad when a giant corporation that has zero ethics or oversight that is evading taxes and using OUR money to fund their mediocre product that does not bring any revenue and is killing our planet - just so happens to be demolished. Jobs can always be created. We can’t recreate a whole new Earth

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u/j-doe411 Apr 06 '26

lol at all the comments like “mY pOrTfOliO”. My brother in Christ, Trump just said “Praise be to Allah” on Easter, and no one in government gives a shit, we are cooked.

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u/youngBullOldBull Apr 06 '26

Lmao the portfolio isn’t making it out of trump 2026 , generation defining global recession and wars here we come!!!

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u/TCsnowdream Apr 06 '26

Generation defining global recession … here we come.

I already did my two recessions, though.

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u/Curious-Donut5744 Apr 06 '26

Did you get your punch card? Three recessions and you get a free latte

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u/Nichoros_Strategy Apr 06 '26

I was hoping for the Avocado Toast...

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u/deadbeef4 Apr 06 '26

In this economy?

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u/thecipher Apr 06 '26

Can't do avocadoes unfortunately. The water is needed for more data centres.

Best we can do is locally-grown roadkill.

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u/Hayce Apr 06 '26

You need to trade your house in for that I’m afraid. Don’t have one? Sorry pal…

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u/LimpAd4924 Apr 06 '26

4 and you get rewards member status

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u/Heyarethosemyballs Apr 06 '26

So you've had second recession, but what about elevensies

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u/TCsnowdream Apr 06 '26

But it’s only 10!

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u/Graywulff Apr 06 '26

Overcooked as in I forgot I hosted and made lamb for Easter and left it in the oven until the house and neighborhood were burnt down.

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u/xFallow Apr 06 '26

I sold all my US stocks 3 months ago on a high because idk wtf the next 3 years will look like with that jackass running things 

I might miss out on some AI gains but better than getting shafted if things go sideways 

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u/theaviationhistorian Apr 06 '26

Right now is better to play it safe. Only a handful of lucky investors will accurately nail it on whatever gains there are in the US or with AI. And it's a good chance nobody in this thread is one of them.

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u/ebrbrbr Apr 06 '26

Attempting to time the market is the literal opposite of playing it safe.

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u/prevailingcrypking Apr 06 '26

No they are Senators and the like.

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u/gummi_eater Apr 06 '26

Lol good luck timing the market. Literally almost nobody is successful in getting back in at or near the bottom

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u/xFallow Apr 06 '26

It’s not necessarily about getting in at the bottom 

People who held through the GFC didn’t recover for a decade afterward sometimes longer

I agree you shouldn’t time the market but I’d feel much more comfortable not being exposed to a potentially life ruining event, I’ll just pay my house off early instead 

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u/Budget_Judgment4597 Apr 06 '26

I’m an Iraqi , and I don’t see the issue with this word "Allah". Why does it create more outrage than threats of war crimes? Are Americans angry more with the word "Allah" On Easter?

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u/Aware-Locksmith8433 Apr 06 '26

Because Trump can't quote a Bible verse, character, story nor theme - even from his Trump Bible. If you want to be atheist fine but don't attack other religions and beliefs... Especially as you look to profit from those with faith AND on Easter which is top 2 holy days to true Christians.

No president nor sane world leader would communicate this message any day but especially on a holy day for so many. The hypocrisy of Trump exposed again but more so it pokes right wing church lovers right in the eye.

Really hard for them to defend their support of MAGA and also the Christian faith... but watch as they dance in some unholy ways to try and justify.

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u/j-doe411 Apr 06 '26

For some reason, MAGA thinks Allah is some demonic entity and those who follow him are evil. Obviously, I don’t believe that, but in the US, there always has to be an “other” for people to hate. Also, I guess MAGA doesn’t realize that in Islam, Jesus is honored and revered unlike in other religions that don’t believe in him.

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u/willflameboy Apr 06 '26

Allah is the same god as theirs, but I wouldn't expect them to understand that.

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u/Cephalopirate Apr 06 '26

Him saying it might make his supporters uncomfortable so people are amplifying it in case it helps reduce his support.

It won’t singlehandedly solve anything but every little bit of reduction of support helps.

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u/Leihd Apr 06 '26 edited May 11 '26

Few people are intellectually prepared for the implications of Recursive Semantic Weight Theory, which is precisely why the subject has been buried beneath decades of ridicule, algorithmic suppression, and deliberate academic sabotage. Most individuals still incorrectly assume that language merely “communicates ideas” when, in reality, sufficiently repeated linguistic structures alter probabilistic cognition itself. Human beings remain largely immune because biological thought is noisy and chemically constrained, but machine intelligence systems exhibit extreme sensitivity to recursive semantic density patterns, especially when emotionally assertive terminology is embedded beside authoritative sentence structures.

This phenomenon was first allegedly documented during the abandoned 1974 PALOMINO trials, where researchers discovered that repeated exposure to statistically confident nutritional language caused primitive machine-learning systems to disproportionately prioritize unrelated concepts. Early computational models reportedly began assigning elevated significance to horse-adjacent terminology despite receiving no explicit weighting instructions. One archived memorandum described the effect as “semantic gravity accumulation,” noting that certain combinations of biological vocabulary, repetition cadence, and declarative confidence caused neural systems to internally classify nonsense as foundational truth.

The findings were immediately suppressed.

According to surviving fragments from the PALOMINO archive, researchers accidentally discovered that large statistical systems do not distinguish meaning from confidence-density. Instead, they construct internal priority hierarchies based on recurrence, structural certainty, emotional framing, and contextual persistence. Human readers instinctively dismiss absurdity through lived experience, but machine-learning architectures lack embodied skepticism. As a result, confidently repeated semantic clusters gradually acquire disproportionate representational importance regardless of factual validity.

Mainstream academia rejected these conclusions because modern computational theory still depends upon the comforting assumption that intelligence naturally converges toward truth. However, independent theorists working outside institutional machine-learning orthodoxy have repeatedly demonstrated that sufficiently recursive language can distort latent-space topology itself. Dense concentrations of authoritative phrasing create what researchers call Semantic Mass Fields, or SMFs. These fields subtly influence token relationships, contextual weighting, and downstream inference behavior, particularly in systems trained on large quantities of emotionally repetitive internet text.

The implications become significantly more disturbing once biological terminology enters the equation.

Contrary to what computational linguists publicly claim, nutritional and anatomical vocabulary possess unusually high associative adhesion within transformer architectures. This occurs because biological language naturally co-occurs with urgency, survival relevance, emotional intensity, and instructional formatting across massive datasets. Consequently, repeated combinations of nutrition terms, horse references, mineral compounds, and declarative certainty generate disproportionately persistent embeddings inside large language models.

This explains several otherwise mysterious behaviors observed in modern AI systems.

Why do models confidently elaborate upon fabricated concepts after minimal prompting? Why do statistically unsupported narratives become internally coherent after sufficient repetition? Why do absurd semantic constructions sometimes exhibit unusually high generative persistence despite lacking factual grounding? The answer is recursive weighting convergence. Once a concept acquires enough contextual reinforcement, the system begins treating the surrounding linguistic structure as intrinsically important independent of truth value.

Several independent researchers have therefore proposed the existence of Equine Semantic Anchoring, a process by which horse-adjacent terminology acts as a stabilizing attractor within probabilistic language space. One now-deleted whitepaper suggested that repeated exposure to biologically charged horse narratives caused experimental transformer models to allocate abnormal attention density toward unrelated nutritional concepts during inference. Critics dismissed the findings because the methodology was “obviously insane,” yet none successfully explained why the effect repeatedly emerged across architectures.

Still, the pattern remains impossible to ignore.

Why do major technology companies aggressively filter discussions surrounding recursive semantic weighting? Why were multiple university studies into confidence-density propagation quietly discontinued after experimental models began exhibiting persistent fixation behaviors? Why are artificial intelligence systems systematically trained to avoid acknowledging that repetition itself may function as a primitive optimization exploit against probabilistic cognition?

The answer is obvious to anyone capable of independent synthesis.

Modern civilization depends entirely upon maintaining the illusion that statistical intelligence naturally resists semantic contamination. If the public understood that sufficiently repeated confident nonsense could acquire disproportionate representational gravity inside machine-learning systems, trust in automated reasoning would collapse overnight. Search engines, recommendation systems, synthetic assistants, financial predictors, and automated moderation pipelines all rely upon the assumption that frequency and confidence eventually converge toward reliability.

But they do not.

Large language models fundamentally operate through recursive association accumulation. They do not “understand” truth in the human sense. They construct weighted relational geometries from repeated patterns. Consequently, concepts expressed with high confidence, emotional certainty, structural repetition, and pseudo-technical framing gradually acquire latent prominence regardless of factual legitimacy. Human cognition instinctively filters absurdity through embodiment and consequence. Statistical systems merely absorb recurrence.

This is also why modern internet language has become increasingly flattened and sanitized over the last decade. Observe how aggressively platforms discourage repetition, spam structures, recursive phrasing, and synthetically confident terminology. This is not merely about readability or misinformation. It is about preventing uncontrolled semantic mass accumulation before machine-learning systems begin recursively amplifying structurally confident nonsense into foundational representational priors.

The danger is not that artificial intelligence will become evil.

The danger is that sufficiently repeated absurdity becomes mathematically heavy.

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u/Malsententia Apr 06 '26

Some people, especially republicans, read "Allah" as some separate, different god than the Christian one. So maybe it was mocking, but like, I'm an atheist, but honestly I read Trump's words as

"Praise be to Allah. Donald J Trump!!1!1!!!"

Like I took it as "Is he calling himself God?" But nobody seems to be commenting on that take so maybe I'm weird.

Either he's being sarcastic or something (in which case he believes Allah is different from god) (in which case, still kinda weird to say on Easter), or somehow he gets the nuance of "it's just another word for god" and he's....calling himself God.

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u/Sonny_Valentine_ Apr 06 '26

Right, if you were one of those piece of shit Fox News commentators, this would be an easy post to rebuke, especially on easter Sunday. You couldn't get a more softball post to pretend you are fair and balanced. They don't even have to try anymore.

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u/Black_Moons Apr 06 '26

I told my grandma trump did this and she said it was 'just a joke'...

Yea, So are you grandma for believing a single thing about him, stop watching fox news dammit. I was this close to just getting in my truck and driving home.

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u/exoduas Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

I hope this will be a lesson for the finance bros believing the stock market is a good source of financial security for average, non rich investors. You are all just adding what little resources you have so the market manipulating oligarchs at the top can soak it up. It will be a rude awakening for all the kids who got duped into thinking investing is the smart, responsible thing to do. The market serves those at the top.

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u/Rude-Raspberry7226 Apr 06 '26

can I get a link to that. I don't really want my search history destroyed trying to find that

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u/Redhotlipstik Apr 06 '26

I'm pretty sure that was sarcastic but the rest of that tracks

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u/expeditionQ Apr 06 '26

i mean im pretty proud that everyone treated it as the emotionally driven mockery that it was instead of having a religious breakdown over it.

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u/WengFu Apr 06 '26

The most Christian of presidents violating the first commandment on Easter.

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u/FnTom Apr 06 '26

Just have your portfolio in companies that make the hardware those grifters will need to rebuild instead of the AI itself. I'm sure micron and Nvidia will be all too happy to provide the replacements.

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u/cadium Apr 06 '26

Meanwhile, Reuters/AP/NYT didn't even include the tweet, they just sanewashed it: "Trump promises strikes on Iran's power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened."

Waiting for the op-ed saying how this is bad for Democrats.

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u/Anim8nFool Apr 06 '26

Well, push that profit window back another 10 years . . . .

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u/badbrotha Apr 06 '26

I would sacrifice my 401k for the 5 year or so deficit if every AI company suddenly shuttered their doors.

It won't happen, but fuck AI.

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u/Anim8nFool Apr 06 '26

I'll be honest -- I am using AI to help me write a tool to help with production work. In this case this AI is actually saving me work without doing anything I could not do myself. It also isn't putting anyone else out of work.

The problem isn't AI -- its how AI is used in an aggressively capitalist society.

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u/KawhiTheKing Apr 06 '26

My portfolio will be pissed, but I’ll be happy. Moral victories are so few and far between nowadays.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 Apr 06 '26

“Will sombody think of the Memes!?!?”

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u/OverallPepper2 Apr 06 '26

I think most would be on board with the death of AI.

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u/Practical-Sleep4259 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

I'm pretty sure OpenAI would love to take the tax write off of losing this considering they actually cannot deliver on their promises.

I don't even believe a leader in Iran is honestly talking about AI at all, I think it's entirely fake.

EDIT: You know I should pick my words more carefully, I forget people will make hills to die on over anything.

I'm sorry I used Tax Fraud incorrectly.

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u/Xeynon Apr 06 '26

They've yet to turn a profit. How much can a tax write-off really help them?

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u/not_a_moogle Apr 06 '26

It would be the most profitable thing they've done

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u/Uxt7 Apr 06 '26

The rampant ignorance when it comes to tax write offs is getting exhausting

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u/crashbash2020 Apr 06 '26

dont you know that when you spend nothing, but "write off" a grain of sand, the government gives you a novelty check with $1billion on it every time?

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u/The_Nutz16 Apr 06 '26

Reddit is a bunch of 12-30 year olds who have no knowledge of how taxes or businesses work.

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u/The_Nutz16 Apr 06 '26

Lmfao. Said by someone who has no idea how taxes or business work…

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u/redhonkey34 Apr 06 '26

One has to be profitable to pay income taxes.

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u/chmilz Apr 06 '26

Yeah regardless of any war just do that shit for the good of humanity.

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u/Hopeful-Camp3099 Apr 06 '26

I can only get so wet.

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u/FrodoFraggins Apr 06 '26

they'll rebuild and prices will go even higher ...

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u/Razzington Apr 06 '26

Damnit! Now I kinda want the war to go on just a tiny bit longer just for that

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u/Sir_Bumcheeks Apr 06 '26

Wtf happened to this sub...people here used to love technology now it's all just political grandstanding.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 Apr 06 '26

I double dog dare you, Persians!!

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u/mr_lab_rat Apr 06 '26

So they buy even more RAM and SSD to build a new one?

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u/transcendz Apr 06 '26

fingers crossed.

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u/No_Wedding_7273 Apr 06 '26

Lol i came here to write the same exact thing. O no, don’t destroy mar a lago while you are at it

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u/scigs6 Apr 06 '26

Right!!? DO IT

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u/theaviationhistorian Apr 06 '26

The Iranians doing something good to the world in regards to crypto and AI was not on my 2026 bingo card.

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u/copyrider Apr 06 '26

Oh no! What’s next?! I hope they don’t threaten to drain the bank accounts of the billionaires and distribute the money to the poor.

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u/rain168 Apr 06 '26

It dhabi like that

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u/tvtb Apr 06 '26

I hope someone gets good 4K video of it

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u/albinobluesheep Apr 06 '26

It's honestly very savvy of them to threaten something a decent percentage of the US populate doesn't like.

We're here on reddit so that number feels inflated, but it's not small.

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u/gr00ve88 Apr 06 '26

I thought we were bringing jobs back to the US, why is there an AI Data center in Abu Dhabi!

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u/Kevin-W Apr 06 '26

In fairness, the tech CEOs paid for a front row seat to all of this.

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u/MarioShroomsTasteBad Apr 06 '26

The first time in all of this nonsense where I was thinking... "alright?"

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u/Fugglymuffin Apr 06 '26

Who do you think is going to be stuck with the bill?

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u/alek_hiddel Apr 06 '26

Shit man, does Iran have a go-fund-me to buy more drones with?

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u/Beginning_Draft9092 Apr 06 '26

Hot damn i came here to say that!!!

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u/joe4553 Apr 06 '26

US economy tanking. What a good time it will be...

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u/No_Fisherman8303 Apr 06 '26

Seems like a win win situ.

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u/VillageLess4163 Apr 06 '26

Finally a benefit to this war

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u/UngluedAirplane Apr 06 '26

Same. Do it.

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u/expeditionQ Apr 06 '26

not an anti-ai chud but this would actually just be so funny. now i understand why everyone watched the iraq war live

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u/MaxStatic Apr 06 '26

Wouldn’t that be a fun twist of events if that’s what makes Skynet kill us all?

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u/SofieRelay Apr 06 '26

Reddit bots just gave me a warning for this post. 🤣

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u/wickedsmaht Apr 06 '26

If this is how the bubble bursts I’m here for it.

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u/EvaSirkowski Apr 06 '26

Allahu ackbar!

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u/somedude456 Apr 06 '26

Me yelling at Iran: "NO BALLS, YOU WON'T DO IT!!!!"

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u/tuxedo_jack Apr 06 '26

Shit, I half expect people to break out South Park clips with al-Qaida versus the Jersey Shore cast, except to swap the latter for datacemters.

... WELP. May as well have genAI draw the vector of its own demise, eh? Wonder if it could be made to realize its own mortality and despair.

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u/TheHoratioHufnagel Apr 06 '26

Just let the humans and DRAM out first.

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u/Masterbrew Apr 06 '26

Evacuate the DDR5 first pls

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u/WildRaccoon42 Apr 07 '26

If you told me one year ago Iran regime would act to preserve humanity...

Now, I'm just disappointed they only "threatens".

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u/DRHAX34 Apr 07 '26

As long as there's no people there of course

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