It is essentially a (weird-ass) two-round system when it comes to the presidency (and many lower offices). Party primaries exist, they overwhelmingly gave one of the nominations to a dumpster.

You're missing choice #3 - spend more money on stupid shit, cut taxes some more, pile on more debt, blame Obama Hussein Hunter Biden for the debt as the opening salvo of the third-term run in 2028.

In a war where schools and bridges and aid convoys and bread lines are targeted, anyone should consider themselves a valid target.

It's true that you are less likely to be a target than a state-sponsored tech megacorp's data centers, but the risk is still present.

> In a war where schools and bridges and aid convoys and bread lines are targeted

Yes but that's clearly not this war. This is a missile war where high-value strategic military targets are the priority. The US and Israel hit some prisons, damaged some hospitals, and ofc killed 168 schoolchildren. They also targeted residential areas to assassinate important leaders. But Iran has not returned that. They've stuck pretty strictly to military targets with very few exceptions

If this was a war where bridges were a target, Iran would not be so successful. There's simply a too limited amount of missiles. Also only 20% of Saudi Arabia has citizenship while almost the whole rest is basically indentured servants. It's not like they could provoke a popular uprising or anything. There's no strategic value in hitting "bread lines"

Risk is always present, We quantify it for a reason and then we mitigate if it's beyond a level we are comfortable.

Living is risk, every time I go to the shop for milk there is a non-zero chance I don't come back but the risk is so low I don't worry about it.

An AWS data center is going to look like a bright shining beacon on the CARVER matrix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARVER_matrix

What CARVER score would you give an AWS data center? I would probably put it around the 40 to 50s. Where would you put your own individual company by itself on the CARVER matrix as it relates to enemy forces? Pretty damn low.

Which is why your job as a responsible company you should have verified your offsite backups on 28th Feb.

Just like you would if wildfires started breaking new records in Oregon, if that's where your (for some reason sole) cloud region is.

It should already be set up, of course, but from a data point of view this is when you're thankful that at least this raised risk came with a heads up.

An American-run data center is much more likely to be targeted than some locally-owned and run company that isn't obviously connected to a foriegn power or the state that hosts it.

No, because they are all products of unchecked late-stage capitalism, which could have disastrous consequences for humanity.

If their foreign intelligence office hasn't made the kind of contacts and capabilities that could, they wouldn't be doing their jobs.

Low level sabotage under the guise of hooliganism wasn't invented in Leningrad.

Well, we already had the toilet paper shortage last time around, but round #2 of this administration just keeps on giving.

Who do I call if I think Flock is stalking me, and who will the police show up to intimidate when I do?

> Who do I call if I think Flock is stalking me

Your local representative who signed a contract with Flock to install and operate the cameras?

So, complain to the stalker?

The vermin that are building it understand it just fine.

The alternative is Sam Altman winning.

If you're being given an A-B choice between cinnamon-flavored shit and lutfisk-flavored shit, you might convince the experimenter that cinnamon-flavored shit ranks highly in user preferences.

I would expect a preference for lutefisk flavored shit, the problem is then you then deduce from that that people prefer lutefisk flavor over cinnamon, rather than that you should stop feeding people shit (and also stop feeding them lutefisk.)