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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by zmgsabst on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:42PM (#49481126)
I don’t think it was intended.

I think that when you’re bombing thousands of targets, a 0.1-1% targeting error rate leads to dozens of unintended collateral hits (and thousands of civilians dead) — and is among the many reasons wars are horrific.

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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by inigyou on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:49PM (#49481252)
What if someone tells you it's an elementary school and you ignore them?
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by ModernMech on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:57PM (#49481378)
They hit the correct target. It's that although they could have, they didn’t check to see if it was a school first.
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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective by zmgsabst on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:58PM (#49485597)
They did — in the targeting database which wasn’t correctly updated with the new analysis.

That’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic mistake which gets exposed via wartime mishaps.

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