To me the word has always had some bad connotations. When you mention Settlers one of two things come to mind. Either European colonials in Africa or America genociding native populations, looting resources and spreading colonial propaganda, or whatever these brainwashed Israeli terrorists are.

while I agree it might not be descriptive enough hence I like to use the term “occupiers”, the word was never neutral to begin with at least where I come from.

Btw the Arabic word for it originally meant to settle in but nowadays it became synonymous with invasion.

I don’t know about BBC but I’m sure international and western journalists have been killed or arrested before.

I believe whether this was to cover up something or not, Israel is using intimation tactics to keep eyes and cameras away from them. We have a saying in Arabic that goes “hit the one with the leash to scare the loose” basically you attack non-threatening individuals to scare away actual threats.

You guys are also forgetting that the Golan Heights since 1981 and recently southern Syria are illegally occupied by Israel and heavily militarized. Which has caused the locals to move away that of itself may be argued to be a crime. So if you wanna maintain opsec go ahead but not when the operation is about stealing land and harassing locals.

Sometimes it can even be a college course. I remember my first year in uni our TA had to explain how long division and unit conversion worked and I was like how tf y’all got into engineering school without basic middle school mathematics knowledge.

Yeah some time ago I used to respect these companies I remember when Google condemned the Egyptian government’s actions in 2011 and one of the very popular activists in the revolution was the head of marketing in Google MENA. But now the truth has never been more obvious to me. Individuals may or may not care but corporations will never care.

Well technically traffic laws and markings are intended for humans not machines if human drivers were eliminated the roads could be reconfigured to better suit self-driving cars. Same thing if you try to make a robot exactly replicate humans it won’t be that good but if you make a non humanoid robotic system that’s configured for automation it will be more efficient.

How long before AI runs on this?

Biological artificial intelligence would be very very creepy we are basically playing God here. It feels like creating another species so we don’t feel lonely in the universe.