It is hard to understand why the U.S. cares about a random Middle Eastern country called Israel this much. Why not Zimbabwe or Thailand, but Israel? Weird stuff. I hope America comes back to its senses and stops dealing with these people.
In essence it's not about Israel itself, but rather that the US wants an ally in the region that they can use to project power in the middle east. Of course nowadays there's mutual interests and lobbying, so the choice for Israel is very much set in stone, but in another universe it could have been a different country.
It kind of made sense (strategic, if not moral) when we were a booming country very dependent on Middle Eastern oil in the last half of the 20th century and wanted to have a strong ally in the region. Makes less sense recently though.
Then perhaps Israel has surmised that the US might not be interested in sticking around and decided to make their play while they had an ally in the White House.
>It is hard to understand why the U.S. cares about a random Middle Eastern country called Israel this much.
Study the links between the American military industrial complex and Evangelical Christianity, in particularly the latter's view of Israel's role in end-times prophecy, and you'll get your answer.
You are getting downvoted, but you are correct. USA is failing in separation of church and the state and now it is going to have a war because ancient book said so.
Yeah. I think the instinct is "But that's batshit!" and like, yeah, that's exactly the problem.
To be fair to the ancient book, at that time it would have been understood by intellectuals that it's not a prediction of future events, it's a message to them about their past and present, not a message to us about our future. So us blaming the book, not the crazy people is the same mistake as if we were screaming at the author of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus". The author was writing fiction, the critics knew it was fiction, most of the readers knew it was fiction, the problem is that billionaire tech bro who thought it was a message from God telling them they need to spend $100Bn to create a Torment Nexus.
The Secretary of War, a Christian nationalist and white supremacist, has framed the war in Iran as a holy war to bring about the End Times. Many people in the government have said they consider America's military support of Israel to be an absolute Christian obligation. JD Vance and the President want to create a new Catholicism with blackjack and hookers and holy Zionist warfare because the Pope disagrees with them.
Excellent propaganda and god knows how much blackmail. Just look at the US cities lighting up monuments etc. to celebrate Israeli independence day. And this during a war the majority of US citizens don't support.
The American people are well on their way to this realization. The problem is in our government, media and executive class, which are fully Zionist occupied.
Same here. The single prompt burnt all my tokens in 3 minutes for the day. What happened to Claude in the last 2 months? I was happy with what they were providing and was happy to pay whatever for it. Why did they mess with it? Why are they destroying the tool we all loved?
I hate enshittification and I hate seeing this happening to Claude Code right now.
What level of subscription are you on? If you're complaining about running out of tokens but are happy to pay "whatever" for it, it should be Max 20x, yes? And one prompt drained all your tokens for the day on Max 20x?
I am on max 10x ($100 a month). I asked it to summarize a small codebase (2000 lines). Instead, it ran 4 agents in the background, and those agents went nuts, started reading everything and related dependencies, and sucked all my daily quota, forcing me to wait till 2 AM to continue using.
Up until last month, a $100 plan was more than enough, and it was difficult to run out of tokens per day for me. Something fundamentally changed, and Claude started making more mistakes and using more tokens. I know I am not tripping because I used it for over a year; this is absolutely new.
Agreed, and sorry for the snarky tone in my reply. The $100 / month plan is what I use at home and it has always been more than sufficient for something like what you describe. It does sound like maybe you have MCPs or skills that might be changing the default behavior as the other poster suggests, or the agent somehow interpreted your request as wanting it to read node_modules in addition to the code or something. In any event I hope you or Anthropic or both figures out what the issue was.
Maybe you need to clean up MCP tools? My codebase is very large (hundreds of files, hundreds of lines per file), and I am managing fine on a 5x subscription, chatting all day.
Some time ago I cleaned up a bunch of MCP tools I had installed some time ago and that did make a significant impact on token usage.
The IP rating will degrade the moment they bring it back. The jacks will either corrode or let water inside the phone and kill it entirely. Nobody wants to deal with that giant hole.
So Apple will skip the iPhone 18 replaceable battery? I will wait another year to upgrade my 7-year-old phone, but I wouldn't buy 18 if they don't include this.
More stars = More followers = More people interested and contribute. Even with fake, there will be more people joining the project because they are duped. Still though it is going to get more attention.
It is better than doomscrolling on Instagram for hours like the new generations. At least the brain is active, creating ideas or reading some text nonstop to keep itself active.
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