U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

Can someone explain to me how the US military is still unable to distinguish pine nut farmers from IS Jihadi terrorists? Where is all this advanced military tech I keep hearing the US military is developing that people are mistaking for aliens?

The world's largest, most expensive military does not make mistakes. If they admit a mistake, it's to cover up something far more nefarious.

... Have you ever met anyone in the US military?

Every organization in the world makes mistakes all the time.

I’m assuming the grandparent comment is sarcasm.

Yes, someone can but you'll need security clearance for that.

If we assume this was not intentional, then the two most probable causes are human or technical or any combination of both.

A drone can't land, open Skype and allow an interrogator to speak with the locals in their language- it flies high, have limited visibility and the interpretation of the incoming data is based on prior intelligence.

If you look at the pictures you'll see that pine nut farmers looks the same as IS Jihadi terrorists, both use civilian clothes and sometimes they are actually the same person.

You mean, like Facebook “admitting” to a “bug” that “leaked” user data after they'd been caught red-handed?