Sam Ferguson

(Addendum: And no, I’m not that sad about those companies and the billionaires who run them hemorrhaging cash. But spare a thought for the lowly worker nerds.)

Again, not even close to the most important thing here. But more along the lines of "In case you thought this wouldn't impact anyone at home..." (2/2)

By the end of this week, the hojillions of dollars that American and European tech firms invested in infra in the Middle East is going to be a fucking memory. (1/2)

The cost of this one salvo could have covered the annual healthcare costs of some 200+ American families.

This is the most fucked I've seen anything be fucked in a really, really long time.

There aren't many things in government that you can do without a plan. But starting a war of regime change in the most complicated region in the world is the thing you most can't do.

Small potatoes compared to actual lives lost, but if the average American thinks this won't impact them, they're very wrong. (3/3)

From supply chains to the global Internet, our modern world is a fucking house of cards and the Iranians are gonna knock out as many cards as they can and hope they hit something that hurts (spoiler: They already have.) (2/3)

U.S. leadership got very fixated on the "American military v. Iranian military" part of this equation, and forgot how badly the Iranians can fuck shit up for the global economy even if they can't go toe-to-toe with our military. (1/3)

Amazon's cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center Amazon's cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily after objects struck the facility, triggering sparks and a fire.

Well, shit.

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It, uh. It is very much his job.

Sam: {precisely 18 seconds later} "I should tell the Internet, tho." (8/8)

Sam: {picks up hoodie and puts on correctly, heads back to desk} "Boy, I'm glad nobody saw that." (7/8)

Sam: "What the fuck is happening here?1?" {angrily removes hoodie and throws to ground} (6/8)

Sam: {in process of correcting backwards hoodie, again sort of half-removes t-shirt} (5/8)

Sam: {fixes t-shirt, manages to get hoodie rightside-up, but now it's backwards} (4/8)

Sam: {in process of correcting upside-down hoodie, sort of half-removes t-shirt} (3/8)

Sam: {puts hoodie on upside-down} (2/8)

A rare post today that's unrelated to The Ongoing Horrors!™

This exact sequence of events just occurred in domicile: (1/8)

What’s wrong, Congress? You’ve barely even touched your checks and balances

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

Pete Hegseth: "The War Department will not be distracted by democracy-building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change…and feckless nation-building."

Note to Democrats: “We will deliver every one of these assholes to The Hague with a fucking bow on each one of their heads” is the new bare minimum.

It feels like Trump’s finally realized that nobody’s going to give him a Nobel Peace Prize, and he’s somehow under the impression that he can go for a Nobel War Prize instead. Can someone let him know that there is, in fact, no such thing?

Also, also: Not even close to the most important thing here, but “Operation Epic Fury”? The trend of U.S. military operations being named by what I can only assume is a half-dozen ‘Call of Duty’ bros in a sack continues.

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

But also, to underline what I said earlier: No government involved in this new war of choice can be trusted to tell the truth. So who knows? Either way, you can't bomb your way to regime change. Anyone who's been alive for the last 30 years could tell you that. (2/2)

Iran latest: Netanyahu says 'growing signs' Iran's supreme leader Khamenei is 'gone' after US-Israel attacks When asked about reports that Iran's supreme leader is dead, Donald Trump reportedly tells NBC News:

Even if it's true that this genuine high-grade asshole is dead, the end result will either be someone even more hardline than Khamenei, or even worse — a power vacuum leading to a civil war that will make the one in Syria look like a fucking puppet show. (1/2)

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