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If we nuke Tehran and aren’t turned into a true pariah, then all bets are off. Russia almost certainly nukes Kyiv. Which is just one more reason, among many, that it won’t happen.
If you legally buy a rifle with a 10” barrel & your friend jokingly puts a 16” barrel on it, can you legally switch back to the original barrel without notifying the ATF?
I honestly don’t know the answer.
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
If the Iranians/Houthis can damage the East-West pipeline, that will be a huge deal.
Gotta say… ‘Trump’s gonna nuke Iran’ is just a clever way of saying ‘I’ve wet myself & I can’t stop.’
I’m amused by the collective hysteria.
He still needs a reason to use them. He likes big explosions? nope. that was the 50mt tsar bomba >6 decades ago. Precision nukes are massive, but less than a mt. what would he target? Tehran? If he’s not stopped, what stops Russia & China from nuking Taiwan & Ukraine. You’re scared, yes. And dumb
a wish list dreamed up in a dive bar > whatever this saccharine angel food cake is.
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What reason is there to do so?
What would the societal costs be?
This feels even more like a lab creation.
I seldom look at bios, but this is the second time in a week that misgendered someone. Unfortunate and disappointing.
You might be wrong about him doing the poll testing, but you’re certainly not wrong about Shor.
how is shor related to this?
I think the only real issue is UI. My phone could clearly run OS 26 better than a NeoBook, but who would want that if the result is a bastardized interface?
It’s difficult for me to think of a policy that makes it easier for those who want kids to have them that doesn’t also create incentives for those who don’t want to have them.
The argument that the fertility rate is low b/c kids are expensive has correctly been beaten to death by research. We should ABSOLUTELY increase our support structures, but (standing alone) you still end up w/ rates below 1.5.
W/o getting into ‘should we’, I think it’s fascinating to think of how families & society look in a world where the fertility rate is 3 v. 1.5.
Whether you’ve kids or not, you’re surrounded by more children. But you also have many, many more nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts & uncles.
Culture shifts
What Ryan Grim said:
“DEl was an active impediment to the project of building a multiracial working class movement.”
What he really meant:
“multiracial DEl was an active distraction to the project of building a white working class movement.”
The number one threat of LLMs is probably to self-appointed, douchebag gatekeepers.
Proved your point pretty quickly. And he volunteered!
Sorry, no.
In the eyes of the attacker, yes. In the eyes of any sane person? There is no legitimate, rational connection. Simply reverse the circumstances: Claiming a direct connection w/ an attack on an Islamic center somewhere on earth b/c Hezbollah committed an act of terror would be insane.
No matter the efficiency gains, it’s not progress if someone, somewhere, somehow, might be inconvenienced. That’s basic socialism.
‘directly’
What kind of asshat draws a direct connection between a war between Israel & Lebanon and an attack on Michigan synagogue?
When your enemies bow before you and are offered nothing in return, that’s good.
It’s crazy that people are still posting this completely made up bullshit.
Time to start laying the legal groundwork for rejecting the legitimacy of pardons granted for official crimes as part of a conspiracy of which the president is a part
Some entertaining solutions for a stupid problem.
Exhibit A
Shaming & excluding people for being loudly & repeatedly wrong is good. Pretending all opinions are worth entertaining is one reason we’re in this mess.
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.
