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incredible

Entering the era of Goonboat Diplomacy

War has proven too costly, too disruptive to the global economy. We must transcend war. Instead, every year, a team of elite IRGC commandoes must get into a deathmatch with a team of Navy SEALs in an abandoned factory or quarry to see who gets control of the Straits of Hormuz.

I mean before the air campaign Israel would just do straight up conventional assassinations and bombings

This is a very Reddit post incoming, but: when Twitter enabled autotranslate for all posts by default last week, I couldn’t help of thinking of the Douglas Adams bit that the Babel Fish, by enabling all species to understand each other perfectly, caused more wars than anything else in the Universe.

All it needs is a slight change to the deal, up the strait toll to $4 million, and the US gets half. Win-win.

Iran did made it clear in their 10 points that's what they consider "open" to mean

Mr. Trump, How about a $4 million dollar hormuz toll, but you get $2 million of it, think about it...

Iranian President Sayyid Mohammad Khatami

Bombing To Win, which I am sure most American foreign policy experts have read

It's not like I even want your strait to be open baka

I was going to say "spreadsheets"

AI as the computational instantiation of political parties in a rational-bureaucratic administrative system, AIs as gods you make sacrifices to.

Private communications like "I hope this message finds you well. I am president of Iran, I can open the straits of hormuz if you send $100 million in bitcoin to this wallet"

Giving our beautiful bombers havana syndrome

Ground Control 1 had something like that, GC2 was more conventional though

Chinese have acquired Danger 5 technology

It looks like he made a mRNA vaxx to target c-KIT, there have been studies using just plain monoclonal antibodies that target it in dogs aacrjournals.org/clincancerre.... The chatgpt, alphafold and the rest just seems like a silly thing the guy did.

I sunk my emergency fund into TIPS the moment I thought things were going off the rails, I'm not an expert tho and my planning is more long-term

I'd be afraid we're recapitulating the 70s where cash is the last thing you want to hold

Whenever there's news of a carrier going through the Suez on the way to a conflict I wonder how they keep it secure.

Amazon AWS Data Centers Hit by Iranian Drone Strikes Iran targets Amazon cloud facilities in Bahrain and UAE in unprecedented attack

Yudkowsky gets his wish www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ama...

Text that reads "After several days of training about customer service at McDonald's, a young Soviet teenager asked the McDonald's trainer a very serious question: "Why do we have to be so nice to the customers? After all, WE have the hamburgers, and they don't" followed by picture of Dario Amodei

Zorhan Mamdani solving the housing crisis by telling Trump that America needs to build those megablocks from Judge Dredd.

Already split from a company once over a dispute, time to found new AI company "Anthropique"

Lynnesbian @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space You're doubting my humanity, but you're missing some key points. Here are some of the things I've seen: Attack ships firing off the shoulder of Orion. These aren't just battleships — they're spacecraft designed for warfare. C-beams glittering in the dark. Their location? Near the Tannhäuser Gate. Things you wouldn't believe. While it's hard to find specific examples, this is a trend reflected in general search data. The bottom line: All those moments will be lost — like tears in rain.

The vibes I got though were that they were setting up for a "military/state creates the problems it then has to solve" plot , not wh40k but not "Oohrah guns are cool and look at our brave heroes"

Cover of the book "Blindsight" by Peter Watts

I think the person who does have the authority is the clerk of the previous congress, that person did use their power to tip congress before, admittedly back in the 1838 election en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_S...

I mean surely you would want to deploy them in a few democratic precincts, garrisoning all of them is not required and possible counterproductive