Americans are so liberal that they have like ten words for it and every mainstream political opinion is just a type of liberalism.

And no EU official will even protest US actions, because they fear Trump will leave Nato.

This is at the not-the-onion territory

While it would be based, they are not going to seriously accept Iranian ten point plan for any deal? They will take a breather, rearm and resupply and attack again during the negotiations.

I’m really starting to lean on the theory that this was not an rescue op, but a special forces mission to probably steal Iranian uranium. Explains why there were so many planes lost and why Trump is going apeshit rn with his movie villain monologue with deadlines. Why Hegseth also fired a bunch of generals, like gen. Randy George who likely opposed the idea beforehand. Trump is just obsessed on getting something over Iran that he could call a win and get a face saving option out of the war. Now his plan failed and he needs to double down.

it’s a good Friday

Kuwait is 90% reliant on desalination and it doesn’t have that many desalination plants. So is much of the middle east. iran doesn’t really need nukes to destroy and depopulate these countries utterly. Most of the middle east is both figuratively and literally built on sand.

Almost as if nonsensical brutal aggression with maximalist demands unites even the most fractured country behind it’s leaders and gives the hardliners legitimacy. The good old I might not agree with everything my government does, but I love my country more than I hate it’s government effect.

There are people even in high places who think scaling up production of like anything is just like pressing a button.

Oh, good.

Regime change status?

Blessed

X has 600 million users, Mastodon 9-10 million. Even if you assume 2/3 of Xitter are bots, that’s still 20x difference in reach. You should know that you and I are not “normal” for using Mastodon. A group of randomly picked people 9/10 will know of X/twitter, maybe 3/10 have heard of Mastodon.

Leave X for Mastodon

I hope they don’t phase X out, because that would be a social media suicide. Orgs, public personas and projects are not average users and can’t really care about personal preference or user experience, they only need to care where people are. They are there to get social media reach and just jumping out of Xitter would harm their social media presence and the project.

I would by some backdoored Chinese RAM right about now. I have nothing to hide. if it comes without US five eyes backdoors, all the better.

The Chinese could do some coordinated push to take marketshare if they have state backing and are willing to accept medium term losses.

And then they whine and cry crocodile tears because there was violence because of their (yet another) coup attempt.

Also what current consumer level application could require of storage 140TB. That would be some advanced level data hoarding or smth.

Isn’t syncthing for mobile discontinued?