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by flyinglizard 6mo ago
It's a thought provoking article and I felt the pain when I shopped around for a new GPU lately to replace a 4090 I thought was faulty (eventually a cleaning of the PCIe connector solved those crashes). I bought it at the end of 2022 a
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by flyinglizard 6mo ago
The article doesn't understand the real geopolitical implications at play. JCPOA was due to expire beginning in October 2025, so it was not a permanent solution. Iranian nuclear proliferation was closely monitored by Israel and others
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
In October 7th 2023, about 11% of the residents of Kibbutz Be'eri - 130 out of 1200 - were murdered, raped, tortures and/or kidnapped into Gaza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%27eri_massacre
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
You and both I agree that only violence will solve the conflict between Iran and Israel. They can't really coexist in the same sphere. May the best country win :)
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Do you think some evil military planners sat in the Pentagon, saw that school, said "let's shoot at it for shits and giggles" and pressed the button? Or are you trying to pollute a grown up conversation with sensationalism an
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
At the outset, he doesn't want to carry the burden of NATO alone. Maybe he has other strategic interests in mind where US deviates from the rest of the world (like Greenland) but he's entirely right that NATO really depends on the
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Since WWII you're living under the umbrella of the US, as client states. There was no reason Europe could not amass a significant military power that would grant its sovereignty, but money went to increasing quality of life instead. Tr
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
That's it? Momentary gasoline price is all that matters now? Not geopolitical interests, alliances, _Doing The Right Thing_? If that's the only angle you care about, then US subduing the Iranian regime would go a long way to de-fa
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Here's a kindergarten Iran attacked just today: https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/iranian-cluster-bomb-hi... The fact Israel has a very effective defensive system (active and passive) does not mean Iranian
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
More chances than not that you live in a country that benefitted from the American propensity to do the right thing, even at a huge cost to itself. Yes we have a different and more selfish America now, but all said, America still protects t
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
The disruption in gas supply will be very short. Weeks, at most. The gulf states will be very happy to see the Islamic Republic gone, they are living in its shadow for a long time now. Now, Ukraine and Israel need very different kinds of su
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
You can see by the Iranian violent reaction that’s spread far and wide over most of the Middle East countries about what exact kind of stability it brings to the area. Amongst the countries attacked by Iran now are Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Jord
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Sometimes the wrong people do the right thing for whatever reason and the war in Iran is precisely that.
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
No, Hamas was never funded by Israel. In this instance, Hamas was funded by Qatar, and the Israelis were complicit by allowing it. But it's also important to remember that Hamas is the elected sovereign in Gaza, and this money was used
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Nothing racist or exaggerated in Hizbollah in Lebanon having far more military power than the country itself, and taking orders directly from the Iranians, dragging Lebanon into a war it never asked for.
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Israel and Iran are involved in active hostilities for a long time now, direct or by proxies. Furthermore, US and Israel are making the case for a preemptive war with the advent of the Iranian nuclear program (whether you believe it or not,
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
In hindsight, from the perspective of the Middle East and Arab world in general: Obama’s tenure was a geopolitical nightmare, while under Trump’s first presidency the Middle East made a big step forward with the Abraham Accords.
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
International law being thrown around a lot. Seems like everyone is an int’l law expert, even though it’s quite an exotic speciality. So please go ahead and tell me, where does International Law prohibit a state that’s at war with another t
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
They all cite the same "Iranian state media" report.
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
That’s not even real, just bullshit used to influence public opinion in the West.
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Iran effectively controlled Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq through its proxies and puppet regimes. Right, it didn't annex territory, but it complete subjugated these countries and their population to their goals.
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
This is why I still haven't embraced agents in my work but stick with halfway manual workflow using aider. It's the only way I can keep ownership of the codebase. Maybe this will change because code ownership will no longer have a
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
When it comes to Israel, polling was always lower in younger populations, although yes - the trend worsened. Israel chose to trade popularity for having real geopolitical gains on the ground. Popularity could be won back later, but removing
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Yes, because "what choice did Iran have" other than: 1. Routinely calling for death to Israel and America, turning it into part of the national curriculum and sowing hate 2. Funding, training, supplying and directing multiple viol
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Anyone raising their weapon against Israel in the last 20 years was armed, supplied, funded, trained and directed by Iran. There’s a special division called Quds in the IRGC responsible just for that. The list includes Hizbollah, Assad’s fo
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
The concept of nuclear brinkmanship is part of accepted WMD doctrine. A country can maintain a fixed short interval away from weaponization for decades. It is widely accepted that Iran does have a military nuclear program; the amount of mat
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
One of the main reasons Iraq is like Iraq is the Iranian meddling and their proxy organizations which operate in Iraq with impunity. The Iraqi government is entirely subservient to the Iranians. As the recent wave of protests in Iran came a
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Seems like it’s a combined Israeli/US attack but Israel took the lead for the optics.
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Not the same admin (that was Trump as the 45th), but I don't see the argument you're making.
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by flyinglizard 7mo ago
Whether it's justified or not depends on what you're trying to achieve. If your goal is to deny nukes from Iran, then the war is entirely justified.

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