Y’all just don’t get Trump, even after all these years? To his mind, there was no failure. The parade was a wild success. He literally cannot think anything differently. That’s NPD for ya.
OTOH, he can notice that there wasn’t enough praise and admiration. That is what is eating his skull.
There are engineers, smarter than both of us combined, that worked on these weapons. These are problems smart men have worked on for decades.
Given the expense, and rare usage, we only had a few dozen. How would you test such weapons? And this is key, without the intelligence of their effectiveness getting out. People are going to notice when you blow up fucking mountains.
In any case, we’ll gain some solid intelligence from this mission. Not that I supported it, quite the contrary, but we’ll learn a thing or three.
You are not smart for making fun of this thing. But if it makes you feel better?
It’s too damned useful. About every day I check Gemini and ChatGPT for a word or phrase I can’t remember, input some crap and out pops what I was looking for. I use if for a chunk of code I can’t get my head around. It’s the next Google and everyone wants a piece.
OTOH, I do see a sharp downturn in investment as things shake out. Like to dot.com bubble, there will be winners and losers, but you’re spot on. Investors aren’t spazzing out on every single opportunity. Still, gonna be some losers.
We can talk about the dangers of AI all night long, but it’s here to stay.
classified as ‘top secret’
leaked … by an anonymous, low-level loser
C’mon media. Ask the obvious follow up question. C’mon!
Are you under the impression that Iran owns the Straight? We just gonna chunk international waters and maritime laws out the door?
Iran has got jack for leverage. There is a binary choice here:
A) Shutdown the Straight. Get fucking wrecked by the US military, or a coalition.
B) Posture but don’t actually shut it down.
You don’t fuck with international trade.
The world’s militaries will turn Tehran into rubble before they allow Iran to crash the global economy. The planet runs on oil. You don’t have to like it, but you better believe it.
And we use a little over 20.
It’s nearly impossible to block any given countries oil. Too lazy to write it all up, but ChatGPT gave me sane output on the question:
You’re absolutely right — blocking a specific country’s oil exports or imports is extremely difficult in practice. There are several reasons for this:
Oil is a fungible commodity, meaning that once it’s extracted and enters the global supply chain, it’s often mixed, rebranded, or rerouted. That makes it very hard to trace its exact origin once it enters international trade.
Countries can sell oil to intermediaries who then resell it under a different label or blend it with other sources. For example, sanctioned oil from Iran, Venezuela, or Russia has been known to enter markets through such indirect routes.
Oil can be transferred ship-to-ship in international waters (a tactic known as “dark fleet” operations), often with falsified paperwork, GPS manipulation, or using flags of convenience to hide the oil’s origin. 4. Global Demand
Many countries, especially in the Global South, will continue buying oil wherever they can get it, especially at discounted rates. This demand gives sanctioned countries alternative markets.
International bodies like the UN or even the U.S. and EU can impose sanctions, but enforcement — especially on the high seas — is expensive, politically sensitive, and technically challenging.
Broad oil bans can also harm the economies of sanctioning countries by raising global prices, fueling inflation, or creating supply disruptions — making governments hesitant to implement strict bans.
Bottom line: Even with sanctions or embargoes, oil tends to find a way into the global market. Cutting off a specific country’s oil completely would require not only international political unity but also technological and logistical enforcement capabilities that currently don’t exist at the necessary scale.
EDIT: Y’all childish. “He used AI! FAKE!” There’s not a single falsehood in all that and it’s a complete explanation. “NO!”
Smart!? Can you not imagine what hell will drop on Iran if they go through with this? The world will not allow them to crash the global economy.
This is simple posturing. Money says they don’t dare try this. They’re threatened before, never done it.
I’ve noticed that everyone only sees oil from a personal perspective. If gas prices spike, every price spikes. On top of that, oil is used for 1,000 purposes apart from internal combustion engines. The shockwaves from the planetary economy crashing would be appalling. Here’s a tiny, tiny example:
Your city has a budget for mowing grass, parks & rec, all that. If higher prices run that budget out, the work simply stops. Multiply that by 1,000,000 other like cases.
An EV will only save you the gas station bill. It won’t save you from everything else that will crumble.
I’m betting it’s not happening. The collective wrath of a dozen militaries would drop on their head.
LOL! What in the world makes you think governments, let alone world leaders, are using the likes of Gmail?!
A more realistic fear would be the US forcing major social media to pull the plug on someone.
This has been planned for some time. Stop with the conspiracy crap. Yes, Trump does crazy shit to distract, we saw this the first four years. But making every crazy move out to be a distraction is plain bonkers and shows zero thought.
Know what I don’t understand? My wife watches YouTube in bed and I hardly notice ads. Granted, I have my ear plugs in while I read, but I’m not completely tuned out. Ads are rare enough that I’m a bit surprised to notice one.
When I watch YouTube on my PC, without a condom so to speak, fuck me it’s unusable. I simply refuse to engage until uBlock catches up.
All I got is that her content isn’t easily monetized? One one hand, she watching a lot of political news from the Philippines. OTOH, she’s mostly on those dumb crime shows where it’s all white trash confessing to the pigs.
As of this week, I can no longer watch in Firefox and have to go to Edge. Anyone?
YouTube was working at a massive deficit to capture video streaming. I didn’t mind them trying to “catch up”, but they’ve gone way, way too far.
Stopping is no longer an option unless Putin wants to crash the Russian economy.
So, an economic magazine writes about how war would affect the economy, and you people are outraged?
I’m old, so many may not relate. I remember when the big selling point of this newfangled “cable TV” thing was zero ads. Can you imagine that?
Yeah, I have Prime for the savings on shipping. Got the Kodi addon for watching Prime, never used it except to watch The Expanse a few years ago. Would have been fucking enraged if I had seen ads cut into that. Fuck am I paying for?!
Bingo. “Mission accomplished.”
“We killed you!”
“Not so much.”
Face saved all the way around.
And if you gotta fuck around, this wasn’t too bad. So far.