OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
I've posted here often enough and have been honest and genuine. Sometimes the weird niche forum really does attract the upper class investor, two doctors, and other crazy weirdos like the weird gal who talks too much about parenthood and has been on more than the average number of long road trips and all that comes from that. I posed on here a few months ago that I would have loved to be a truck driver, so an anecdote about a road tip is pretty on brand for me.
I also verified just now that my husband remembers it the same as I do, that he does also think I saved our lives that one time which is why he's trying to be patient for all the other times.
I can't show absolute proof though so whatever. For what it's worth, I don't think my comment "contradicts the generalization." I openly admit that I have interrupted my husband on many more occasions where it wasn't so helpful.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
True, and I really do try to hold in my gasps and dismay. But there is some level where I can't help myself, it's an instinctual reaction to seeing things coming at you 60+ MPH. I wonder if there's some correlation between women being bad at throwing/catching fast balls and backseat driving.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
Thanks, I deleted the other one.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2d ago
One time I legitimately saved the lives of my whole family on a long trip.
We were on a highway in the mountains of Oregon, there was a "Lane Ends" sign my husband didn't notice. I saw our lane was ending and there was another car in the lane we needed to get to. I held in my, "look!" until what I thought was the last second. But it really did seem like my husband wasn't paying attention and was either going to drive us off a cliff or hit the other car.
So I spoke up, my husband braked enough that the other car got ahead, we moved behind them, and we survived. My husband confirmed that he hadn't noticed what was going on, vindicating my speaking out. We took it as a signal to stop for a rest and swap drivers.
For this one single useful time I actually possibly saved my children's lives, there have been about 100 other times where he was perfectly in control of the situation and all I did was annoy him, cause him to brake unnecessarily, etc.
I realize I'm not really good at this. A 1% effectiveness rate is very dismal. But! Considering the costs of not speaking up the one time when you really could have prevented an accident, it's better to be oversensitive than under-sensitive here.
I think men are more likely to get into deadly accidents while women are more likely to get into fender benders? That might tip the scales somewhat, a man's fight or flight instinct doesn't go into overdrive when their woman looks like she's about to side swipe that parked car at the grocery. A woman's instinct kicks in when all parties are driving 75mph.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2d ago
I think Trump genuinely doesn't understand the least bit of Christianity. This is not to defend or excuse him. By itself a statement like, "The US President doesn't understand the least bit of Christianity," would have been a horrible insult just a few decades ago. Welcome to the new USA.
It's just like if someone from Japan shared a AI-Generated image of them being Jesus without realizing what they were depicting. Neon Genesis Evangelion gets away with using Christianity as an aesthetic, because it looks exotic and cool. Trump did something similar. I'm about as offended by one as I am by the other. I don't think it indicates a God Complex anymore than Hideaki Anno has shown himself to have a God Complex.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
4d ago
No, they didn't. The US offered to supply enriched uranium to Iran that is suitable for civilian use, a situaon similar to the UAE and Korea (two other nations that for various reasons have forfeited their ability to enrich fuel but still employ civilian nuclear programs). Iran rejected this - they want to be able to enrich their own.
Oman said, "Zero accumulation" which might be a trick of language. There is 0 accumulation if it all goes back into centrifuges. According to three other sources Iran had a 10 year nuclear enrichment plan which included:
- Completing the Khondab reactor (formerly known as Arak heavy water reactor)
- A number of other long-planned, never-built research and power reactors would be put into operation.
- Tehran demanded the ability to run 30 cascades of IR-6 advanced centrifuges and enrich up to 20% to support their 10 year plan.
Everything keeps coming back to the idea that Iran completely misread how serious Washington is being when they say, "No Nuclear Enrichment."
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
4d ago
All the sources I have seen say the opposite - the negotiations leading up to military action was basically the US begging Iran to just give up on the nukes and Iran saying, "Nope, I'd rather die."
Laurence Norman, WSJ reporter in Germany, says, "My understanding comes from non-U.S. officials close to the talks as well as what Washington has said. This is what we have from 3 people."
Iran came to Geneva on Thursday with a draft text of a few pages as it had been asked. It did not permit the U.S. or others to keep the text. It was planning to do so Monday at the technical talks. But they talked through what was in it. But the draft text was not the key text
Attached to the text was a single piece of paper, which Iran described as its 10 year nuclear plan. The text was based around the idea that as Iran's enrichment needs expanded, it's enrichment should be permitted to expand. The paper set out an ambitious set of targets or expanding its civilian nuclear program. The new version of the Khondab reactor (formerly known as Arak heavy water reactor) would be completed. A number of other long-planned, never-built research and power reactors would be put into operation.
In order to fuel those supplies, Iran would need to run 30 cascades of IR-6 advanced centrifuges Tehran said. That's more than 5,000 advanced centrifuges. Iran would need to be able to enrich up to 20% to meet the demands. That is what Iran was proposing.
Let's compare that for a moment to JCPOA. For the first decade under that accord, Iran was permitted around 6.000 IR-1 basic centrifuges. For 15 years, its enrichment purity cap was 3.67%. In other words, Iran was saying the enrichment deal shld be weaker than the Iran deal.
I don't know why there are two such diametrically opposed narratives. I don't think there is any reason to believe the WSJ, which tends to be center left in the US, would try to run propaganda for Trump. I don't know what reason Oman might have to lie, except perhaps to increase their importance by making it sound like negotiations were going well.
Given Iran's past behavior regarding nuclear enrichment, I tend to believe the WSJ story as it is more in line with their past and present actions.
Even though I make an effort not to say anything, sometimes I will move my foot to where the brake would be if I were driving and push down with my foot, every time my husband isn't coming to a stop at the same deceleration I would have employed. My husband talks more than myself, and my 'backseat driving' is often more in the form of gestures, flinches, and gasps.
There is an element where I do think my husband is a more dangerous driver but he has said he likes driving and if I tried to become the primary driver it would be insulting.
He's gotten into four accidents that have required body work since we've been together, each one he has been found not at fault, each one I was not in the car with him. My record is 0 accidents. He drives about twice as many miles as I do. He readily admitted that he was spared a fifth accident because a rental company got him a Tesla and it did some nifty accident avoidance on him when he was about to crash someone in the highway.
This is a specific instance, but the data also seems to indicate men are more aggressive drivers. Perhaps you all deserve some backseat driving?
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