Pasha
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Pasha
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2d ago
Thanks I stand corrected. There is evidence of 1 bombing. I hope the army command will hear this news soon and not empty East Asia of all its standoff ammunition.
Pasha
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2d ago
I think the closure of the strait is rather exaggerated. The real threat is Iran quite clearly being able to blow up the fields/refineries/pipelines/ports themselves in a way that would leave the strait rather unimportant. By closing the strait they just got to demonstrate how quickly they can do incredible damage without anything irreversible.
Pasha
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2d ago
The US military has caused vastly more destruction to the Iranian leadership and military than the Iranian military has caused to the US leadership and military
Is there some mind virus affecting Americans that cause them to lose every single war since Vietnam in the same way? The point of a military is not to masturbate over KD ratios it’s to achieve strategic and ultimately political objectives. You can kill a lot of people and if you are still losing nobody gives a shit.
US left its bases because they are getting blown the fuck up every single day with no functional AD and radar left after about the first week. In an “existential war” they could indeed try to maintain those bases with gigantic casualties but that’s hardly a consolation is it?
Pasha
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2d ago
This link has a couple photos of planes loading JDAMs in UK airbases. No evidence that they are actually flying over Iran with it.
Given that by far the most bombing has been concentrated in coastal areas it’s quite possible that they have some corridors that doesn’t need standoff munitions. This was reported yesterday by the way: https://asiatimes.com/2026/04/us-diverts-jassm-er-missiles-to-iran-risking-deterrence-vs-china/
Whenever there is a big bombing run near Iranian cities we get a decent amount of photos/videos.
This is such a brain dead analysis. What’s the US military “dominating” exactly? What did they achieve after a whole month apart from killing a bunch of useless geriatrics? Every single US base in the region is either abandoned or is operating under routine fire and losing planes on the ground daily. The aircraft carriers are hiding behind the landmass of Oman and Saudi Arabia. Regime change is obviously not coming. Kurds are not rebelling. I have not seen any evidence at all that American bombers can operate over Iran without resorting to standoff ammunition (or well, getting shut down). Fantastically expensive and limited weapon systems for all of this nonsense is mainly being transferred from Asia-Pacific.
Unless Trump can pull off some incredible feat of deal making/chickening out and salesmanship, this is turning into one of the most spectacular military quagmires in modern history. The only consolidation will be that there won’t even be an option of US fighting China anymore so the world might become a safer place for it.
Edit: welp the whole discussion became quickly moot as team domination and lethality once again just gave up, seemingly bored of dominating. I thought I could stop having this idiotic discussions when the exact same thing happened in Bab el Mandeb pretty recently but not so lucky yet. Looking forward to the next round of domination
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11d ago
I have never met an international school kid who isn’t a turbolib. Half your suggestions are about shielding the kid from the racial underclasses, not from wokeness which is the English speaking world’s current elite ideology. You cannot shield from it by coming closer to the educated elite.
Pasha
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11d ago
Interesting. Peru in my experience is a much poorer country than its economic numbers suggest due to the nature of its mining wealth and extreme plutocratic capture. You do feel the difference clearly just being there vs being in other countries with supposedly similar gdp/ppp per capita.
I do remember that the lockdown started about the same days as in most of Europe and it was really harsh in theory. No travel between cities/provinces or abroad. Every store not selling food closed. Constant police harassment on the street. Double masking mandatory basically everywhere etc. But I was watching Peruvian TV at the time and I also remember convoys of thousands of desperate people walking 100s kms to go back to their home villages as they were destitute in the cities without work. And every other store reopened in a week and started selling some sort of foodstuff to be allowed to operate. Many locals were secretly still doing their professions. The amount of misery around was really palpable and sad. I believe a lot of lower middle class people survived because the government allowed dipping into your mandatory pension contributions, which of course will have consequences later on..
Also at the time I assumed the corona death numbers there had some relation to the general dirtiness/dustiness/dryness and high altitude of almost the entire country. Your lungs take a real beating just being outside for while, I cannot imagine living in a Peruvian city my entire life. My nose starts bleeding regularly everytime I spend some time on the street.
Pasha
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13d ago
It is funny that you bring up Peru. I have (thorough a strange set of coincidences) spent the first big lockdown wave in Peru for many months and nothing I have experienced later on in Europe (definitely not trivial) even came close to the intensity of the Peruvian lockdown. How do you know about this if I may ask?
Pasha
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1mo ago
What you are describing is just destroying the commons, and not that different than what the women hanging out in the gym semi naked and filming themselves are achieving. “Commons” here being the culture of both sexes doing sports together without the involved women being viewed as whores. The end game of your strategy is rural India or Middle East, where men are infinitely horny and treat any mixed space as a sexual harassment contest, so mixed spaces either disappear or are put behind strict class barriers and women are constantly on guard against any men around them in public. It sucks. Don’t do this.
Pasha
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1mo ago
I don’t think that’s true about female only gyms. There are many successful ones around me. Clientele skews Muslim but really not that much
Pasha
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1mo ago
It’s not wrong until they start getting uncomfortable. The point of uncomfortableness depends on a lot of variables such as local/gym culture, your attractiveness, what you mean by looking etc. Assessing this somewhat accurately is a skill we call “not being autistic”.
Women work out their hips as it’s the only muscle group they can keep growing and contributes to their attractiveness. Women moving their hips in tight clothing looks erotic.
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1mo ago
Doing keto was the only time in my life when I purposefully lost weight. But it is really difficult to sustain for me without having a lot of free time to meal-prep etc. Do you mean you weren't losing weight on it without also doing keto?
Pasha
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1mo ago
"Out of the Gobi". I never realized how much of an insanity the Chinese Cultural Revolution was. Reading the accounts of a teenager caught in the middle of it is definitely very interesting.
Pasha
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1mo ago
I finally did it. Arranged Ozempic with an online clinic after failing to make any starts with losing around 10-15kg I wanted to lose for years. Any tips and tricks from mottizens?
Pasha
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1mo ago
Naipaul's "Among the Believers" is definitely a masterpiece of that genre. Also, definitely read the Congo forum posts series OP has linked. It is incredible, one of the most hilarious and captivating travel stories I have ever read. Took me many days to finish though.
In general I think international travel after smartphones+internet is an experience almost unrecognizably different than before. Even if you opt to somehow not use the support of these tools, entire human infrastructure and culture is structured around them in even the most backwards places imaginable so there is really no escape.
P.S. If you want something entirely different, but stil fascinating, check out "Africa Addio".
Pasha
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1mo ago
I use claude code on a pretty big and complicated code base. The main use so far has been to make it possible the sort of things I would normally not have time to work on (i.e. CLI tool to make and certain packets with certain UDP multicast configurations. Wouldn't be worth the 1-2h I would have to put on this normally, but I can just tell claude and it is ready in a couple minutes), and "explain me this class/function/logic", "review code I wrote for possible mistakes", "find me examples of this pattern in this repo" etc. These sort of tasks, it has been really excelling at.
Pasha
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1mo ago
What sort of work do you do that lets you create small apps like this in a couple hours with only human attention being the limiting factor?
Pasha
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2mo ago
How do mortgages even work with 26% interest? I haven't been adult through anything but very low rates so not able to comprehend. Are the loans just very low duration? Do you see 25% wage growth as well?
Pasha
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2mo ago
Where I live, the mortgage interest payments are income tax deductible so I am basically on purpose not paying off the mortgage just to "benefit" from the sweet front-loaded interest payments. Talk about perverse incentives.
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3mo ago
This is indeed possible, "correctness" was one of the only openly voiced objections. Although I have never come across chatgpt using language wrongly, and it explains things much better than native speakers.
Pasha
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3mo ago
I just got severely downvoted with a lot of angry replies in a (specific small European language’s) language learning subreddit for suggesting chatgpt as a useful tool to explain weird grammar constructs and help with reading and study in general. This is just insane to me but also darkly amusing. I honestly haven’t realised or taken seriously the extent of reaction to this technology before. And after all the responses I am not even sure what these people are actually objecting to. I am tempted to ask chatgpt
No the obvious conclusion is that all those US forward bases are utterly useless in a real war and they are practically out of AD and standoff munition with no way to manufacture more. Hence: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/8/on-rare-china-visit-taiwans-opposition-leader-calls-for-reconciliation
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