dr_analog
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
23hr ago
I consider it a revealed preference that Iran is willing to plunge themselves into darkness over pursuit of nuclear weapons. It's fairly clear that they can resist insurgency and invasion just fine without them and that they would be a lot less isolated if they weren't pursuing them, but they persist. They could have security just fine without them: they're not in Saddam's or Gaddafi's position, the IRGC survives despite decapitation. Their territory is huge and difficult to conquer.
They want nuclear weapons to service their global Islamic Chuddist revolution.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
So if Iran doesn't want nukes then why is giving up enrichment such a deal breaker for them? They'd rather apparently be all killed than negotiate on this.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
To believe in US defeat you have to believe the US is so squeamish that we'll beg Iran to re-open the SOH and in exchange offer to let them build nuclear weapons with impunity.
Stabilizing the strait may be costlier than we would like and somehow we'll do this public good alone, as usual, but not as costly as letting Iran have nukes.
I casually mentioned during a group run today that we cured fatness (because they were talking about a future dystopian Wall-E world where everyone would be fat) and like each of the 5 people I was running with said something negative and shitty and propagandized about GLP-1s.
I almost said "it worked awesome for me I lost 35 pounds and improved my run dramatically after struggling with dieting for like 20 solid years" but decided not to say anything.
There's still a lot of GLP-1 racism out there.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
You don't have like a normal genetic counselor in town/city that your prenatal care person can refer you to?
I had high hopes given the premise and the buzz but the only Black Mirror episodes I enjoyed were 'Striking Vipers' and 'Hang the DJ'. The rest were too boring or dumb.
It's probably my fault.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
As an early Wolf3d, Doom and Quake FPS PC gamer I always kind of sneered at Halo as one of those console gamer things that were beneath a man of culture like myself.
Sounds like I missed out.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
Just thought you'd appreciate the irony of reflecting on this comment from 2 years ago given that SBF got 25 years while Ulbricht was set free.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
This is 2+ years now (so, a year late) and I'm not named RemindMe Bot but I thought I'd mention he got a lot more than a slap on the wrist. And considerably more than the at least 10 years I predicted.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
I was in a hot tub the other weekend arguing with a French man about politics while his wife was hopped up on fertility pills and flirting with every available man at the party, she was really into one of my best friends whose chest she kept asking to feel. The man argued with me that Trump's North Korea policy was disastrous, and I remember what North Korea was like before when they were launching missile tests every few months and nobody could solve that perpetual crisis.
So. Is the implication that people with the wrong political opinions are a bunch of cucks or what?
I mostly agree with your political assessment but this seems inflammatory.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
If I was a tin pot dictator I would find Trump extremely intimidating at this point
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
I'm not sure but I think the "problem" is we would be indifferent to Iran and at peace with them if not for Israel setting the agenda so even doing #1 and #2 were immense cost for us and to little benefit for us.
It was not very America Firsty.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
I suppose I'm in the minority to say I think it's good to establish the precedent that if we find negotiating with your leadership very annoying and the international community has little sympathy for them, we'll either abduct them and put them on trial in NY or blow them up while they're in their house.
Yes. I don't understand why we need to wait until they have 99% completed a bomb to take them seriously when they pony up to the negotiating table with their balls out and say "as you can see we have everything we need to build a bomb, including long range bomb delivery missiles; so, what are you going to to give us?"
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