Giving Iran a good deal was Trump’s only option to end this and I am very glad he chose to do that.

Kennedy chose to escalate in Vietnam. Ditto Jonson and Nixon. Bush stared the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, then chose to do a “surge” in Iraq. Obama had a “surge” in Afghanistan if you remember.

The counter factual is not US got a good deal, but US started a catastrophic escalation that leads to tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths before the US agrees to a bad deal.

Obviously, attacking Iran in the first place was a blunder, but after that, TACO was the best deal America was ever going to get.

I think the proposition of avoiding American tech in general will become more and more attractive in the coming years. Governments are already trying to move away from Microsoft for national security reasons. That’ll have the knock-on effect of putting Linux and Libra Office in front of more people at work and school.

In combination with the advances in Linux gaming, This may be the first time since the 80s where the OS you’re first exposed to will be anything other than Windows or Mac.

You know how to use Windows, not computers.

I’ve been off Microslop for over a year. I’ve barely logged in, mostly to do updates. But I understand Windows better now than I did when I left. That’s because Windows will teach you how to use Windows, while Linux will teach you how to use computers.

That comment about the terminal is funny, because powershell is one of the best things about Windows 10/11. And a real Windows user would know that.

Gulf of long Florida.

Andrew is still the second most hated royal ahead of the black lady.

The command pacman -Qm will display every package from the AUR on your system. You can then search the list of compromised packages.

I’ve been reminded that Muhammad was a pedo like 4 times this week! WTF are you talking about? You and OP are entitled to post whatever, but you’re not entitled for everyone to celebrate bigotry with you.

It’s always so funny to me the way Western Islamophobs like to point out Islamic misogamy as though they’re not exactly the kind of people that Western women had to fight to get those rights.

You’re not only allowed to make your own meaning, there is no other choice.

My experience is that any object dependent on an app is invariably worse than the manual/old version.

they somehow detect willful deception, like people expect polygraphs to do, but with high accuracy

This technology is a fantasy. It relies on the false assumption that their are detectable, reliable, and measurable physiological differences between bodies that are lying and bodies that are telling the truth.

Polygraphs aren’t unreliable because the technology isn’t ready. They’re unreliable because the idea that you can physically measure a concept (lying) is logical fallacy. (reification).

The idea that losers abuse substances is the one of the dumbest correlation/causation mistakes. Almost as stupid as “black people are more likely to be criminal”.

This is a common experience. But before you listen to the gender war bullshit about how it’s just not fair to be a man, consider some of the other explanations.

I’ve been abandoned, and I’ve been the friend who chose the girl. And I’ve learned some important things.

1. it’s the couple who forces friends to choose. most people would keep both relationships, but people going through breakups are myopic and insist.

2. I chose to be friends with the girl because she was a better friend. Not because I was endorsing her grievances.

3. I can’t blame my friends for choosing my ex. I would have abandoned any of them for her.

We don’t understand how the brain functions. Neuroscientists know that serotonin has something to do with it because some drugs effect serotonin production/ absorption/ re-uptake and they also effect mood, but they don’t understand the mechanism.

Even the idea that consciousness and the “self” are located in the brain isn’t as well founded as you might think. It might be a continuation of the concept of “duality” where the body and “mind” are separate. Same idea behind a soul.

Anyway, we don’t understand consciousness which would be prerequisite to explain altered consciousness.

Everyone who eats animals or who “owns” one is contributing to the suffering and abuse. Animals are not a lifestyle choice. You shouldn’t own your friends.

I eat meat and have pets. I’m just tired of pretending that the vegans didn’t win this “debate” 40 years ago. All in a vein effort to spare my hypocritical feelings.

I don’t own a gun. It’s has nothing to do with politics. I’m a suicide risk; I don’t need a ticket to the bullet train.

The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn’t have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.

Billionaires and policymakers have AI psychosis and they deserve our sympathy and help. Articles like this are a psyop to keep them calm.

She reminds me of Tucker Carlson. Both were raised to prominence behind a more famous person being laid low. And both were felled in exactly the same way their predecessor was.

If all communism is soviet, then all capitalism is colonialism and chattel slavery.