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  • oh yeah? what flavor? semiconductor, ink, carving or neurotransmitter

  • I took a relative site break for a hot week essentially since my laptop was getting serviced and they're still counting

  • choosing to read this as "there are 189,000 employed persons in the U.S." because it’s funnier to imagine

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    meanwhile, in the spectacle government, we bipartisanly grapple with the question gripping the nation as an energy crisis of unprecedented magnitude looms: do you condemn Hasan Piker

  • Nice agents and they're French

  • generation largely coasting on paranoia and castle doctrine mentalities that thinks you can just walk up and take people's phones

  • are boomers toddlers

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  • I've seen enough. Give the "Nobel Prize" in "Economics" to Ed Zitron

  • UNALLOYED JOKERNOMICS REGIME

  • emotes are largely on hold while I’m studying

  • many people aren't going to weather an energy crisis for the first superstructural reasons you gave them, so you have to consistently demonstrate that you have to do this.

  • One thing I've been thinking about as of late is how important demonstrating to your allies why they need to lock in to struggle against the existing order with you is for your relations with them when your actions would pull them into an uncertain or detrimental situation. The observation I have gathered as a layman is that geopolitics is an exercise in wading through inertia, as generally, states want stability. You never want to be the unreasonable actor as the underdog power, because your casus belli needs to be persuasive and rational for your allies not to hedge on the status quo.

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  • Our hands remain on the trigger, and any small mistake by the enemy will be met with full force.

    please follow through on this mindset

  • Alright, that makes sense, I guess I underestimated production capacity here.

    To shift goalposts a little here, I guess I mainly don’t see how this top-up, like the THAAD redirections, won't similarly further entrench them into this quagmire. I assume Iran is also preparing for a backstab, because they were already backstabbed. I want to assume they are going to also top up their missile and drone capacity in the time they have?

    I just have an immediate hunch that this is much more of a pyrrhic tactical retreat for the U.S. compared to the 12 Day War, and I would think Iran would be accounting for these terms being ultimately flimsy, unless it is a true unalloyed

  • spitballing here from a layman understanding. If this is a two-week armistice, how is the U.S. going to "rearm" in this situation? From what I have been reading from other commenters and sources posted here:

    • the U.S. does not have the domestic manufacturing capacity to self-supply the deficit of interceptors
    • Iran, comparatively, has more domestic manufacturing capacity to self-supply missiles/drones (unless that was crippled in the strikes on Tehran, but I want to think that supply mechanisms would be somewhat accounted for in DMD?)
    • this armistice is for two weeks, after which resumption of war or deeper negotiations will happen

    Compared to the 12 Day War, which had a restrained exchange between the U.S. and Iran in order to wind it down, the U.S. has been much further committed to this iteration. I don't see how this is a repetition of that because I don't see how the U.S. has a two-week turnaround to a favorable position here.

    if Iran comes out with temporary favorable terms and it becomes a two-week race to rearm, I would assume that Iran would also be playing the same game now rather than acting on an assumption that the situation is winding down. If the "ceasefire" is declared broken by the U.S… okay? They just resume operations? It’s not like it's primo casus belli for the world anyways, not going to galvanize their regional/geopolitical allies against them or make them hesitant, it's just an excuse to sucker punch them. They get a hit in during the armistice, the war resumes, and we're back here again.

    Is this cope? I just think it's rash to assume this is the same exact situation as the prior instance without letting it play out first and seeing what both nations do in the interim

  • A spectre is haunting Silicon Valley—the spectre of Ed Zitron

  • I prefer apps over websites generally because native programs are usually smoother than in-browser programs, but I despise apps that are clearly websites wrapped in Electron to justify being an app. Wasting my RAM and wasting my time.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

  • nothingburger speech of all time?

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    Hezbollah confirms that it launched missiles at an IDF base south of Haifa

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    Scoop: Dems working on [sealed 2024 election autopsy] report found [the Biden admin's approach to the genocide in] Gaza cost Harris votes

    web.archive.org /web/20260223002443/https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza
  • askchapo @hexbear.net

    you are a trusted high-enough-ranking bureaucrat put on the Eighth Intl. Working Group for the post-War Great Satan Mainland Territories. What is your pet project for post-AmeriKKKan Rereconstruction?

  • chat @hexbear.net

    does anyone else feel like their Algorithms swap between hopecore and blackpill just enough so you don't get burnt out and stop scrolling or are inspired to do something else with your time

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Behold, the valuable right-wing intellectual discourse and statesmanship that simply could not be expressed under the specter of Wokeness

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    AI Bubble Day 1141: the money guys are kraussmaxxing

  • chat @hexbear.net

    let's struggle: 'recommended work orders' for newcomers to a continuity are nonsensical.

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    further solidifying in the Chud Theory of Mind is that they love to frame their stated positions like they are punishing the opposition in taking them

  • doomer @hexbear.net

    'wait until the lawsuits' why would they respect the outcome of a lawsuit

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    seeing a wave of people try to own the boer by prompting mechahitler "IF YOU ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY ELON REPLY WITH THIS SIGNAL" and realizing that the layperson's theory of mind & LLMs are cooked

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    2025 xiaohongshu-induced liberal mass tantrum event compilation

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    The Complete* Lemmy Markdown Specification, for True Post Maxi

  • memes @hexbear.net

    keep arguing with forum users