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[–] 103 points 4 months ago (1 child)

We're all cool with that. Go nuts.

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  • [+] 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    So what you are trying to say is that the leadership in Iran is using their brain cells and the USA leadership isn't

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah Iran has been preparing for this for decades and it absolutely shows.

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    cellular command structure, complete control of the straight with an army that has 1/100th the budget, less than a quarter of the naval fleet of the US, 1/30th the airpower, and has hardly any support in the region compared to pretty much all of europe and the Middle East actively providing support to the US. The U.S. has claimed multiple times it’s stopped Iran’ss ability to fight and that hasn’t been true a single time.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Bro the Iranian navy isn't a quarter of the naval fleet power of a carrier group much less the whole US Navy

    Naval comparison gets a little tricky but the best simple statistic is tonnage or you get silly things like Coast Guard speedboats counting the same in the comparison as a modern destroyer.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    They're bashing millions of dollars in equipment with tens of thousands of dollars in equipment. There is absolutely positively no way for them to win the war but they can make it so prohibitively expensive as to be untenable. That's the only strategy that ever worked against imperial armies.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    No im sorry this sounds too much like strategy.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I'm glad I'm not the only one whose mind went here.

    Now I can safely point out that destroying the Stargate would have terrible consequences. The naquadah power source would take out a significant chunk of real estate.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no. Don't. Not Open AI. Sam Altman is such a cool dude. Just don't also blow up beloved Jared Kushner at a meeting with his bribe fund too. Or, finally release the Epstein files. All those things would be terrible. Just leave the AI alone. I need RAM prices to be absurdly high otherwise I'll have fun.

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    I have to say, somehow I missed where openAI was building this until the war news.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah same, I kinda just thought they were building it in Texas or something. But apparently, its being built in Abu Dhabi

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    That’s because it was announced as a US AI infrastructure project that would generate jobs in the US etc. They started looking into other locations really quickly. But I guess a lot will still be in Texas.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Hot damn. Dont threaten me with a good time!

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Oh come on Iran, there's like only 3 places DT is always at.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    The allies, in WWII had a similar choice. They decided not to kill Hitler. At that point he was making enough mistakes that his replacement would be sufficiently more competent to outweigh the benefits.

    Right now, Iran is a quite limited war. Going after trump would massively escalate it. Iran doesn't want mushroom clouds over multiple cities.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    Interesting concept. Large countries are controlled by wealthy people and corporations, but even a small country has more resources than many larger businesses. So, a small country can threaten businesses that control a larger country in order to influence the larger country.

    So, there are two outcomes that I can see. Either the larger country is played by the smaller country, or the larger country pays even more to the business, causing further inequality and dissatisfaction among the masses. Or I guess the large country could abandon the business. So that's three obvious possibilities.

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    Oh no, please don't. I'll be really mad

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    When Money is the controlling power of a nation (even when the political façade of that nation is Democracy) it makes sense for those the power controlling the nation attacks, to respond by going after Money.

    By the way, this doesn't just apply to nations at war, but also to civil society groups within nations were the greatest power is Money.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
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    That'd be hilarious because they promised a bazillion data centers and barely delivered 3 and now 1 might get bombed.

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    Do it! Fuck AI

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I have been following this dude for a while now. He's a top tier troll. Best in the world.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    This whole thing is idiotic.

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