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2 points·by pphysch·5 ay önce·1 comments

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pphysch
·evvelsi gün·discuss
> the us in its current form will not tolerate an existential threat to israel

It seems to be tolerating Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir just fine!

Imagine the different place Israel would be if it pursued Oct 7 as a criminal act instead of a pretext to commit genocide. Enormous strategic blunder by the Netanyahu regime. Israel would not be a global pariah state and it's entirely possible that regime change in Iran would have succeeded. But you are never going to regime change a people who know with certainty that they will be butchered/raped/tortured by their supposed "saviors" the Israelis. There is literally nothing worse than surrendering to Israel.
pphysch
·evvelsi gün·discuss
It absolutely does, it can simply choose to not bomb Iran after Iran enforces regulations on its (shared with Oman) waterway.

Bombing Iran for a month because Iran fired on 4 ships that were violating its SoH rules is wildly disproportionate and optional.
pphysch
·evvelsi gün·discuss
Opportunity for what?
pphysch
·4 gün önce·discuss
Cool. The pot is surprisingly small. Is the sauce in it highly concentrated or something?
pphysch
·5 gün önce·discuss
The recent real war crimes of the US-Israeli entity are only comparable to the fake war crimes they conveniently accuse their opponents of while carrying out the real war crimes.

For example, it's okay to butcher 160 Iranian school girls because Iran just butchered 100,000 innocent protestors in a single day (trust me bro).
pphysch
·5 gün önce·discuss
What do you think happened in Xinjiang?
pphysch
·7 gün önce·discuss
The fact is GingerBill or someone else could have kept the article up with enough money spent on the right PR firm that knows how to turn the Wikipedia knobs.
pphysch
·8 gün önce·discuss
> A CTO friend uses the metaphor of clearing two paths up a mountain. The left-hand path is quick and dirty, cleared with a machete and brute force—you do not expect anyone to follow you, you just hack your way through—but you make progress quickly. The right-hand path is a wider, clearer, paved path, and more substantial, but takes time to build as you go along.

This is a good metaphor and is more effective than the neologisms and acronyms of the rest of the article. The author claims a "middle path" but doesn't even connect it to this real world metaphor.

It seems the author is really advocating for the "left path", but only if you are a experienced programmer and with a sprinkle of QC. In the real world metaphor, this would be like hacking through the jungle, but making a little effort to ensure your path is visible to someone else, not unnecessarily dangerous, and makes pragmatic compromises (we will go around this cliff instead of bringing climbing gear or other heavy dependencies).

If you polled 100 SWEs on the example of 'skipping the JSON library and implementing de/serialization for a few objects ' and asked whether they thought it was a "left path" or "right path" solution I'm certain you would have a strong leaning to the left, and not a 50-50 that suggests a secret middle path.
pphysch
·9 gün önce·discuss
I wouldn't equate incel with manosphere. Manosphere is often hypersexual and about greed/consumption and being insecure and getting scammed, whereas inceldom is more hate-based.
pphysch
·9 gün önce·discuss
The Associated Monopolies of America.
pphysch
·9 gün önce·discuss
There are millions or billions of quadrupeds surviving on 3 legs every day. 4 legs is evolutionarily superior to 3 but 3 gets the job done, especially if you don't have to worry about agility or repair.
pphysch
·10 gün önce·discuss
Manosphere content is toxic and harmful but the hyperviolence and desensitisation of the former should not be downplayed. That's where the mass shooters evidently come from.
pphysch
·11 gün önce·discuss
Everybody knows which country AIPAC is loyal to, and it's not the USA. The bad faith arguments undermine your hasbara.
pphysch
·11 gün önce·discuss
AIPAC is just the most well-known and representative entity in a large constellation of a hostile foreign lobby that has somehow avoided accountability under FARA.

Qatar didn't spend 9 figures getting Trump elected, but an Israeli gambling magnate did.
pphysch
·16 gün önce·discuss
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pphysch
·17 gün önce·discuss
I thought the whole point was that the reactor would deliver heated water to the surface for utilization...? But it will magically stop trying to do that if the main shaft is obstructed and there is a separate egress?

Or are you also burying the turbine and power lines a mile deep?
pphysch
·17 gün önce·discuss
Kinda like how the USA respected the previous elections in Venezuela?
pphysch
·17 gün önce·discuss
I'm not talking about elections that far right lunatics* allegedly win by 1%. I'm talking about what happens after.

* Colombia's new guy boasted of strapping fireworks to cats, and married his wife when she turned 18 and he was almost 30.
pphysch
·17 gün önce·discuss
It's way too early to declare total victory. US also swiftly deposed Chavez, but Chavismo came roaring back.

Maduro himself is unlikely to escape his abduction, but the actual power structures and grassroots opposition to Washington's totalitarianism remains across LatAm.
pphysch
·17 gün önce·discuss
Seismic activity collapses the well, trapping the nuke underground, pressure find a way to escape via polluting a "faraway" aquifer, or it doesn't escape and you have a man-made volcano in the works