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More accurately, Israel was going to attack Iran, and US intelligence stated that Iranian retaliation planning was to target US forces, along with most gulf nations and shipping lanes, so US preempted that retaliation.

If the retaliation was preempted they wouldn't have retaliated, but they have. What the US actually did was provide justification for the retaliation against US bases in the region by joining in the opening salvo.

> If the retaliation was preempted they wouldn't have retaliated, but they have

Most of the retaliation was preempted but they didn't get all the missile launch sites. They have blown up most by today though so you barely see any Iranian missiles coming out of the country now.

If they didn't do the opening salvo you would have seen much more death and destruction than we saw now.


> They have blown up most by today though so you barely see any Iranian missiles coming out of the country now.

That's not true at all, the only reason we don't see any footage is because Israel is censoring it. Here is CNN last night admitting that they're not allowed to show you the impacts:

https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/2029173685563564407


Preempting Israel seems like it would have been a much smarter strategy.

Maybe you haven't noticed but they have not preempted anything.

That's quite a preemptive form of preemption! Was the US intelligence from the same source that stated that Iraq was acquiring "yellowcake" from Niger?

>We know, we had the Nazis.

Yes, I keep thinking about the bastion of free speech that gave birth to the Nazi movement. If only the Weimar Republic had anti-hate speech laws, perhaps the Shoah could have been avoided? Oops, turns out it did have those laws, and those very laws were subverted to suppress dissent.


I think tourer was arguing that the Nazis were a template for how to use speech restrictions to maintain power.

> While many other countries employ pay by QR code which is free.

In which countries is this service free? Alipay and Wechat are probably the biggest actors in this space both take a cut.


Child care.


that's not either

See the first row in this table: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/06075

Compare 2 adults (1 working) 3 kids to 2 adults (both working) 3 kids

First off, you'd expect it to be

     1 adult = X
     2 adults = X + X(0.?) 
Where 0.? is something less than 1 because 2 adults need less than 2x the money

Similarly for kids

     1 kids = Y
     2 kids = Y + Y(0.?)
     3 kids = Y + Y(0.?) + Y(0.?)
You'd expect 2 kids to be less than 2x 1 kid. And you'd expect 3 kids to be les than 1x + 2x 2nd kid. Each kid is cheaper for various reasons like hand-me-downs etc...

But instead, under 2 adults 1 working we see

     1 adult  = $29.31 (from one adult)
     2 adults = $41.83 (so X + X * 0.42)

     2 adults 1 kid  = 50.47
     2 adults 2 kids = 54.77 (so + $4.30)
     2 adults 3 kids = 63.97 (so + $9.19)
Why does the 3rd kid cost more than the 2nd?

Then you can also compare 1 adult 3 kids with 2 adults both working + 3 kids

     1 adult + 3 kids                 = $107.95
     2 adults (both working + 3 kids) = $55.67
Assuming that $55.67 is wages for each that means we're comparing

     1 adult + 3 kids                 = $107.95
     2 adults (both working + 3 kids) = $55.67x2 ($111.34)
We already established that above that adding one adult is only $12.52 a month yet here, suddenly that adult only costs $3.40 a month.

Again, these are nonsense numbers.


Is that the point? Seems to me that if US citizens abroad pay taxes, they should be entitled to US government protection from censorship.


> displacing any local population

Why displacing? Greenland is 3x the size of Texas and only 60k people, mostly concentrated around a single village.


Because there's absolutely no infrastructure where noone lives. For good reason

The mineral dream is a dream for a reason. Americans have tried. The Chinese have tried. The Danes have tried. None have made a profit, and none have kept up operations

But I'm sure the US will be able to do it this time. Afterall the US has someone with an acute sense of realism in absolute power


Nuuk is small but not really a village considering it contains thousands of people


My most recent Deutsche Bahn train was announced as being 3 hours late. I watched a few passengers leave the station to grab coffee nearby. The train arrived 10 minutes later, and left 5 minutes after that. The whole system seems broken.


>But the same will inevitably make you hating the capitalism

If anything, reading has made me recognize the cultural and historic universality of the problems folks attribute to capitalism.


Sorry, I meant reading books.


> You're arguing that "Black" is an identity in the US because the people thus identified share a common history within the US, even though their ancestors originated from different regions and cultures before they were enslaved and shipped to North America. Yet in the next paragraph you argue that "White" is not a valid identity, because their ancestors originated from different regions and cultures, even though they share a common history within the US. How do you reconcile this double standard?

The ethnic, cultural, linguistic, familial, etc., identities of enslaved people in America were systematically and deliberately erased. When you strip away those pre-American identities you land on the experience of slavery as your common denominator and root of history. This is fundamentally distinct from, for example, Irish immigration, who kept their community, religion, and family ties both within the US and over the pond. There’s a lot written about this that you can explore independently.

I’m not actually a fan of “Black” in writing like this, mostly because it’s sloppily applied in a ctrl+f for lower case “black”, even at major institutions who should know better, but the case for it is a fairly strong one.


The absolute mess that is US privacy legislation is going to undermine the US single market advantage. Truth is the big players don’t sell your data, they use it. Only small companies are hurt by this.


> Truth is the big players don’t sell your data, they use it.

No? Eg. giant telecom send me contract to sign with TWO A4 PAGES TO OPT-OUT :>> Guess half was about 3rd partys.


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