93% of the comments in thread is dunking in the random lib’s comment chain.

What country should Americans who violate their visas in other countries be deported to?

It’s likely Iran will now have months or years to reinforce their defense.

I don’t know how they should address their internal security problems. Stricter movement controls, firewalls, surveillance, social welfare, affirmative action, federalization, seems like a lot to accomplish in a short time

For air defenses, they’ll likely need to look to China since Russia is occupied with Ukranian drones. For China, wouldn’t the value of being able to test their equipment (Their personnel as well if they’re discreet) to gain experience at running an air defense network against western 5th gen planes be extremely valuable, even more than the cost of the batteries they send? US retaliation would be sending more Patriots and PrSM to Taiwan?

Did you think something had happened? Rookie mistake, nothing ever does.

I don’t have any direct experience, but the CHUWI CoreBook X 14 gets pretty good reviews, and they make even cheaper laptops than that with similar memory and processor, but cheaper chassis and 16:9 screens.

“Diary of a madman” is a short story from 1918 by Chinese author Lu Xun. It describes a man who falls ill and begins to read Confucian texts obsessively until, to his horror, he can see the words “Eat People” written between the lines. It’s a timeless classic about the horror that comes from awakening to an unjust culture, realizing how all the pillars of your society have licensed it, and even your friends and neighbors are complicit in supporting that which everyone knows to be self-evidently wrong (Cannibalism, which the publisher notes reveal is not entirely a delusional hallucination or a metaphor, but an actual social ill taking place then)

The narrator continues to unravel as he next realizes his own complicity within soceity, but as foretold in the prologue, ends optimistically, with him resolving to struggle to build a fair soceity for future generations and finally recovering from his illness and leaving his village to serve as an official.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lu-xun/1918/04/x01.htm

I bet you look ugly, and if we listen to you, we’ll need to listen to even uglier people down the road.

Cuba had operational nukes on their soil, but they were still forced to remove them following confrontation with the US, so it’s less of a guarantee than some think.

None the less, I think Russia could’ve done a swap where North Korea provides nukes to Iran, and Russia provides an equal number of SL/ICBMs to Korea.

JK Rowling thinking of a name for the Imperialist’s bomber base: Whiteman AFB

they made a lot of changes, including Paul’s badass speech where he dresses down in order the Emperor, The Spacers Guild, and the Bene Gesserit. Chani doesn’t ride off into the sunset either, but apparently Zendaya couldn’t stand working with Chalamet any longer. Paul doesn’t accept being the Messiah until midway through the duel with Feyd he has a vision where even if he dies the Fremen Jihad will still happen and Feyd will become Kwitsatz Haderach, so I thought he was just accepting, if it’s gonna happen anyway, he might as well tie his personal ambition to avenge his house to them along the way.

Fortunately that audience only gets to hear her opinions for 30 minutes once every year or so

They should let the most bad ass doctors with the wryest sense of humor at the hospital wear black labcoats.

“Update, Day 1206-1208, We conquered 2 fields in the Insignifikanskoye direction (UAF stronghold with a population of 40 on the strategic crossroad of Federal Dirt Path T50301, and a game trail seasonally used by hedgehogs)”

what are the pros and cons of an Iranian preemptive strike? for what legality is worth, the hostile positioning of US assets within the theater with the openly stated purpose of a pending decision to attack clearly constitutes an act of aggression. What about the middle path of threatening preemption by giving the US an ultimatum to stop hostile deployments else Iran will decide whether a strike is warranted?

Had to read 3 different articles before I found even one which voiced the Cook Island government refuting New Zealand. Final section:

https://apnews.com/article/new-zealand-cook-islands-china-beijing-pacific-f0d0f8c4f844875515f37d26592dbfb3

extra hypocritical since the PM of New Zealand is currently in China, and annouced increased trade, obviously without ever consulting with the Cook Islands.

if it’s square kilometers, then in 4 years and 3 months they will occupy all of Kharkiv oblast. who is going to crumble first, Vovchansk or Iran?

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Libs Trump starts WW3 because he’s upset they’re calling him TACO for accepting the Iranian Ceasefire:

this probably wont be well received, but I think it’s pretty funny Iran chastizing germany for starting ww2 while also denying the holocaust. “Screw you guys for hurting so many innocent Russians… All of them. equally. faith agnostically”