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Science, History, Speculative Fiction, Books, Seattle sports. Working on my first novel. 37 year streak of not accidently doing a Nazi salute.

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To be clear - none of this should have ever fucking happened. Trump canceled the nuclear deal. Then believed Bibi's lies (he's been saying Iran is weeks away from a nuke since 1992).

And now a bunch of school girls & a thousand other Iranians are dead. And more will die.

13.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine a scenario where there's no law enforcement & someone killed your dad, wife, and child. They live in a well defended compound but you *know* where they live.

I don't care if it takes 3 decades; I would figure out how to kill that person.

13.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The shitty fucking thing is once we started bombing we forced ourselves into having to send troops in. At bare minimum we killed the new Ayatollahs dad, wife, & one child (& possibly his mom & sister) & personally injured him. Building a nuke or dirty bomb isnt hard. We have to topple the regime now

13.03.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There's actually evidence Orcas might be eating other types of Orcas in the PNW that just came out. We've long known Orcas eat dolphins

13.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this like... some dollar store captain america shield shit?

13.03.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine a scenario where there's no law enforcement & someone killed your dad, wife, and child (& some reporting his mom & sister as well). They live in a well defended compound but you *know* where they live.

I don't care if it takes 3 decades; I would figure out how to kill that person.

13.03.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

To be clear I don't think we should ever have had to put boots on the ground in Iran.

It's just the idiots created a situation where if we leave the regime in place it could end up being much worse than swallowing the pain now.

Trump probably won't do it, but he probably should.

13.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

He's talking about nuking them & yes, we could glass Iran in about 15 minutes. We'd have the blood of 10s of millions on our hands, but we could.

12.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

He doesn't think about *anything* besides the lie he's going to tell over & over.

We have to put boots on the ground now & topple the regime. We killed the new Ayatollah's child, wife, & dad. Building a nuke or dirty bomb isn't hard.

We're going to wake up to so many dead americans one day.

12.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Obviously he's just making shit up but there *are* valid intelligence reasons not to arrest enemy actors - it's almost the last thing you want to do.

If you can't turn them, watch them & figure out their organization, feed them false info, make sure you have their entire network compromised, etc

12.03.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Italian Americans helping out the other Americans lmfao

12.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I kind of doubt the sleeper cells thing. Maybe... but Iranian intelligence has proven to be really inept the last couple of years. Israel appears to have utterly compromised them.

12.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not even arguing he wasn't trying to say MΓΌnchen, I'm just saying he obviously fucked it up.

I'd also be absolutely shocked if he was trying to say MΓΌnchen, but that's a different argument.

All I'm saying is he didn't pronounce the word right - it's not M-nuchen

11.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I understand. I've been to MΓΌnchen.

That's not how an American pronounces that word. He adds an extra "n" somehow and slurs it. He just fucked up.

11.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nope, no it isn't. At least not in American english. It's not even close.

11.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That still isn't remotely close to what he said

11.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The problem isn't the current government.

It's the citizens.

A population willing to elect a pedophile rapist, idiot twice just isn't redeemable. There are a lot of historical reasons for that (country build by slaves & manifest destiny). At the end of the day, it isn't fixable in my lifetime.

11.03.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We're not on the brink of WW3 (probably) but when you look at WW2, a lot of historians date the start to 1931 or 1937. Due to Trump's actions & general failure of American foreign policy, I'll be pleasantly surprised if WW3 hasn't kicked off within 10 years

11.03.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're Iranian leadership and you watched your dad get killed and 160 school girls massacred, why wouldn't you get a nuke? (also, would you do it just for revenge?)

I *almost* think we have to put boots on the ground now or we're going to wake up to 9/11 times a thousand.

11.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If anything square stole from bioware

11.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bioware didn't crib shit - they made the first two Baldur's Gate games, which had an even more advanced version of the gambit system. You could literally write scripts and have them execute on your characters. If you couldn't write scripts you had to use preset behavior but there were a lot of them

11.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why I canceled my NYT subscription during Trump 1. They're not actually journalists trying in good faith.

They're propagandists trying really hard to disguise themselves as journalists.

There are no journalists at the NYT. All the real journalists left a long time ago.

10.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Michelle Obama is probably the only woman with a shot & she's not interested

10.03.2026 05:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The violence always returns to the metropole

10.03.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His HoF induction speech led the Ms on a crazy run. Also, pretty sure he helps the players out w/ batting cause he loves baseball so much he just chills at the stadium & hits balls

10.03.2026 04:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Orange 6 month old kitten hiding behind some blinds bc kids going crazy during the superbowl were running around looking for him

Orange 6 month old kitten hiding behind some blinds bc kids going crazy during the superbowl were running around looking for him

His name is Queso (he was scared at the Superbowl because 8 kids were running around trying to play w/ him - but he did really good - just needed a temporary reprieve)

10.03.2026 03:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it means someone used AI & didn't double check the message before sending it to production

09.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what happens when you found your entire military on terrorist organizations dating back to mandatory Palestine.

08.03.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The details likely being how to set him up in a bunker somewhere

08.03.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Supposedly we're moving the one we keep in South Korea to the middle east.

We can only produce our interceptor missiles @ a rate of like 6 or 7 a month. The Iranians can produce their ballistic missiles @ like 2 dozen a month (though presumably we've been trying to destroy that production capacity)

08.03.2026 07:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0