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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged on Tuesday that the Pentagon had not expected Iran’s ferocious response against its neighbors. But he insisted Iran’s actions were backfiring. “I can’t say that we anticipated necessarily that’s exactly how they would react, but we knew it was a possibility,” Mr. Hegseth said at the Pentagon news conference with General Caine. “I think it was a demonstration of the desperation of the regime.”

If Iraq decides to attack Iran's Kharg Island facility, Iran could reciprocate by attacks on neutral shipping or on the facilities of the non-belligerebt Gulf states, since Iran's goal would be to cut off Iraq's economic support. Three options Iran might choose to pursue in attempting to carry out her threats are. A. Mining the Strait of Hormuz or the waters of the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Oman. B. Mining coupled with interdiction of neutral shipping. C. Mining and interdictuon of neutral shipping coupled with attacks on the key facilities of the non-belligerent Gulf nations.

Hegseth: We didn't anticipate that Iran would respond this way.

US Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1984: We anticipated that Iran would respond in this way.

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Would it be possible to solve US problems without fucking up the whole world though?

Just asking.

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...

Interesting timing - in a week in which European anxiety over energy prices shoots up, European Parliament names Angela Merkel among the first laureates of the European Order of Merit

(the "Patricia Marins" one)

Please avoid reposting that propaganda account linked to a "person" that doesn't even actually exist.

Seriously that twitter account is 50% propaganda, 50% complete bullshit.

Probably responsible for a lot of people thinking Frankenstein is the monster too though.

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Well, I ain’t surprised but still more depressed

I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.

“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear In 2024, The Insider and its investigative partners at 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel uncovered evidence showing that “Anomalous Health Incidents,” also known as Havana Syndrome, were likely the result of...

“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear

@michaeldweiss.bsky.social talks to a CIA whistleblower who says the spy agency set out to prove Anomalous Health Incidents weren’t real or caused by a foreign adversary. Neither is true, he says.

sometimes I wonder if the people who insist AI can’t have some form of consciousness really just overestimate how much we actually know about the nature of consciousness. like, for reference, “rocks are conscious” is a plausible view on the matter that you can basically support as well as any other

Thinking again about how the names Arctic and Antarctica just means "bears" and "no bears." So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, without bears. Which is kind of ridiculous except that the fuckers were dead on

« De Gaulle n'est pas le père irréprochable de la résistance magnifié par des Français auxquels il procure le frisson d'un combat pour la liberté par procuration. Il refuse aujourd'hui d'arrêter une guerre qu'il a perdu et d'accepter la Paix du Général Pétain » (traduisons-le en juin 1940)

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor

You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆

Vous avez le lien? Ca m'intéresse.

Meanwhile I'm *extremely* glad that you guys are getting at least *some* feedback for randomly blowing up stuff and endlessly creating crises in other regions of the globe.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

1 Me: He froze like a deer in the headlights. 2 Deer: Okay tough guy, what would you do? Me: It’s just an expression. 3 Deer: No, no, no. You’re standing there, suddenly all you see is a blinding light. What’s your plan? I want to hear it. 4 Me, frowning: I would freeze. Deer: I fucking thought so.

This is one of my favorite comics we've made.

I'm sorry but... Who puts chunks of carrot in their salad?

Are they cooked? Uncooked?

South Korea faced an incredible amount of Chinese backlash to have THAAD deployed in the country, so much so that it banned K-Pop.

Imagine being Robert Gates and seeing the THAADs you fought tooth and nail to deploy in Korea be removed for no reason.

What?

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory”

this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

You know, I’ve been talking tonight with everybody I know in the energy industry about Iran, and to a man they’ve all now used the phrase “energy crisis“ now

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Bref, l'antisémitisme est acceptable dès lors que c'est ton pote qui en fait.*

CQFD

*Correction de la double négation.

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