I highly doubt that Iran would attack the US directly - the most they would do is cyberwar

the US has the military power to force Farsi to become a dead language, and I don’t think the Iranian government would want to mess with force that powerful like that

I think what your seeing is probably a bunch of coincidences, there’s other explainations for that stuff you listed, like trump replacing govt workers with his own or wanting more deregulation for power plants.

I wouldn’t worry too much of a threat like that from Iran.

I remember that

in some sense everyone reading this is rich on the global scale of wealth

betting markets that try to predict the actions of a single person are so rigged and people shouldn’t put any money into them unless they want to influence the persons decision

like if there was a market where people were betting if I would say a given word one day and the odds were 99%-1%, with the 99% being that I would say it, I would bet on the 1% that I wouldn’t, and then not say it. in this way those people who bet that I would say it, they were actually paying me in a sense for me to not say it

betting markets that try to predict the actions of a single person are so rigged and people shouldn’t put any money into them unless they want to influence the persons decision

like if there was a market where people were betting if I would say a given word one day and the odds were 99%-1%, with the 99% being that I would say it, I would bet on the 1% that I wouldn’t, and then not say it. in this way those people who bet that I would say it, they were actually paying me in a sense for me to not say it

average .ml take

IrAn DoEsNt EvEn WaNt NuKeS

nuclear powers can still have wars between them

think India vs Pakistan

Is Iran having a nuclear weapon worse then Trump having acces to a nuclear weapon.

that’s a dumb questions and I’m gonna be blunt about it

it is clear that the US will not use nukes on a country because of MAD - mutually assured destruction, if they also have nukes then both sides will suffer vast loses, making nukes an unthinkable option. However the extent that MAD would affect Iran’s decision making remains unknown, because using suicide bombers isn’t a new idea for them.

yeah that makes sense, like a math proof

2+2 is a fact

In some sense, if every single human thought that 2+2 equaled 5, it would become true

(I’m not smart enough to come up with this lol, got it from Orwell’s 1984)

I think this applies to vastly more of us than are comfortable admitting

well this sorta makes sense

with all that stuff Ukraine managed to pull off, domestic drone terrorism is probably something the thinktanks already thought up, calculated the risks of, and told the guy to do something about

probably

no one in the private sector was gonna take that kind of risk for a while and then SpaceX took the gamble, won and now tons of players see vertical landing of rockets works so their all looking into it.

well Honda did this a decade later so there still is some achievement spacex has done 🤷

I’ve got a really good feeling that if sanders were president, and he was selling merchandise, using his position as POTUS to advertise for it, and said it was made in the us while its raw materials were made elsewhere, you’d be fine with that

I’m no fan of trump, but this isn’t an overreach of power nearly as bad as you say it is. its not the job of there potus, but its also not harmful

is a president selling merchandise while in office corruption? because if you think that isn’t, then this isn’t

no problem!

he’s just selling something that his followers will buy. no one else really cares to.

your logic could be even more effectively applied to him selling merchandise about him and that isn’t an overreach of power in any way

bc of a phone 🤦

I’m not even disagreeing with you, but listen to yourself.