This to me feels like a rift between the generations. I’m too old to likely ever trust these things to function without concern of what they will do. Folk older than me tend to excessively trust this type of tech and the folk younger than me seem the same. In my mind it creates a break between those in the ecosystem and those that are not. Like how a bunch of places in my town don’t have websites but do have Facebook pages for their business. I don’t have a FB account so it’s a pain for me but no one else seems to mind. It’s kinda weird being the generation that helped usher in the internet and modern connectivity yet being kinda left out of tech ecosystems (by choice or by exclusion).

I’m guessing that 7% of people have had an affair.

But if the US is the one blockading, those countries sending and receiving oil from the gulf will be blaming the country actually implementing the blockade which is now the US instead of Iran.

I’ve been reading these articles for about an hour now trying to figure out the plan. So, Iran blockades the straight and disrupts trade but starts letting some ships through and may be requiring toll payments. Not good but slightly better than nothing. The goal is to open the straight so the global economy doesn’t completely melt and the solution is to blockade all traffic in the straight? The means all traffic from US allies and adversaries. Now, the straight is being blockaded by essentially the US and Iran so no ships go through at all. What’s the plan? Keep it closed for what purpose? Does Trump think the US can ramp up oil, natural gas, and refining to plug the hole in the energy market? Is that the plan? I can’t see anything else making sense.

Like yeah, that post was obviously insane, unhinged, and just flat out immoral…but could you imagine if he used Dijon mustard?

Combat the minefield with a fork bomb. Ain’t no process surviving this engagement.

LOL that was my exact thought. If it were easy, you would be doing it to say you did it.

Wow that is sad. I hope he went peacefully. We could all argue that there was more he could have done or that he could have moved faster, etc….but at the end of the day he fought the good fight and should be remembered as someone who stood up to fascism. I hope he went peacefully.

“We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need.”

I thought the US already destroyed 100% of the Iranian military? If I were an ally, it would sound to me like the help is not needed as there is no military remaining to fight.

I saw a documentary talking about a Destroyers layered defenses but those layers become less effective when threats are closer and that straight is pretty darn narrow. Maybe they will be fine but wow is it a risk.

I don’t see how we can escort ships without coming under fire. There are going to be hits on US naval ships. The straight is pretty narrow which means that Iran can fire missiles and drones from inland and still be in range. Short of carpet bombing the entire coastline up to like 20 miles inland, I don’t see how this can happen without a serious risk of a US naval vessel being sunk.

Ya got me curious on what would be on that list. I got nothing coming to mind.

It’s like we as a county are playing a game of, “locate and find the worst of humanity and put them in public office “

Are they paying directly for the space wall or are we collecting via tariffs again?

Maybe they are secretly building a super efficient and expansive social safety net behind our backs and making it a surprise!!!

I realize now that I will not make it in the post apocalyptic world. Probably taken out by a staph infection or something else currently preventable like a bad tooth or something.

Dude opens a trench coat lined with 16gb sticks of DDR4.

I’m so confused. Can someone explain this one to me? It just looks like someone is playing a phone game or DS or something. Don’t people play phone games still or is that the joke?

They’re just going to vibe code it in React with NodeJS

It would just be gibberish and something about purple hair.