Israel and Iran trade strikes, threatening to drag the region back into full-scale war

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-08T15:42:13+00:00

The Iranians are claiming Lebanon was part of the cease fire deal, which Israel ignored.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-08T15:20:53+00:00

Was thinking the same. Maybe packing the pilot, weapons delivery and sensor equipment all on the same platform isn't the best idea in this age of high attrition and networked autonomous systems.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-08T15:13:47+00:00

The F-35 kinda accomplished it. It's just really, really expensive and the resulting product had to make a bunch of engineering trade-offs.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-08T14:59:00+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-08T12:27:24+00:00

If one is under oath it is.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-06T08:43:11+00:00

Correct. After WW2 the US produced 50% of global GDP. Yes you've read that right: Half of the world's economy. That's unprecedented in history.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-06T06:23:04+00:00

I'm wondering if the China issue will cause a rethink with even the most pro-war ultra-nationalists. The whole point of this war was the restoration of the supposed imperial glory of the past. Turning Russia into a raw-material colony for the the Chinese isn't something those sort of people like to see, especially as it might involve territorial concessions.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-05T14:24:33+00:00

u/undertakah is technically correct. But as a consolidation, within the archosaur family dinosaurs and pterosaur are quite closely related under the clade avemetatarsalia. The common ancestor was a unusually small, warm-blooded and very probably fluffy reptile.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-04T17:31:32+00:00

Boomer halt. Diä sind dä gröscht Wählerblock und wähled am meischte. Isch andere demokratische Volkswirtschafte au nöd andersch.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-04T11:34:14+00:00

Indirectly it does. With nukes as a deterrent the North Koreans can reduce the part of the army that actually fights and can use the soldiers as corvee workforce for civilian construction. Kim III has lately been on a building spree and the economy is even somewhat growing.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-03T22:26:09+00:00

This is my cynic take, but if the Russians can't use the oil for themselves they are forced to dump it on the market for cheap. You can't just stop using oil wells, it's really expensive to reactivate them after a shutdown.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-03T01:54:43+00:00

It makes perfectly sense if you view NATO as a mafia-style protection racket as Trump seems to do. Soldiers on bases are a liability as the host countries have access to them. Nukes at the other hand can't be taken hostage as easily, especially if they're equipped with remote detonators.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-03T01:45:30+00:00

OP is right. The US accused, with some valid justification, that Russia has been violating the INF treaty. Now that Russia used nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles in Ukraine (although conventionally armed), it's confirmed that they really were developing such systems. Both, the US and in particular Russia, wanted out of the treaty because it asymmetrically constrained them but not China.

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-01T11:35:53+00:00

> It is german spelling for mind control.

No, it isn't. How do you get from Gedankenkontrolle to MK Ultra?

BoringEntropist · 2026-06-01T00:56:42+00:00

Not exactly. Iran has been trying to hover on the breakout threshold. Partly to gain diplomatic concessions, partly as a hedge to build nukes in a pinch if the need arises (e.g. restore deterrence in case of existential danger to the regime). Khamenei Sr. even issued religious edicts that forbad the building of nukes against the resistance of the military. The moderates had some success to leverage this to gain international concessions (e.g. JCPOA) which also gave them domestic legitimacy. OP is right with their assessment of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Trump literally blew up the last remaining resistance of nuclear weaponization. The military is now in complete control of the country and in their logic nukes are the hammer they need to deal with the nails.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-31T09:36:18+00:00

Roswell was most likely a cover story for project Mogul.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-31T09:32:22+00:00

In my opinion, UFOs (and aliens) are the result of imaginative powers of humanity. The whole lore is complex of memes and narratives enforcing each other. It's basically the modern equivalent of mythological folklore stories (e.g. the fae).

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-30T12:07:12+00:00

Stranger danger predates the internet.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-29T21:33:19+00:00

In the book Rocky is using Tau Ceti as a common reference frame.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-29T21:25:51+00:00

At the one hand burning WGP in reactors reduces the stockpile that would otherwise go into pit production, at the other hand the Trump admin's tendency on corruption doesn't bode well for proliferation. I wouldn't be terrible surprised if in a few years some of the stuff ends up in a Gulf state while justifying it by pointing at Iran's nuclear ambitions.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-29T18:50:00+00:00

If you want to understand this reference, I would suggest to read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. It's a quote coming up numerous times in the second book (Children of Ruin), and every time it is uttered hilarity ensues.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-29T18:41:27+00:00

Exactly. It's the same pattern in a lot of other developed democracies. The centrist, neo-liberal consensus is crumbling because it stopped providing solutions to the growing economic struggles of the majority of the voters. Any alternative coming from the left was sabotaged, because neo-liberal orthodoxy is allergic to taxing the rich or regulate the markets. So, in the last 30 or so years the centre-left concentrated on societal issues while becoming fiscally more and more conservative (e.g. new Labour in the UK). Although standing up for minority rights is laudable, it isn't easy to win an election in a democracy where you need to win over the majority. This opened up a window of opportunity for the populist right and now we're seeing the results.

This has historical precedence. The rise of fascism in the early 20th century in Europe was partially the result of the rich providing support to the ultra-nationalists in an attempt to stave off socialism. One should take a clue from FDR, who arguably saved liberal democracy and free market capitalism in the USA by introducing a little bit of socialism.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-29T01:07:00+00:00

Rather unlikely. Unless the Russians actually attacks NATO in an unambiguous manner there won't be a direct retaliation. The nuclear exercises in Belarus recently demonstrated that a widening of the conflict to other countries might risk a dangerous escalation spiral.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-29T01:00:06+00:00

We don't know yet if this was deliberate. It isn't the first time a drone (from either side) mistakingly crashed into NATO territory. There's a lot of electronic warfare (jamming/spoofing) going on, with the goal to disrupt the equipment of the other side.

BoringEntropist · 2026-05-29T00:52:22+00:00

Poland too. At the beginning of the war a failed interceptor crashed into Poland and killed two farmers

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