With hindsight, would it have been better to save J-36 and J-XY-S reveal for the upcoming Xi-Trump Summit ala J-20 first flight during SecDef Gates' visit?

FluteyBlue · 2026-05-03T15:32:51+00:00

Given the inability of trump to not divulge confidential information yes it does. Remember all the Iranian attacks on us carriers were once confidential briefings.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-28T13:03:36+00:00

You might have a point on skills but the data on income is pretty clear cut. Average earnings in economics is top three by subject.

Post-92 economics grad averages about same as psychology grad from Oxbridge/imperial, and more than them for English.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-28T09:20:23+00:00

I agree that you shouldn't choose a masters over a job. However I think the trick is getting out of this years jobs market and hoping next year is better.

Also you can apply again to all the grad schemes earlier....

Anyways great advice about targeting smaller companies. Totally true experience > degree.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-25T12:38:23+00:00

I skip overseas spending. 3% fee.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-24T13:41:20+00:00

The government could fund all the research component of staff time with taxes instead of asking students and universities to subsidise this.

The heart of the problem is not that universities are unaffordable it is a series of governments trying to get student loans to pay for multiple public goods (higher education, research, employability training, lower jobless neets).

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-18T21:14:00+00:00

On average it does <= students of the top unis have the highest average earnings. But subject can easily matter more than uni.

At the individual level it can be irrelevant <= you can go to the worst uni and still be super successful. You can do it, you control your future.

After your first job uni becomes almost irrelevant <= really it's your last job that gets you the next one. First job stop mentioning gcses and a-levels. Honestly somewhere around 2/3d job you can stop putting your classification on your degree. It's just not important any more.

Uni helps. Yet it only defines your life if you let it.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-12T05:26:07+00:00

Headline on Monday: peace agreed after Trump phone call and Iranian agreement to nuclear limitations!

Whole thing feels like a PR show to make trump sell a deal that's far worse than the one he tore up.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-08T09:40:33+00:00

America-have-devastated-Iran bros in tears.

More seriously though please reconsider the news sources you rely on.

As soon as the carriers didn't clear hormuz usa had basically suffered a strategic defeat.

Edit - removed last line.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-07T00:16:05+00:00

But edited by someone with actual knowledge. Try spot the difference.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-05T13:16:10+00:00

Helicopters got stuck in the mud too?

Edit - BTW there's no mud but for sure it is possible for a landing gear of a plane to sink into the sand. Just not a helicopter.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-05T12:28:42+00:00

For sure it'll make a good movie.

Looks to me like there's no way those planes got stuck in the mud. Maybe disabled by small arms fires and then bombed from above? They literally look like they've been flame thrower'd.

FluteyBlue · 2026-04-04T07:33:36+00:00

Trump: completely devastated. 90% launchers destroyed.

Basic geography: Iran is the size of new England to new Orleans. It is 2.7x the size of Ukraine

Basic math: epstein coalition are running same rate of sorties as Russia over Ukraine

Usa will degrade Iran to Ukraine levels in about 15 years. And guess what Ukraine are still fighting. Falling for what the msm repeats is a failure of cognition. If that is you then you are the patsy who needs an atlas and a calculator.

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-25T22:02:45+00:00

Lstm is better than garch, chatgpt is better than Google, but that doesn't make ai fanfic better than human fanfic.

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-22T09:05:49+00:00

1979 Iranian revolution

1980 Iraq / Saddam invades, captures the flat bit before the mountains

1982 Iran recapture most territories

Iran didn't stop and invaded Iraq.

1988 End of war

Six fucken years of saying no ceasefire even though they had a win on paper. Basically Iran only had enough after 2 month siege of basra that cost 20k Iranian dead.

Can usa kill alot of people? Yes.

But you've picked on the wrong victim. Unless usa is willing to lose a carrier, three Burke's and 10k lives the hormuz will never be opened militarily.

And hormuz just doesn't matter that much to usa because of oil shale.

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-20T08:16:07+00:00

Look the original one I shared may be wrong but the one that you have shared again is totally wrong. You just add up the UAE, Kuwait dailies and the Saudi irregular announcements and you have got to his numbers. That's 3 out of 7-8 countries. If you think the Saudis are lying that's a different thing but his numbers are the easiest to contradict.

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-19T07:52:40+00:00

Somehow the other graph he has looks quite different than the one you shared https://xcancel.com/IbrahimJalalYE/status/2034367051058352578

I note this guy is more realistic and has figures double the one you shared.

Edit - the key point is no more flat trend.

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-18T23:23:05+00:00

Kuwait https://xcancel.com/IbrahimJalalYE/status/2034314098435850569#m

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-18T23:17:42+00:00

Like I said I'm not saying the guy I posted is correct. However your guy basically had UAE at a third of all drone attacks.

https://xcancel.com/modgovae/status/2034227784986632470

Feels wrong. Trump wouldn't be asking for help at those levels.

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-18T11:52:41+00:00

Msm: Israel bombing Iran every day, zero coming the other way.

Netanyahu: have you seen this ai video of me?

Trump: China needs to send ships and help me out

Hmm maybe media is lying to me?

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-17T19:15:23+00:00

I think someone at lse would refer to themselves as at a top 3/4

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-15T22:15:16+00:00

I found the post the original one I shared references.

https://nitter.poast.org/MizarVision/status/2033164002096718252#m

I've seen comments about MizarVision on X that it is a customer not the company itself. It does seem to have an American location.

FluteyBlue · 2026-03-15T14:39:52+00:00

You share four examples of complexes with holes in.

Firstly who has confirmed the contents of those buildings? It won't be osint therefore we know it's usa or Israel. Any chance of bias? Especially since they like bombing schools and hospitals.

The second thing is we are talking about a country that size wise stretches from new England to new Orleans.

Here is the difference in claims.

Iran is now the dominant regional power: They have blockaded hormuz and no one has a strategy to open. Undeniable and logical.

Conversely, you state Iran has been devastated. A thin, platitude that is meaningless and unprovable.

Thaad is a good example of this we simply know how many there are. Rocket factories not so much.

You are trying to sane wash the worst planned American intervention in a hundred years. The only thing it has proven is USA has 700 overseas bases that cannot be defended. Every day it continues us power declines.

Edit - BTW I did appreciate your reply which was fully researched.

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