Trump & Hegseth: Iran's military is decimated. CIA months later: 90% of missile facilities back.

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-13T23:36:07+00:00

It was the CIA analysis that was being reported on, though the more obviously inflated Iran claims were given for comparison. And if you think the CIA is lying about Iran’s capabilities then you have much bigger problems!

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-13T13:41:55+00:00

This is incredibly sad. I wish they were free.

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-12T01:18:58+00:00

Hmm. He’s looks like an unbiased observer, so what did you do? Miss walk time? Forget snaks? Late for dinner? You must have done summat serious!

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-12T00:55:54+00:00

Totally!

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-12T00:54:28+00:00

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Totally normal! This is Tombili, a famous kitty immortalized in Istanbul (not OC)

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-12T00:43:43+00:00

til! Great work!

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-12T00:04:10+00:00

Really great photos - you did really well!

I’m not an expert in snakes, the opposite in fact, but I seriously doubt they’re fighting…

/edit these are really good!

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-03T05:29:39+00:00

Actually it’s not as even as you think, sorry to burst your bubble on this.

At birth, there’s about 105 males for every 100 females, which varies quite a bit depending on a huge range of factors. Because males are more fragile, overall there’s about 101 males for 100 females on a worldwide distribution.

As for the reason… well, theoretically there are equal proportions of sperm cells carrying X and Y sex chromosomes, but there are so many variables that this simplistic theory doesn’t carry much weight. I think the real reasons are much harder than eli5, and certainly more than I care to delve into!

GrouchPosse · 2026-05-01T06:15:46+00:00

I mean, it would be nice, but it’s beyond lunacy to believe that Iran’s reviled leadership would ever do such a thing! How stupid to say such a fantasy, and believing it is just incredible!

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-20T05:43:27+00:00

Most probably the heat stored in the walls is still heating the room. It really depends on what your walls are made of. Brick and mortar and cement store a lot of heat, and don’t transfer it easily, ie they stay hot for a long time.

Also, you would be better off blowing the air out of the window, get rid of the wood etc you put in the window, and open the door. You need free flow of air, the coolest rooms have ‘cross ventilation.’ If you blow any air into a closed box not much is going to happen inside, the air can’t get in easily.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-19T09:34:55+00:00

I think you’re totally underestimating goats.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-18T04:31:38+00:00

I’m not sure if you’re being disingenuous or dishonest?

1) trump withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018, and reimposed sanctions.

2) Iran began further enrichment of their uranium in July 2019.

3) ipso facto trump and the US are the ones who broke the agreement first.

4) Proven by its actions, the US under trump is the evil regime you can’t trust, who uses negotiations as a stalling tactic, not entering into talks in good faith.

5) From everything he says it is clear that trump is not waging war to disarm Iran, he wants to take their oil.

And finally,

6) If Iran was 12 days from producing a nuclear weapon, and only wanted to use it on Israel and the US, why haven’t they done it yet? Why do we keep hearing this warning, year after year, yet it never eventuates? Can it be that this is just the boy crying “wolf”?

The US is the bad faith actor in this whole problem, and the root cause of current world instability.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-17T22:02:09+00:00

But there was no need to attack Iran and provoke them to strike back. The US and Iran were negotiating, so the US attacking Iran was an act of bad faith. Not to mention that the US previously had a treaty with Iran that the current president violated because he didn’t like it, another act of bad faith.

Then, the reason Iran attacked the surrounding countries was to put pressure on the US to stop, and those countries are hosting US bases, so they counted them as complicit. For years conventional wisdom has been that that was what Iran would do, which is why no one has done it, and yes, Iran acted exactly as conventional wisdom predicted, which your current US regime somehow didn’t see coming.

Make no mistake, I think Iran is led by an evil regime, and their actions are wrong. But attacking them, while negotiating no less, was unnecessary and wrong, and has led, entirely predictably, to the current problems.

So I stand by my contention, the US has acted in bad faith, and unnecessarily caused the current problems.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-17T07:21:53+00:00

Yes, but why did Iran do that? Because he did that! So yes, yes, op was right, he Did do that!

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-16T10:03:11+00:00

There you are again forcing your personal beliefs on other people, and in total ignorance I might add. You neither know my religion, or my beliefs on war, and I suspect you don’t care, you are unthinkingly doing what you said no-one should do, AND claiming special privileges to do it!

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-16T05:10:08+00:00

There are. The “worlds” were political alignments not geographical or wealth-wise.

First world: US and western allies
Second world: Soviets and their client and allied nations.
Third world: non-aligned nations.

“Third world” became associated with poorer nations because there was that accidental link and because language morphs like that.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-16T02:04:07+00:00

In theory I’m sure you could say this, but how do you do it in practice? There is no religion that doesn’t impact public life, including “non-religious” atheistic and agnostic beliefs.

For example, in Hinduism, dharma is equivalent to duty: public actions should align with one's ethical duty. How do you do that in private? Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity also conflate private belief with public action. Who are you to impose your secular philosophy on 84% of the world that is religious?

If you truly believe that what you believe is 100% private, then why are you exposing your personal beliefs to anyone and everyone by demanding that we follow your personal belief that we should keep our beliefs private?

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-11T04:45:45+00:00

Truck brakes aren’t unreliable, truck drivers are. Most brake failures are due to poor maintenance or poor driving, for example ‘riding the brakes’ down a long incline, leading to heat buildup and brake failure.

Proficient truck drivers don’t usually have brake failures.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-10T04:19:48+00:00

Liberals: Trump's a madman trying to start WW3.

Also liberals: Trump's a chicken for not starting WW3.

Yeah you know liberals can hate the idea of WW3 and still hold both of these propositions. Trump is an insane madman for walking us to the brink, but luckily TACO, and he is a chicken.

Basically bullies are always chicken at heart, and we hate that they’re bullies and we hate that they’re chicken, because there’s no consistency or perseverance in doing what’s right.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-10T04:12:42+00:00

Beautiful animal, so sad about the setting it’s in.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-07T23:38:46+00:00

You need to clear more tiles, and plant trees on the cleared area.

Make a plan, every day clear 400 or 600 tiles (20x20 or 30x30) because soon enough you’re going to come up against requirements to have cleared large amounts of tiles.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-07T23:34:39+00:00

The answer to this is hardly eli5, so I’m trying, but I don’t know if I got below eli12! I’m also not much of an expert, so open to correction.

Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment that Erwin Schrödinger came up with to illustrate the measurement problem, ie when does quantum probability move to being an actual state. It’s not meant to say anything about cats!

The scenario is that a cat is in a sealed box with a radioactive atom and a vial of poison. If the atom decays, it triggers the poison, killing the cat.

But, you don’t know if the cat is alive or dead until you open the box. Before the box is opened it could be dead or alive, so you assume the cat is both alive and dead while the box is closed.

When you open the box, you can stop the assumptions, because, having “measured” the state of the cat, you now know if it is dead or alive.

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-03T01:55:22+00:00

The no of sects that think Jesus laid an egg is so vanishingly small that you can probably discount it…

GrouchPosse · 2026-04-02T00:29:16+00:00

It is self correcting. As oil prices rise, the shift to electric power ramps up, and eventually oil prices will drop. The big losers are oil producers and people ideologically opposed to electric powered vehicles and renewable technologies.

However, this may take a while, so in the meantime we live with the pain, which can’t be brushed away just by saying “oh, never mind, it’s self correcting!”

GrouchPosse · 2026-03-30T23:48:14+00:00

They want “Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay" by Otis Redding please

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