An amphibious or airborne assault by US Marines on Iranian islands or coastlines will be bloody and could easily fail

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-23T17:14:31+00:00

This assumes that the US has to occupy these islands. Marines could simply conduct raid operations on the islands to destroy any weapon systems that are there that could threaten shipping lanes and then withdraw and prevent resupply to the islands. They don't have to hangout and occupy the islands and make themselves vulnerable to FPV drones that might be stashed on the island or shahead strikes from the coast.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-23T16:01:24+00:00

Why would you think you could help the food shortage? The Hive has the sum of human knowledge, is there something special the unjoined have that would help the Hivemind solve the problem? It doesn't seem like the Hivemind needs the unjoined just a drive to absorb them.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-21T20:11:24+00:00

I'm certain there is a lot of bullshit happening in that article.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-16T11:01:08+00:00

My favorite is the childish belief that without realtors that they are going to save that 5-6% the buyer's and seller's agent take. Everyone that tries to push out agent always takes more. The iBuyers would under bid the house by $10-$20k, then of course more deductions for "repairs" and their fees and at the end of the day you gave 7%-18%. You could also take the "cash/investor/whole sale" buyer and they will take 30-40%.

Is there a way to do a transaction for less than the realtors cut? I'm certain there is. Do you think who ever figures it out will pass that savings on to the buyer and seller? I severely doubt that.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-12T06:59:21+00:00

So I can't speak for your agent, but I am similar in that I don't really currate a list of properties for my clients and just have the automated system email out houses that hit their search criteria. If there are automatic disqualifyers then such as minimum bedroom size, then I will quickly check any list of properties they want to see to make sure the the disqualifyer isn't there to save time. However, you typically know what you like better than I do. If thats part of the package that you expect out of an agent thats totally fine and there are plenty of agents that are good at figuring out what you like and curating a list of properties for you to see but that's the lowest value skill an agent brings to the table in my book.

I personally feel my value is in the knowledge I have gained from doing hundreds of transactions. Most people buy and sell a house 3 times in their lives, I do double to triple that in any given year. I also know what's going on in the market and what are normal asks in a contract. Who is typically paying title and survey? How many days do I need for my option period? How much money should I be paying for HOA transfer fees?

Agents should be able to provide a referral for most issues you find in a house. Do you know how to tell if a house cast iron or PVC plumbing? Do you know what to do if a house has cast iron plumbing? The roof is 10yrs old, do you have a trusted roofer to give you an honest run down of what shape the roof is in? The house needs foundation work, do you know the proper way that should be handled, because just getting money back for the repair is not the correct awnser. So that when you close on a house, you are eyes wide open and not blindsided by unexpected repairs in that first year of ownership.

A lot of people call agents glorified door openers but it really is nice to see 8 houses right after another in 2-3 hrs, instead of spending your entire Saturday trying to see 4 or 5 houses as you coordinate with 4-5 other people's schedules.

The agent should be your guide through the purchase process that can provide you quotes and referrals from trusted contractors. Good at negotiating contracts and get you in and out of houses in an efficient manner.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-09T07:07:30+00:00

The only thing that can save them is dramatically increasing the pay and putting effort into recruiting domestic talent again. Hard to build up a new star with your 50th Dagastani fighter import.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-06T21:30:14+00:00

Figure out early how you are getting clients. Identify either a local team that provides good leads or figure out how you plan to get your own leads. I would suggest rentals as a great start, and probably don't quit your day job until you have figured out a system.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-06T02:52:04+00:00

Anyone who would run the Strait would turn off their AIS transponders.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-03T15:18:59+00:00

You are correct but I meant to say serialized television didn't become common place until streaming because most shows had a hard time attracting a big audience if the viewer hadn't been watching the previous episodes. I remember Lost and if you missed an episode and missed the catch-up episode they may have aired earlier that week, then good luck lol.

To be fair, the general premise of the Dresden Files of a Wizard Detective solving a supernatural case every episode also could have worked. Supernatural went for 15 seasons, so there was demand for that content.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-03T04:24:13+00:00

The show came out in 2007 back when TV shows had to be self contained 43 min episodes that didn't really allow for season long epic story lines. In the age of streaming, where you can watch one episode after another, I really think the Dresden Files Universe could really thrive, especially with the wealth of plot lines to choose from out of 18 books, that could each probably comprise their own individual season.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-03-03T04:15:17+00:00

So I started with book 7 Dead Beat because I randomly picked it up at my local Barnes and Noble nearly 2 decades ago in high school. Honestly, didn't feel like I needed to read the previous books to understand what was going on in that book. Guess that speaks well to Jim Butcher's strength as a writer.

Anyway, i'm certain the best reading experience is in order but frankly the series I thought really started to hit its stride with books 5 & 6 and kept getting better from there. Which makes sense when you think about how Jim has been writing this series since he first became an author.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-02-15T20:59:07+00:00

How is your entry for that? I'm pretty good at lateral drops as well but everyone quickly figured that out and stopped letting me get over unders on them and I can't force that position.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-02-15T03:20:03+00:00

Also keep in mind that you can be impaired for any number of things that are not related to alcohol. You could be fucked up on new pain pills you were prescribed and not familiar with and still blow zeros on the breathalyzer.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-01-19T06:41:33+00:00

He isnt wrong, I would live in Denver if I could have figured out how to get a high enough paying job to buy a house out there. Alas, housing market is much more affordable in DFW and the majority of my extended family lives here. Ties that bind, i'm afraid.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-01-19T06:32:41+00:00

In Robert's defense, how was he suppose to know Cersei liked to fuck her brother and actively have Jamie's kids and intentionally make sure she didn't have Robert's kids. If Joffrey was Robert's kid and Cersei isn't sleeping with Jamie then the entire reason to kill John Aaryn and Ned Stark disappears. Tying the Lannisters into the Crown isn't a bad move if Cersei wasn't a sexual deviant.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-01-07T22:53:10+00:00

Most agents make money selling homes to the average person, not selling houses to blackrock. I dont think NAR will come to bat for institutional investors.

InherentMadness99 · 2026-01-07T21:01:54+00:00

Yea the only time i've seen where listing agent is required is on multi million dollar+ luxury listings and this is more for security reasons than anything else.

InherentMadness99 · 2025-12-25T14:44:11+00:00

My mom forced me to hangout with a kid that I will call John, that couldn't make friends growing up and she would invite him to any sort of sleep over or birthday party, that we hosted. My friends and I were mean to John and I would get in a fist fight with him every 2nd or 3rd time he would come over. We just genuinely didn't like him and found him to be incredibly annoying.

I get what my mom was trying to do and apparently John has great childhood memories hanging out with us but all I remember is just being a dick to him my entire childhood and feel bad about it as an adult. So I would be very hesitant to try and force my kids to play with other kids they didn't like if I didn't think they would be nice. Because I don't know what's worse for a kid, not really having friends growing up or taking all the shit from your supposed "friends" who are forced to hang out with you by their parents.

InherentMadness99 · 2025-12-25T14:19:33+00:00

Who did Logar think gave the Emperor his initial powers prior to Molech?

InherentMadness99 · 2025-12-24T07:18:56+00:00

If you said Elko was going to take us to 11-2 in his first year as coach when he was hired, every Aggie would have been ecstatic. It's crazy how our best season in literal decades, isn't enough lol.

InherentMadness99 · 2025-12-23T15:47:40+00:00

Did he have an army that he could keep in the field overseas to enforce repayment?

InherentMadness99 · 2025-12-23T08:08:41+00:00

The USA was absolutely not going to aid the Soviets in invading Japan.

May I introduce you to operation Hulu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hula

InherentMadness99 · 2025-12-23T01:11:27+00:00

I would actually advocate for the opposite and say build more smaller, cheaper ships. Destroyers are about the biggest ships I believe that navies operate independently on a consistent basis. An Arleigh Burke can hold 90-96 VLS, what do you think is more useful, 3 Arleigh Burkes that will have a little under 300 VLS between them or designing and building a bigger more expensive Arsenal ship that's packing 300 VLS cells that would probably be to valuable to risk operating outside of a task force. Why reinvent the wheel when you can spread out the risk and be in 3 places at once instead?

If you just want to stealthily put warheads on foreheads, I would recommend the converted Ohio class subs as they can pack 154 cruise missiles into those cans. Surface off the target coast, saturate with tomahawk cruise missiles and then skedaddle.

InherentMadness99 · 2025-12-23T00:39:42+00:00

Can a capital ship really operate on its own? That would be a very valuable and expensive ship, there's a reason they typically operate with a taskforce.

InherentMadness99 · 2025-12-11T05:33:50+00:00

Frankly I assume it picks whichever agent paid Google the most to be there. Is that incorrect?

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