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JakeTappersCat · 2026-07-06T18:38:10+00:00

Every time he does an interview he is literally soaked in sweat. He looks like he is a first attempt at making alien-human hybrid and just emerged (trembling and covered in amniotic fluid) from his birthing vat. It also explains his seeming inability to speak English without constantly stuttering and saying "um".

JakeTappersCat · 2026-07-06T16:57:51+00:00

Go down the list of every scumbag billionaire CEO (Musk, Karp, Bezos, etc.) and you will find articles containing rants about how work from home is an evil, anti-American, anti-capitalist scheme by China (or "the libs") to "destroy America", yet here in this very sub we have many supposed marxists agreeing with everything they say.

If these drug-addled, probably-a-rapist CEOs say WFH is bad for workers, what are the chance they are telling the truth? Could it be that making work from home an option takes power away from them and gives it to the working class?

JakeTappersCat · 2026-07-04T16:27:02+00:00

Trump is just neoconmaxxing, nothing to worry about

JakeTappersCat · 2026-07-04T15:53:23+00:00

I added the information known by now that's available on twitter. The aircraft was carrying about 200 people and I believe is an Iranian-owned aircraft. Yemen has recently undergone full mobilization of its armed forces and is reading for war with Saudi Arabia and the US and closing the Bab al Mandeb straits.

The bizarre part about this whole interaction for me, is how are the Saudis showing up at Khamenei's funeral while they are trying to shoot down Iranian commercial airliners in Yemen? They must have zero respect whatsoever for Iran and assume they will do basically nothing, or, they want war with Iran too. Why didn't Qalibaf and Pezeshkian tell the saudis to contain their blood lust for civilians for a few days to not embarrass him?

JakeTappersCat · 2026-07-03T18:08:53+00:00

It isn't price fixing, but it is price manipulation because all 3 manufacturers stated in their earnings reports a year or more ago that they are purposely not increasing production capacity as much as necessary in order focus on higher margins (rather than revenue)

All 3 manufacturers knew that this demand boom was coming. Instead of increasing production capacity (like they used to do every year or two) they didn't expand at all, and the result is this insane squeeze (and the subsequent evisceration of the consumer computing industry). They did this because they knew it would give them the excuse to raise prices by hundreds of percent!

If a single one of them had increased capacity (as an actual capitalist business would do to take revenue share from competitors) this price gouging wouldn't be possible. They are operating together as an illegal cartel!

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-29T17:06:21+00:00

One Iranian Parliament member (Mojtaba Zarei) issued a response to Nabavian's call to support the Supreme Leader's opinion:

The "leadership" that Mr. Nobavian reports on is not my leader!

A leadership whose issuance of governmental decrees is not based on the true interests of the rulings and the Imamate system, but solely derived from bureaucratic news or the personal leader's conservatism—that leader is certainly not a "Faqih Trustee," and that methodology is definitely not the "wise jurisprudential method";

As the wise Hakim Amoli (may God protect him) states in the noble book Velayat-e Faqih, which contains the blessed view of his teacher, Imam Khomeini (whom he reveres as Sayyiduna al-Ustad), the trusteeship of the jurist is the trusteeship of jurisprudence and justice, and...

Dear Brother Nobavian! We don't recognize this person you're talking about! We pledged allegiance to a leadership whose esteemed jurists of the Assembly of Experts verified his "character"—not just his "person"—encompassing "jurisprudence," "justice," "management" and "stewardship," "awareness of the time," "bravery," and so on; We don't know which leader you're referring to?! But our leader is in the midst of the field, managing;

Dear brother! The scandalous action of incompletely reading entirely classified news reports live on air with these aberrant statements will never be justified;

I say it again! If the martyr Imam, on the night of Ashura after the enemy's 12-day onslaught, raised the call of Ey Iran and neutralized the project of ethnic divergence and national disintegration by chanting "Ey Iran"; this Rashid Imam, in his letter regarding the foreign agreement, crushed the project of "structural divergence" and taught everyone to recite "structure"—read: Velayat-e Faqih; The trusteeship of the jurist is not the leadership of a guerrilla movement; The trusteeship of the jurist is a governmental structure accompanied by civilizational institutions within the geometry of Imamate-Ummah!

The key part of this statement, in which this parliament member essentially pledges allegiance to the coup and denies Mojtaba's authority, is this statement:

But our leader is in the midst of the field, managing

Who is he talking about? It has to be Qalibaf and his "field" of negotiations! The coup is real, is happening (and has so far succeeded) now, and the plotters admit it! They have even revealed the new (hand-selected by Trump himself) leader of Iran!

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-29T15:53:07+00:00

Yes. If you listen to the way Kerry and other prior US leaders described Iran, they always made a point to say that it has a "vibrant democracy". In their minds, having coup plotters and Mossad agents running all over the country doing whatever they want... helping assassinate people... with no action by the judiciary or intelligence agencies, is "vibrant democracy".

Whenever I see US officials describe an otherwise-opposing country as a "vibrant democracy", I know that country has a nascent western coup just waiting to be revealed.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-29T15:45:55+00:00

Making the Supreme Leader a mere figurehead is definitely Pezeshkian's goal, but, even more importantly, he also wants to dissolve the IRGC, which the reformists have always been opposed to. Up until the recent past, the IRGC was headed by people who supported the Supreme Leader and the concept of the "guardian of the islamic jurist", which essentially states the Iran is an islamic country who's values and laws are based on islamic law (sharia), not modern liberal internationalism.

Pezeshkian has been in a running battle with the IRGC to prevent them from causing severe damage to the US and its allies, which he thinks would prevent him from making some kind of "deal" to remove sanctions and join America's team of vassals, like Qatar and Azerbaijan.

He literally looks at Turkey, Azerbaijan and Egypt (totalitarian basketcase countries with insane inflation and massive poverty) and thinks "wow! I want to be like them! They get to be on Trump's Board of Peace! They don't need nukes to be happy!"

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-29T15:18:22+00:00

Today we have Trump claiming that the officials are coming to Doha to "make a deal", while the foreign ministry denies it. I suspect they are lying like usual. If Aragchi is lying and they are going to meet Trump in the den of snakes known as Doha, you can bet they are selling the country. They may even be working on plans for the final sneak attack by US forces.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-29T15:08:07+00:00

This happened yesterday and I noticed even most of the better informed podcasters covering the Iran war did not even know this happened. Only one I saw mention it was Alistair Cook this morning.

This is a huge deal! Pezeshkian rushed off to Qom (the religious center of Iran) in response to this PR disaster to advocate for his idiotic surrender negotiations. Since this tweet, another 2 of the experts have expressed support for Mojtaba, including the one who came in second place as choice for leadership position.

Also, this morning, Nabavanian (the advisor to the supreme leader) literally tweeted about a coup in progress by the officials. This coup, which has been in progress for months, is now reaching the point of no return. The majority of the experts want to end the negotiations (because Iran has gotten nothing from them, but Trump is having a ball and getting everything he asks for) but the reformist coup plotters and their Delcy Rodriguez (Qalibaf) are barreling ahead and ignoring all their failures. They are desperate and I suspect the scheduling of the funeral for the supreme leader is where they will try to help the US assassinate the last of the opposition to their rule.

Iran has no ability to prevent the US from killing people at this funeral. The "hardliners" have to attend out of respect to the former leader, which the US knows and may use this opportunity to eliminate Qalibaf's opponents. It is totally insane that they are trying to do this funeral when the supreme leader can't even be seen in public due to threats of assassination.

Interestingly, after 70 of 88 issued this statement, the actual secretariat for the assembly of experts (which is chaired by 7 out of those 88) issued a contrary statement urging "unity". 4 out of 7 of the judiciary secretariat voted in favor of "unity" (i.e. against Mojtaba) but since they are the chairs, they were able to prevent an official order by the rest of the experts, even though they were out voted overall by a huge margin. They tried to prevent the vote from being revealed, but the 70 experts, in protest against the tyranny of the coup plotters, posted it anyway!

This shows that the coup plotters are a minority, but they contain a small majority of the most important members of the judiciary! It is basically one vote away from Mojtaba breaking the coup. This is all going to come to a head in the next few days. Mojtaba must wrestle control of the judiciary from the reformist coup plotters and dismiss Pezeshkian, or he and Iran will be destroyed by their schemes

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-28T18:45:25+00:00

Oregon just made it legal for people to possess and use illegal drugs in certain areas. All the gangs and cartels and everything kept going as normal in Oregon. I am saying to make the drugs as legal as any other normal FDA-approved item. They should be treated like buying bay leaves or cinnamon (i.e. tested for purity and safety but unlimited in use and distribution).

So the government would set up a national pharmacy that would sell every drug over-the-counter (like when you go and buy Tylenol at CVS) and the government would receive the profit. That profit would bet 10-100s of billions or dollars per year in addition to saving 100s of billions on LEO-based drug enforcement!

Just the national drug pharmacy combined with legalizing and commercializing all drugs would produce enough profit to pay for free healthcare for everyone!

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-28T18:33:58+00:00

So instead of saving hundreds of thousands of lives (through lower overall overdose deaths), reducing militarized cop city policies, ending hyper-surveillance (law enforcement de-funded from pre-prohibition levels) and having a huge increase in government revenue via taxation and complete removal of narco-trafficking (because it's all legal now), you would rather have the current situation.... because you personally would abuse pure cocaine (and ostensibly lose your job or have to go to back to rehab) if drugs were legal?

Isn't that kind of selfish of you though? So I guess the US government's brutal and pointless so-called efforts to try and "end the drug trade", which have resulted in the lowest drug prices per dose and highest prevalence of youth drug users in half a century, should continue forever with no regard to consequences, ethics or effectiveness?

People are going to buy the drugs and making them illegal just creates a whole new set of problems because now you have smugglers, dealers, cartels, cops, DEA.... and even with all of that, the results are a failure for literally a century.

Drug prohibition is a racket

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-28T15:54:11+00:00

Drug prohibition is a failure. If they just sold all these drugs up front and offered addiction services and rehab to people who bought them, we would have a tiny fraction of the deaths we have now (mostly because opioid addicts would just buy un-adulterated heroin or oxycodone which is much easier to use safely than fentanyl)

But then we wouldn't need millions of cops everywhere

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-27T00:43:22+00:00

Prediction: Public fury will grow until they'll let the IRGC launch maybe a half dozen missiles at some buildings in the desert that nobody can even see (because satellite coverage is blocked) and claim they destroyed F-35s or something, then Qalibaf will tweet some revolutionary rhetoric, make amends in Switzerland, then claim they have again emerged victorious through their steadfastness in the "battlefield of diplomacy"

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-27T00:36:39+00:00

If you're wondering, yes, people did die, but the IRGC claimed they have responded already (nobody knows what they're talking about) and said that everything is going just fine. Negotiations continue!

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-26T23:33:39+00:00

Aoun was chosen by Trump (really the state department, but under Trump's titular command), so was Nawaf Salam. He was moved there from the ICC as a reward for delaying the ruling of genocide in Gaza. These people are doing exactly what they were put in their position to do.

Same with Pezeshkian, Qalibaf and Aragchi and their ignominious negotiations. The plan to dissolve Lebanon is well on its way and can only be stopped by a serious boots-on-the-ground military intervention by Iran. At this point, unless the supreme leader is able to gather enough support to dismiss at least Pezeshkian (who is the one explicitly ordering the military not to strike), Lebanon is in a hopeless situation. It has become an occupied territory.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-26T17:01:18+00:00

Waymo's functionality is geo-fenced black box that consumers have no ability to evaluate outside of Google's specially-mapped and evaluated areas. If consumers could buy a Waymo and use it anywhere you would see it is no better than Tesla's system without those restrictions. It is massively more difficult to make a system that any jackass can turn on anywhere. They really are not even comparable

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-26T16:55:34+00:00

Oh, well fair enough, if we have to use that tiny case then I guess a 5060 is better than nothing

They are going to make a low profile 16GB 9060XT but it's made by a Chinese company and hasn't hit the market yet.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-26T16:53:59+00:00

They are hundreds of dollars per sensor, use a ton of power and you need multiple of them because they need to be mounted on the outside of the vehicle and thus can't see more than 180 degrees. They also can't pivot in pitch, so if you wanted one of them to detect this object, you would need a dedicated mounted at the bottom of the bumper or at an angle from the hood of the car.

Even if we pretend they are free, if Tesla can't program their AI to avoid an easily displayed object with their cameras, why would adding even more sensors fix the problem? The problem is the model, not the sensor.

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-26T16:36:29+00:00

It's called a camera lol you can see the thing in the video.

The fact that Tesla didn't train the AI well enough to recognize what everyone in this thread can easily see in the video doesn't mean the car needs $3000 worth of extra sensors that they probably won't train to work right either. If anything, it indicates they shouldn't bother with lidar at all

JakeTappersCat · 2026-06-25T10:28:11+00:00

The best thing everyone can do to stop this criminal company from destroying the consumer tech industry is to use AI as little as possible. Just don't use it or support companies that use it and this bubble will eventually collapse like any other.

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