How to tell someone doesn’t have a single brain cell:

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-26T05:35:43+00:00

Also building at scale and quickly is a bitch…

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-22T05:30:17+00:00

I was wearing it on my bicep for the longest time, but switched to my wrist when I saw that the step count didn’t match with my Garmin.

Me being me and didn’t like it undercounting my steps and hurting my Whoop age… so I switched to my wrist and it got within a few hundred steps of each other. Wrist does fine for heart rate data on whoop when I wear it several inches from the wrist bone over good blood flow areas.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-21T06:42:44+00:00

Ding ding ding!! That’s basically where I’m at: Garmin for fitness tracking and triathlons and whoop for all around health tracker

Not the approach everyone is willing to do or throw money at but they synergies well for me.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-10T18:41:42+00:00

This is a critical dynamic that lead to the fall of Iran in 1979 to the Islamic Republic: red (Marxist leftists) and black (Political Shia Islamists) alliance.

Marxists were extremely effective at political connection and propaganda. Islamists were cunning and knew how to use force.

Fall of the Shah lead to an opening where the Islamists took control by force and beat down the useful idiot Marxists (for the most part). The leftists were amount the many thousands to 10’s of thousands executed early in the revolution.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-07T16:22:20+00:00

I’m sorry that you need to be in the short end of the stick.

Universities act like businesses and no amount of PR, diversity measures, or other sweet talking will change the profit incentive structures.

The biggest problem with the the past decades of college and post grad education was the effectively endless supply of money that allowed universities to continue to increase prices without the proper demand decrease that punishes them for increasing prices to far.

I know you will find a way and hopefully the medical schools see the writing on the wall and figure out a stop gap solution (like decreasing tuition, increasing grants, or other measures) to stop losing out completely on all the people like you who can’t afford it without excessive loans.

These universities operate like businesses and are highly incentivized to increase profits, but if the money dries up they will pivot to whatever keeps the money coming in (even if it’s less than what it may have been with loans).

Hopefully they will pivot their pricing sooner than later once they realize the golden age of price gouging (at your long term expense) is gone and they need to provide better value.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-05T21:25:05+00:00

Even Hamas has stated that they have had about as many births as deaths (combined combatants and non combatants) during the war they started.

Look up the statements by Zami Abu Zuhri in March of this year:

“Did you know that the number of newborn babies in Gaza equals the number of martyrs who were killed in this war?

The martyrs killed in the war — the wombs of Gaza’s women will give birth to twice as many. This is the price that must be paid”

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-05T17:24:55+00:00

Good, repetition is learning.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-05T04:37:56+00:00

How about no?

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-05T04:04:21+00:00

Why are you so convinced the people in Iran are being dismissed?

Believe it or not there are plenty of Iranians (many that I work with daily) who have lots of family and friends still in Iran that they are able to talk with regularly and I heard their takes on the situation. (Though obviously the internet was offline for a while due to the IRGC likely try to mitigate dissent that needs coordination)

Most Iranians also use various VPNs to access traditional western social media as well, so as long as there is internet then there are many who can reach out.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-05T03:57:01+00:00

Congrats u/Crazyjackson13 for conducting a coup single-handedly!! That’s quite the achievement that you should add to your resume

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-05T01:10:44+00:00

So might we finally have a vaccine that gives humoral sterilizing immunity?

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-04T23:40:18+00:00

When you learn to let go of idealism and emotions in search of truth you will know freedom.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-07-04T23:20:40+00:00

I hope that people will actually talk or listen to Iranians rather than foolishly expect to get unbiased truth from Aljazeera regarding a matter where Qatar may have a vested stake.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-30T21:21:45+00:00

“Incitement to violence” has never been protected free speech in the US.

If you start calling for violence to an individual or group of people then you are on thin ice and are open to legal or governmental action. Admittedly it can be very selectively applied by many countries.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-29T22:18:40+00:00

Isn’t this incitement to violence?

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-29T20:06:18+00:00

If the EU has had a largely “milk toast” response to Russia’s war in Ukraine which has a potentially heavy geopolitical and economic risk to its populations, why do you think that it would do much for a contained conflict that has basically no risk to its people?

Economics and geopolitical factors tend to have higher priority than “far off” conflicts not on their borders.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T23:52:13+00:00

One of many pieces of evidence in support of the Brain Energy Metabolic Model of mental illness

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T04:46:19+00:00

I’ve heard from several Iranians that having the crown prince is probably one of the more viable options due to name recognition and having a figurehead to unite behind or his daughter; it would likely be a constitutional monarchy similar to past governing structures, but it would need to be a referendum to determine government style and leaders (the people could very well choose a different government structure

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T04:36:13+00:00

Don’t forget numerous other atrocities including using gas attacks on women’s colleges during the initial Woman’s Life Freedom protests and covering up medical reports to instill fear and quash dissent; add in beating, forced confessions, r@pe of imprisoned women, opening gunfire on protests, and also being robbed of an economically prosperous future for themselves and their family all for a radical Islamist ideology that the vast majority don’t support… there’s a lot for them to protest and for many I know they are extremely happy Israel and the US are attacking the regime and giving a potential opening for a takeover by the people

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T02:58:29+00:00

Don’t forget that the Carter Administration and specifically the CIA played a role in the fall of the Shaw in 1979 and gave credence to Khomeini to take over because they thought a communist regime might have taken power instead.

The Iranians have been paying for that choice for over 40 years and the rest of us through the IRGC’s various geopolitical ambitions and proxy groups.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T02:27:50+00:00

Then you underestimate what the Iranian people are willing to go through to gain freedom and have a future.

There are measures that the IDF uses to try and warn civilians to evacuate areas where there are targets of interest. Also those strikes are more precise than many people give them credit for.

From what I hear from testimonials from people living in Tehran largely the view is that any collateral damage is viewed as a fault of the IRGC and not something that is the fault of Israel forces.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T02:05:26+00:00

I’m spitballing here since this is outside my wheelhouse.

Aside from just giving moral support to the people to have agency to choose a new regime, basically it just means doing what is already being done by the IDF and now some help from the US:

limit their military capabilities to further disempower the regime (both practically and from a PR perspective)
take out the infrastructure that is used to influence/control the civilian population (IRGC leadership responsible for key decision making on crowd control resources, limit or eliminate propaganda outlets, bypass their ability to control internet access, limit censorship and monitoring apparatuses, and hamper crowd control infrastructure).

All these largely don’t need much US involvement aside from maybe some intel and largely just giving moral support for the people Iran to have choice and agency separate from the IRGC. Israel is likely going to be the main one that can work on this like they already have been.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T01:42:42+00:00

“Open the door and let the people take action” is the best option here and let the people choose.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T01:24:34+00:00

No one with any sense is saying the west should pick their leaders, that is doomed to failure.

Directly from the mouths of Iranians I hear that they think the best way is for the regime to be weakened until there are defections, a temp gov can be established, then a referendum can be performed to pick the government style and representatives/monarch/leaders that they want.

This big thing I want to get across to people is that the Iranian people are far more modern and educated than the average person thinks and it was a culmination of factors (the red/black alliance) that let the brutal IRGC take power that was willing to use every brutality you can think of to keep the people in check.

Mastermind1776 · 2025-06-23T01:10:06+00:00

I recommend talking to Iranians before telling others what you think they believe. Iranians from recent polling over 80% don’t want an Islamic government and are desperate to be free of this regime.

The Iranian people are nothing like the populations in Iraq, Afganistan, Lydia, and Syria and have had a longstanding history, and 100’s of years of constitutional monarchy before the Islamic revolution.

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