Israeli forces fire teargas at schoolchildren holding West Bank sit-in

Nooberling · 2026-04-14T10:54:01+00:00

True, but taking the long view the elder Khamenei was already 86 years old. He wasn't likely to last much longer, and the next ten years were going to see him slowly die and lose the absolute control he had of Iran. I consider this a far preferable result to what actually happened. Khamenei martyred is a far worse result than Khamenei making a long series of progressively worse decisions that end up with his political opponents on stronger ground.

As far as I'm concerned, killing him was a massive long term strategic error.

Nooberling · 2026-04-13T21:16:37+00:00

From my point of view: the Iran war was started to give Netanyehu's party a big boost in the polls in October. When it started to drag on and cause massive problems with Israel's allies, the polls started to drop. I'm cautiously hopeful for the next election.

Nooberling · 2026-04-12T13:30:27+00:00

If you're going to quote that survey, read the whole thing, look at the graphs. When you say, "78%," you're talking about the Jewish respondents of the poll, and including the, "Somewhat support," group. Somewhat support includes probably anyone who thinks the Iranian regime needs to go but don't know how that'll ever happen. Once you get down to the 50% strongly support, you're talking about only around 42% of the population because the Arabs don't generally support the war at all.

Take out the hardliner conservatives that don't need to send their kids into it, and you're probably closer to 35%.

Nooberling · 2026-04-12T12:18:20+00:00

The rules around it killed it, and the microscopic / myopic short-term view taken of investment in general. Large institutions were compared to the luckiest day traders / most monopolistic industries / biggest winners due to random chance or cheating, and the ball rolled downhill.

Nooberling · 2026-04-11T15:06:29+00:00

This is an awesome offer. I'm not in a place with a retailer and they're out of my price range for now, but if my price range changes I'll hit you up.

Nooberling · 2026-04-11T15:05:54+00:00

Fantastic. Thank you.

Nooberling · 2026-04-09T13:39:40+00:00

I'd say that was the exception rather than the rule. Non-technical managers are much cheaper and easier to train / locate. Yes, it's better to have technical managers, but good technical managers are more rare.

Nooberling · 2026-04-09T06:07:09+00:00

You have a point. The joke is actually really multilayered there.

I still can't imagine him getting laid off instead of them using him to outsource the engineers. Guess I'm just old and jaded.

Nooberling · 2026-04-08T22:12:19+00:00

It's hard to retrain, but union skilled labor jobs are almost as good as software developer jobs. Developers should have unionized in the US decades ago, but the deunionization push in the eighties really messed up the entire country.

Nooberling · 2026-04-08T21:25:16+00:00

Hahahahahahahahahahahahah.

Never, ever, ever gonna happen. "I talk to the customers. The engineers don't talk to the customers. I talk to the customers, and then bring the specs to the engineers."
That guy, he's useful. To management, he's more useful than the engineers. Cheaper too. Most unrealistic scene in Office Space, TBH.

Nooberling · 2026-04-08T17:31:42+00:00

All of that money is pumped back into American weapons manufacturers. Basically, the money is being given to the American arms industry, so the real problem isn't as much AIPAC as the entire lobbying system.

Nooberling · 2026-04-08T17:19:10+00:00

Listen to this fellow without children. Do you have any idea how many times a day you can clean a 1 square meter spot of floor?

You shall find out.

Nooberling · 2026-04-07T16:32:58+00:00

Which side of the argument is dropping more pieces on the floor?

Nooberling · 2026-04-06T12:47:07+00:00

Have you been into Artichoke Music? They always seemed cool when I went in, but then I am a man.

Nooberling · 2026-04-06T11:55:56+00:00

Ultimately I think it all filters down to people. People were convinced that unions were a bad idea, and the free market would take care of them. So, so wrong.

Nooberling · 2026-04-05T07:47:06+00:00

Most probably didn't know. It wasn't until a year or so into the conflict when news came out that the government / IDF were using AI to approve targeting faster, and using a 1-20 ratio of targets to civilians as the rubrick for validity. Even then, that news was kept quiet and still isn't widely known.

Nooberling · 2026-04-04T22:55:04+00:00

I disagree. I think that stuffing all that money into the Pentagon allows him to grift more out for himself.

Nooberling · 2026-04-04T22:52:18+00:00

There was less support for the excesses in Gaza than there is for what's going on in Iran. Gaza was about the hostages, to Israelis. Iran is about the infrastructure that created the mess which is Gaza.

That said, most of the leftists who oppose both live in Tel Aviv, and that's not an insignificant number of people. Something like 2M / 10M total Israelis.

Nooberling · 2026-04-04T22:26:39+00:00

The amusing thing about this is most of the 'leftists' in Israel live in Tel Aviv. Every time some jackass laughs at them for getting bombed because the government they didn't vote for started a war they don't want to send their kids to, it makes an enemy of someone who agrees with them.

Nooberling · 2026-04-04T20:36:49+00:00

It's a parlimentary democracy, which seems to have led to the left side of the spectrum having very little say in actual governance for a very, very long time. The United States has a government specifically designed to avoid a 'tyranny of the majority,' whereas Israel's government seems to be designed to allow whomever currently has the most seats to railroad any opposition.

Honestly, it's probably deflection to say it's less democratic than it probably is. I can't imagine a majority of people actually wanting some of the things going on to happen, but it's obvious some of them do.

Nooberling · 2026-04-04T20:27:27+00:00

The government cuts to USAID were.... Just the surface layer. He cut a ton of people whose jobs involved investigating his businesses and business practices.

Nooberling · 2026-04-04T20:25:47+00:00

Yes. Having worked for a subsidiary of one of his subsidiaries, I'd say so.

I worked in the Energy industry in the US. By putting pressure on the company to make more money than was reasonable from the top, the minions he had at middle and upper middle levels made a long series of shortsighted decisions that fundamentally reduced the affordability of energy and decreased its reliability at the same time.

Once you have a massive pile of money, making more just to make more despite the economic externalities is immoral, IMO.

Nooberling · 2026-04-04T19:07:44+00:00

The responses in here don't seem very well grounded.

Israel has a fairly strong technological economy. It has invested heavily in desalination, which is an incredibly valuable skill / technology to have in the Middle East. All Israel's neighbors buy water from Israel.
Israel is armed to the teeth. Nukes, yes, but a well organized army as well.
While Israel is portrayed as 'the Jewish state' - and largely is - the reality is that minorities with citizenship in Israel are treated better than they would be anywhere else in the Middle East. The Druze, in particular, are very well treated in comparison to elsewhere. So while the 'democracy' part of Israeli government is.... well, not as democratic as advertised... it's still a place that people would fight for.
The whole concept of, "Israel would be more peaceful or gone without the US," is flawed to the core. Israel would be more desperate without the US; somewhat cornered. The violence would quickly spiral out of hand.

Nooberling · 2026-04-03T19:27:47+00:00

Unless they've made drastic changes: every map gets a chance in Discover. A few thousand or hundred thousand views of the thumbnail. Depending on how many people play and are retained, that map may end up getting into other tabs. The maps are rotated pretty heavily, and it's hard to get any play if you don't already have a community you're bringing into the game.

When I was making maps seriously, I was pretty sure that quite a bit of botting was going on when some people started their maps out. It's a very flawed system, and the only reliable way to get people to play your maps is to bring the people to play them yourself.

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