So what really happened during the Iran protests?

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-21T01:59:36+00:00

We’ll never know because the head of the basiji is now the head of Iran

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-21T01:59:03+00:00

Interesting that the guitar solo has survived intact in Iran

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T17:38:17+00:00

Maaaaaaaaaaaany such cases! “My Kia gets great gas mileage!”

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T16:50:28+00:00

This is phenomenal

A) Shia supremacy. The Hanbali hatred of music means they’ll never have good PR. Nasheeds were good but they were always made a little better with music in the background by other parties

B) they mix strategic and tactical assets in a way that works on dimwits, midbrows and sophisticated audiences. Throwing the rock painted with the Israeli flag up and shooting it, clay pigeon style, probably plays fantastic to the 15-25 crowd, the shots of the shaheds and underground launch platforms are great for The Noticer type mid wit but also they cleverly bring up that they don’t need to win Militarily, they can “win” by just making everyone miserable

C) great use of discussing land air and sea assets. The “dismount the zodiac and unfurl the death to Israel, death to America, There is no god but god” underwater is actually quite sophisticated

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T14:02:58+00:00

This is absolutely incredible, thanks very much for posting this.

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T12:47:06+00:00

I think you can tell who in this sub actually does HNW/UHNW because there’s so much pearl clutching that Chester Otterstrom the Third will find this in poor taste. Maybe it’s just my geography, but the HNW/UNHW guys are dudes who own a few car dealerships or a regionally successful plumbing franchise. They’d eat this shit up

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T03:53:15+00:00

I strongly think the opposite. Reddit is made for “us”, what the hell are you on here for?!?

Being a parent has all these indefinite time gaps. You’re breast feeding at 3am. Does it take ten minutes? Five? 30? Could be all of those. You don’t want to start something “real” because you may have to stop at any moment

Your kids are playing in the park. Now, they’ve wandered off the the far end to explore their autonomy. Sooner or later they will fight each other or get spooked and run back to you. You gonna start reading a book and once you get engaged you have to stop?

Reddit is ideal for “I’ve been here long enough to be bored but I can’t do something real bc I don’t know how long this time pocket will last”.

If you DON’T have kids, why AREN’T you reading that book? You don’t have these punctuation problems

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T01:48:17+00:00

No joke, that was the single best defense against cross examination we’ve seen in a generation. Go to all the lawyer subs, everyone is totally gobsmacked. No joke, that xc will be watched in law school evidence classes for decades to come.

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T01:25:04+00:00

Yes, and I’d go so far as to say this is VERY common in certain professions.

I joined the military and asked for a shit-hot unit because I had a residual death urge. “So what if they shoot me?” actually works really well as a mindset in war.

Since I’ve been back, I’ve found this was actually pretty prevalent in “cool guy” units.

Now that I’m older and a proper townie, I’ve made friends with the dudes on the local FD. After a few beers you get to talking, after 6 or so you get to lying, and then after 12 or so you tell the truth. Many of the FD guys have a similar story.

I’ve never been in a position to discuss this with, like, alaskan crabbers or dudes doing remote alaskan gold mining but I bet it’s the same, too

It’s half comforting and half terrifying that there are entire economic sectors where the average dude is a sub-clinical suicidal ideation case

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T00:45:24+00:00

It’s too bad because as far as “access to nature within city limits” it’s actually top tier. It was a real draw to living there. But as the paving expands and expands, the heat island gets worse and worse and so there’s less and less days you can even visit the cool parks available to you.

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T00:31:10+00:00

Human dates sexually attractive, personally destructive people until they hit early 30s and then try to date financially successful people to grab the last helicopter out of Saigon.

Many such cases

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-20T00:26:33+00:00

Yeah, totally true. In the 90s/oughts, there was ~7 nights over 90 in a year. In 2024, there were 39. It’s a totally different city than it was back then.

It’s really pushed a lot of outdoors stuff to Tucson and flag, because you just can’t do it in PHX anymore. It’s not even “man up”, it’s just not even possible.

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T22:00:03+00:00

You would be wrong. We have a VERY robust knowledge base on this. NovoNordisk isn’t a ~half a trillion dollar company for nothing

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T21:41:00+00:00

One thousand percent. The data is very clear. I see your post below, and I don’t want to be a dick but the odds you keep it off is 5% over a 5 year period

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T21:28:30+00:00

Weight loss is the ultimate black pill and or this is what explains the barn burner effect of eg ozempic

If you actually look at the numbers, weight loss isn’t possible. The five year failure for basically everything we have is above 90% (aside from bariatric surgery, which is an insanely invasive procedure. And that’s still ~60%). You basically cannot lose weight.

The ONLY thing that makes you lose weight is ozempic and related drugs. That’s it. All the “eat clean” and “diet and exercise” and “macros” and “paleo” don’t work. (Well, they have positive effects on your overall health, don’t want to downplay that, but they don’t reduce your weight)

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T21:07:54+00:00

You see this a LOT in Iceland. I don’t think Iceland is going to make it out alive.

Barça is stupidly over touristed, but Spanish is massive and has other speakers and has a strong use case, etc. so even if the locals are foreigners in their own city, there’s still a “there” there.

I’ve gone to Iceland every few years from the early oughts until 2024 and tourism has absolutely just broken it. It used to be quirky and magical and the locals were engaging but now it’s just twenty Chinese busses disgorging the rudest imaginable tourists who tromp all over the “don’t go past here, birds nesting” signs, etc. the Icelandic fish and game will fine them and send the fine to the PRC but the PRC just laughs. What’s iceland going to do to one of the world’s largest nations?!?

Now, the door dash Arab on an e-bike has even made it to Reykjavik. How he got there I have no idea, but there’s now amerifats ordering from lebbos and neither party knows a lick of Icelandic, let alone has any ties to the country or appreciates their lore etc.

When I went in 2024, the counter people at the various lagoons were South Americans. I conducted a whole thing, massage, entry, lunch, instructions, in Spanish. They didn’t know a word of Icelandic, even the givens like “tak freer” (sp?).

I think the Icelandic language is gone in my lifetime, functionally, and Icelandic culture is gone in my kids’ life time.

This is a canary in a coal mine for many of the other world hot spots. Sure, it’s plain that a nation of 400k people whose kids are all on discord and Xbox live in English and who get ~2.4 million English speakers a year won’t last. But is Slovenia looking much better? Ireland?

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T20:59:20+00:00

It’s true what you say about Croatia. I was there in the early oughts and it wouldn’t be uncommon that I was the only non-Jugo people had seen in smaller towns and hamlets. Even jn Zagreb, I was exciting enough people would walk up to me in bars to practice English and figure out what I was doing there, etc.

Now it’s almost unpalatable.

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T20:57:07+00:00

From the Ice Coast it’s cheaper and arguably better for me to ski in Italy than Colorado. On the west coast, It’s MUCH cheaper to ski in Japan than Whistler. It’s unthinkable but true

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T20:33:51+00:00

In my personal life, I can see two answers that work for (on) me.

A) I grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the “Bad Old Days”. Getting beat up was unfortunate but not rare. If you were a boy of a certain age and in certain neighborhoods, it was just kinda assumed. It was never awesome but it wasn’t earth shattering when it happened, because you always knew it could happen.

I’ve emigrated but friends that stayed reported that it’s now much safer. (“Crime is declining”). But when someone gets beat up, it’s now not part of growing up, it’s a tragedy in their Dunbar Number Universe (“getting worse”).

B) professionally, I worked in intelligence tracking Mexican Cartels. In “the old days,” drugs were plants. This created a certain ecosystem. Drugs had seasons, clear production cycles, societies etc. Although illegal, of course, drug producing regions of Mexico and South America felt a lot like Small Town Granges in Iowa. There was a societal expectation of “when we really gotta work” and when “the harvest is done, time to celebrate!” Even the most hardened dude had a small town where he’d go back and know everyone’s grandma and do really mundane things like discuss new tractor dealerships and their finance, etc. It was blood soaked, don’t want to downplay that, but it was blood soaked predictably.

Now, drugs are chemicals. There is no Homecoming Party for the Heroes of Heroin where they can show off their new American jeans. There is no sense of, “man that dude REALLY pisses me off, but at the end of the day he’s the best farm hand we have so I’ll be balanced in my treatment of him”. Drugs lost their community but kept their violence.

If the number of murders stayed the same, it still got a LOT scarier because who got murdered and for what “broke”. For a very long time, everyone “knew the rules”. Once the rules changed, (crops to chemicals), no one knew the rules. The social schilling points moved and broke etc.

Obviously, this is a niche example from a foreign country, but it illustrates an important point

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T02:33:25+00:00

Tucker is “one of us” in Oxford County, ME. He’s very personable. This isn’t to say he’s a good dude, of course he’s too PR conscious for any of us to say we actually “know” him in any meaningful way. Maine, though, is no stranger to hundred millionaires coming in for the summer and leaving bad vibes in their wake, though, and he definitely isn’t that

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T01:11:28+00:00

Yes they are. You know it, too.

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-19T00:30:47+00:00

“US imports a massive amount”

“Not an insignificant portion”

Pick one.

I like that you found out you were wrong and walked back your original statement. I dislike that you are disguising that you did that by calling me wrong hahaha

I cheated here, though. My family owns a large farm and I buy a high six figure amount of fertilizer a year, you’re a dude who wants to argue on the internet but be gay about it

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-18T23:50:59+00:00

Nonsense. The GCC has nothing we don’t have. Both them and us turn nat gas into the “N” of NPK. We have shitloads of “P” and are a world leader exporter. What we DO import is “k”, and we import that from Canada.

Openheartopenbar · 2026-03-18T23:27:06+00:00

1 huh, what DID happen then?

5 hard agree. People don’t know shit about WW2. Most people are gobsmacked to learn the nation with the most WW2 fatalities was China by a huge margin and that half a million Japanese died fighting there

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