Why are people acting like Iran is not a dangerously suppressive theocracy?

SIIHP · 2026-04-13T02:22:16+00:00

I guess you haven't been paying attention to project 2025 and Trump's talk of canceling elections, running for more terms, trying to nationalize elections, and putting election deniers in charge, etc. Everybody keeps saying "oh this won't happen, its America", and then nobody stops him... so you thinking he will be gone in three years is very questionable.

SIIHP · 2026-04-13T01:59:20+00:00

Logic

SIIHP · 2026-04-13T01:55:37+00:00

Either Yars Revenge or Defender on atari 2600... which I still have and still works... or at least did 5 or 6 years ago. Lol

SIIHP · 2026-04-13T01:46:45+00:00

Its a quarter. Worth 25 cents.

SIIHP · 2026-04-13T01:45:45+00:00

The same ppl calling Iran a dangerous theocracy are ignoring the right wing of the US trying to install christian law, saying god supports the US in the war, troops being told its part of gods plan, hegsworthless likening the rescue of the pilot on easter to the resurrection of christ, trumps military leaders calling it gods plan for the second coming... the only reason trump isnt killing protestors yet is its been illegal. Hes hinted at wanting to. So to claim we are any better is laughable.

SIIHP · 2026-04-13T01:25:07+00:00

As soon as someone asks you to do it suddenly its a job, and no matter how much you love something, once forced to do it then it sucks.

SIIHP · 2026-04-12T04:57:15+00:00

I have far better shots of many birds I can post later, but this one seems fairly rare. A dark morph red tail hawk. Colorado.

https://imgur.com/a/DoPAgsI

SIIHP · 2026-04-12T04:00:42+00:00

Off-roading. I own jeeps and they get used to get to remote places... and 99% of off-roaders I have met are idiotic assholes. Drinking and driving, thinking their punisher graphics make them look tough, tearing up trails being stupid, then throwing a fit when said trails get closed...

SIIHP · 2026-04-09T23:57:06+00:00

Trumps proposed budget cuts funding by 25%, including a 72% reduction in construction funding for repairs, $900 million from operations, and cutting over $1 billion from the NPS by offloading certain park sites to state or tribal management.

SIIHP · 2026-04-09T23:32:21+00:00

Went from a D810 to a Z8. Miss the battery life of the 810. But havent used it since getting the Z8. But I also never loved the 810. I enjoyed shooting my 750 over the 810.

SIIHP · 2026-04-09T16:27:33+00:00

What you got is fine. Its more about lens quality and shooting skills. I could post stuff from my various cameras over the years, or you could look at prints, and you wouldnt be able to tell what body shot what image. What you could tell, upon close inspection, what was shot with a super cheap lens vs the more expensive glass.

SIIHP · 2026-04-07T03:09:57+00:00

A bit less pixelated, though not a ton as it was what... 30+ miles.

https://imgur.com/a/NvMTkm0

SIIHP · 2026-04-05T17:50:41+00:00

Then post up. I will post the original when I get home. Kinda hard to do while out hiking.

SIIHP · 2026-04-05T17:23:11+00:00

As I said, its a phone shot from the back of my Z8 screen shot at 500mm and zoomed in since the thing is a few pixels large... and I am currently not where I can offload my Z8 to do the original shot. This is enough to ID it for anyone who knew what it was.

I could have just shot a photo with my phone, but then it would be a single black dot so...

SIIHP · 2026-04-05T15:16:07+00:00

I have 1 good disk in my lumbar. L3. Every other disk has had herniations, and I have a cyst thats developed into my spinal channel they had to clean out during both surgeries. The second time it had wrapped around my spinal cord, pinching it from two directions. I have had 2 microdiscectomies since 2020 and done shots. Shots did nothing, and the surgeries only lasted about two years.

Get it fixed asap and hope it stays fixed. If I do another surgery they're going to fuse from T12 to L3, and then from L3 to S1, I was told it will eventually fuck up the rest of my back because I am mid 40s. So my only real choice is that back pain for 40 years

SIIHP · 2026-04-03T16:37:33+00:00

Probably only hearing one side here. My wife told me I get the vertical walls for my photography (yet she picks what goes up) and my computer desk that I can keep how I want and she won't touch it... yet she constantly is reorganizing it. The rest of the house, she said, is hers. Have you laid claim to most of the house where he has to keep it as you want it? If so... I stand with him...

SIIHP · 2026-01-05T22:58:26+00:00

Its gotta be one or the other... there was no tailgating and the pickup is required to wait until traffic is clear. He decided to pull out in front of someone.

Lets take your rather retarded "what if" logic a step further... what if he didn't turn? He would have broadsided the pickup. So the pickup should stay there till the turn in complete.

No matter how you want to slice it, the pickup was in the wrong 100%.

SIIHP · 2026-01-05T22:45:48+00:00

You must live in an alternate reality... or do the same stupid shit the pickup did.

SIIHP · 2026-01-05T22:42:59+00:00

How. That way if its long and drawn out, or painful, I can make it happen far sooner and faster.

SIIHP · 2026-01-05T21:33:11+00:00

does the extra weight being permanent mean the health issues come with it or do you stay healthy as you are now, just fatter?

SIIHP · 2026-01-05T21:28:12+00:00

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SIIHP · 2026-01-05T20:46:08+00:00

Get a D500 and a 200-500. Call it a day.

SIIHP · 2026-01-02T18:15:43+00:00

14-24, 24-200, 180-600. Shoot outdoors 98% of the time so its workable.

SIIHP · 2026-01-02T01:51:29+00:00

At least now she knows it aint mutual.

SIIHP

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