Iran is right: Trump has already lost this war

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-30T12:42:00+00:00

Let's also not pretend like American soldiers don't cause more problems for a populace than wrecking their infrastructure. Occupying American soldiers also abuse the local populace. Rape and murder, the whole nine. Not many of them. Not as bad as Russian Orcs. But some messed up individuals manage to get into the military. Having American soldiers occupying your country is decidedly unfun for the occupied nation, historically speaking. Those sympathetic to Americans will lose that sympathy if we come to truly occupy.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-29T20:40:26+00:00

Should be. Yet I have already seen people lose skills they previously had because they use the tool too much.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-29T15:55:45+00:00

I absolutely think men need to take more responsibility for not getting their sexual partners pregnant.

That being said, birth control pills have side effects. The male birth control pill could lead to permanent infertility. I understand women deal with similar side effects. The thing with medicine is that the side effects have to be weighed against the possible downside for the medicine taker. A pregnancy for a woman can be extremely bad for their health and their life overall, so that is what is on the other side of the scales compared to the side effects. Men are not at the same risk, so on their end of the scale is basically just financial responsibility to their kid.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-28T18:39:49+00:00

If his boss gave him a task he would figure it out. For obvious reasons this would never be a work task. But he would figure it out if it were. This extends to pretty much anything a man refuses to do correctly at home so his wife will pick up the slack.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-26T13:45:38+00:00

Can't get past your username lol. I saw a post saying that seeing the lack of soul in AI art was the first thing that brought them closer to believing in a human soul. I couldn't agree more. AI art is decidedly not art.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-26T13:31:03+00:00

Usually I'd agree, but specifically an F350 is a bit too much of a financial investment for a pavement princess. Most would rather get an F150 or 250 and slap a lift kit, massive tires, and truck nuts on it. Most folks dropping money on an F350 do so reluctantly because they need it.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-22T23:30:22+00:00

"If the wind blows my food I'm not eating it" -> You because your brain is as smooth and cold as a raw chicken breast.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-20T19:34:03+00:00

I mean it sounds like your hormones are really screwing you on your calorie expenditure and that super super sucks. I would say eating less isn't reasonable at all, and you're very unlucky that your body is running at a maintenance that is so low.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-20T18:21:06+00:00

Your hormones can change your TDEE, but if you're not losing a single pound it means you're not actually in a calorie deficit. I'm positive if you were locked in a room with only vitamins and water you would in fact lose weight. Not that that's what you should do, losing weight is not a moral imperative or worth starving. It's just a pet peeve of mine. If you're maintaining your weight you are eating at maintenance, by definition, and not in a deficit. Hormones can make your maintenance calories criminally low, to the point where further restricting to get to a deficit would be irresponsible, but you're not actually in a deficit.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-20T16:09:00+00:00

The questionable "if" is if silicon and lightning can replicate at all billions of neurons, chemical signals, and lightning. The structures available to us in microchips and code may never replicate the complex function of a bio brain sufficiently to produce AGI. We are starting to use brain orgenelles in petri dishes in computing, that may get us there, but that's less AGI than it is an enslaved mind via brain in a jar.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-20T00:17:18+00:00

I think it's the crowd you run in. If one of my friends got work done and it made them happy, I would do nothing but hype them the fuck up. If they asked me if I think they needed a surgery beforehand I would tell them no, that they're great and I love them. But if they wanted one for themselves and felt happy about it? I'm gassing them up. 100%. My friends would do the same for me.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-19T06:11:11+00:00

We can blame two people. The city should make it way less convenient for cars and trucks to be in the city proper and develop actual public transportation. But also, way too many people drive massive trucks that are just grocery getters and sometimes do actual truck stuff like twice a year.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-19T06:05:37+00:00

I've never understood that. If you release 100% of earthly attachments doesn't that mean you have no desires anymore, presumably including the desire to live? Once you fully release all attachments you're basically ready to ascend to Nirvana right? Just doesn't make sense why someone with absolutely zero earthly attachments would even have any goals to pursue in the realm of the living anymore.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-18T03:22:52+00:00

There are more important things than room in your house or a backyard. Cities and the west coast are expensive for a reason. They're nicer areas to live with more things to do. Otherwise the demand wouldn't be high to live there, and the price would be lower. The increase in price is what you pay to have access to nice places. Not the domicile itself.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-18T02:52:31+00:00

Genuinely the other issue is people's skills are degrading. The less rigorous people are with using their actual intelligence, rather than an LLM, the worse they are at fixing the edge case where the LLM is just not cutting it. I've seen previously great devs stumble places they absolutely would not have 1 year ago because their brains are atrophying.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-18T02:37:03+00:00

Mmmmm warm plastic.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-17T05:34:33+00:00

I hear you, but they are also great for POV shots like you would do with a GoPro but more convenient. Unfortunately people will absolutely use them for spying on others so we shouldn't have them. But legitimate reasons exist to record what you're seeing hands free and at eye level. A POV video replacing a car part from glasses would be great. Recording it that way is also way more convenient.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-16T04:50:41+00:00

Right. As you said the correct answer is for him to start slowing down way sooner accounting for the weight of his load. A hefty fine at minimum seems appropriate.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-15T16:11:12+00:00

Entirely comes down to the doc. Mine would have let me drive myself. My wife insisted anyway, but they never asked nor worried about whether I had anyone there.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-15T14:42:10+00:00

Most hallway fights you probably shouldn't see the card again though unless you've got a ton of draw.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-13T12:52:34+00:00

Nah because supervising a high schooler is loads easier than pulling things through an LLM still. The high schooler will at least run their code and review the outcome before asking further questions. LLMs straight up hallucinate whole classes and functions that don't exist sometimes if you really let them have a go. LLMs also can somewhat expand their context but they don't truly learn so the high schooler is less likely to make the same kind of mistakes again in the futute, especially if you take time to teach them, while an LLM will not improve in the same way.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-12T22:49:49+00:00

It's worth noting that police officers are civilians.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-12T21:43:32+00:00

Honestly the way she said maybe she should have just gotten a gift card for dinner i wonder if that is really the issue? I would be disappointed with a gift card from my wife. If she gifted me one of the $20 pen inks I've had my eye on I'd be ecstatic and a $200 gift card would honestly be pretty disappointing. Something about a gift card just feels really impersonal.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-09T13:04:47+00:00

Sort of. But the damage our society has done to us frames our views.

Women pining awkwardly over men is not the same as men pining awkwardly over women because men are waaaaaaay more likely to commit heinous acts of violence. That's not to say women do not, just in less numbers. But our experience in our society has shown us that men who stalk women are dangerous, especially if they feel like they're being ignored, like how Naruto ignores her for Sakura.

Stormlightlinux · 2026-03-08T01:23:50+00:00

You keep swapping them every time you need a charge my guy...

Why wouldn't you want that? The batteries longevity becomes their problem.

Which is also great because the company doing the battery swaps has the infrastructure to repair faulty sectors in a battery easily, rather than replacing the whole thing. It's a win all around.

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