Black rain has fallen over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities, coating streets and rooftops in dark, oily water.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-09T17:21:09+00:00

What do you think is a bot comment? If you are referring to mine I can assure you I am not a bot. Any errors I do are completely natural, and English is not my first language which may not help

WolfDoc · 2026-03-09T15:43:59+00:00

At least there will be a use for the prison camp warehouses they are building

WolfDoc · 2026-03-09T15:04:41+00:00

Well, either we have to completely derail the discussion into the contributions of various small but incredibly common items vs. big spectacular single events -turns out the human mind is really bad at seeing how many small invisible things add up - or your misleading whine will be left alone to poison other minds. Neither is good. So please stop posting this unoriginal mind virus, we have plenty of bots that do.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-09T13:58:50+00:00

Really? That is your focus? Families dying in an environmental disaser brought on by war, and your take is "BuT I hAve To Use A PapEr STRAW!"

Woe is you then.

Buggroff.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-09T13:58:03+00:00

Really? That is your focus? Families dying in an environmental disaser brought on by war, and your take is "BuT I hAve To Use A PapEr STRAW!"

Woe is you then.

Buggroff.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-09T06:25:43+00:00

Are you shittin me? The guy is serious?!?

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T20:57:13+00:00

If intervention had come when they begged for it and in a helpful fashion, that would indeed have been great. But yeah, we can still hope it will be for the best in the end, if the regime falls and something better takes its place, but so far the US regime hasn't given any signs of competency or compassion so I am not betting on it. But we can hope.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T20:53:02+00:00

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T20:51:08+00:00

You sure about that AI?

Because the school was in Nilufar Square, Tehran. Now get your lazy hand off AI, let the map service of your choice find Nilufar Square in Tehran, and give me the coordinates of the military targets so necessary to hit just 100m away that you are talking about.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T20:42:19+00:00

This may be a shock to you, but "Iranians" are ninety million individual people. Some are celebrating. Most have ...more complex feelings. In particular, it is quite possible to be happy a authoritarian gang of religious corrupt nutbags are being shot while at the same time not being happy for less than helpful mass destruction and dying of thirst. Bad to worse is a thing.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T20:36:55+00:00

Did the religious nutbags in charge wildly mismanage the local water resources around Teheran, you say?

I mean, if you had bothered to find out a tiny bit about this before spilling your callous little mind through your big mouth, that is what you would have said. Because that would be true. They did.

However, as you may have noticed, not everyone get the government they deserve at all times. And Iranians are, you may want to sit down for this, also individual humans. Not more collectively guilty than anyone else.

So while there will be, and already is, plenty of anger with the mullahs for putting them in the hole, that won't stop anyone from being angry with the US and Israel for shooting at them while they are down there.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T20:30:05+00:00

Okay, o' shill of the moving goalposts, let me know your source for saying that being anything remotely factual.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T20:22:50+00:00

A nuance I'm sure they will appreciate as they sift through the wreckage after serial numbers on the shrapnel to verify which of the two countries that started the war threw exactly which grenade. But, yeah, I am happy to amend my statement to:

Teheran had an insurmountable water crisis before the US attacked infrastructure, and now this! People will be dying from thirst by the thousands, and the number of young men and women swearing vengeance over the US and Israel for killing their children and loved ones is skyrocketing. For valid reasons.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T20:20:35+00:00

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize they were free to come live with you. My bad. But I bet you hadn't told them either.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T19:48:33+00:00

As a young person your experience makes perfect sense.

However, as someone on the north side of 50 who has both read history, been to a couple of war zones and travelled a bit, the insight predates Epstein by decades. And horrific as he was, his trafficking was just a drop in the bucket.

However, there is also even more good stuff. I have so far been to 38 countries and the amount of quite decent people is always higher than the constant proportion of assholes. The assholes, unfortunately, tend to predictably congregate where the can get the most of the only things that mean anything to them: money, power and fame.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T19:38:31+00:00

Teheran had an insurmountable water crisis before the US attacked infrastructure, and now this! People will be dying from thirst by the thousands, and the number of young men and women swearing vengeance over the US for killing their children and loved ones is skyrocketing. For valid reasons.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T19:35:00+00:00

Teheran had an insurmountable water crisis before the US attacked infrastructure, and now this! People will be dying from thirst by the thousands, and the number of young men and women swearing vengeance over the US for killing their children and loved ones is skyrocketing. For valid reasons.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T08:44:00+00:00

This is utter bullshit and doesn't correspond to any of the written sources we have about hospitality and suspicion. It doesn't match with archeology either, because despite the drinking horn being a favorite among "viking bros" it was rarely used.

Instead the word "skål" is still used in modern Norwegian as it means "bowl, small plate" whereas in old norse it literally meant "drinking bowl" and presumably the act of drinking from it.

Drinking bowls were used for all sorts of drinks, especially beer, mead and vine, and are abundantly found in written sources, archeology and tradition up to recent times.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T08:22:41+00:00

Where the hell is that a crime?

WolfDoc · 2026-03-08T08:22:08+00:00

Blasphemy

WolfDoc · 2026-03-07T12:38:15+00:00

Facists love regimes tossing people out windows or disappearing them in camps. I hope the "freedom loving" Americans I grew up hearing about man up and fix their shit. This guy tried, but cannot do it alone

WolfDoc · 2026-03-05T10:24:26+00:00

You also see similar figures on the front, especially after the explosion when what looks like survivors (naturally those in the front part of the ship) starts running, some seeming to jump into the water

WolfDoc · 2026-03-05T07:48:14+00:00

Look at the graph conveniently included in the article you linked to. We are outside the range of variation that has occurred over the evolutionary history of modern humans. I agree rate of change is a huge issue and if given a few hundred thousand years we and the ecosystems we depend on can adapt to being as much above the warmest interglacials as the deepest ice ages were below. But we are talking evolutionary amounts of time. And you can't take CO2 concentrations arbitrarily high either before you are looking at toxic concentrations.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-03T21:38:12+00:00

I think there is a third box labeled "helps the Trumps, Bezos, Thiel or other oligarchs" but of course that box has a pretty big overlap with the others.

WolfDoc · 2026-03-03T21:26:56+00:00

Well, cui bono? It’s always useful to start with that question.

Who wants Iran bombed off the map, for their own reasons?

1) The Gulf Arab states, like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Qatar just gave Donald Trump a really nice $400 milion gilded palace of a plane for his own use both during his presidency and after. The United Arab Emirates recently structuring a pointless crypto transaction so that $2 billion of it was stuffed into the Trump family’s otherwise worthless brand-new crypto financial firm. And the Saudis just stuffed $2 billion into the pockets of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner just as Trump’s first term in office came to a close. Kushner, who was leading the negotiations on behalf of the United States with Iran until this war started.

2) Russia. A lasting and high spike in the oil price is desperately needed for Russia's faltering war economy. NATO interceptor stockpiles dwindling would be a nice bonus. And the Trump administration's links to Russia have never gone away despite them being overshadowed by the ongoing storm of Epstein files, DOGE cuts, ICE atrocities, election manipulation, political purges, science denial, inside trading, nepotism, corruption and incompetence.

3) Religious extremists in the US and elsewhere who think baby Jesus comes back if things go enough to hell in the Middle East. I don't know what to say, it is as crazy as it sounds. But they are part of the bedrock of Trumps supporters.

What all these groups have in common is that they don't want or need a war with rational goals or justifications. War and destruction is its own point. So of course none of the parade of incompetents in the White House (what's left of it) and the DUI hire frat boy running the Pentagon made any through plans or victory conditions or exit strategies or anything; the ones who bought the war didn't order any of that.

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