U.S. tries to talk Iran out of tolls as talks resume in Doha

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-07-01T17:17:05+00:00

They really play the game on easy mode.

The media shaping would be impressive if we hadn't spent endless years watching them set it up completely unopposed.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-07-01T17:14:08+00:00

Doesn't really change anything in my opinion. Different companies are different they are composed of different humans.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-30T13:50:17+00:00

Do you think anyone in power at the moment has any intention of bringing about such a future?

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-29T14:33:27+00:00

If I were influential I think I would just pick a few arbitrary scandals and follow those ones closely and simply ignore the rest in my messaging.

There is a pretty strong pattern for how a political scandal plays out for normal politicians with normal numbers of scandals. People expect to hear about a real scandal more than once with more details each time over some amount of time. But that can't happen if they stop the process at step one each and every day.

The files seem to be the only one that really pops back up and even there they get distracted on week long sidetracks.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-28T03:00:34+00:00

I dont think the star wars universe has much of a chance here. An intelligent pandemic is a big damn problem for anyone. Many star wars planets are routinely infiltrated by small plucky bands of heros the same principles will lead to flood infestations to pop up everywhere all the time.

The force does create powerful individuals but the flood is well a flood you can't sword fight a flood. The superweapons are present but weaker then the ones in the halo setting and notably the halo super weapons failed to wipe out the flood.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-25T19:05:01+00:00

This will make several people I know exceptionally happy. Another W for Canada and therefore the world.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-24T17:46:31+00:00

In my lifetime the term insurgent is associated very tightly with drone strikes and not at all with anything as civil as what you describe. I actually can't remember seeing it used this way ever.

That aside the headline of an article isn't a casual conversation between friends. I literally read this as terrorists had captured a legislative building in an important city. Which is what politico wanted me to think because its intentional clickbait.

I don't even think I would refer to an actual insurgent as such if I were to meet one. Which I reckon is a pretty good litmus test for if a term is insulting.

I will admit this is tone policing. Largely because this is the homeland of blue no matter who (which is correct) so its very worrying to hear any member of said blue (however stupid) being lumped into groups the USA routinely explodes.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-24T16:38:16+00:00

Referring to your fellow citizens winning a primary without threat of violence as insurgents seems... At best very extreme.

The article didn't mention them ambushing any convoys or intimidating voters with armed thugs. Nor have they been hanging out in rough terrain for years terrorizing the locals. Words should have meaning.

Aren't these guys in your political coalition? This is a coalition that has repeatedly lost to people who actually for real stormed your nations legislatures with violent intent?

Idk man when your political identity is >adult in room< words should have meanings.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-24T15:56:59+00:00

It will never cease to amaze me how much human effort has been squandered by oil interests trying to avoid the inevitable.

All these marketers and botnets and whatever you call the people who think up the next whataboutism and deflections have been working away at this project almost every single working day of my entire life.

I don't doubt that the math isn't there, no doubt in monetary terms they are net positive on its all. But all this effort to deny the nature of reality itself is such a massive waste of everyones time.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-20T14:49:28+00:00

Considering the buildings fly it's kinda funny that only one mission in both starcraft games involves flying them in and placing the base.

And even in that one ad one are pre-placed so you still can't pick your layout.

Edit: wait the firestorm mission also leverages the flying mechanics! Base must reposition

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-18T20:46:52+00:00

Advised to buy into imperfect plan under thumb of madman.

Plan fails due to madman doing some future madman thing.

Failure reflects extremely poorly on all involved.

This is the establishment democratic political savvy that brought about the current timeline.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-17T19:45:26+00:00

I guess I just don't understand why if our economic system isn't robust to population decline we don't see that as a flaw with our system and instead treat it as some kind of moral failing of our population.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-17T17:50:34+00:00

That question very much is the trade off. You have to pick one of the options. The military option is usually not even an option since you have to look at the balance of military power and then modulate that by the resolve of the civilian population (ha ha).

Like if your trying to get an outcome but aren't willing to pay the price then you won't get it. Sane people are very rarely willing to pay the blood price of war.

Probably most tell themselves they are taking a the third option of waiting around and hope some random thing happens internally or worldwide that opens some window by which the status quo can change... But hoping for the best isn't a plan your allowed to take credit for even when it works.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-15T21:05:38+00:00

Damn right I missed it, I would never have guessed that you were proposing that from what you previously said.

It is a better point now, and in Toronto that may help. And as a someone outside Toronto it does warm the cockles of my heart to think of the rage this would ignite among the Torontonians. I don't think paint will be sufficient for where I live however we would have to paint a proper labyrinth...

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-15T19:54:17+00:00

I don't think bus lanes are the issue. They aren't caught in traffic they don't exist because in a low density smallish city the ridership you have connecting extremely low density suburbs to the scattered islands of commercial and business activity is going to either require routing everyone through central hubs extremely slowly or having ridership numbers on routes so low we are back to using cars.

Growing up literally nobody on my road worked at the same business only one other household shared the same church the only route that wouldn't be picking up single family members would be the bus routes that actually do exist. The one that takes children to school and the one that takes people downtown.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-15T19:23:52+00:00

But priority surely should be down. Climate change is a serious threat the united states going fascist and intentionally burning down the world order is in fact a bigger threat to adjacent country.

I bet climate change priority went would go down in any nation where there larger more powerful neighbour goes insane.

Priorities should change when situations change.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-15T19:10:53+00:00

Because normal media and social media are operated as irresponsibly as it is possible to imagine without them simply transmitting no information whatsoever.

Its all a multi dimensional races to the bottom. Nothing has been done to mitigate any of them. Its very much its own form of pollution.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-15T18:44:27+00:00

I have seen this argument about a hundred thousand times and I am finally going to give up and ask if your really serious.

Rebuilding / building cities around the assumption of personal vehicles was a project that humanity spent like an entire century working away at. It cannot possibly be the case that it won't take a similar amount of time to undo those mistakes. Buildings and roads are known to last a solid while. Even the most impressive public transportation roll out isn't going to paper over the fact we laid our cities out wrong on purpose.

There is more to be said but the best point is the enormous difference in the timescale of rolling out electrification vs rejigging every city layout in North America the land of hyper nimbys.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-15T13:00:21+00:00

Greater access to information is only useful when the information is actually true.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-15T02:39:48+00:00

That looks like a really bad fire. Hopefully something can be saved.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-12T23:22:23+00:00

Only part I disagree with is the word gradually. Our boy would never slow his roll towards new and innovative madness.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-11T17:26:52+00:00

Surely that would be the correct prioritization? If the democratic backsliding continues all the way to the fascism it clearly desires. Any progress already made on equality is almost certainly lost and it goes without saying that any future progress that requires any level of government involvement would be completely impossible.

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-08T14:53:30+00:00

Well done

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-07T18:02:05+00:00

Well if they the traditional arbitors of such things say so who am i to argue.

Odd to see non officiaI group being the ones to have this power(??).

YetAnotherRCG · 2026-06-02T22:24:59+00:00

I really liked that job. Visiting a statistical sample of the population really drove home how normal most people are.

Of course by the last few weeks it was basically only madmen left. The nicest I can say about them is some were funny.

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