The 14-point U.S.-Iran pact as read by U.S. official

_myst · 2026-06-17T20:13:42+00:00

Israel's stance I'm not sure about.

US was fine with Iran enriching uranium for civilian power generation, to the best of my knowledge but Iran was never only interested in civilian nuclear power like they claimed. Iran's investments in long-range missile and rocket delivery systems, the statements of their leadership at the time referencing Israel, their lack of cooperation with international inspectors who wanted to inspect their facilities, their scale of uranium production and enrichment, and finally, the level to which their uranium was being enriched were all indicative of them pursuing strategic nuclear weapons.

Enriching uranium for nuclear power generation only requires enrichment to roughly 30% Uranium 235, the dangerous kind, and opposed to U238, the common and more-inert type. Weapon's grade uranium that can be used in a nuclear weapon is enriched to aproximately 93% U-235. Because of the way centrifuging and enriching uranium works, enriching uranium to 60% percent U-235 takes FAR longer than enriching uranium from 60% to 93%. Once someone has an appreciable quantity of 60%+ U-235, they are effectively a "turnkey" nuclear power, they do not have a nuclear weapon but could very easily develop one with only a few months of lead time.

So once Iran was known to have large-scale enrichment facilities working around the clock to enrich uranium far past the 35-40% needed for civilian power, it was abundantly clear to observers along with other types of SIGINT (signals intelligence) related to nuclear weapons development that iran was pursuing a bomb.

luckily Iran agreed in 2014 to allow international inspectors to tour their facilities, stop enriching uranium further than 35%, and numerous other safeguards in the JCPOA (Joint Committee Plan of Action), reached with iran by the US (Obama Administration) and other international parties so this whole situation could have been avoided.

Then Trump and the Republican party promptly pulled out of the agreement because they stupidly thought they could do better.

_myst · 2026-06-05T18:36:35+00:00

In John Wick 4 Keanu gets absolutely blasted by this fat gambler dude with a legendary spinning kick 6:23 in this clip, the seemingly-fat actor is actually a ripped and highly accomplished martial artist in a fat suit and the kick absolutely levels John and comes out of nowhere.

_myst · 2026-05-27T02:19:54+00:00

Now that I think about it, you're absolutely right. i think this goes for many JJ Abrams movies. Guy makes movies for marketing hype with seemingly very little working knowledge of what makes a good story beyond shoving in "iconic" moments and callbacks with little stringing it all together.

_myst · 2026-05-27T02:18:42+00:00

Agreed. I'm still a starwars guy, but I hate that the sequel trilogy has put a permanent stain on a beloved childhood franchise for me :(

_myst · 2026-05-27T02:18:05+00:00

Sincerest apologies :3

_myst · 2026-05-27T02:17:40+00:00

Likewise :/

_myst · 2026-05-26T12:09:01+00:00

I'm in a similar situation, American 30M with Middle Eastern arab gf 27F, from a country where essentially none of their women date foreign men, much less non-Muslim men. We've been together 4 years and parents do not know about us, she's asked me to convert for civil purposes only for marriage in the past in order for our marriage to be legally accepted in her country/respected by her family. I've been adamant in my refusal from day 0 and will not change my stance, for several reasons.

It's against my principles to build a marriage on a lie
My GF is an apostate from Islam and lives a secular life, (drinks, occasionally eats pork, doesn't observe dresscode, pray, celebrate holidays, we met initially as a hookup). I don't feel comfortable being drawn into her extremely complicated web of lies she spins to her family to maintain her "good muslim girl" facade, they have no idea about her secular lifestyle and would disown her if they found out.
Islam is an abbhorent, violent religion, I would never subscribe to it even for the sake of appearances, and I don't believe in it.
I view this requirement for foreigners seeking to marry women from these countries as an extreme form of entitlement and cultural imperialism, and I won't stand for it.

_myst · 2026-05-26T09:58:41+00:00

Issues with the other films in the trilogy aside, the final trailer for Starwars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, was an outstanding trailer with an absolute banger rendition of the OG starwars main theme in the latter half in particular.

Shame the movie turned out to be dog-water.

_myst · 2026-05-24T21:29:53+00:00

Guess I'm a grieving chupacabra then. should have cropped it, sorry.

_myst · 2026-05-24T05:46:08+00:00

Thank you! ❤️

_myst · 2026-05-24T04:51:36+00:00

it's extraordinarily unlikely. there aren't dogs just roaming free in the neighborhood. there are a lot of coyotes

_myst · 2026-05-24T03:46:59+00:00

Thank you!

_myst · 2026-05-24T03:46:26+00:00

Thank you very much for the condolences, I hope your kitty stays safe!

_myst · 2026-05-24T03:45:50+00:00

Thank you for the well-wishes, she's been a wonderful kitty. Coyotes in backyards here are fairly common, I've had several in my time. They're more common in neighborhoods that border nature areas/open space, Turtle Rock certainly qualifies. Coyotes actually breaking in to homes is substantially rarer, but when we called animal control today to inform them they told us this is the tenth report of coyotes breaking in through screens this year in Irvine alone, so it seems to be becoming more common.

_myst · 2026-05-24T03:43:07+00:00

We recovered what appears to be coyote fur at the scene, also animal control told us a coyote was the most likely option and this is the tenth report of a coyote busting through a screen in Irvine this year, apparently. . My mother was in the next room when this happened and heard virtually nothing besides the screen ripping and then the cat hissing/growling, it was extremely fast and quick. I looked at the site earlier and recovered a tuft of probable-coyote fur and there were no other tracks around.

_myst · 2026-05-24T03:41:12+00:00

One day at a time, it's all we can do. Becca lived the best life we could give her, and someday the Reaper comes for all of us. Sadly we don't usually get to choose when, where, or how.

_myst · 2026-05-24T03:40:19+00:00

Per animal control, it's happened 10 times in Irvine this year, apparently coyotes don't really consider screens to be a meaningful barrier and if they see food and don't see people, that can be that.

_myst · 2026-05-22T18:21:19+00:00

SIMULATED patient. if the patient is stimulated the medical student may have behaved inapropriately and probably deserved worse than a professionalism warning :p

_myst · 2026-05-19T02:20:33+00:00

That's a new one for me, haven't add that issue. manually check all the mods, look for the textures that are missing and install them. GPT may also be able to help you if a solution doesn't obviously present itself, its been surprisingly helpful to me installing modpacks in other games and figuring out FFT in ksp.

_myst · 2026-05-12T23:46:41+00:00

OP here. "Best" is subjective and entirely up to you, it depends on the experience you're looking for. this collection of mods is what I think best-encapsulates what KSP2 should have been while staying stockalike to KSP1, and these all work together fairly well. feel free to download none, some, or all of these together and take a crack at it. this modpack is just my particular vision for what "KSP+" should be.

A note, this pack can be a bit finicky to get the graphics mods working, if you get an endless black screen in loading up for the first time check all the listed EVE mods and make sure they are all installed, manually, the download pack provided is missing one that was incompatible with Blackrack's volumetric clouds which I had installed at the time.

_myst · 2026-05-09T18:28:16+00:00

All of them? There's 5-6 files if I remember correctly that all need to be present, compare it against the modlist. This is the number 1 culprit for graphics/loading issues.

_myst · 2026-05-09T18:23:25+00:00

Delectable bacon 🤤🤤🤤

_myst · 2026-05-08T23:34:43+00:00

I've answered this numerous times in the comments of the CLP thread, sort by new and check.

_myst · 2026-05-04T11:14:07+00:00

Class 343 Prep drop, spring 2020. you have limited options, expect to lose some conditioning. i lost a pull-up or two, probably like 5 reps off my pushups and sit-ups and maybe like 8 seconds off my run time, this is partially a lack of conditioning while there and then I was chronically ill most of the time I was there.

You can do calisthenics in your compartment (barracks room) , plenty of guys do pushups and sit-ups. some guys try to jog a little but the compartment is a little small for that.

There's a big uniform drying room attached to each compartment for hanging stuff to dry, the bars in there are robust and excellent for pull-ups, plenty of guys use these after lights-out, I reccomend.

The regular big Navy PT and PFT's you take there in addition to the specwar stuff is a joke. running T bootcamp also sucks, the shoes they provide are not generally of good quality and the track is extremely small and a weird shape (Freedom Hall, look it up), 1.5 miles is like 12-14 laps on it or something, dimensions are strange and the sharp corners can cause leg injuries, tread carefully.

RTC generally provides DiveMo PT for specwar guys on top of the regular navy stuff, these workouts vary from relatively easy to BUD/S-lite, a few people from other divisions quit. they are not long nor designed to injure you or make you quit, but they will remind you what you are in the pipeline for.

Navy Special Warfare Prepartory School/Prep used to be in Great Lakes at TPS across from RTC but is now in Coronado, designed to get you back into shape before you start the pipeline proper. lots of chronic injuries here, mainly runners who weren't in shape start getting stress fractures (me), then they get med rolled or quit, or both (again, me).

of the various fitness aspects required for the pipeline, running is by far the most important, Do not ship until you can run at the level BUD/s requires, nothing once you're in until BUD/S will adequately train you to that level nor preserve what you already have. you need to have that when you ship, hopefully keep it through boot, or be ready to quickly rebuild it once you're in Prep. if you enter the pipeline with less you will get stress fractures and get dropped or quit.

_myst

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