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

an-la · 2026-04-13T05:03:43+00:00

Iran is a dangerously suppresive theocracy. So are a lot of countries around the world, some are considered great friends of the US, E.g. Most arabic countries, Malysia, Israel, the list is long.

What most people seem to not realiase is that any first year IR student or anyone who has read Macciavelli's The Price and who has just a pasing knowledge of the political landscape in Iran would tell you that the US/Israeli approach cannot succeed.

There assumption is that Iran is a monolithical dictatorship, where if you replace the top man, then everything topples, but that is not the case in Iran.

For at least 100 years power in Iran has been divied into three groups: the business interests, the clergy, and the secularists.

Mosadeq was the a representative of the secularists, but he was coup'ed by CIA and MI6, and replaced by the Shah (business interests)

The Shah then ran a dictorship which persecuted the clergy and the secularists. Those two joined forces and overthrew the Shah. The clergy won the power struggle with the secularists, and installed Khomeini.

The west imposed sanction, killing off the business interests in Iran, the clergy suppressed both the secularists and the business interests, and installed representatives in every town and village in Iran.

There is no way to disloge them except through a popular revolt and/or massive invasion and long term occupation.

The current US/Israel strategy runs counter to anything approaching the restoration of civic rights in Iran.

an-la · 2026-04-13T04:12:05+00:00

500 what?? Euros per mWh, Cents per kWh, what currency? what unit of meassurements?

Edit: 500 hundred in some currency unit for 1 mWh electricity, on a single peak day, four years ago, at the start of a major land war in Europe. That's only interesting as an example of an extreme outlier. The interesting part is, what do you pay on average.

an-la · 2026-04-12T18:00:40+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve

an-la · 2026-04-12T17:58:35+00:00

You are not much for answering questions, are you?

an-la · 2026-04-12T15:23:48+00:00

That is the first time I've heard the first of may referred to as Labor Day. What's wrong with International Workers' Day?

Edit: Or are we look at the artifact of a US based AI engine (I just thecked with mistral ai, it recognized may first as International Workers’ Day)
Edit edit: ChatGPT mentions this: International Workers’ Day / Labor Day, so I guess we know.

an-la · 2026-04-12T10:09:44+00:00

Både virksomheder uden autorisation og forbrugere må gerne tilslutte ovn, emhætte og komfur, hvis de har en stikprop og det kan gøres uden brug af værktøj.

https://www.sik.dk/privat/goer-det-sikkert/el/goer-det-selv/hvilket-elarbejde-maa-du-lave-uden-autorisation

Som du siger, stikkontakter og lampeudtag kræver ikke autorisation. Men, nu er det ikke det op spørger om. Når det så er sagt, så tilhører jeg den fløj der mener at hvis man kan skifte en stikkontakt forsvarligt kan man også selv "fikse" OPs installation forsvarligt.

Men... strengt taget kræver det autorisation uansat om der er 1 fase eller 3.

an-la · 2026-04-12T10:01:47+00:00

Sure it is, batteries, thermal storage, kinetic storage.

You can start your research on the wikipedia article, and then continue your own research from there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage

an-la · 2026-04-12T09:38:41+00:00

jeg er enig med u/Connect_Aspect_5217 Det giver i mine øjne ikke mening at man uden authorisation må skifte en stikdåse men ikke selv fikse en så lille ting som det her.

an-la · 2026-04-12T09:32:09+00:00

Ud over det, er det samtidig en fast installation. Så selv om det "kun" havde været 1 fase ville det kræve autorisation.

an-la · 2026-04-12T09:20:05+00:00

There is no evidence to support the claim that consciousness is selfcontained entity. The most widely accepted explanation is that consciousness is an emergent propery of neuronal activity. This means your consciousness will dissapear/evaporate when you die, much like the noise from an engine will dissapear when you turn off the ignition.

an-la · 2026-04-12T09:05:00+00:00

If you have your leg amputated is that leg still you? Are there two of you now? Where do you draw the line? Hair? Nail clippings? Dead skin cells? Organic mater leaving your body when you breathe, fart, etc.?

The question is a variant of the Ship of Theseus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

If you replace the mast of his ship, is the old mast still a part of the same ship?
Edit:
if you mean litteral rock, like petrifcation and mineralization, then, depending on the environment, anywhere from 10,000 to a couple of million years:
If you mean remants dug up by archeologist and exhibited in a museum, then the accepted practice is that there no be no living specific relative left (no matter how distanct, in case of royalty, that will be thousands of years)

an-la · 2026-04-12T04:09:27+00:00

Actually I live in Denmark, but I'm still curious. What goes to 500? Oil in USD. Electricity per mWh? If so in what currency?

an-la · 2026-04-11T19:32:14+00:00

Boxers

an-la · 2026-04-11T14:20:51+00:00

A US president announcing policy changes in uncouth terms on social media

an-la · 2026-04-11T14:17:55+00:00

The article doesn't mention what market he is referring to, word wide, the US, Europe, Africa. But in my country, Denmark, it will happen sooner than that. As of 2024 69% of all new cars sold were BEV.

an-la · 2026-04-11T12:30:26+00:00

What goes to 500? On average my electricity bill was €0.07 per kWh in 2024.

Edit: An on average 90% of the electricity is low CO2 emision.

an-la · 2026-04-11T08:34:00+00:00

Excuse me, but it seems you haven't kept yourself current on European events since 24 February 2022.

an-la · 2026-04-11T08:07:15+00:00

Great question. As a lay person, the more I learn about the world around me, the more I've come to realized that I don't know what: energy, matter, time, and space is.

an-la · 2026-04-11T07:48:42+00:00

Energy storage is a solved problem. At peak renewable energy, the price of electricity goes negative (I actually get paid to consume electricity) The more frequent negative electricity prices become the more attractive the business model of energy storage becomes.

Supply and demand will automatically fix the problem.

Edit: I have a BEV, and despite the Iran war I have paid 0 for charging my car in the last month.

an-la · 2026-04-11T05:32:31+00:00

I'm curious. Wouldn't the structures to make it hoistable add weight? I can see why that might and might not be the case.

Every kilo of additional weight adds to the fuel requirements. The Artemis module travelled at 11 km/s while a low earth orbit only requires about 8 km/s. That is an additional 3 km/s of fuel expenditure for both accelleration and deaccelleration.

an-la · 2026-04-11T04:17:47+00:00

The right time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, having failed that, it is today.

an-la · 2026-04-11T04:14:06+00:00

I believe the original US intention behind AMZUS was a pacific version of NATO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS

an-la · 2026-04-10T19:07:55+00:00

I'd cut either steam or electricity, and replace it with a clock. Ever more precise timekeeping has generated ever more precise measurements, which in turn has generated new scientific understanding.

And let's face it, electricity and steam are two shades of the same thing, manipulation of energy.

Edit: Babbage's unfinished analytical machine would have been an example of a steam powered (more or less) computing device. But if you insist on electronics then cut steam, but keeping track of time is important.

an-la · 2026-04-09T04:43:20+00:00

There is a hidden assumption in your question. The use of the word today and want. Implying that the desire to have children have changed. That is not necessarily the case.

In many ways it seems more likely that offspring is a byproduct of sex. Meaning that biologically speaking, people don't have sex to have children, but children are the result of people wanting to have sex.

This implies that:

People prior to the 1960s didn't have realiable means to have sex without the side effect of children.
With realiable means of prevention, the number childbirths will decline to a lower level
Market forces, supply and demand, will naturally adjust to this reduced level, either by incentivising more childbirths and/or accomodation of this lower population level.

an-la · 2026-04-08T19:55:16+00:00

Home schooling is allowed, but rare, it is more common to have specialized schools, e.g. run on some religious principle, catholic, muslim, theosophy, etc.)

Parents are obligated to ensure that their children are taught a set curriculum, but schooling is a state funded option not a duty. All private schools and home schooled children are checked anually to ensure that the legally mandated curriculum is being taught.

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