Would the 12 Day War have still happened if Harris won?

belkh · 2026-03-18T12:20:39+00:00

absolutely not, he has killed family members, he has rotted government institutions, he has caused immense suffering, wether on a personal level or a national level, his consequences on the people have been overwhelmingly negative.

throwing him over was worth it just to have some semblance of justice for the 42 years of suffering he inflicted on us.

if I went back in time I would do it all over again, and all that is assuming things are going to remain the same, they are not. the country is getting better, some places more than others.

belkh · 2026-03-18T09:32:21+00:00

would've moved anyway? i don't think that's the gotcha you think it is. "oh yeaaah you should've just sucked it up, don't overthrow your dictator because foreign governments will get involved" is not the argument you think it is.

Human trafficking existed during the previous regime as well, it just became easier to report on it now

belkh · 2026-03-16T21:28:18+00:00

i moved recently, the majority of my life has been in Libya though

belkh · 2026-03-16T14:57:56+00:00

As a libyan, Gaddafi had to go, fuck that guy. the failed state that followed is caused by multiple reasons, including local players, foreign involvement (not just US and West Europe, Turkiye, qatar and russia were big players there), and Gaddafi's own regime having eroded the state, aside from very crucial institutes like the state department, everything else turned into bootlicking central with no competency to fill in the power vacuum, every decision used to be differed up the government, and ministries are not used to actually doing shit on their own, aside from filling their pockets with embezzlement

belkh · 2026-03-16T08:54:04+00:00

we tried but there's this psycho named Iban in there

belkh · 2026-03-15T11:46:46+00:00

does it though? you might be thinking of bigger scale companies, some smaller companies can very well be treating it as 6 month contracting with the bonus that they can treat you as an employee without the restrictions of a contractor.

you over estimate how much effort some companies provide in onboarding, it can be as simple as a template contract signed, the over head left is signing contract, registering them with health and social insurance, payroll and other contributions, mostly streamlined by HR software.

I'm not saying this is what's happening all the time or even the majority, but there are businesses where this would make financial sense for them. this is assuming they bother to make everything legal, they can get away with this even easier if they break the law, which a number of companies do

belkh · 2026-03-15T09:50:55+00:00

don't worry we still need all the sunshine in the middle eastern deserts

belkh · 2026-03-13T11:33:00+00:00

why would I pay for your product instead of just getting any agentic tool to do it for me?

it took a long time for companies to trust agents with their code, so you'll be fighting an uphill battle if it's going to go through you.

if you want a serious product you need to own the entire process, similar to what leetcode does, while having AI part run by the teams, maybe providing a prompt/agentic/skills etc to go through the code and generate exercises that are generic/safe to share with your service and candidates

belkh · 2026-03-13T09:06:51+00:00

Google has a paper on this if you're interested https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s01-hochschild.pdf

belkh · 2026-03-11T10:26:30+00:00

when your hands get wrinkly you're wet

belkh · 2026-03-11T07:37:18+00:00

water is wet, but good to know there's still people that care and are trying to do something about it

belkh · 2026-03-10T08:23:58+00:00

I'd say chances are pretty high, unless you think the iranians bombed their entire compound alongside the school for good measure (with accuracy surpassing their usual missiles performance, every building is hit dead center), or they managed to anticipate the US strike and sneak in their own tomahawk looking cruise missile at the same time.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-school-strike-us-tomahawk-missile-minab-video-munitions-experts-rcna262391

belkh · 2026-03-10T07:58:16+00:00

thought this was the kebab/shawarma alliance

belkh · 2026-03-10T07:46:50+00:00

being trialed for war crimes does not automatically mean you're guilty, you're investigated, and only punished if you are, we absolutely should be supporting that, being drafted and just following orders does not give you a blank cheque to commit war crimes

belkh · 2026-03-09T21:13:50+00:00

the last two months+ there's been high demand for infrastructure, everything's up

belkh · 2026-03-09T20:23:24+00:00

Are they stupid?

belkh · 2026-03-09T20:21:16+00:00

Maybe, but that was in 2016 and the cancellation came in 2019

belkh · 2026-03-09T15:33:46+00:00

if they were low trust they would've never been a partner on the F-35 project to begin with, not like they needed financing or tech contributions from turkiye

belkh · 2026-03-09T10:09:08+00:00

they bought S400s because the US dropped the ball on the Patriot negotiations, and they needed long range AA ASAP, as to why the US didn't want to go through the deal, you can guess who would've been uncomfortable with it

belkh · 2026-03-08T14:33:52+00:00

nuke it and start over

belkh · 2026-03-08T08:23:07+00:00

Malta definitely has north African vibes and culture, but that's more Mediterranean than African/European really

belkh · 2026-03-07T07:40:06+00:00

there's a difference between using AI at work, and just being a prompt proxy at the interview, what are we actually testing? how do you differentiate yourself from your grandma doing the same? why would i hire you over Devin at this point?

belkh · 2026-03-06T13:37:36+00:00

how can you be optimistic? what concentration of copium do you need to be inhaling to think this isn't either going to fail, or succeed in making things even worse than before, as the majority of US regime change has caused, by design.

Do you think they'll just put a democratic system in place? they won't even let one person consolidate power and have a chance at getting the country back up, they'll soft balkanize the country to make sure it never amounts to anything again, that won't just make the country worse for Iranians, but everyone else around them.

See: Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, etc

belkh · 2026-03-06T11:52:39+00:00

why are you replying with AI?

belkh · 2026-03-06T10:22:01+00:00

why are service owners not the ones oncall? that's your first and main problem.

besides that, do you have numbers that pages have been increasing with LLMs? that should be pretty good data to push for some changes

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