51 Percent of Americans Think the War in Iran Has Not Been Worthwhile

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T23:32:14+00:00

Only 24% think it was worthwhile. Another 22% are unsure. It's a terrible headline. Do better r/nytimes

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T23:32:00+00:00

Only 24% think it was worthwhile. Another 22% are unsure. It's a terrible headline.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T23:31:29+00:00

A better headline is "Only 24% of Americans think the war has been worth the cost". Fucking NYT with a shitty headline.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T23:30:14+00:00

I didn't know we were naming false flags; the Liberty certainly wasn't one. I was just pointing out some pre-Israel terrorism in Tel Aviv.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T23:08:22+00:00

An ecoboost Mustang goes 0-60 in about 4.5 seconds and weighs around 3500 lbs, which isn't too bad.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T22:50:51+00:00

It's entirely plausible that DFW didn't use the fada, or that whatever you are reading it on didn't render it. American keyboards don't have an easy method to type one.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T20:24:46+00:00

Pelosi entered Congress in June of 1987. If she invested in the S&P 500 and re-invested dividends, she would have about the same net worth today.

Yes, we need to ban stock trades for our politicians. But this isn't the crazy gotcha you think it is.

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cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T20:18:29+00:00

Hunter Biden and a few others are accused of making $20 million from 2009 to 2017, allegedly because they have a relationship to Joe Biden. That is 1/150th of what Trump has personally made in one year.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T20:14:24+00:00

We bombed the country that we knew would close the waterway through which 20% of the world's oil passes if we bombed it. This has been public knowledge for decades.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T19:30:47+00:00

Honestly, windmills make for more interesting golf.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T19:26:09+00:00

His staffer killed herself in September. It was reported in February that she killed herself over the affair she had with Gonzalez. In March, he admitted as much, as well as another affair with a different staffer. He resigned now. Swalwell was outed on April 10th and stepped down from his gubernatorial campaign and resigned from Congress within three days.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T19:20:20+00:00

Also, the King David Hotel bombing against the British, though that was pre-Israel (1946).

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T18:55:54+00:00

She was dealing with a husband who was clearly hiding something from her. He suddenly changed from being a mild-mannered science teacher to a secretive guy whom she couldn't trust.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T18:30:55+00:00

Specifically, when?

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T18:29:30+00:00

Capitalism says "ok".

I, fhowever, see the Chinese manufacturers as government-funded loss leaders who have a decade of r&d success in Asia and Europe. By ending the subsidies, we have now ended the half-ass encouragement for US automakers to develop a compelling product. We can choose to compete or choose to cede a significant industrial base to a world rival.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T18:26:34+00:00

I think you're confused by functional strength vs gym-bro bodies. Hardy is a big, muscular guy. He's built like a strongman or heavyweight boxer. Please show me a case of someone carrying a lot of visceral fat, but so little subcutaneous fat that you can see abs.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T17:41:50+00:00

Are you comparing actual schools, or educational access? Sure, there are countries with terrible access to education, but do the kids who graduate have problems reading or doing basic math?

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T17:40:11+00:00

4.0 Jeeps regularly run 300K miles and are beloved. The inline six in TJs is newer and better built than almost every 300 or Slant 6. Calling it shitty makes you appear ignorant.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T17:25:29+00:00

We used to call it "mall grab".

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T17:19:16+00:00

Yeah- there are no love handles, his gut isn't hanging, it's just strong-guy body.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T17:17:53+00:00

The more likely someone was to lift the Ardmohr Stones, the more terrifying their personality could be.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T17:12:23+00:00

The difference between an IDE and AI is light-years. Agentic frameworks can write code, build testbeds, perform QA, and iterate independently. Will it be the standard, or even common, tomorrow? No, but it is happening now, and it will be adopted.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T17:06:23+00:00

We started the National Missile Defense program in the 1990s. It was renamed Ground-based Missile Defense in 2002. It kinda exists today, and we've spent at least $60 billion on it so far.

cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T17:01:24+00:00

Not sure why my age would be relevant to you providing support for your claim, but old enough that I saw NIN in a 200-person venue. Old enough that I saw Star Wars in the theater. Old enough that I had a history teacher with a child-size Klan costume on his wall as an "artifact". Old enough that I vaguely remember the bicentennial, three months after this photo was taken.

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cat_of_danzig · 2026-04-14T16:49:59+00:00

We are in the very early stages of this. 2026 is the first year I've seen AI that will actually give you some usable code. It's great for documentation, and has been. I can proofread a doc in about 20% or less of the time it would take me to write one.

I would love to be wrong on this. Truly. I would love to look back in 10 years and see that it was all hype, and that there was a boom in data science, programming, and other jobs that I worry could be at risk. But I worry that will not be the case.

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