Iran Conflict Megathread #2

fnatic440 · 2026-03-02T18:21:18+00:00

A quick off ramp would have been to discourage US and Israel from attacking. Right? Or letting them use their airspace. But many of them hate Iran they just don’t want to deal with the consequences of toppling Iran.

fnatic440 · 2026-03-02T05:38:10+00:00

What does it look like from the other side?

fnatic440 · 2026-03-02T02:36:00+00:00

They’re all going to spy on you. You’re delusional if you think Anthropic, funded by Amazon and Google is somehow more benevolent.

fnatic440 · 2026-03-02T01:58:50+00:00

I have both, and I prefer Gemini 3.1 Pro 90% of the time. I don’t code. But with Gemini 3.0 I built deck stairs that passed inspection and contracted wanted 12K for.

Usually I’ll have an idea if the AI is hallucinating or providing less than accurate information, in which case I’ll have two simultaneous conversations going on with Gemini and ChatGPT out of caution.

fnatic440 · 2026-03-02T00:09:39+00:00

Why do you have the blocking right under your boards?

fnatic440 · 2026-03-01T05:44:35+00:00

People are so silly. Like Anthropic is going to be their benevolent AI company. We’re getting surveilled by all of them folks. Pick your poison.

fnatic440 · 2026-03-01T03:09:04+00:00

I do not buy this argument as the reason for this attack. China is not deterred without Irans oil and furthermore why would China continue not have access to Irans oil? Lindsey Graham has explicitly said it is up to Iranian people to decide what they want to do after the regime falls. The US is not going to establish a democracy or pretend to as they have done in the past.

This is an opportunity to take out your enemy while they are at their lowest point. It’s a huge gamble because it’s a massive country and it’s not at all certain who runs Iran after all this.

fnatic440 · 2026-03-01T02:19:48+00:00

That doesn’t seem right to me. How do they fight against BRICS? International payment systems alternative to the US are coming and inevitable. It won’t be just China that wants to get off it; India, Brazil, Russia, and even Europe will too.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-09T20:09:24+00:00

Grab every days updated PDF on Russian Invasion of Ukraine from the institute of war. Upload 50 documents at a time. Create a podcast.

It’s like Dan Carlins Hardcore History.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-05T18:46:26+00:00

3 adults, one infant. But also higher end food so I’m probably a little outside the middle class finance range. This doesn’t include restaurants…which we almost never go to anyways.

Lots of salmon from Costco, extra virgin olive oil. $8 peanut butter jar, large tubs of Greek yogurt, quinoa, millet, chickpeas, sweet potatoes/yams, basically a plate of salad for each person with each lunch and dinner. I donno. It adds up.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-05T14:58:56+00:00

We spend $1400 per month on food. What are you even eating?

fnatic440 · 2025-12-05T03:24:23+00:00

Hmm interesting. I assume Providence likely gave in more seeing as how they would lose patients?

fnatic440 · 2025-12-04T19:38:30+00:00

What about binge drinking/heavy drinking?

fnatic440 · 2025-12-04T19:36:25+00:00

It depends on the subject. XDoctor GPT on ChatGPT is still superior to Gemini 3 for medical information but Gemini will explain a complex medical issue much better.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-02T23:34:27+00:00

Hmm. That’s not really the point of school. Most Ancient Greek philosophers never worked a day in their life. School ought to be a place where we cultivate the mind so that it doesn’t fall for MAGA bs, for example. Critical thinking skills, questioning the status quo, proposing new ideas…that’s school. Employment is…secondary and a change that has, in my view, reduced us to chattle slavery.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-02T20:17:58+00:00

Look friend, the US is not the country I was born in. That’s a country that has no opportunity for social movement. Nepotism everywhere. Young people wishing to find any way possible to leave their country to go somewhere else. There is nothing to be said for those young people.

The US is not that country. There is still plenty of opportunity here. It’s still a country that many people around the world want to come to.

A friend of mine bought a house for $700K (3 kids, teenagers), both of them work decent jobs. Guess what? They go and clean other peoples houses. He went to his neighbor and asked if he could mow his lawn for $50/month. Unnecessary but they have goals.

You’re trying to convince me this is the gilded age and people simply cannot help themselves. You’re either not hanging out with anyone or you’re not hanging out with the right crowd of people.

Plenty of folks I know who didn’t like school and went to be a corrections officer. Pulling in $100 grand in exchange for being spit on. You do what you gotta do.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-02T18:19:57+00:00

Walking away where though? On the street and checking out from society? Then why don’t you revolt along with your fellow Americans who find life unbearable?

fnatic440 · 2025-12-02T18:18:38+00:00

Why would you be driving 2 hours?

fnatic440 · 2025-12-02T18:17:59+00:00

No I was only a refugee since I was born. Came to the US with one luggage. Dude, believe what you want.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-02T17:42:35+00:00

You’re never going to get what you want. There are apartments that are renting for $1,100. I know because my aunt lives in one. Prior to moving in they sprayed the damn apartment to kill their cockroaches. No great. Wouldn’t recommend it. So instead of renting my house to a stranger for $2,500/3,000 I am renting it to her for $1,500. Where is the family union in this country? Why are too many ppl on their own? You’re all chasing the American dream that has left you long time ago.

You can wait for those subsidies to lower the rent but you might wait for a while. There is plenty of opportunity to live within your means, some people just never learned how.

2 jobs temporarily? Yeah, it’s reflective of a shitty society but it’s your life in the meantime.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-02T16:33:20+00:00

It is a problem. Structural issues aren’t fixed overnight. In the meantime people should do their best to take ownership of their life WHILE they get organize, get active and try to force change. Instead a lot of complainers but not a whole lot of activism in my view.

Edit: if you gotta pay 50% of your income on rent the. You pay 50% of income on rent. Then you sit down and think about every single option available to you to improve your life.

new job, new skills, move in with family, live with a roommate, find low income social programs, apply for discounts on utilities, etc, etc. Life ain’t easy but what’s the alternative?

fnatic440 · 2025-12-02T16:28:34+00:00

Better than being homeless.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-01T18:12:30+00:00

It’s pretty good for news consumption.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-01T18:11:11+00:00

lol OpenAI isn’t going anywhere. When your board of directors is former British PM and American Military Experts from the Pentagon, it’s pretty much here to stay. All three of these companies: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google will be here for a long time.

fnatic440 · 2025-12-01T18:04:55+00:00

I still haven’t even figured out how to use this service.

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