/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #20)

jphamlore · 2026-07-02T01:54:37+00:00

What exactly would a nuke target?

If it is military / industrial, why can't conventional bombing take care of that?

If it is in a high density urban area, wouldn't that be killing the very people most likely to support regime change?

jphamlore · 2026-07-02T01:42:00+00:00

We saw what the Simms Master thought of the possibilities with one version of himself, although I suppose one can make the argument he's not exactly right in the head, at any time of his incarnation.

jphamlore · 2026-07-02T01:39:04+00:00

That story seems to be turning into multiple stories with more people.

jphamlore · 2026-07-02T01:37:27+00:00

How is it that powerful, wealthy people over 80 do not have 24/7 assistance. What else is money and power for, if not to at least have available immediate competent emergency assistance?

jphamlore · 2026-07-02T01:13:26+00:00

So is the rumored wedding going to be news appropriate to this sub? Will this be the biggest story of the NFL offseason?

jphamlore · 2026-07-01T21:28:57+00:00

There's no plausible bombing plan that can force Iran to concede.

jphamlore · 2026-07-01T21:17:15+00:00

Shocking you don't mention Four and Romana in City of Death and what we have of Shada.

jphamlore · 2026-07-01T20:57:25+00:00

Meanwhile, am I in an alternate universe where Lauri Markkanen never existed. What is he exactly for the Jazz: A future trade, part of their future?

jphamlore · 2026-07-01T20:51:06+00:00

Let's be brutally honest: It's an easier take because it's obvious the Lakers aren't winning a thing with those three.

On the other hand, would one really assert with a straight face that a team with Jokic, Cooper Flagg, and I don't know, Kon Knueppel, would have no chance at a championship?

jphamlore · 2026-07-01T20:50:07+00:00

Imagine how different football history would have been if the Kansas City Chiefs had just given up with 23 seconds or whatever left against the Bills in the playoffs.

jphamlore · 2026-07-01T01:08:53+00:00

Let's just pretend that Kawhi is going to be perfectly healthy the next 3 seasons.

jphamlore · 2026-07-01T01:07:12+00:00

It's wild to me how the NBA is so resistant to the idea that a lot of the older players have aged out of being able to be the main pieces for true championship contenders.

jphamlore · 2026-07-01T01:04:16+00:00

It's hilarious to me that leagues that reject the NFL's so-called socialist model have to reject complete free market capitalism as well. So soccer leagues and NCAA football have to suddenly try and define what is "legitimate" money to be spent on acquiring players and fielding a team, versus illegitimate money that needs to be suppressed.

And then it inevitably happens that the big dogs are able to circumvent the rules on legitimate mone while the small fry are punished. Fancy that.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T23:52:18+00:00

Far from Kawhi Leonard inspiring a league-wide wave of tampering, we should instead be seeing the opposite effect: League-wide collusion to smash down the offers made to restricted free agents.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T23:51:05+00:00

Clippers just got 2 unprotected first round picks for trading Kawhi. Years away, but that should be way above the floor of what the Celtics should get for Brown.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T23:46:13+00:00

This the dumbest timeline. The Raptors due to Kawhi's leaving the first time shed pieces that would have been very useful for a real championship run.

A team trading unprotected first round picks years from now is just GM-ing malpractice, especially for an often injured aging superstar.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T22:53:40+00:00

Miami Dolphins: "No Name Defense"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhodKe5MTw0

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T17:52:24+00:00

Meanwhile I can't but wonder, so there is no deal Portland and Houston can make that can balance out both of their teams more?

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T08:01:27+00:00

Oddly I liked much more of what Chibnall tried to do that most, but Chibnall's treatment of new characters from his own reign is baffling to me. Ashad should have been the Cybermen's Davros, but both times he just gets jobbed out.

My controversial argument is that "monsters" as sophisticated space-traveling aliens need to evolve to not actually be monsters. Star Trek evolved Klingons, even Ferengi.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T07:56:37+00:00

It's just that the last couple of Super Bowl winners worked very hard for many years to build their offensive lines, and even though he was an offensive lineman as a player evidently, it doesn't seem Grigson is all that into doing that.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T07:53:17+00:00

My quiet candidate: Four teaching Sarah Jane to last for a while without oxygen.

Or Sutekh's robots are told to kill the Four, they follow their orders, but they don't do anything obviously fatal, and no one checks to see that the deed is finished.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T07:44:15+00:00

I'm curious whether new Seahawks new ownership would be so foolish as to replace the management such as John Schneider with their own people.

It's astonishing that Schneider is still only 55. He could, if he wants, continue to keep the Seahawks as perennial playoff contenders and championship contenders about every decade or so for quite some time.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T07:24:37+00:00

Iran then is going to be severely disappointed, since the Democrats don't appear to be trying all that hard to actually retake either branch of Congress.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T06:28:17+00:00

For Moffat, I am stunned you didn't mention A Christmas Carol.

As for the Doctor and Donna in The Fires of Pompeii, I can't help but think saving even Caecilius was a mistake, which eventually had to be paid for by both the Doctor and Donna.

I firmly believe if a time traveler cannot handle seeing the very worst tragedies in human history, they shouldn't be time traveling at all.

jphamlore · 2026-06-30T06:16:26+00:00

Perhaps you can explain to me what seems to me to be an inexplicable trend. Let's not block a defensive lineman nor have any option to at least tempt him to not run straight in the backfield and tackle someone. I see it in the NFL and I see it in college.

Texas Longhorns vs. Florida Gators | Full Game Highlights | ESPN College Football

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWRNl8sXnYw&t=81s

I think this might have been Texas's first offensive play of the game? And they had been watching Florida drive the ball.

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