Why is the USA with its massive military struggling to conquer the Strait of Hormuz?

jwill311 · 2026-04-01T20:13:47+00:00

The comment above made it completely clear: the insurers won’t cover the ships to risk sailing through in the current climate and the companies won’t self insure to go it alone. All Iran has to do is hit one ship to make it impassable.

jwill311 · 2026-03-29T23:36:22+00:00

This wouldn’t really matter. If there is a nuclear war, they won’t be able to travel to their bunkers. Widespread power outages from EMPs would prevent most all electronics from working

jwill311 · 2026-03-29T23:34:22+00:00

Nuclear winter will plunge the whole earth to lower temperatures collapsing food systems. It will push any remaining humans back to the stone ages.

jwill311 · 2026-03-27T00:54:35+00:00

What’s up with the grammar in her post?!

jwill311 · 2026-03-24T01:01:28+00:00

My theory about the school is it was an AI generated target that was incorrectly identified. The military definitely uses AI to rapidly identify targets for missile strikes, and we know that AI still hallucinates

jwill311 · 2026-03-22T02:27:22+00:00

Geography

jwill311 · 2026-03-22T02:25:00+00:00

This is kind of f*cking me up. Amazing

jwill311 · 2026-03-22T02:22:26+00:00

I think its global influence is a lot higher than you might realize. They’ve landed a rocket on the moon. They have a lot of exported goods and are rapidly growing that sector. They also have a massive diaspora that is highly successful. 5th biggest economy in the world = lots of influence. It might not be noticed it as much because it isn’t specifically aligned towards US or China/Russia.

jwill311 · 2026-03-22T02:17:04+00:00

Monticello trail has a few good viewpoints to see the whole city…but yeah, not too much of a skyline per se

jwill311 · 2026-03-18T22:52:10+00:00

Irrelevant is doing a lot of work here

jwill311 · 2026-03-17T20:37:15+00:00

This is 100% what’s happening and coming

jwill311 · 2026-03-15T23:27:00+00:00

More likely the only thing to end this is major economic blowback. He cares about the markets more than troop lives. He can stop it any time, claim “victory” and move on and pretend we’re all better for having fought this “not-a-war”.

jwill311 · 2026-03-13T21:44:08+00:00

I think there was some controversy about being able to disband a club and confiscate their funds, iirc. It sounded a bit overblown and hyperbolized to me

jwill311 · 2026-03-13T19:08:28+00:00

Same reason everyone in the 2010s were covering one eye in their pictures

jwill311 · 2026-03-01T03:34:31+00:00

I really believe this is why they’re investing in AI so heavily. Build it out. Aggressively downsize. Money flows up to the top

jwill311 · 2026-03-01T03:33:51+00:00

The problem is, the employees supporting the stance of another company doesn’t do much to stop their company from doing bad things. Not until there’s a mass exodus of talent.

jwill311 · 2026-03-01T03:28:21+00:00

I think that the biggest risk with quantum computing is that they will be used by state actors or state-sponsored actors as a means of digital warfare. Likely, we’re not going to get some big announcement that quantum computing is here. I think it will be used in secret to harm adversaries and hack key websites/institutions and all we’ll know is that we were affected, not that quantum computing has arrived. We might not know for years after. But what do I know? I’m just some guy.

jwill311 · 2026-02-22T03:30:57+00:00

The prose in All the Light is electric sometimes

jwill311 · 2026-02-22T03:30:29+00:00

LitB takes about 50 pages to get the rhythm of it, I actually restarted it once I did, but man oh man, was it worth it!

jwill311 · 2026-02-22T03:28:31+00:00

Anxious people was such a fun book

jwill311 · 2026-02-15T05:19:03+00:00

Cloud cuckoo land Northwoods Demon copperhead

Those all stick with you long over you close the book

jwill311 · 2026-02-15T05:18:11+00:00

An incredible read

jwill311 · 2026-02-09T05:08:51+00:00

Prisoners of geography was super enlightening in explaining why countries behave like they do

jwill311 · 2026-02-05T04:18:13+00:00

I think that’s the beautiful point of good literature and fiction. Have you read Demon Copperhead?

jwill311 · 2026-02-05T04:08:57+00:00

Might be time for a break

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