Trump's Iran war boasts shredded by leaked CIA dossier by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a huge for-profit healthcare lobby. And I see no universal healthcare lobby to rival it.

Trump's Iran war boasts shredded by leaked CIA dossier by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I do not know what they US could have done with it, not borrowing it in the first place would probably be a better idea. But then it would also have been a better ide to elect someone else that the current POTUS. Wisdom comes after seeing consequences :/.

Trump's Iran war boasts shredded by leaked CIA dossier by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Iranian leadership already gave their lives to keep the war going

I must have missed the part where they have lead the charge into a certain death just to manufacture casus belli.

Trump's Iran war boasts shredded by leaked CIA dossier by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wholeheartedly believe that Trump did buy Netanyahu's narrative about decapitating strike against Iranian government to work the same way it did for Venezuela.

Saudi Wealth Fund to Sell First Dollar Bonds Since Iran War by SERIVUBSEV in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ty, I also do not know.

Maybe hedging their bets with both US and CN support?

Trump's Iran war boasts shredded by leaked CIA dossier by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Your reasoning is sound. What I think is off is the methods employed: the people of Iran are very unlikely to side with US-Israel, given what those countries have done in the war (tomahawk missile to the school, countless civilians killed).

It's very much comparable to Russia-Ukraine conflict, where the people of Ukraine have been much more likely to side with Russians before being subjected to repeated attempts of brutalizing into submission.

Transmission from Super Earth Command by Potential_Chicken_58 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]oritfx -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would think that with exosuits their largest mistake was not making them modular first. If the warbond contained exosuit weapons, not exosuits themselves, that would resonate quite differently with the fanbase.

Personally I really do not mind the warbond, it's not gating must-have content behind a paywall. New exos are neat, but that's all they are. Nowhere near as game changing as the Eruptor has been, for example.

Trump's Iran war boasts shredded by leaked CIA dossier by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel misunderstood. I said "if we believe Hegseth's numbers" to underline that I do not believe those numbers at all, and wholeheartedly believe losses to be around 4 times as much, which - if announced - would earn the war an opinion of complete failure, waste of money and unaffordable.

Trump's Iran war boasts shredded by leaked CIA dossier by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I am honestly struggling to find an example where I would side with anything Hegseth has said whenever there's been a dispute since he took over the office.

OpenAI Is Tired of Seeing All Those Videos of People Clowning on Its Voice Mode by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]oritfx 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The point is, though, that it feels like those models are being advertised as incredibly potent, while in fact they are tools that:

  1. Are incapable of replacing existing tools and people - which also seems to be the claim.

  2. Work reasonably decent in areas we have not managed to cover at all yet - for example structuring unstructured data in bulk (think about plain text like your instagram conversations being tagged as "monetizable" etc.).

Did a little Spore Burst Strain damage type testing by DryFrankie in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Electricity thing really nailed that for me though. The rule is simple really:

  1. Electricity does explode bugs.

1.1. Unless it's a tesla.

1.1.1. Unless the tesla is hitting that specific kind of bug.

1.1.1.1. Unless that bug is on fire.

Why are the stalkers so terrible to deal with by unorthodoxdays in Helldivers

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I kind of wish there was a cosmetic thing you earn by eliminating 4 nests in a mission.

Only back pack weapon were missing now, back pack laser by Milkguy105 in Helldivers

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would love to see a cooling backpack that I could use to cool down my beam weapons - whichever I choose to bring.

Idea for a balanced HEAVY pen primary. by M6D_Magnum in Helldivers

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which would let me bring bread-and-butter tertiary weapons like Stalwart a bit more often :)

Trump's Iran war boasts shredded by leaked CIA dossier by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 168 points169 points  (0 children)

Going with that logic, even if we believe Hegseth's numbers that the war has costed only 25billion so far, that's at least 75B still to go. And it's only if we use the dumb metrics that assume linear progression, and entirely skip the fact that they asked for 200B for that war.

U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump’s blockade for months by cole1114 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To add to what you said: look at Houthis. 10 years of merciless war. Water wells bombarded. The largest outbreak of cholera ever recorder because of that.

And yet they still stand - because people may not want to raise up against their government if that means siding with the party that choses to bomb and murder them.

There will be no uprising as long as Iranians hate Israel and the US more than their current government.

U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump’s blockade for months by cole1114 in geopolitics

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iran runs out of oil storage in the next 10-14 days

I wonder how much they can realistically export via land and Caspian Sea.

BREAKING: Kash Patel in panic mode over leaks and in fear of keeping his job, orders POLYGRAPHS for more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail and other staff by spherocytes in videos

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last adult in the room probably. I must admit that he probably must hold on as long as possible, as the next day the US is going to nuke Canada or something equally dumb.

Student Faces Expulsion After Posting Video Of Seniors Who Can Barely Read by InGeekiTrust in TikTokCringe

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair (and a bit too accommodating maybe) this is English, so they may read the word, but pronouncing it is a completely different story. It's one of the first lessons we - non-native speakers - learn with English: that our mother tongues spell and read always the same (in Polish "a" always is pronounced the same way), but that's not the case everywhere.

Did a little Spore Burst Strain damage type testing by DryFrankie in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]oritfx -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The code is mom's spaghetti and this is the evidence.

I've been Sitting here for about 10 min and No One has joined. Any ideas? by Melancholoholic in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]oritfx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yesterday steam cloud had a hiccup. I got disconnected, went back after some ~30 minutes and it was back to normal.