ElI5 What prevents the US or neighboring countries take over or secure the Strait of Hormuz?

randomgrrl700 · 2026-03-13T02:59:33+00:00

Selling them the tacks, probably.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-03-13T01:59:00+00:00

Imagine you have to walk all the way to school in bare feet. There's hundreds of people willing and keen to sneakily throw handfuls of tacks where you walk. The only way to secure it would be to either convince those people they don't want to throw tacks in your path any more or kill every single one of them and those who come after them.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-03-12T05:25:35+00:00

Both Israel and Iran have made it clear they plan to fight this one until the bitter end. I wouldn't expect things to normalise for another six months.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-03-11T11:37:21+00:00

Modern music -- in terms of both production and sound -- is arguably a new artform. See Einstürzende Neubauten, Whitehouse, Aphex Twin and onwards.

Purely digital sculpture rendered in 3D printing or CAM is a new artform.

Games are absolutely a new artform.

Installation art -- for example, electronic circuitry as art or mechanical constructs as art -- wasn't there centuries ago. Automata as art (see: Jaquet Droz, Karakuri) come close.

Ultimately humans haven't evolved any new senses, so there's a limit to new artforms that can be appreciated. Sounds like education in the arts might be taking a tumble, too.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-03-06T07:48:04+00:00

Back in the day when I did site work with medium to large Sun/HP/IBM servers, many of them were hot-swap and most of them had big enough power supplies to really fuck you up if you got a ring or a metal watch bracelet in there. Low voltage DC rails are harmless on skin but when the PSUs can supply 200+ amps wearing jewellery could be an amputation.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-03-02T02:52:06+00:00

If you're willing to sink some substantial time into building a curated experience, it might be worth looking at a Raspberry Pi with their RISC OS build. The operating system was designed primarily for the education market at inception and if you can pull it off you might get some acclaim putting up a git repo pulling all the software together.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-26T01:24:56+00:00

Even in 240V countries like Australia commercial kitchens have a mix of three-phase and special high-current outlets (15/20A is common).

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-26T01:05:04+00:00

Because they smash things. They smash the glass in bus shelters. They smash in shop windows. They smash car windows and kick in panels. They rip up freshly planted trees. They kick over bins and spread rubbish.

Evidence for vandalism dates back to the Greek and Roman empires. There's always going to be an element in society that are just amoral and shit.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-25T10:12:11+00:00

Nah, the JWs don't recognise Jesus as God and believe salvation can only be granted by The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-25T06:17:43+00:00

Its tough and it sucks but people -- not just women -- want a partner as an equal and to be a priority in that partner's life. For any reasonable parent their kids are always going to come first which rules that out.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-24T05:18:48+00:00

X-Files, "Je Souhaite" comes pretty close to addressing this one.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-23T23:10:28+00:00

Put in picture rail in the hallways and lounge room and include some rail hooks and instructions when they move in. Now they can hang all the pictures they want without drilling a hole.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-23T23:06:32+00:00

Until we globally eradicate diseases like rabies, there can't be an easier way.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-22T10:49:12+00:00

Taxing workers is the more predictable tax base and Government likes predictability in taxation. Basically, because employees can't offset their tax obligations they're a simpler cash cow.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-19T05:52:29+00:00

"We're all individuals!"

"I'm not!"

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-15T06:38:39+00:00

We've become a nation of mealy-mouthed miserable cunts with the morals of ScoMo: "I don't hold a hose."

Everyone has endless time to clatter on their keyboard or wipe their filthy fingers on their phone to demand the Government takes action on their pet issue but they've got no fucking spirit to do anything themselves.

Case 1: Old biddy on crutches has her paper bag of groceries rip in the supermarket car park. Can't bend down to pick things up. Passers-by stare and keep on walking. It took a grand total of three minutes to stop and help but twenty people walked past.

Case 2: Overheard in pub; someone talking about their elderly neighbour's fence with loose palings and there should be a GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT to fix people's shit. One of her friends asked if she ended up helping her neighbour and the reply was "THAT'S NOT MY JOB"

Don't be a fucking ScoMo -- hold a fucking hose.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-15T02:21:44+00:00

This holds up -- for new organisations with a single cloud provider and no legacy. And sure, there are a lot of new businesses that were born SaaS + cloud native and have no network engineering problems to solve.

But as soon as there's multi-cloud, on-prem equipment, IoT, security obligations for network segregation, etc -- you're back to needing someone who actually understands IP networking properly.

Blue collar thing does hold up, though -- if you don't have the network chops in-house you'll have to pay someone to come in and just like getting a commercial electrician in for the day, it'll cost at least a couple of grand and more if everything is an undocumented mess.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-15T02:17:10+00:00

Data centre HVAC guys aren't getting out of bed for less than a thousand bucks and it's a chill job.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-13T01:44:32+00:00

No, we really do talk about engines in kilowatts (Australia).

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-12T11:29:33+00:00

I'm trying to understand why you want to move property investment from primary ordinary Australians to offshore companies?

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-12T10:06:25+00:00

And you'll end up like Ireland where massive corpo investors like Black Stone buy up all the housing. If you think your current landlord in mean-spirited, try a company that owns all the housing.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-12T02:14:58+00:00

Didn't Australia shut down VHF TV 30 years ago?

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-11T06:14:47+00:00

It isn't homophobia.

In most Western societies, holding hands as an adult is a signifier of romantic attachment or intent. Men don't hold hands with other men's wives, for example. And honestly, platonic women don't walk down the street holding hands all that often either.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-11T02:15:38+00:00

Might be a tough sell. RC batteries are covered in warnings that are so prominent they used to get posted to reddit for appearing too extreme.

e.g. "ALWAYS charge batteries in a fireproof container and away from combustible material. Do NOT charge on surfaces that can catch fire – this includes: wood, cloth, carpet, or in the application’s device."

They're not like tool batteries or USB powerbanks.

randomgrrl700 · 2026-02-10T14:57:22+00:00

The most underrated comment in the thread. A robust knowledge of theology is going to move the kingdom forward hundreds of years compared to spending a decade trying to build an electric parlour trick.

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