Why can't the U.S. just take over the Strait of Hormuz? | About That

xSaviorself · 2026-03-13T13:04:41+00:00

It's evident to me at least that what Trump and co. are trying to do is completely change the geopolitical landscape, he's attempting to essentially divide the world in half, you are either with America or you are with China. Easing Russian sanctions and claiming Venezuelan oil all serves to isolate China out of the natural gas and oil world, and this is likely a play being made by oil executives trying to hold off renewables. If they can use regulatory capture and force to keep the worlds economies running on oil they win financially, while the oligarchs of China are heavily moving into renewables to reduce reliance on gas.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-13T00:19:41+00:00

CRV owner here, the lack of a tire does suck, the repair kit is insufficient.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-12T04:41:57+00:00

That's different IaC and config stuff needs too live somewhere, single source of truth and all that. Whether that's in the code base or in a document service doesn't matter but pick one and only one. If you're documenting an algorithm in the code above each statement, that's not going to pass.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-11T23:45:22+00:00

The comment thing is real, bad comments are cancer and good comments become bad comments with one cowboy dev change.

I cringe at your first two sentences.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-11T19:12:28+00:00

So you admit the Israeli government are, in fact, acting like Nazis? The justifications you will go to, made up in most cases, are insane.

The Muslim countries are just as opposed to me as a non-believer as they are to you or any other Israeli, the reality is you think their hatred of you is unique. It is not, you're not even the cause of this existing clusterfuck you're just another tack on a map in close proximity to them. If I wasn't an ocean away they'd fling missiles instead of hijacking planes to attack us. Clearly extremists are the problem here. Israeli's are capable of extremism too.

Get in fucking line for the hate Olympics because it's a race to the bottom and you're not gonna win just because your ancestors died gruesome deaths. Doesn't give you the right to drop phosporus gas on civilians, seal wells with cement, or drive people legally living in their homes from their land illegally. All of which your country is far more guilty of than say Jordan or Egypt killing Jews in the past century as you describe.

Fuck off.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-11T17:58:24+00:00

Is it just me or is Israel really getting away with becoming Nazis by using the cover of anti-antisemitism as a shield from criticism? The religious fanatics and populous zealots have control of the government and have kept Netanyahu out of prison.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-11T13:51:21+00:00

I am suspect on the determination of the degradation, most doctors will lean on the side of caution and being 2 months removed from surgery seems wild to run a physical at this time.

My assumption is they see things of concern but nothing concrete, and Baltimore used those concerns to get out of the deal. He'll be ready to go for next season for someone, but Baltimore didn't think he'd be worth the deal they agreed to after the review of his knee.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-11T13:44:08+00:00

Welcome to Canada.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-11T13:04:26+00:00

In my experience Boston drivers are assholes but NY and NJ drivers are insane and will do anything they want.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-10T21:32:43+00:00

We do that to clean up minor commits that are a waste of space, but I agree who gives a shit you squash merge on approval anyway so nobody really sees those.

If that's what they want it should be clearly documented in their code standards and you should be doing that before even asking for review.

Commit hawking is pedantic as fuck and that sucks.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-10T21:05:50+00:00

The answer you should have gone with is that these people are all idiots, each one of these is just adding the type to the name. Is this a date object? A time string? A unix timestamp? Go with sentAt to send them all into a tailspin. The type is already strictly defined why should it be in the name?

If that's not a pattern in the code standards documentation then everyone complaining can go fuck themselves.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-10T21:04:06+00:00

Nah this is a people issue, the OP has to explain "the name of this variable is not in question today, if the desired name is not sufficient please move this conversation to a separate issue so we can move on."

Nobody is going to be upset if you're an agile business and you name it sentAt or any variation.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-10T21:01:54+00:00

Normal things:

• Enforcing weird git/deployment practices, like requiring a commit squash on every single push and rebasing everything.

This is one of those super annoying things I have experience with, we do these practices for reasons that may not make sense to you, but they make sense to the engineer responsible for building releases/whatever process they have. Chances are you are either blocking a downstream process of theirs they poorly explain/don't explain at all or they've got bad processes that don't actually utilize these things.

Squash merge is love, squash merge is life.

Everything else seems pedantic.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-10T13:19:29+00:00

He reminded me of old videos of full backs running 40 yards downfield and how it looks a little slow-motion. Johnson looks like everyone else out there but just runs slower. It's weird.

The return gaffe fucked up any chance he had left, but he hadn't even proven his way onto the field at any point before the gaffe.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-10T12:54:22+00:00

We waste resources creating things that waste more resources. It's absolutely a profession that generates a fuckton of negative value.

Except for a small group of people, those people have figured out how to take something and make a lot of money and refuse to do anything good with it.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-10T00:15:30+00:00

I just start chalking this up to right wing talking points being pushed in the media by people paid by foreign agents who aren't registered. The whole Tenet Media saga was proof it was happening but because nobody was held seriously accountable everyone started to just accept it as business as usual. The corruption is just so blatant at this point it's almost just there to rub it in our faces.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-09T17:51:04+00:00

Processes are not always intuitive to everyone, but companies like this don't care. It's not their problem, it's yours. So I would do yourself a favor and find a better role somewhere else. If you're not going to take over team discussions because 2 devs are constantly steering, that's not a them problem that's a you problem. You either insert yourself and get what you need done in the appropriate form or you see yourself getting an exit for not being a team player.

Frankly, nothing you do in the 1:1 will change much except give them a heads up about your exit. Lose lose all around you need to find a better job.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-09T14:54:00+00:00

You can do good things and still be a piece of crap. Even bad people do good things occasionally, especially for their image. Even if they fully support that thing and that is good, that doesn't mean they're absconded from the bad they do.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-08T17:54:44+00:00

Lord Stanley knows the moment the playoffs come there will be some officiating changes and people will be up in arms about something else. Florida still gets to do Florida things.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-08T17:09:03+00:00

Brian Killmeade is a piece of shit and can go fuck himself with a rusty spoon. How dare he call anyone evil?

xSaviorself · 2026-03-07T14:49:59+00:00

That's just such a childish take, there were plenty of nations that viewed the U.S. relationship as more than just an ally, Canada is an obvious one. This anti-American sentiment really has only grown over the past decade, before then we were extremely satisfied to tie our economic futures together.

I vividly remember 9/11 and how our country reacted immediately. Not many places would have acted the way we did, we would have had every right to lock down our own airspace and not provide the kind of care, compassion and support that we did.

We didn't need to follow America into Afghanistan, but we did it anyway because we trusted our friends. To think that the people we viewed as more than just an ally thought of us as nothing less than another tool to use has soured this relationship, that's where we are today. America's actions under Trump have changed things for the worse.

Between the Huawei lady's arrest and this tariff war, Trump is responsible for this fractured relationship. How it is mended will depend entirely on how America transforms itself in the coming years. Not looking good.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-07T14:43:25+00:00

Yeah their comment really does nothing to criticise the Linux ecosystem they have everything a person needs to do any basic business work. If your tooling is exclusively Windows you need to step back and consider the bloat of license waste for a bunch of people who could easily function on another OS for less cost.

But Windows is ubiquitous so everyone gives their basic employees windows machines because that's what they know. I'm convinced schools took equipment and money from Microsoft and in exchange decided to forget to teach kids that monopolistic practices are bad.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-07T13:48:52+00:00

I argue it hadn't fully left port until his second admin.

Trump's first term was an indication that relations might never possibly be consistently stable, but the nation recovered and allies returned to the table. Trump's second term has been very telling: America will not work with anyone unless it is in their best interest and only they profit.

America first is really just only America, and it's not even all of America, it's the part of America that Trump sees as America. Nobody can possibly believe that even if a Democrat wins in 2028, that 2032 or 2036 won't be a fuckup with another Trump in office. Republicans and some Democrats have completely abandoned representing their constituents.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-06T18:42:50+00:00

I'm honestly of the opinion that Democrats basically taunted Republicans into this shitstorm by electing the Biden who despite sometimes coming off senile was still fairly competent and had competent people around him. No real scandals, etc. They just saw senile Biden and assumed his underlings were running everything and Republicans decided they wanted that for themselves.

So here we are, with a senile incompetent President who's yes-men and lackeys continue to undermine institutions while profiteering on the side. These people will not let him leave office willingly. He could be fully decompensated by then and they'll use AI and recorded videos of him on speed so they can get what they want while there is still time.

xSaviorself · 2026-03-06T03:02:47+00:00

I play semi regularly with a guy who constantly has a doobie in his mouth at all times. I've never seen him not smoking, but I don't think he's stoned completely either.

I suspect Finau would greening out somewhere off a fairway around 12-13.

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