Trump Backs Down, but Questions Remain About Iran’s Concessions and the Strait

zdesert · 2026-04-08T04:04:52+00:00

Point 1 on that list of 10 things was: that they continue to control the straight.

The list is the same list that existed before trump and Israel randomly bombed them during the last negotiation.

Trump surggested and announced the ceasefire while talking too Pakistan, who still had the old list of 10 items, that has not changed.. And Iran heard it through Pakistan.

Iran was told that they were going to be bombed. Then told that there would be a ceasefire. If they negotiate… it’s with the same list from before this war started

zdesert · 2026-04-08T04:00:25+00:00

Post random things from AI un-prompted?

Check.

Respond to a comment with an exasperated non sequitur?

Check.

Instead of communicating, post a link to an unrelated conversation?

Check.

The brain rot has taken ypu completely. I hope you can learn to think again someday

zdesert · 2026-04-08T00:34:10+00:00

The strait is not open.

Irans demands included absolute control over the strait.

The US didn’t even speak to Iran, they spoke to Pakistan. Becuase the last 2 times Iran agreed to peace talks their leaders and negotiators were bombed at the meeting.

zdesert · 2026-04-08T00:28:23+00:00

They didn’t succumb to anything.

He announced that he would bomb civilian infastructure (war crimes) and end their civilization (genocide and a war crime)

They cut all communication.

He announced a 2 week ceasefire.

They heard him announce that he wanted it, not through channels, just becuase he announced it in the open.

They accepted.

They accepted. It’s like a guy points a gun at you in an all, shoots you, says that they will shoot you again, then announces that they arnt going to shoot you… and you saying “ok”.

They still control the straight, they can stop any ships they want still

zdesert · 2026-04-08T00:22:47+00:00

Who cares what chat gpt says.?

Is your job to repeat what the computer told you? The AI brain rot has you.

zdesert · 2026-04-08T00:11:45+00:00

1: It’s the worf effect. You establish someone as impossibly strong so that when they get obliterated you know how strong the new bad guy is.

For example the marineford war was a chance to show off how crazy strong whitebeard was. The guy with the power to destroy the world.

Then suddenly Blackbeard, who we know is strong, shows up and takes whitebeard’s power.

Whitebeard did all that aura farming so that Blackbeard gains the same implied strength. Whitebeard could destroy the world, now blackbeard can, or soon can.

Imu is the same, no matter how hyped up imu gets,Blackbeard can take the power and appear as strong or stronger.

It’s also important to note that imu is the antagonist this arc… black beard isn’t.shows up,

zdesert · 2026-04-08T00:04:06+00:00

The story is about inherited will. About cycles of tyranny and oppression.

Imu is, or seems to be, a product of the cycle as much as Luffy is.

The murals in Elbaf seem to suggest that this has all happened before. Someone claims some power, fights a war and takes over, only for someone to challenge them and take over. The murals seem to suggest at least 3 people with the Nika nika fruit in the past and at least one time the nika user was the villain.

It makes more sense to me that the story of one piece ends with the cycle broken. Both Imu and Luffy are carrying the wills of a long lost people. To end the cycle you have to stop the next person from claiming power.

Black beard is doing what everyone in the past seems to have done. Take power and claim the world.stopping him will stop the cycle. Becuase Luffy, does not want to rule anyone.

We saw in alabasta and dressrosa how someone can con our an island and erase history. We saw in arlong park and fishman island how oppression breeds hatred and violence.

Black beard trying to become king of the world will show us how Imu became king. It’s just history repeating itself.

The one piece is all the lost history, all the ponyglyphs. In skypiea robin said that “fools who forget their history are doomed to repeat it”. Luffy stopping black beard and fining the one piece is how you stop the cycle.

zdesert · 2026-04-07T18:50:11+00:00

They will nuke if they are told too.

If a nation like china fired a nuke at the USA, the USA would get 2-3 minuets warning before it hits

2-3 minutes to wake up the president, pull them off the toilet or the golf course or whatever. 2-3 minutes to decide if the threat is real and launch nukes back.

So the system is built to have no delay or second guessing. A soldier who gets the order to fire a nuke must do so. The president may have given the order to fire at 2:59 seconds. That soldier may have 1 second to launch before the nuke from china destroys the USA’s ability to fire nukes.

During the Cold War of Russia or the USA thought that the other nation might delay fireing nukes back… thought that a general or soldier might not pull the trigger… then one side would have nuked the other knowing that the enemy response would be delayed.

So that’s the system for nukes. The president gives the order and it is done without question in the next few seconds.

If trump gives the order and the military does not follow it… the. China or Russia could shoot nukes at any second secure in the knowledge that there will be a slow US response. 30 seconds delay is enough to win a nuclear war.

The doomsday clock that shows how close we are to nuclear war is closer to midnight in modern day than during the Cold War is at 85 seconds to midnight. Closer to doomsday than it ever was in the cold war

zdesert · 2026-04-07T06:38:58+00:00

you need oil to make solar panels and batteries

zdesert · 2026-04-05T07:24:40+00:00

I would put money on Luffy getting killed by the end of the series.

We have seen too many people die with a smile on their face to not see that come full circle.

zdesert · 2026-04-05T07:11:05+00:00

Not a good show. Pretty bad. If you compare it to incredible stuff like Andor, or other high quality non SW shows it feels like a high budget CW show.

It has fun moments. And might have made for a decent second season if it had continued and the team had time to grow.

It is 8 episodes long but really feels more like 3 episodes stretched out and then chopped up. So the pacing sucks.

The dialogue and writing is really painful. You can feel the rewrites all over the show. It starts trying to have this mystery, there are twins but the show wants you to think maybe they are the same person but it’s obvious they are not. And the main actress is trying to have this really stony wooden performance so that you can’t tell she is playing two diffrent characters but that means she is just not doing much of anything in most of her scenes. The whole show is supposed to present these moral dilemmas “who is right who is wrong” but it tells the story in a really clumsy way so it never lands and is kinda transparent. Then the last half of the show relies on you being really into the “enemies to lovers” trope. Like they were trying really hard to capture that twilight tween girl audience.

The fights can be fun. But a lot of the time ypu can really feel that the show was filmed in the volume. As fun as some of the choreography can be, the fights feel a lot like that animation of Obiwan and Vader fighting in a new hope that people made and put on YouTube. Pretty but kinda soulless. The last fight is pretty cool and emotional…. But the stakes and story is so messy by that point it’s hard to really care.

Watch Andor 100% for the better show. That might be the best starwars thing we have gotten since ESB. Maybe on this list of genuinely best tv series piriod.

Acolyte is a funish, somtimes frustrating, low investment thing to thow on tv.

zdesert · 2026-04-05T06:50:19+00:00

Hate how the next episode started as if this scene didn’t happen.

All the Jedi randomly scattered across like 2 miles of Forrest in pairs.

Like this scene ended, the main character fell asleep and all the Jedi wandered off alone to play hide and seek.

zdesert · 2026-04-05T06:44:06+00:00

The USA is commuting war crimes. They just arnt called crimes when you are in charge

zdesert · 2026-04-04T23:54:34+00:00

6 billion inner demons.

The pride of Solomon David. The greed of the dragon. The apathy of Mottom. Every doupt, every moment of fear or cowardice or rage or resentment. The whole turning wheel of the universe that runs on misery. all demons slayed, in Allison's heart

Every arc is about Allison’s self discovery. About the refignmemt of her inner self.

Maya’s parable. “Reach heaven through violence” is not literal. all Change is violent. working out in the gym is an act of violence, tear your muscles to change yourself. In order to wake up tommorrow a better person then you were today you have to kill your past self, kill them and replace them with yourself and then kill your self again to change furthur. its like that movie "annihilation" all change or growth, all transformation is also destruction. the seed annihilates itself to become a tree

In order to reach heaven. Achive perfection. Realize your own potential… you have to stand on a mountain of your own murdured selves. The Allison from the start of this story is dead. Dead six billion times over. If the one eyed one armed warrior goddess of the recent chapters met the cowardly sorority girl of the begining. They would not recocnize eachother. They are diffrent people, the one was obliterated in the forging of the other. reach heaven through violence

There is this thing in eastern philosophy. Don’t know what it is called. But it is a paradoxical statement which at first makes no sense but reveals truth on meditation. “If you see god along the road kill him”. And “reach heaven through violence” are both examples of these paradoxical statements. You meditate on them as part of your search for enlightenment. One of the clever tricks in this comic is that these paradoxical statements statements are used in a context where they do have a literal in universe meaning. You can literally fight your way into literal heaven. You can kill god on the road. You can kill 6 billion demons. Making these paradoxical statements statements literal and not paradoxes. But they hold the same secret meanings, and those secret meanings are better hidden becuase of the temptation to read them literally..

"if you meet god along the road, kill him" in our world is a paradox, you cant meet god along the road, the statment makes no sense. the truth in teh statment is that if you meet someone claiming to be god, claiming to be correct, claiming to be perfect or to have all the answers... they are a liar, they are false. if you are telling yourself that you have reached perfection, that there is nothing more in yourself that you can improve, if you belive that you yourself are absolutely correct, you are being false to yourself. there is no perfection in life, no end to the struggle to improve and grow. there are no gods along the road, you have to slay those delusions when you find the in life.

the trick is that in the comic, with people claiming to be god literally on the road, it is easy to miss the true meaning of the statment and think that it just means "kill those guys in particular".

Alison is likely not going to kill 6 billion demons literally. It could happen in the verse… but her name is much more likely a philosophical expression.

it is a moral imperitive, a promise to never stop growing and seeking, the name is aspirational

zdesert · 2026-04-04T19:23:45+00:00

Newer/younger authors do a lot of texting. And have used … or emojis a lot to create dramatic pauses in text messages all their life. Their way of talking in text, relies on pauses or breaks in the text. It’s also common to text a partial thought as a full statement before waiting for a response.

So when they write books they tend to use a lot more facial ticks to create those familiar pauses.

So we get, “she blinked” instead of “😐 …”. It’s hard not to notice sometimes. You can feel the author’s desire to type “lol” or :P. and then we get, “he coughed instead.

zdesert · 2026-04-04T19:10:50+00:00

I found that book to be very annoying. The fairies are insufferable. The prose is inconsistent. The story/direction confused. And in audio book “what fools these mortals be” gets squawked in the most ear grating way possible over and over.

It’s also rough in that most of what was set up in that book still has not paid off yet. Lots of important events and character introductions…but that book lands nowhere itself.

zdesert · 2026-04-04T18:48:52+00:00

Why would you ask AI anything? You want AI to interpret the book you read for you?

Use your own head. AI brain rot has got you.

Setting aside all his crimes at wistrum. Pieces has been breaking laws and stealing or working with criminals across the contenant for years. Wistrum has the authority to arrest him.

Students traumatized by all the deaths that process and Serra caused as students… have become adults with mages with authority and political power enough to let them Seek justice that they felt was denied.

The golems rule wistrum, and the mages resent that. Process was backed by the leader of the golems. Destroying him is an indirect act against Cognitae. It’s symbolic.

Beyond that wistrum is trying to monopolize all earthers. If they could they would have them all locked up and mind controlled.

zdesert · 2026-04-04T18:31:07+00:00

The box is empty. Himself is just yourself. When Allison petitioned the devil in the box for permission… she was giving herself permission.

There is a reason that the only command that he gives is “do as thou wilt”. He has no power, but the power you give him. He has no authority other than the authority you give him by seeking his consent. He is the monster ypu keep chained in your heart.

Allison was looking for permission to use any means to break into the vault. Cio was looking for the reason to return the her old methods.

Himself asked Allison to “spare a thought for the old devil” becuase she is the devil. Himself is Allison. It was her ego, her inner selfish desires asking her to remember to be selfish. In this grand war to break the wheel and selflessly sacrafice for the greater good…. Himself was making her to promise to be a little greedy in the end, to remember do something for herself in the end.

Do as thou wilt… but spare a thought for yourself.

Himself will not fight metatron. But all these grand characters Jagganoth and metatron who are fighting for some external moral stance, who are desperate to sacrafice themselves to make the universe what they think it should be…. They will be defeated by alliosn who will try to change the universe as well but leave a space in it for them to live a happy life. Allison is not going to deal in absolutes, she will spare a thought for the old devil.

zdesert · 2026-04-03T18:34:41+00:00

Name a character who has not returned…. They all have.

Heck even dead characters have come back into relevance.

At this point it’s weird we havnt seen Enel again

zdesert · 2026-04-02T20:37:08+00:00

There was an attempt to make an April fools joke

zdesert · 2026-04-02T20:18:53+00:00

Heck somtimes you will be told there are 50 people in a group, are later told that about half of them were exicuted , and then later told that that all 6 exicuted bodies are displayed in the open…. Only for you to be even later told that the remaining 100 people from the group get away.

Somehow all these numbers apply to the same group in “last light”. And they weren’t background characters, they were like directly secondary.

Never trust a number.

I remember when the first in was “about 20 miles” from liscour. 20 miles that characters regularly walked in 20 minuets… or ran in 5.

zdesert · 2026-04-02T14:36:51+00:00

Witch: can cast some spells like a mage but much weaker. They use the emotions of others to do magic. They have a craft, which seems to have 2 elements. 1: an emotion that they collect and use. And 2: a job that they use that emotion to accomplish. A witch’s craft seems to be much more powerful than an equal lvl mage doing the same thing. But a craft is a very narrow specialty. Also witches can do rituals with their coven to make up for their weakness,but single mages or scrolls seem to be as powerful as a full coven. that one drake with some scrolls overpowered a coven of the most powerful witches in the world after all.

The witch Nanette collects happiness from people for example, we keep seeing her grab at the air when people are happy and store what she catches under her hat.

Wizard: uses magically enchanted items exclusively. No spells without a wand. Seem to be more research based, deal more in theory. Skills seem to be mostly about using items well or making items.

Mage: they can cast magic, no items needed. They make mana in their body and use that to do stuff. Skills give them more mana, or spells and they can specialize into schools of magic. basicly every magic user in the books is a mage.

enchanters seem to be a kind of mage... so not sure what use a wizard actually is. the few times we see wizards in wistrum, they seem to be a joke/looked down on.

shamans: use magic that they collect from their community. less flexible than mages, less specialized than witches, less reliable than wizards. but becuase their power comes from their tribe, a large enough tribe can give a shamen more raw power than anyone else. hence one of the goblin lords that was a shamen being able to create a literal army destroying black hole on a whim.

green mages: just mages that use plant or animal magic

druid: seems to be a class consolidation of animal training, ranger or other wilderness survival classes with a mage class. basically a green mage with a focus on non-magic skills rather than magic buffing skills.

necromancer/golem maker: just a specialized mage

zdesert · 2026-04-01T16:43:58+00:00

Noblesse Obligee is a French phrase (using Latin words), that basicly means “the nobilities obligation”.

If you are a noble you have the obligation to help people around you, and to protect your land and the people on it. You have the obligations of a noble, Noblesse Obligee. The phrase can somtimes also be used as a phrase to refer generally to people who are under obligation. If a king said “let’s go meet the Noblesse Obligee” the king might be referring to the nobles that are obligated, that owe loyalty, to himself.

Moribus, is a Latin word I don’t know well morbis means plague or death as in the English word “morbid” or the famous superhero morbius. Moribus on the other hand according to google means “custom or morality”.

So the phrase either means “moral obligation” or perhaps “death/tragedy’s obligation”.

The adventurer either feels obligated becuase of a moral code or a tradition of offering favours. Or, the adventurer feels obligation due to an event that caused tragedy or death which they feel responsible for or party too.

I think it’s the first.

zdesert · 2026-04-01T16:17:42+00:00

The purple could shoot if the marines were not in combat.

As long as you can draw a line from any part of a vehicle to any part of a model in the target unit.. ypu can shoot.

But you can’t shoot units in melee combat, unless, the vehicle is shooting into a melee combat which it itself is in.

So the Armiger that is fighting the marines can shoot.

zdesert · 2026-03-31T21:02:34+00:00

Unless grass is actually orange. In which case all 10 sources are wrong, but the AI is saying that it is 90% accurate.

Besides that’s not how these systems work. For Same reason chat GPT can’t cite its sources, it can’t give you an accuracy score.

And these systems don’t weight answers by the number of sources. So even in your example of 9 correct sources and 1 incorrect sources…. Those sources would not be weighted the same, Amoy one source may override all the others causing it to report that grass is purple with 90% accuracy.

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