Ok so now I’m confused entirely. Does that mean leeching I don’t need to do a port forward, but seeding I do?

Which means if I want to leech to get the file then seed when I’m not heavily using my network I’m sort of out of luck?

And they don’t care what filthy shit you watch from home so long as they don’t have to see it

Idk why but the simplicity of it has me convinced and so far it works well.

That sink is a vampire, don’t let it in

And now I’m on a VPN because if they’re just gonna cut people off for accusing of piracy they’re gonna have to cut off everyone with a VPN.

TBH I should have been behind a VPN before

That’s… A fair point. That’s probably the best argument I’ve heard so far.

Even then, it will just slow research down and set us back. Scientists won’t stop sciencing, and it certainly won’t lead to discoveries they want.

The system they’re describing helps but the people are the ones that matter, not the institutions.

My point is no matter their approach, they will not be able to control the outcome of scientific research. The anti-intellectual fails to understand this. It’s the whole of their being.

That’s the weirdest part of trying to change the “system of science.” It’s not a system, it’s a process, it’s rigorous, controlled, and peer reviewed.

What Hitler enabled was psychopaths being allowed to practice torture and murder.

Tbh

I wish I could just make the music I hear in my head.

Then that would require learning one of those fancy sample things with keyboards and knobs and sliders and buttons I can’t remember the name of.

Course it doesn’t help that I can write music and all the fancy DAS stuff is basically magic.

Then I wouldn’t have to spend money to listen to music that just doesn’t hit right

Idk something tells me China would happily buy Russian oil sanction or not. Especially if their main source is disrupted.

Oh, no, not at all. It’s purely about its location and importance than worry me.

The PTSD folk? They were in the expelling force in '91. The others were in Iraq (mainly after 2003), and came through Kuwait.

Kuwait was chill after the Iraq regime fell.

Kuwait is right over the Persian Gulf by Iran. It won’t be chill for very long.

Ugh. This kind of hits hard.

I know people who are active in the military (yes they are stupid and yes it doesn’t take much analysis to figure out they’re probably magats). In particular I know several who have been to Kuwait and seem to regularly get stationed there.

I’ve known several people who died by suicide from PTSD from Kuwait, or Iraq.

There’s a girl, she’s a sergeant. She’s in until 2028, been to Kuwait already. I don’t know if she’s even 23. She certainly doesn’t come off as a magat. But it doesn’t really matter. 23 is an adult yes. But to me? I’m 34? She’s just starting life out. To get killed in this kind of war is gross.

Yes. I love it.

I believe I read that not only are micro plastics unavoidable, the amount entering the environment produced by any organization is an order of magnitude higher than anything we produce at home.

Especially anything that comes in plastic wrap.

Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror.

Ok does someone want to catch me up on this opinion shared by world leaders but quite literally no one else?

Like yes, Iran is a terrible authoritarian state that is very dangerous. But so is Saudi Arabia?!

So like modern tanks have nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical protections. Does that mean that they are rated to survive a nuclear detonation at a certain radius?

I didn’t call it, but there’s nothing quite like a war to distract the population from rampant decline at home.

This one is weird though, Iran is allied with Russia. Israel is allied with the US. Historically, this made sense.

But Trump and Putin playing war together would benefit both of them. It allows Putin to pull out of Ukraine because “Iran provided us much help and they need us now.” And it allows Russia to maintain the war economy. It benefits Trump because he wants to play war.

Neither leader would have any actual skin in the game, it’s just people’s lives that would never contribute in another meaningful way to their power.

I don’t like this. This is feeling more 1984 than 1984.

Edit: I like this even worse after I read the specifics of the KC-135R and KC-46A. Each can carry about 200,000 lbs of additional fuel. A single F-15E can hold 13,000 lbs internally. 30 KC-135Rs can refuel an entire F-15E 460 times. Israel has 7 KC-130H (60,000lbs) and 7 Boeing 707s (which is what the KC-135 was based on). This isn’t just escalation, this is staging for invasion.

And then I’m a single father, so I’m just fucked!

From all available intelligence, no. They clearly have a nuclear weapons program (which are insanely huge to begin with) but there has never been a measured test, and no evidence of enriched uranium at a high enough purity to be weaponized.

It’s insanely hard work to created weaponized enriched uranium. With the sanctions Iran has had for decades it would be next to impossible for them to get all the stuff they need to create it on their own.