That reminds me of a colleague who was doing a PhD parallel to working, and another colleague asked how his MBA was going, to which he answered: "why would I do an MBA? They make you dumber... "

And it would seem you have never heard of asynchronous warfare.

That seems extra funny considering that we are watching it take place right now. The US spends more on military than anyone else on Earth, and we're still incapable of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open against such a "not a powerful country"

Make that make sense in your simplistic, deeply flawed understanding of how this is all shaking out.

They could make a functional weapon with 60% enrichment they have today. They would need to assemble a supercritical mass of about 42kg of enriched Uranium at ~60% U235, instead of ~15kg at 90% enrichment.

What you are saying is total bullshit.

Let me get this straight:

It's ok to call a spade a spade, unless that spade is Israel, and then you are antisemitic if you do so?

Get fucked. Genocide is genocide, and those that commit it and order it deserve a trial at The Hague, followed by playing Bridge with Slobodon Milosevic for the rest of their natural lives.

Well, we did have an agreement with them to not enrich nuclear materials, and they had basically declared it religious law to not make nuclear weapons. They even agreed to same-day intrusive inspections of facilities to verify compliance.

Who fucked that up again? Oh, the current idiot who somehow managed to fuck it up even worse.

But yeah, cling to that sarcasm while ignoring easily observed reality. That bitter taste in your mouth when you are filling your car with >$5/gal gasoline really helps, doesn't it?

Fucking idiot.

Also, the military is really good at solving military problems.

This isn't that. You can't effect regime change with aerial bombardment. And you can't open a waterway and keep it open from the air either.

The only way out is negotiation. Good thing we have the guy who hired a ghost writer to write "Art of the Deal" for him in charge!

Oh wait, we already had a negotiated settlement that left us far better off than we were today, and this idiot fuckup tore that agreement up, directly leading to today's crisis.

Can we start voting better now?

And running fiber over land is impossible?

Seems like they can cut a bypass over to the Red Sea or the Mediterranean and tell Iran to go fuck themselves.

Because there's just absolutely no other way to get data out of those countries besides running an undersea cable through a contentious waterway undergoing military blockade.

It sure was silly to build their countries in that impassible box canyon with infinite-height walls made of indestructible materials, covered with grounded wire mesh that absorbs all radio signals.

Can't speak to the person above, but if anything I would accuse a "righty" of not questioning the media, and just accepting whatever bile and detritus being slung by Fox News as biblical truth.

You forgot zip drives.

5.25" disks could practically be folded in half and still work.

Yes, because the evil media is in charge of how virulent and communicable a pathogen is.

What the fuck are you on about?

Sorry, the universe doesn't come with a helmet.

Any sensible government would try to not create crises, so they have available bandwidth when the unforeseen crisis comes along. Not this one though! They'd rather parallelize their crises so that there isn't enough cable news hours to give them all adequate coverage. Then they can do absolutely nothing on the crises they would rather you forget about (Epstein Files) and distract you with the self-made crises that fuck up your day-to-day (Iran).

Unfortunately, this seems to be a strategy that works rather well with a whole lot of morons who are registered voters.

More than that, there's just missing shit. Especially in the audio controls. Half the time you have to go to the legacy control panel applet because that's the only place the setting exists besides the registry editor.

It's fucking garbage, and it's been garbage for a really long time for something that is just UX design and making the same API call the fucking control panel applet makes.

That's nice. Did they develop to a spec that was either missing this simple and useful functionality, or did they just decide that because they were late they were cutting features, only to add them back years later?

This is a civil suit. There is no "guilty" or "not guilty" here. Only liable / not liable, and that can be appealed by either party to the circuit court, and the supreme court.