Does it actually bog down a reasonably-speced computer? I don't think it does, I think the sluggishness is just from the sheer volume of stuff that has to be downloaded, and the inefficient way it's downloaded. And the reason the web devs don't notice the awfulness is (a) their browsers have 98% of it cached and (b) they have a GigE (or 10 GigE) connection to the server. They certainly don't have computers faster than your M4.

I think you didn't understand what this feature is. It's pretty much the opposite of annoying, and it has no effect at all on bandwidth consumption. Though I suppose when devs get used to their sites seeming to load faster they'll bloat them up even more...

Now if they were to engineer in some harmaline/telepathine and put it into a tomato you could make some very special marinara sauce.

Why stop there? Most modern cuisines use tomatoes, giving you lots of possibilities. How about a adult-grade version of catsup or salsa? Or, if you prefer, tex-mex chili with a new type of kick to it?

Sure. Just a reminder, back in the old days, before the NLRB forced owners and unions to negotiate in good faith... Factories and warehouses burned to the ground during labor disputes, people were beaten and killed.

And for all of you out there who think that that's exaggerated, take a look at the Ludlow Massacre with its body count of approximately 21, mostly women and children.

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

I've run into these people, they're the worst

When have you last checked your compiler's output?

As I recall, Ohio toll highways did this years ago; if your time stamp at the booth was less than a certain number of minutes since the previous, you got a ticket for speeding.
Infallible, and took away the point really.

Sure, I guess you could speed and then pull over waiting before you cross the next gate but... Why bother?

Iran was not in compliance with anything and was so antisemitic it hosted an international conference on holocaust denial. Khamenei himself literally claimed Covid was black magic caused by Jews creating a satanic pact with demons.

What are you blathering on about? It's embarassing to see you at +5 insightful. From the moment the regime seized power it's been at war with the US. It's violated every agreement it's ever made with the west and openly pursued its stated goal of trying to exterminate the Jews before turning its eye to destroying America. They never "trusted" America, they just knew some American leaders were either unbelievable suckers or actively supportive of their regime due to anti-western radicalism.

As for a million troops to defend itself the IRGC is estimated at maybe 600K absolute maximum combat capable personnel, in a country of ~93 million people about 80% of which absolutely despise the IRGC to the point 30,000+ of them accepted the risk of being murdered to take to the streets in protest.

That's just plain gaslighting. Every major western city has been filled with two groups of protestors for the past month: Iranians desperately calling for more international intervention to end the mass slaughter and decades of global terror from the Islamic Republic, and migrants + white westerners waving pictures of Khamenei and hezbollah flags screaming "hands off Iran".

There's been TONS of people taking the regime's side.

Yes.
Have you heard the quality of her court discussions?
A Supreme Court justice that argues against the minutiae of 'legalese' seriously?

Bullshit. You know how many trillions Big Pharma spent on trying to find the cure for "broken metabolism"? All those "broken metabolism" studies always went like this: they recruited all those "broken metabolism" ladies who claimed to be able to gain weight on a 1000 kcal diet. Then they put them in a metabolic ward on an *actual* 1000 kcal diet, as calculated by actual scientists. And gee, who would have guessed, invariably those "broken metabolism" ladies miraculously regain their ability to loose weight, at exactly the same rate as the control group.

Oh wait, turns out there's no such thing as a "broken metabolism", 1 molecule of glucose makes exact same amount of ATP for everyone, there's just ladies that suck at estimating their calorie intake. And basal metabolic rate is still most reliably computed from lean body mass. Oh, you're 30% body fat? And you think you're going to have high basal metabolic rate? LOL.

Maybe, if you're looking for someone other than yourself to blame for your problems (as that seems to be your thing) you should look to the people who told you that cardio is the way to get lean. No, the way to fix that is to build metabolically active tissue, i.e. muscle. I.e. lift weights. Do you even lift bro?

And who would have guessed, the antiobesity agents that actually work, the GLP-1s do do jack shit to your metabolism, they're just really powerful appetite suppressants, i.e. they shut your piehole for you. Gee, it's almost as if all those people saying "if you want to get thin, just shut your piehole and that's all" were right all along.

But yes, I guess YOU are the first human in history of science whoose body can break the law of conservation of energy and still gain fat while eating less than you burn. Either that, or you're full of shit. Geeee, I wonder which of these two options might be true...

To what are you alluding?

The mullahs thank you for your support.

No (imaginary) kings! Just (real) totalitarian theocrats, please!