The matrix has a glitch.

Bush: "After all this is the guy who tried to kill my dad"
Trump: "I got him before he got me"

It is infeasible to say what Trump's "real reason" was. People can only guess. Trump is a pathological liar and his statements are for the most part meaningless and profoundly lack self-consistency.

There is no guarantee of anything. The vast majority of Iranians favors a change to democracy.

This is like saying the morality of locking up a bank robber should be judged independently. The crime the bank robber previously committed is "irrelevant".

Nothing is abundantly clear to me. There was never any believable, self-consistent justifications communicated. Just a lot of conflicting stories and BS. What we do know is Trump made a threat to bomb Iran specifically in regards to murdering of protestors and US military assets began moving at that time. From media accounts it was at this time Trump and BB began coordinating for their strikes.

Murder has a specific definition based on an unjustified intent to kill. In war combatants are fair game and the IRGC certainly qualifies. If a police officer fires at a bank robber brandishing a weapon but misses killing a hostage that isn't murder. It might be the police officer becomes liable in some way for the death yet they are not committing murder.

I only hope this sentiment translates into congress clawing back authorities previously delegated to presidents starting with the war powers act.

The Iranian regime killed tens of thousands of people in a few days for peacefully protesting and has systematically terrorized, murdered and severely oppressed their own people. Externally the regime does nothing but export terrorism around the world. The IRGC is presently shooting up apartment buildings at night because the people in them are yelling in protest from their balconies.

There was no coup, see my earlier post.

The videos out of Iran and across the global diaspora of huge masses of people celebrating the bombing and death of the leaders of their own country are shocking. Almost enough to make me think I was wrong to oppose the US bombing Iran. If it were me in that position I would be cheering the destruction of my oppressors too.

This is all bullshit. There are no shortage of valid criticisms about the US waging an internally and externally illegal war and its execution of that war. There is no need to spew bullshit to make a case.

People like to talk about the price of freedom in terms of blood but really the true cost of freedom is the willingness of members of society to tolerate others.

They came out and said it: "It will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle, and we are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this."

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/...

If the pentagon doesn't like the terms they don't sign the contract. The reason why is irrelevant. Could be the pentagon does not like the vendors terms when it comes to supply of parts and maintenance for a particular system. Maybe they would prefer to have flexibility to have themselves or a third party handle some aspects. Whatever it is if the parties can't agree on terms the buyers remedy is to take their business elsewhere not abuse their power by making the vendor "pay a price".

The issue at hand is pentagon not liking the terms of their contract with Anthropic. Anthropic is unwilling to agree to change those terms. The notion this is about what software will or won't do isn't supported by any reporting I've ever seen on this topic.

This coup narrative is absurd on its face. First of all the Shah briefly ousted Mossadegh in 1952 prior to operation Ajax but quickly backed off. Mossadegh's popular support had subsequently gone downhill and he increasingly sought to make himself an all powerful dictator.

To quote the New York Times:

"A plebiscite more fantastic and farcical than any ever held under Hitler or Stalin is now being staged in Iran by Premier Mossadegh in an effort to make himself unchallenged dictator of the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/1953/0...

The Shah eventually kicked this motherfucker to the curb. Mossadegh then spent three years in prison and died under house arrest. A coup occurs when a faction of government illegally takes actions to assume powers they are not entitled under law. That never happened. The Shah always had the power to get rid of the prime minister whenever he felt like it and he eventually exercised it. That is not a coup. You might not like it or agree with it but disagreement does not make it a coup.

The CIA did send Kermit the frog to meddle and wage a propaganda campaign against Mossadegh with an aim to have him removed from power. The CIA did later help the Shah return and setup a secret police..etc. They really did want the oil.

Yet at these CIA coup, US installed puppet, US destroying democracy narratives reflect an ignorance of history.

Linking of lead pollution to solar is rather strange. From article lead poisoning is attributed to "backyard" battery recycling operations rather than use of batteries themselves. If all solar in this region were using LFP batteries lead poisonings would persists. Recycling operations involving importation of discarded batteries are a separate activity..

Lead acid is a terrible choice for solar systems. Not only do they have much lower cycle life and capacity due to sulfation you can't even use half the batteries capacity and still expect it to last a useful amount of time. This doesn't even make sense from a capex perspective. Nowadays only doomsday preppers and scroungers use lead acid batteries for solar..

This is some crazy shit...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Nobody is doubting the school was attacked. The issue at hand is who/what/why. Presently there is no public information to address this question leaving only inductive inference.

The double tap thing is pure bullshit.

Russia switched to mostly domestic production a while ago. Most components are still imported from the west and there is still coordination with Iran. One of the Iranian shithead drones was recently found with a Russian Kometa antenna.

There is 0 public information as to who/what/why. Everyone is just guessing at this point.

My guess tends toward US "fuck-up" however I find lack of any footage of missile fragments strange. In other cases people go out of their way to provide that evidence to reduce ambiguity over who is responsible.

Yea I agree, Iran should just have stuck to attacking high rise buildings, apartments, hotels and airports.

My understanding the military is only carrying out standing orders. The ability to think in strategic terms likely no longer exists. Anyway the ship is already underway. I had assumed everyone in the region would scream at the US but once the bombs started to fall on them not so much.

Linking of lead pollution to solar is rather strange. From article lead poisoning is attributed to "backyard" battery recycling operations rather than use of batteries themselves. If all solar in this region were using LFP batteries lead poisonings would persists. Recycling operations involving importation of discarded batteries are a separate activity.

Lead acid is a terrible choice for solar systems. Not only do they have much lower cycle life and capacity due to sulfation you can't even use half the batteries capacity and still expect it to last a useful amount of time. This doesn't even make sense from a capex perspective. Nowadays only doomsday preppers and scroungers use lead acid batteries for solar.

This only instills a false sense of what these things actually are into the minds of users leading to false expectations technically infeasible to fulfill. LLMs are in reality MechaHitler dressed up to look like a helpful assistant.

Here there is evidence of AI cutting both ways. AI knows a lot more than most people which can sometimes be helpful.

What is responsible for most crazy shit that makes the press especially /w AI's going more bonkers than usual is wrapped up in models keeping way too much STM. Especially with kids or people with mental issues the STM should intentionally expire after a short time and otherwise be severely limited. Of course AI companies will never willingly do this because it would utterly destroy "engagement".