The US clearly has overwhelming strength compared to Iran. And woo-woo high-tech! But, the USA is going to lose this war.

Why? Because the US has no clearly-defined goals. All the regime needs to do is survive, which it will: In the entire history of warfare, there has never been a regime change brought about by airstrikes alone. That will be a win for the regime and a loss for the USA. And it's always the loser who decides when a war is over, so if the USA makes that decision... it's the loser.

Israel is probably the only country that will benefit from this; it will have a couple of greatly weakened adversaries in Hezbollah and Iran.

No. But just the thing on a bus or in a restaurant.

This is where I have fantasies of an EMI weapon that I can point at a phone and blow the electronics to smithereens. Someone please invent this. (Careful of pacemakers, I guess...)

This is awesome news. Now, can we extend that to restaurants and public transport too, please?

Anyone going to fork sloppy seconds?

What is this, 754th in a line of things nobody asked for and nobody wants? When there are already open-source replacements for GitHub out there anyway?

Meta is violating privacy??? Whaaaaaaaat?????????

To be clear: I was talking about why Israel struck right now.

The USA was probably talked into it by Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Do they, though? I have a friend who is Iranian, and he says that the most prominent aspect of the regime (apart from its cruelty) is its stupidity and incompetence.

I'd say opportunism. Iran is relatively weak and so are its proxies. The regime just massacred thousands of protestors. And Israel probably finally had enough intelligence to figure out where the top leaders would be.

So then it was just a matter of coming up with a pretext and doing what they'd planned to do anyway.

Yeah, the "after" version of the building is more concave than conclave.

Vancouver has you covered. Literally.

If Ontario moves to a UTC-4:30 time zone, Newfoundland will have to up the ante and move to UTC-3:15!

They should have stuck with permanent Standard Time. That's what most health experts recommend.

This is a half-good decision. Not changing the clock twice a year is good. But it would have been better to go with Standard Time.