The violence in the Middle East dates back to the early Bronze Age. The Shah was violent and assassinated political rivals. In the 1940s, half of the Middle East sided with the Nazis.

The violence did not start in the 1970s, it didn't even start with Islam. It predates all of that.

Blaming individual X or modern event Y is to ignore the violence and open warfare leading up to those.

Only an idiot fixates purely on Iran. One genocidal Syrian despot has been replaced with another genocidal Syrian despot. IS is back on the rise. Egypt is a military dictatorship. Libya went from military dictatorship to perpetual civil war. The Arab Spring was ultimately crushed not because of a hatred of freedom but because the entire region is riddled with corruption.

Iran is a minor side show.

In which alternate reality?

Iran is not "a", but "the" supporter and financier behind Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and a bunch of other militias and trouble sources in the region. So no, they were absolutely not playing nice, even if you ignore all the atrocities inside Iran.

Yes, but Trump's will go in 3 years by itself. The IRGC regime will not.

Training AI to spot those eyes should be child's play. (Unless it flags too many owls to be useful.)

Oh! It's for your safety! If you have nothing to hide, what's the problem. YEAH RIGHT

As in, "We have to protect you from changing your gender or having an abortion, because Fox Jesus doesn't like that, he told us while we were taking a constipated shit on a Holy Golden Toilet."

I trust those guys as far as I can throw Donald, and I have a bad back.

It is lazy lawfare.

Patents on software are a net drain of resources on our economy. Most software "inventions" are not in giant Edison-like labs, but situational happenstance. As an incentive system, it sucks. And the patent office can't tell the rare gems from trash patents such that the net result is waste on trash patents.

Nukem!

My father did prior art of that in the college ARPANET lab in the late 70's.

Placoderms invented the mouth 440 million years ago. That's very prior art.

In America, laws are made by paying the politicians under the table. That's common knowledge. It's how the DMCA got passed, for example. But it's also made by having financially valuable information information, particularly that which permits politicians to have insider information that they can sell for votes/influence or use to make a killing on the stock market.

(You notice anything odd about oil price fluctuations recently?)

Musk had access to money, some of the largest databases the USG had, and the ability to fire civil servants who might have been inconvenient to Congress.

He was in government for how many years? If he wanted the statute of limitations altered, then surely that would have been the time to do it.

It would seem to me that he didn't care about the statute of limitations until AFTER other people started getting rich and he didn't.

I was under the impression that an appeal against a not guilty verdict was not permitted in the US, and was only permissible in the UK in the event of murder when overwhelming evidence showed wilful interference of the trial or exceptional new evidence.

Now they can rig ElonGPT to ignore their own evil trades. MAGA!

...experience and incremental innovation rather than strive for cutting-edge moon-shots. Long-term investments keep biting companies in the tush such that they have trimmed that. Current ROI formulas used in practice expect a return on investment by about 5 years*.

Also, they often move cutting edge research to the 3rd world because Masters and PhD's are much cheaper to rent there. Brain-intensive work is being outsourced.

* Japanese and EU companies tend to be more patient, for good or bad.

Do note that each vax update tends to be one or two variants behind when one actually gets the shot in practice. Covid is gradually becoming more like the "common" flu: a family of viruses that mix, match, and rotate.