A plan did exist, and it was serving the interest of the American Empire quite well.
Iran was effectively contained and economically suppressed by America and its Epstein class allies in the GCC and Israel.
But that plan was successful in part because of the conflict adverse posture of the Iranian leadership.
So when they were all killed, that plan went poof.
Whoopsie daisy.
Now we have no plan.
I have a good bit of storage, around 60tb usuable.
But as those drives die, I will not replace them at these prices.
I have used the free trials of a couple different jellyfin shares to test them out, and was really impressed.
YMMV, but after collecting and serving my own media for around two decades, the hobby part of it isn’t as important to me as the the ability to access a large media library for the lowest cost possible.
Except you’re still paying for extremely inflated storage costs, on top of your Usenet fee, which is roughly the same cost as a pirate share - depending on what you’re paying for i.e. block vs monthly.
Not at these storage costs, which was my point.
Which is why it can make sense to pay for pirate shares.
Many are around $5-8/mo, and they’re libraries are bigger than my own, with the added bonus of I don’t have to do any maintenance.
$60 to $98 per year, is a better deal than paying for these HDD prices. For me at least the trade-offs are worth it.
The TVs you buy at Costco or Walmart aren’t meant to be run 24/7 365. They never have been.
He should have said commerical displays, which are basically TV’s rated for long continuous use e.g. digital signage.
I haven’t dealt with them in some time, but I would imagine many, if not most, do not include consumer smart tv features, although they probably have other embedded smart tech to help with stuff like signage.
First off, that would be awesome. I stupidly never saved any of my old freedom fries receipts, and I’ve always regretted that.
Unfortunately for me, our societies relationship with our political system is so radically different from the early 2000s, that I don’t think that specific type of cultural short circuit is possible.
Russia has banned them, sort of.
Although I don’t think their methods would work here, or rather, I don’t think they could grab the kind of power necessary.
Russia now has regional internet blackouts, were they effectively only allow a small number of white listed sites to be accessible.
So if you you literally cannot reach the VPN servers because only a handful of Russian government websites, preferred businesses, and UK banks (oligarchs gotta oligarch) are whitelisted, well then you banned VPNs, again, sort of.
They did roll out a government approved VPN for specific approved individuals and use cases, to a get around those blackouts…so that’s something.
Iran seem to have LOST the propaganda war…in the United States.
Say what?
Anecdotally, go look at the YouTube comments for any video related to Iran, their 80% against it.
Even on local news videos, where everyone generally supports the death penalty for petty theft or aggravated liberalism.
Even if those are bots, they’re still proof positive that the propaganda war has not been won by the pro-war factions.
And when it was actually polled, 60% of Americans opposed the war on its first week and wars don’t get more popular over time.
MAGA and the GOP broadly support it, which is about 1/3 or the country, but that’s a lost cause.
That’s not how I would describe the nepo babies and trust fund kids of Mexico and South America.
But I guess you’re free to feel differently.
Birth tourism is absolutely a thing, especially for affluent people of 2nd and 3rd world countries, at least in my experience.
I’ve met and known a lot, and I mean countless, wealthy people from Mexico and South America, whose parents come here to give birth, returned home to raise their kids, and then the kids move back to the states for college.
I’m not saying that’s bad, or good, I’m just saying it’s real.
Do you think this is the first person that this particular detective has tried to railroad because they were too lazy to do any real work?
I would be shocked if every single one of his previous cases weren’t full of half-truths, lies, and just generally sloppy work.
The telecommunications lobby is significantly larger and more influential than the recording lobby.
At no point that did I say that the killing of the girls was a strategic move to demoralize the IRGC.
And I remain dumbfounded as to why people keep giving the benefit of the doubt to Trump and Hegseth.
I’m not saying it was a strategic choice, I’m saying I could easily see Pete being a sadist who got off on killing those schoolgirls, who approved the strike package based on that alone, and that’s before you even consider his crusades and killing Muslims fetishes.
In that scenario the fact that they are the children of IRGC members just gives him an excuse to rationalize his choice to pleasure himself with their blood.
Again, I don’t know that’s what happened, but I know it’s just as likely as it being an “oppsie” when the man in charge of the Pentagon is a known abuser of women, in addition to being a drunk moron ultra Zionist Christian nationalist with crusader tattoos.
Text to speech, fixed.
The invasion Force used for Iraq (2003) was I believe around 300,000 soldiers.
Iran is four times the size of Iraq.
This might be enough soldiers to seize one of Iran’s small coastal islands, but it’s not enough to hold it for long once the drones and missiles start falling.
There might be other smaller Iranian holdings in the general region that they’re looking at, but using that force inside the straight or gulf, would be a bloodbath.
MIC entities are always legitimate targets.
I genuinely don’t know why you’re giving them the benefit of the doubt.
None of us here knows the truth, and I would posit that it’s just as likely, if not more likely, that that school was targeted intentionally, as it was used for the children of IRGC officers.
I’ve heard many different explanations for the differences, the simplest being the older generation were more moderate and the younger more hardline.
But I think that’s oversimplifying it.
One of the more compelling explanations I’ve heard from an Irianan academic is the difference in the wars each generation of leaders were forged in.
Basically his explanation states that the older generation were veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, which was the largest conventional war since WW2.
And that was the lens they viewed a potential conflict with America through, purely conventional.
Whereas the new generation were forged in Iraq and Syria, fighting with asymmetrical warfare.
Note that this war, while not quite over, has been waged mostly asymmetrically.
Sure, they used their conventional forces to attack America’s conventional forces, but their primary thrust was exerting asymmetric economic pressure through oil and gas infrastructure and closing off the straight.
I’m looking forward to reading the historical accounts of this conflict in the hopefully not too distant future.