Somehow I feel this will be used to allow Palantir and similar companies to attack “antifa” because of some excuse about it all being Chinese (Russian if a Democrat takes power next term). Things like hacking and taking down pain in the ass activist groups, doxxing them and not even hiding you did it and getting high-fives from this admin for doing it.
Impossible. He was with me that day and besides it is an obvious case of illegal parallel construction, bad chain of custody on planted evidence, and framing.
Maybe /r/chapotraphouse posters but definitely reddit users.
A short story: Someone on the old chapo sub in response to a story about developing shock shields posted an angry rant about how this technology was supposed to be for riot control in prisons not for use on protestors outside and how it wasn’t their fault they were only good at designing things like that themselves and never intended for them to be used that way.
They may realize that’s not going to happen. The zionists will never bend the knee, will never stop and America will never force them to. Morally I’d hope they’d hold out but realistically I don’t think they’ll ever get a deal if they demand withdrawal. Best they can probably hope for is no more advances by the zionists which will either be temporary until in 6-12 months Hezbollah carries out a major operation and the zionists get moving again “in retaliation” or mean Hezbollah accepting the occupation for the sake of not enabling this. Both bad choices.
Frozen asset release is I believe something Trump can do fairly unilaterally without congress so possible, blockade can be lifted by Trump also unilaterally so also possible, ceasefire also seems possible. Compared to their previous demands the US within the constraints of its zionist-beheld political system could plausibly agree to these terms and possibly to a less written down term of scaling back operations at their nearby regional bases though likely not formally closing and withdrawing from them.
Iran’s choices may be between this continuing and the US shrugging it off as China and other powers like India grow angrier and angrier at Iran for the energy price shocks that devastate their economies and quality of life for their people with no definite end in sight or accepting some sort of compromise even if it isn’t a permanent deal just so both sides can walk away.
Hot take: US wasn’t going to deal anyway. Trump might care about the optics of cheap gas but Congress is ride or die with the zionist entity.
They don’t care about high gas prices (especially after the midterms) and restricted supplies mean record profits for western oil companies in the meantime as well as more western control and blackmail of countries into deeper subservience to the US over the remaining global supplies which are mostly concentrated in US/NATO or vassalized countries (Venezuela) hands or through neo-colonialist control using western corporations. (This is necessary for building the world bloc to challenge, isolate, and destroy China in the new cold war)
The Gulf states will build pipelines and alternative export terminals to bypass the strait if needed. Zionists were never going to withdraw from Lebanon anyway short of Iran bombing most of their country into ruins (something Iran would never dare get close to doing because the zionists would themselves nuke Iran far before that, which is another reason why not having nukes when faced off against a deranged, genocidal, fascist settler colony backed by the entire west and with a whole religion in its pocket has its drawbacks). US sat through the OPEC embargo rather than dropping support for the zionist entity in the 70s and cars were a lot less efficient then, there was no work from home via internet, and US production capacity and financial advantage to its corporations and bourgeoisie was much much less than now. Zionist entity’s importance has also only grown as has the amount of blackmail they have on the US (evidence of a cyber “samson” option enabled by zionist intelligence operative run tech companies penetrating western tech ecosystems to the deepest levels with back-doors so they can just turn off the whole economy if US defiance is too great or their existence in peril).
If anything it will also prompt closer ties to the zionist entity which are desired in the US and the entity via exploitation and development of Palestine’s oil field in the sea there. They may also have the idea that they can keep Ukraine in the fight for years, a decade more (even as a rump state) sending drones deep into Russia to blow up pipelines to China and thus with other sources cut off or under US control already slit China’s throat by cutting off their last source of oil, plunging their manufacturing economy (not a car thing, petro-chemicals thing) into free-fall and forcing them to bend the knee in subservience (ala Plaza Accords) or just isolating them and turning the screws to attempt to get them to crack by immiserating the people of China to turn them against the government
There’s also the possibility of deep sadism of the US intentionally accelerating oil and gas development everywhere in order to accelerate climate change because it stands to be a prize-fighter gut-punching the global south, China, European rivals, and working people everywhere who are increasingly seen by some elements as a dangerous revolutionary risk and liability with what they believe is a roboticized, automated, AI enabled future with minimal human workers and guaranteed loyalty. Meanwhile US compared to just about any place on earth that isn’t Russia stands to weather climate change really well with livable temperatures through most of it and farmland that will mostly remain productive or viable.
Iran hasn’t lost but I’m not sure it can win either because it can’t deliver a knock-out blow its opponent cares about. It may be the only deal it can get is a weak compromise from the US that returns to close to the pre-war status quo with maybe fewer bases nearby but sanctions still gnawing at them. So if Iran wants a deal they realistically will have to accept zionist continued invasion and occupation of Lebanon (and the weakening of their only remaining major regional ally in Hezbollah and expansion of the greater pis-rael project), continued sanctions, no restitution from the US, limited and unofficial facts-on-the-ground subject-to-change base closures in the region instead of real withdrawals (and probably a bunch of work building bunkers and hardened structures in those within 6 months of any such deal), and perhaps the US will let them charge some minor toll fee on inbound vessels which are mostly Chinese cargo which Iran will have to exempt anyway and maybe empty tankers for a while which will be valued at some tiny rate compared to a filled tanker.
If Iran refuses this well get ready for more expensive everything sometime after the mid-terms as costs to move food to stores and from fields to factories go up with increased fuel costs, same with any and all consumer goods including imports from China. Overall devastation for the consumer market but maybe that’s the plan anyway? Since most spending now comes from the top 10-20% of earners it doesn’t matter as much if the proles cannot afford things and by making things expensive, destroying the mass production market you weaken and hurt China and push forward decoupling as people are no longer buying goods from them anyway (industrial supply chain entanglement is a bigger problem but suppose they believe they can fix that anyway and do friend-shoring).
Or maybe (and I’d like this to be the case) Trump has no plan, US is run by utter fools with no plans and somehow the economic pain of oil price shocks will force a compromise that’s humiliating to the US.
I think there’s too many headwinds against it and I think Congress is a big impediment because you’ll never convince enough of them to back down until hours before the US military leading a mob arrives at the capital to carry out a revolution. Really the chain to pull here is the zionist one as they can probably scream and plead and squeal loud enough to get the zionist congress-people to actually pass humiliating bills in the name of standing with the entity. But I’m not sure what Iran can do there to really hurt them as US dollar infusions prop them up, they’re protected from international law, and they’re deranged genocidal fascist demons with nukes. So I just don’t see any easy way out. It would be one thing if Trump were a dictator and could just bend the knee all on his own for his own sense of preserving the nation and industry and he hadn’t the attention span to get veiled zionist threats towards him. But he’s not.
It won’t hold to that rate IMO. Summer demand with Americans taking car trips is much larger than fall demand. By early September (if not late August) it starts to fall off and by October there aren’t many people traveling and won’t be again until late November around Thanksgiving (after the elections).
IMO gas prices stay more or less fine through election day. It’ll hit sometime after that, maybe a week later, maybe March next year but the US plans to just ride it out like the 70s OPEC boycott, refuse to acknowledge Iran and let the zionist entity have time to continue on its operations.
It’s not. Reddit is rolling this out and announced it as a change if I recall correctly from everyone else on other instances on lemmy talking about it a week or so back.
If you don’t see it then it’s only a matter of time.
The DPRK sent troops to the region of Russia that is internationally recognized as Russia (not the new regions of Russia annexed by Russia but still claimed by Ukraine) after the Ukrainian invasion and incursion there. They left after Russia liberated that region and both countries have erected memorials.
Because none of them have the ability or appetite to do a thing about it. Russia is strained by sanctions economically and bogged down militarily in Ukraine for one. Armenia is a US lapdog, Iran has no air or sea-lift abilities which would complicate a ground invasion and no appetite for one anyway even if it was not needing to keep all its forces in reserve in case of a US/NATO invasion.
So why wouldn’t they? Zionists give them tech treats, blackmail them, use the US to provide carrots for them and so on. What can Iran or Russia offer for staying actually neutral instead of just maintaining a pretext? This is about angling for maximum advantage and that is achieved by doing things like this while maintaining a facade of neutrality knowing Russia and Iran won’t call their bluff.
Probably surprised like me that US intelligence hasn’t come and forced them to turn it off for these sensitive areas and worried they’ll become a political target over it because of that.
Putin is a coward, will never directly kill someone on US soil and Elon has a bunch of ex special forces working his security because even by billionaire standards he’s quite paranoid people want to kill him (wonder why). Killing Elon would also do nothing to stop his company functioning. If anything it would lead to his companies functioning even more smoothly and some faceless ghoul would replace him.
Sanger is one of the most unreliable people out there. An Evangelical, anti-evolution (creationist), reactionary crank with an axe to grind because wikipedia won’t “teach the debate” on evolution and other conservative Christian bunk.
While yes Wikipedia is edited by feds obviously he’s just about the worst source you could hand to a liberal so I’d delete your bookmarks of this one. He also hasn’t been involved in the site very closely at all for a long, long, long time so his authority on the matter is questionable and he’s basically just speaking as a public person with no special access to my knowledge. His name lends anti-credibility to this claim considering what he believes.
Are we still talking only inbound transit will be taxed in this way by Iran while Oman will handle the far, far more valuable oil shipments or what ever happened with that? Because taxing only inbound traffic would just make China really mad to be paying for the US bombing campaign or else have them given an exemption and leave Iran collecting almost nothing at all.
Or is it a matter of Iran and Oman agreeing on a single price, Oman charges one direction, Iran other and they split the pot 50/50 or something? (Don’t see how that cannot fail to screw Iran down the line given if things get hot Oman can just start slow-walking the transfers of money or allowing US to interdict and interrupt the flow while pleading they’re not at fault)
More money for the death-industrial complex.
Each of the 15 nuclear-powered surface combatants will cost more than $18 billion, putting them in the range of the Navy’s Ford-class supercarriers, to date the most expensive naval vessels ever built.
Doesn’t matter though with how US can just print money. They’d have to cost $1 trillion a piece to put enough strain on the dollar in terms of inflation and scaring international creditors to matter. If anything I’m kind of surprised it isn’t triple that per ship.
When all is said and done they’ll probably pile another $4 billion in anti-missile and drone defensive munitions per ship though.
It’s not true anti-warism though? If it were he’d be against that war continuing or participating in it via funding/weapons. It’s just anti-war-ism-against-apparently-aggresive-wars-but-support-for-“defensive”-wars-ism. And tons of things can be spun as defensive. US stations nukes in Taiwan to provoke China and China invades? Defensive. Iran responds to zionist provocations and attacks and hits the zionist entity? Defensive.
It’s meaningless.
It’s a win for those who actually matter: the weapons merchants as now the US not only needs to buy a ton more to refill their stocks but they’ve demonstrated that those stocks will be rapidly depleted so they can demand multi-decade contracts expanding production and dumping money into these companies to do just that.
Yeah no. If it’s gambling addiction then so is a mall shopping spree because they have signs with blinking lights and other positive reinforcement including sales people who will be disappointed if you don’t buy after their pitch.
People hide problems of responsibility behind technological wizardry claims. Yeah there are big problems with abusive psychology under capitalism. Yes some of them have been refined a bit and are newer but this isn’t gambling. Gambling you stand to win back money if you succeed and there’s the thrill of blind results driving people to keep pulling the lever in expectation of the excitement of the unknown and the prospects of that. We can talk about children with a lack of impulse control being preyed on by lootbox mechanics because they’re kids but adults need to have this kind of basic skill to survive under capitalism. That skill being a modicum of self-control. But this is knowing exactly what she was purchasing and how much it could come out to.
I agree it’s a sign of some sort of mental unwellness but I’m not sure it’s something diagnose-able with a DSM code and in that sense it could be quite hard to treat with therapy as it would likely involve really confronting their inner self, who they are, formative history, etc which are things many people find hard and would rather avoid. If they’re already avoiding the not that hard work of financial discipline then short of something seriously challenging to their life forcing them to confront themselves they may not have it within them to face the hardship of this kind of self-investigation and course of change. Maybe the threat to their marriage will do that but often it takes a bigger jolt than that and often such a jolt of sufficient level isn’t reached at all and the person goes through life with constant crises and no real healing. I hope for OP’s sake and that of their partner they are able to get at root causes and find some healing but I hope OP is realistic about this being a common problem that may not end well either.
As far as dopamine response that’s why I brought in sex “addiction” and porn “addiction”. There are cases in the literature of people who will compulsively masturbate to the detriment of their well-being, who will shirk jobs, responsibilities, a social life to sit home and just pleasure themselves. Masturbation however is not an addiction nor an abusive behavior and their problem does not stem from masturbation or incredible sex toys but from motivation, self-discipline, etc. Often people with ADHD or other problems with long-term goal-setting and thinking have problems in the nature of that type of thing of self-destructive short-term thinking behavior that neglects longer-term goals. But the solution isn’t to say “oh it’s an addiction, not your fault” but to understand it is their fault, they need to find ways to cope, to discipline themselves, to avoid triggering things, and to survive and thrive in the world they find themselves in by adapting.
Abusive psychology under capitalism is a plague and ruins a lot of things and lives but it is not an addiction and doesn’t stem from addiction and compulsive behaviors are not addictions and should not be regarded or treated as such because it’s missing the real problem on a personal level (yes, yes capitalism is the REAL problem but OP can’t do anything about that).
Shame on you OP for posting ancient news as if it’s a new development. This is nothing more than lying if not clearly labeled as from earlier this year and I fail to see the relevance of posting something that old except to mislead people into assuming it’s happening right now.
Presuming this means complete units I doubt this will slow them down at all. Western brands make up the majority of this market already, are the established legacy players and account for most capacity.
In effect what this does is makes it hard for homelab people and anyone else needing a cheap optical transceiver to get one and forces them to pay western brand prices. Brands which will probably raise their prices in response to their captive market.
It’s an anti-competitive measure meant to shore up western brands who often make more complex networking products that have NSA/zionist backdoors in them though these items themselves likely have fairly little capacity for such compromise by either China or the west without significant and obvious effort.
It’s very telling that in fact that isn’t the case from their perspective. Among corporations, government officials, media figures, media owners, bourgeoisie in general who are all on-board with zionism this is about the most radioactive thing you could ask them to say. Especially in the UK where they jail you for saying you support Palestine Action. The zionists would vengefully seek after them for doing this (unless immediately undone, apology issued and zionist propaganda spouted) for years, a decade or more. Meanwhile the storm over any other on its face offensive statement would fade with a simple non-apology within a few months at most.