Iran is starting to set up decoy hospitals.

I'm starting to think Brian Berletic is right. And I think Iran has no good reason to put mines in the strait, because it isn't a reasonable threat of deterrance against a superpower that has plenty of oil (22m barrels a day, second is Saudi Arabia at only 10). And Iran has no good reason to destroy oil infrastructure in the gulf, only to destroy US bases there. If mines show up in the strait, or gulf oil assets are hit, I think that is US forces doing it, perhaps Iraq. The one who benefits from the strait being closed is the US, and the ones who suffer is everybody else and especially China who still gets 20% of their energy from the gulf. Blockading China at the 2nd island chain seems to have not worked out (China too on top of that one) so this strategy of shutting down the gulf and blaming Iran is Plan B. And also, Israel doesn't control the US, it gets attacked by missiles on behalf of the US, same as Ukraine does. Now of course Netanyahu is a homocidal maniac, and there is a greater Israel plan, and this stuff dovetails together, I didn't say otherwise. But I think the US faceless policy people are running the show and Trump is running the distrations.

!!! SECRET PLAN LEAKED !!! Unnamed official leaks that the true military objective is to widen the Strait of Hormuz

I hereby and officially condemn New Zealand for condemning Iran's missile strikes on [US military assets in] Gulf States. What dumbfucks. Hard to even believe that people of such levels of stupidity can survive to adulthood.

I witnessed a car accident today that is hard to fathom how oblivious a person can be. Like a game of frogger, except trying to get hit in every lane. We drive on the left in NZ. I was in the far left "slow" lane. There were 2 lanes each way on this road. A car in front of me. A car in the fast lane about a car's length behind me. Oncoming traffic coming in fast in the fast line on the other side. That's the setup. A car pulls out of a driveway on the left, as though turning right into the lanes across the road (to go opposite way I'm going). Pulled right in front of the car in front of me, who slams on the brakes. The car hesitates very slightly then proceeds into the fast lane on our side whereupon they get slammed by the car to my right who was going full speed. Both cars crush. Horns blaring are now stuck that way. Then they back up their crushed car back way they came off the road back into their driveway, get out, and wander around a bit dazed. The crazy thing is, if they had made it into the other side of the road they would have been hit there too by the oncoming traffic, probably even harder. Feel free to guess the sex and race of the driver.

"Trump is the only president who didn't start any new regime-change wars." "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

In about 20 years, the poor will be much more numerous, there will be far fewer rich people, and all of them will be artificial.

Still rocking OMAD. It is still so easy that I feel like I'm cheating somehow.

I think Elon Musk was named after the dik-dik, which has elongated scent glands.

I must say, AI has gotten a lot better. I was highly skeptical a few years ago . Now I'm using one quite a lot at a client site (Microsoft copilot) and it really does a great job of coming up with the right range of possible answers, from which the human (me) can direct it towards the right one for further queries if needed. The human still needs to be in the loop. I don't see it replacing me just yet. There are plenty of jobs it could replace though. And I've heard there are lots of layoffs happening because of this.