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.

"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.

I love niri - a new wayland compositor / window manager. Give it a try.

From experiments I've run on myself, I can safely say: "If you stop eating junk food, processed food, high sugar foods, you will improve metabolic syndrome." <--- FALSE "You have to eat vegan whole food plant based diet to fix metabolic syndrome." <--- FALSE "You have to avoid carbs and eat a keto diet to fix metabolic syndromne." <--- FALSE "If you have metabolic syndrome, you have insulin resistance and your Hba1c levels will be elevated at least a little bit." <--- FALSE "You need to avoid seed oils to cure metabolic syndrome." <--- FALSE "If you eat less often, but eat anything you like, as much as you like, you can cure metabolic syndrome." <--- APPEARS TO BE TRUE I think all the diet camps are wrong... except that pro-fasting people.

"I often observe people making decisions if their odds of being right are greater than 50 percent. What they fail to see is how much better off they'd be if they raised their chances even more (you can almost always improve your odds of being right by doing things that will give you more information). The expected value gain from raising the probability of being right from 51 percent to 85 percent (i.e., by 34 percentage points) is seventeen times more than raising the odds of being right from 49 percent (which is probably wrong) to 51 percent (which is only a little more likely to be right). Think of the probability as a measure of how often you're likely to be wrong. Raising the probability of being right by 34 percentage points means that a third of your bets will switch from losses to wins. That's why it pays to stress-test your thinking, even when you're pretty sure you're right." - Ray Dalio,

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I often observe people making decisions if their odds of being right are greater than 50 percent. What they fail to see is how much better off they...