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Goredho

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  1. The next evolutionary leap of the Stratocaster design by PRS.
  2. I would say we are in an unprecedented golden age of American propaganda and misinformation. As for entertaining the idea we are being lied to by our institutions, absolutely. Make sure you apply the same standards you want from others to the institutions you choose to put your own faith into and hold them accountable when they engage in obvious bullshittery.
  3. There’s literally no way to know if the messaging from our government is representative of the truth or more eating the dogs/eating the cats nonsense. All any of us can say is “the information sources I’ve chosen to put blind faith in have led me to believe X.” Maybe Trump’s right, maybe he’s wrong, but nevar forget this quote from our VP: ”The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” Where does that any means to an end attitude toward voter influence end? At cats and dogs in an election year? With strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities amidst sagging approval and horrific headlines? You don't know and neither do I. But what I do know is that a government that is willing to so brazenly mislead its people is not one I personally can put much faith in.
  4. I have no doubt that we have a reasonably accurate damage assessment in hand. I’m just not sure it’s in the President's hand, and if it is, if it would be allowed to contradict the result he proclaimed shortly after the attack.
  5. There should be an SNL skit where Trump orders the strike and everyone in the war room starts pantomiming an air attack on Iran. Running around with their arms spread like wings and making whooshing sounds while others act out explosions and scream “Mercy, Trump! Mercy!” Then JD Vance speaks up to say, “Mr President. Through your daring leadership, you have completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear program and ushered in a golden age of Middle East peace.” Tulsi Gabbard raises her hand and says, “Wait… we are getting intelligence reports that we may n…”. JD cuts her off “SHUT THE FUCK UP, TULSI!!! YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!!” Needs an ending.
  6. Are we sure it’s a good thing to shatter the President’s notion that he successfully nuked Iran into the Stone Age? I mean, we either did, in which case there’s no need for us to get further entangled, or he thinks we did, in which case there’s no need for us to get further entangled.
  7. You really need to paint them with different colored nail polish and let us bet on the lone survivor. You take 5% for... shrimp food, or whatever, and the winners split the rest.
  8. He sounds NeoConcerned.
  9. Satan's penis no less.
  10. If nothing else, our diplomacy delivers the lulz. Is there a Nobel prize for that?
  11. The headlines and where everyone’s attention is focused.
  12. ROFL. That was a nice, snack sized, microwaveable holy war.
  13. Dibs on War Boner as a band name.
  14. So do we call these guys the Neo-Neo Cons or what?
  15. That this was your 666th post tells me all I need to know, AI. Begone you false human!!
  16. Well, we can only move forward now. If we didn’t force terminate their nuke program last night, we’ve got to finish it. I don’t see how that happens without boots on the ground. I hope they are Israeli boots.
  17. Yeah, have wondered if open sourcing “how to build a nuke program” to the Muslim world might be on the table if Iran became convinced that the combined Israeli/US operations were intended to erase its existence.
  18. Yeah, we’ll have to see how it all plays out. I mean, your post was the prevailing sentiment immediately after the start of Bush II’s second Iraq war, too, and it accomplished very little for its human and monetary cost. If Iran’s nuclear program was wiped out so that they can never rebuild and there is no required further commitment of the U.S. to enforce that, then this will be a resounding success and a big feather in Trump’s cap. If we wind up with retaliations, escalations, invasions, regime change and nation building, it won’t be.
  19. I'm tipsy and a little high and decided to get ChatGPT to vibe code a virtual AI CEO (named VERA), and then run a controlled test to see how VERA would perform as CEO of Tesla for Jan/Sept 2024 vs Elon Musk's real world performance. The result? Maybe AI replacing humans isn't such a bad thing after all?
  20. Asked ChatGPT if Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan were completely destroyed, how long until Iran could build a nuclear bomb if Iran were fully committed. It said 2-3 years with undetected/uninterrupted rebuilding.
  21. Asked ChatGPT: What would happen if the U.S. took out Iran’s nuclear facilities at fordow using bunker busting bombs? Gonna post the response here so we can see how well it predicts what is next.
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