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What's happening in Iran?
Iran has vowed to keep the Strait closed down to traffic it doesn't like. So do we still get to declare that we won even if the Straight is closed down? Our buddies killed their leader, we've killed plenty of their women and children. Those tankers and freighters are pretty easy to hit with drones launched from trucks.
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Rooster
The word you are looking for is "college".
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Star Trek Megathread
SFA I believe wrapped up today, and the second season is possibly in the can, so we will see how soon it rolls out since we are coming up on the 60th anniversary. I'm not fully caught up, but I'm fine with it and I see where they are going (was not a big fan of The Burn and all that was associated with it). If you hate it, then you were probably not the target audience - the wide range of Trek we've gotten over the last decade is due to them trying to find new audiences, not pleasing us middle-aged fans. There are still people out there furious over Lower Decks, without realizing the intent behind it (it's not a mockery of TNG), or how much TNG fans can enjoy it. It was always going to be corny, simply because it's the equivalent of mostly teenagers in Star Trek (Prodigy is the same way), and that's something we've seen plenty of times in TNG, etc.. And hey, it's not the Abrams movies where it's late 20-somethings/early 30-somethings at the Academy and then getting their own commands or senior positions (or jumping ahead of senior officers) within a year or two of leaving. Wesley did some seriously cringe-worthy shit and-a-half both while on the Enterprise and at the Academy (and some dangerous shit in both places), as did a lot of people we caught glimpses/flashbacks of (and we never saw his Holodeck shenanigans when he was going through puberty). I'm excited about SNW and its transition to the TOS era. I'm hopeful for the Picard spinoff with the Enterprise with some of the OG TNG/DS9/Voyager folks along with some of the younger people introduced there. And I'd really like a TOS-era (or pre-TOS) Trek that veered off into the TOS-era Romulan or Klingon stuff (or give us a series from their perspective). But holy fuck all of the bullshittery hanging over Paramount right now. I'm hoping the Trek properties are doing good enough numbers that there is still new stuff being made after SFA and SNW, because I would hate for the 60th anniversary to turn into a situation where we are saying goodbye to Trek for a while with the final seasons of Academy and Strange New Worlds.
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What's happening in Iran?
My first inclination is that an aircraft being refueled collided with the tanker, and the aircraft being refueled was able to safely land. It would not be the first time that is happened, and refueling operations in the air are risky. But when I think about it and how this operation has been managed, the first aircraft probably shot the fucking tanker down.
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What's happening in Iran?
Translation: We don’t know how to safely get ships through the Strait and we are fucking terrified of the optics of a U.S. Navy ship being hit.
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What's happening in Iran?
Stock market down, oil up and CNBCEnergy Secretary Wright says U.S. 'not ready' to escort o...Tanker traffic through the strait remains at a standstill as ship owners fear attacks by Iran. The closure has triggered the largest oil supply disruption ever.The U.S. Navy is not ready to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC in an interview Thursday. “It’ll happen relatively soon but it can’t happen now,” Wright said. “We’re simply not ready. All of our military assets right now are focused on destroying Iran’s offensive capabilities and the manufacturing industry that supplies their offensive capabilities.” Wright said it is likely that the Navy will be in a position to escort tankers by the end of this month. “I’ll be over at the Pentagon later today — that is what the military is working on,” the Energy secretary told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
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Google Fiber Merging with Astound/Grande
And when you threaten to leave, they'll give you the $70 back, but a year later, they'll tell you to get fucked it's $110. Seriously, Astound charges a lot more than $70 for a gig. There's no way they'll keep the $70 or lower their prices to $70. Google is getting out of this for a reason.
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Google Fiber Merging with Astound/Grande
Google sells partial stake in fiber becomes minority owner in venture Google said its fiber internet unit called GFiber is combining with Astound Broadband and forming an independent provider, with Google remaining as a minority shareholder. The new company will be majority owned by investment firm Stonepeak and led by the existing GFiber executive team, “utilizing their expertise in high-speed fiber innovation to manage the combined network footprint,” Google said in a press release on Wednesday. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Google Fiber, launched in 2010, was an early effort by Google to build ultra-fast fiber-optic broadband networks in the U.S., starting with a gigabit-speed rollout in Kansas City in 2012. Google proposed building gigabit fiber connections to homes, far faster than typical U.S. internet speeds at the time. Since then, some planned expansions were canceled and the company focused on select markets rather than a costly and time-intensive nationwide rollout. The spinout comes at a time when demand is growing for high-capacity networks fueled by the increasing popularity of artificial intelligence services. The external capital will help the new entity expand across the country, the company said. “This partnership with Astound and Stonepeak is the next step in our decade-long mission to redefine what customers can expect from their internet provider,” GFiber CEO Dinni Jain said in the release. Lot to unpack here. I would go back to Astound if they adopted Google's prices. Hell, I couldn't get fucking Google Fiber to even turn on our block - they built trunks in sidewalks/yards, but then decided to just skip us, so that's lovely.
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Non-political tariffs thread
Still trying to make tariffs happen Trump Section 301 trade probes to replace IEEPA tariffs
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What's happening in Iran?
I have to imagine that Trump is raging about Musk allowing this stuff on twitter. Meanwhile, Musk is staying silent about the war.
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What's happening in Iran?
It bumped the stock market and dropped oil prices, even if only briefly. At this point, I would not be surprised to find out that he released that statement knowing it was false.
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What's happening in Iran?
Yup, but somebody is desperate to get the ships moving. And Iran most likely has the hardware to hit them. US Navy doesn’t have that many ships capable of escorting ships in the current environment. I’d imagine we’d run low on missiles fairly fast.
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Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.
Nah, we will be on to Nigeria, Cuba, or Mexico by then. Which will prep him for North Korea.
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2028 Presidential Election ....
Day #1 after inauguration: Director Patel, if you want to remain as FBI Director, we are going to take a look at all of the trips you have made, anything involving your girlfriend including expenses, we are going to interview pilots, FBI officials and agents, and anybody else who was around you. We will put all of them under oath. Kash Patel:
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2028 Presidential Election ....
Social media platforms spreading misinformation and disinformation on a massive scale didn’t help.