Washington has been aware of the problem for months. One US official told Semafor, “It’s something we expected and anticipated"

The same official stressed that the United States is not facing similar shortages and retains significant interceptor reserves. The comment comes amid growing concern that a prolonged war with Iran could rapidly drain missile defence supplies.

Israel: “Our plan is to ally with a bunch of fascist evangelical antisemites and conquer the Middle East”

America: shoves Israel in front of a barrage of ballistic missiles

Israel: “Who could have predicted this?!”

America: “It’s literally in the Bible that you get destroyed. Duh.”

The devil Putin Made Me Do It

Sure, in theory they would want the Iranian people to thrive

Like they encourage Egyptians and Jordanians to thrive?

Israel owns the US govt

Israel and the US have been co-conspirators in a Cold War against Iran going back 47 years.

They didn’t ask us to do anything we weren’t eager for

Or China

This is Peak Whataboutism

Always could. We used to just call it “pimping”

Strictly speaking, AI images violate OnlyFans terms of service.

But otherwise, sure. Who was actually harmed here? If she’d been real, would this have been better somehow?

Amazon Holds Mandatory Meeting After Vibe-Code Triggered Major Outages

~ Mar 11, 2026

Iran is scheduled to play three group-stage matches beginning on 11 June, including fixtures against New Zealand and Belgium in Los Angeles, followed by a match against Egypt in Seattle.

The comments come after Iran’s sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, said the team would not take part in the tournament following the US-Israeli war on Iran.

“Considering that this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup,” he said.

Amazing how a six paragraph long article managed to bury the lead.

I see these estimates fixating on the cost of US artillery.

I rarely see the estimates of damage inflicted on Iran, outside the anecdotes of destroyed power plants and water systems. Nobody seems interested in the horror we’ve unleashed on the Iranian population or the clear genocidal intent of the Israel/US military policy. It’s always and forever westerners wringing their hands over their own budgets and balance sheets.

Same strategy Israel used against the Palestinians. This is a genocidal war. The goal is not merely regime change but full depopulation of the region.

We’ve deprecated a lot of the old TV/radio signal bandwidth in order to convert it to cellphone signal service.

But, on the flip side, digital antennae can hold a lot more information than the old analog signals. So now I’ve got a TV with a mini-antennae that gets 500 channels (virtually none of which I watch). My toddler son has figured out how to flip the channel to the continuous broadcast of Baby Einstein videos. And he periodically hijacks the TV for that purpose, when we leave the remote where he can reach.

So there’s at least one person I can name who likes the current state of affairs.

But the user wants a gui.

Firstly, plenty of Linux instances have GUI. I installed Mint precisely because I wanted to keep the Windows/Mac desktop experience I was familiar with. GUIs add latency, sure. But we’ve had smooth GUI experiences since Apple’s 1980s OS. This isn’t the primary load on the system.

Secondly, as the Windows OS tries to do more and more online interfacing, the bottleneck that used to be CPU or open Memory or even Graphics is increasingly internet latency. Even just going to the start menu means making calls out online. Querying your local file system has built in calls to OneDrive. Your system usage is being constantly polled and tracked and monitored as part of the Microsoft imitative to feed their AI platforms. And because all of these off-platform calls create external vulnerabilities, the (abhorrently designed) antivirus and firewall systems are constantly getting invoked to protect you from the online traffic you didn’t ask for.

It’s a black hole of bloatware.

Found out about this while watching “Halt and Catch Fire” (AMC’s effort to recreate the magic of Mad Men, but on the computer).

Doherty Threshold

In 1982 Walter J. Doherty and Ahrvind J. Thadani published, in the IBM Systems Journal, a research paper that set the requirement for computer response time to be 400 milliseconds, not 2,000 (2 seconds) which had been the previous standard. When a human being’s command was executed and returned an answer in under 400 milliseconds, it was deemed to exceed the Doherty threshold, and use of such applications were deemed to be “addicting” to users.

Less electable than Herschal Walker

We’d have a lot more for material refining and production processing if we weren’t lighting it all up to generate our next iteration of crypto coins and AI slop videos.

Maybe we just need a law that prohibits use of petrochemicals except in the procurement of new green capital.

Me shouting the answer, but you can’t hear it over the bombs exploding across the Straight of Hormuz

Chili’s is about so much more than selling middle aged burnouts an overpriced martini and microwaved nachos.

Feel the same way about people wringing their hands over dead US soldiers, as though they’re the only people who matter.

A Thai shipping frigate just got hit in the Straight of Hormuz, and I have seen absolutely nobody on national news raise the question of whether any of the crew were injured or killed. Similarly, Israel and the UAE have been incredibly close-mouthed about civilian deaths from Iranian attacks into civilian areas, because they consider it a public embarrassment. Nobody seems to want to talk about the “collateral damage”.

And then there’s the death toll in Iran itself. I was getting ear-blasted with “Iranian Government Murders 10,000! 20,000! 30,000! people!” for weeks. Suddenly, Iranian deaths don’t matter, unless they’re high ranking politicians or military figures.

This reeks of the same coverage we got out of Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and Ethiopia. National news is entirely contained within jingoistic nationalist terms. We’re covering (and increasingly gambling) on the outcome like its a basketball game.

Vile.