I do wonder if China attacking Taiwan and the Taiwanese sabotaging and destroying their own chip manufacturing so the Chinese can't take it might not be the best thing for humanity. It would probably set A.I. back a decade at least.
bada wrote:I do wonder if China attacking Taiwan and the Taiwanese sabotaging and destroying their own chip manufacturing so the Chinese can't take it might not be the best thing for humanity. It would probably set A.I. back a decade at least.
simple schoolboy wrote:Iran demonstrated in their response to the Soleimani assassination that their ballistic missiles can hit what they aim for (in that case some hangars/ helicopters). Israel has a fairly robust wartime censorship apparatus, so if Iran has been successfully cratering runways and hitting other military targets we don't necessarily hear about it. What we do see is the apartment complexes and hospitals that get hit, possibly due to incomplete interceptions/ electronic warfare countermeasures.
What Iran is hitting could also be due to just aiming at general areas and rushed targeting, but its hard to evaluate their target selection in this information environment.
Iran hit and destroyed the stock exchange building in tel Aviv today. They know exactly what they’re aiming for and are able to hit it. Despite the manipulations and omissions of media.
Hardly. You’re confusing it with the Palestinian flag.
All the Middle Eastern brown people probably look the same to you do they?
bada wrote:I do wonder if China attacking Taiwan and the Taiwanese sabotaging and destroying their own chip manufacturing so the Chinese can't take it might not be the best thing for humanity. It would probably set A.I. back a decade at least.
Bi_3 wrote:The US attacking Iran would be a huge tactical mistake. Once the bunker-buster tech is demonstrated in the field one of two things will happen: either it will fail to destroy the underground development base and teach every other nation how to protect their nuke programs or it succeeds but enough data is captured by China and Russia that they will develop effective countermeasures and potentially publish them. It's lose/lose.
Trump gave his standard two week decision window, which is code for never, so you don’t have to worry.
Bi_3 wrote:The US attacking Iran would be a huge tactical mistake. Once the bunker-buster tech is demonstrated in the field one of two things will happen: either it will fail to destroy the underground development base and teach every other nation how to protect their nuke programs or it succeeds but enough data is captured by China and Russia that they will develop effective countermeasures and potentially publish them. It's lose/lose.
Trump gave his standard two week decision window, which is code for never, so you don’t have to worry.
Two weeks from now is the 4th of July
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
Bi_3 wrote:The US attacking Iran would be a huge tactical mistake. Once the bunker-buster tech is demonstrated in the field one of two things will happen: either it will fail to destroy the underground development base and teach every other nation how to protect their nuke programs or it succeeds but enough data is captured by China and Russia that they will develop effective countermeasures and potentially publish them. It's lose/lose.
Trump gave his standard two week decision window, which is code for never, so you don’t have to worry.
Two weeks from now is the 4th of July
The best day to start a war!
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
Bi_3 wrote:The US attacking Iran would be a huge tactical mistake. Once the bunker-buster tech is demonstrated in the field one of two things will happen: either it will fail to destroy the underground development base and teach every other nation how to protect their nuke programs or it succeeds but enough data is captured by China and Russia that they will develop effective countermeasures and potentially publish them. It's lose/lose.
Trump gave his standard two week decision window, which is code for never, so you don’t have to worry.
Two weeks from now is the 4th of July
The best day to start a war!
Technically just the best day to sign a strongly worded letter.
It’s great timing since America will be too distracted by fireworks, beer, and grilled meat to notice the deadline come and go. And I’m sure there will be several fresh calamities to take up headlines by then. Everything is ancient history after two weeks in MAGA land, flushed down the
dimejinky99 wrote:I dunno. 4th of July is a pretty good day to sell a ‘make America dominate again with another suicide mission in the Middle East!’ To his base.
Nah, it’s a holiday of total escapism from the real world. No one wants to hear from Trump.
dimejinky99 wrote:I dunno. 4th of July is a pretty good day to sell a ‘make America dominate again with another suicide mission in the Middle East!’ To his base.
Nah, it’s a holiday of total escapism from the real world. No one wants to hear from Trump.
I hope you’re right. Seems like the main holiday for him to hijack and pollute with his bullshit
Also you guys really don’t make enough of a big deal about the message of Independence Day and battering the Brits. That was the entire point of it! Sent them home crushed and they never tried it on with you again.
Why isn’t the ‘we kicked the Brits out!’ The main message of Independence Day?
We did it too (mostly) and we’re not having an Independence Day until we take the 6 counties back. The. It’ll probably be Unity day every year rather than Independence Day. But same thing.
Tiochfaidh ár lá! Get your Brits out!
dimejinky99 wrote:Also you guys really don’t make enough of a big deal about the message of Independence Day and battering the Brits. That was the entire point of it! Sent them home crushed and they never tried it on with you again.
Why isn’t the ‘we kicked the Brits out!’ The main message of Independence Day?
We did it too (mostly) and we’re not having an Independence Day until we take the 6 counties back. The. It’ll probably be Unity day every year rather than Independence Day. But same thing.
Tiochfaidh ár lá! Get your Brits out!
Overall I think America would have been far far better off and in an infinitely better place now, had the French managed to colonise the whole place back in the day.
You’d all have at least a tinge of interest in culture and still have that air of insufferable superiority but it wouldn’t be as knuckle headed insecure machismo that Americans have today.
It would just be a snooty aloof indifference to the rest of the world.
And there’d have been none of this world police bullshit and causing and arming conflict around the world.
The current American situation has been the best possible scenario. A geographically isolated nation free from the ancient grudges of Europe and Asia, holding the most nuclear might, using that power to desperately keep the rest of the world from completely annihilating themselves. It could be a lot worse.
