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[–] 153 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Oh, no! Not Meta! Or Oracle! Or umm, Palantir! Or... guys, help me here.

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  • [–] 77 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    X should not be on the list to target!

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  • [–] 63 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Please not Palantir! Who will use WiFi to reconstruct a collection of 3D models of me pooping?

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  • [–] 94 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    What if Iran ends up breaking the backs of corporate America? As an American, I'm not against that...

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    [–] 73 points 8 months ago (18 children)

    American here. Can someone start a go fund me for Iran, on the condition that participants are allowed to attend an exclusive event for the live tar and feathering of Zuck the Cuck and Peter Theil? We could probably raise more money than the tech bros have.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    Iran just might save humanity.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    we need to be saved from Americans. Very difficult for Americans to understand that they are now the baddies.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Oh trust me, we know it. Its a minority of Americans cheering this on.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (8 children)

    Great, then it should be no problem for your to get off your asses and deal with this small group of Americans. Unless, you know, you’re a bunch of goddamn cowards?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    It's easy to sit behind a keyboard and tell someone else to go put their life on the line for a cause.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (6 children)

    Almost as easy as disingenuously dining out on your national legacy of “give me liberty of give me death” and “saving the world from fascists” for a century or two.

    “Keyboard warrior” lines coming from Americans who claim to be “the resistance” in 2026 are clown shit. You’re a MAGA enabler and you’re part of the problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (5 children)

    You're putting an awful lot of words in my mouth that I didn't say.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Okay, just go have a nap, then. Surely someone will be along to save you.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (3 children)

    I didn't do anything to you. Why so much venom? You really think I can do something against the U.S. government? They rolled up to Venezuela and kidnapped their president like it was child's play. What makes you think there's anything I can personally do to them? It doesn't matter how angry I am, they're still the ones with the bombs.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    There’s plenty you can personally do.

    But you’re not asking “what can I do”- you’re asking “what can I do that requires no risk or sacrifice on my part?”

    You’re fine. The rest of the world expects literally nothing from you and you’re doing an excellent job of doing fuck all.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know why I wasted my time responding to you in the first place. Your post history indicates you're an insufferable person.

    Your obsession with constantly shitting on Americans is pathetic.

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  • [–] 58 points 8 months ago

    Since America and Israel attacked Iranian Economic Interests when they bombed oil producing facilities, it's entirelly fair for Iran to respond in kind.

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  • [–] 106 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I only feel bad for all the sysadmins who will get woken up because of this

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    I make comments to the effect of that article, and I still get replies like 'gotta eat somehow'.

    Yeah, x2, Fuck' em.

    I could have made more money working for an evil company as a sysadmin.

    You know what I did?

    I made less money working for a considerably less evil Non Profit that helped homeless people, instead.

    Fuck 'em.

    Please Iran, you have very correctly identified critical components of the US intelligence system, which spies domestically and internationally.

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  • [–] 51 points 8 months ago

    Well...we're waiting!

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago

    Hold on! Stop! I can only get so wet!

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Russia had some reputation of being a large and powerful army, but as soon as they attacked Ukraine it showed the world it actually had shit. It basically lost its credibility of being a world power because their arsenal is old fashioned and they were just throwing in bodies.

    I feel the US is going through the same. Everyone saw them as an undefeatable nation, but this little stint in Iran had their stockpiles dropping faster than expected and it's not going as they expected. Hegseth and Trump contradict each other and besides squandering their soft power over the past years, they are also showing that their military might has limits.

    They are both still to be reckoned with and they are capable of doing great harm to innocent bystanders, but my view has changed a bit.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    A full on invasion will be much more difficult than Irak. The US probably could do this but it's going to be costly, forever and very unpopular. US military would be bound up for a long time.

    Good question what the goal is supposed to be now. Trump may just declare it over somehow.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Poorly executed military action is 100% an American institution. We expect it - from the Bay of Pigs to "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq to the twenty year campaign in Afghanistan, our executive branch has a habit of making itself look incompetent.

    But guess what? Nobody's asking about Epstein, so VICTORY!

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    [–] 38 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    they know who runs the country.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    they should reply with their own decapitation strike.

    though its kind of spineless of the people to rely on outside forces to do it.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Does Iran actually have the range to be a threat to the US? The last stats I saw had their maximum range and maybe enough to strike the Mediterranean and maybe a little inland in Italy and Spain. That's a far cry from being able to hit the US mainland. Hell even South Africa is probably out of range and it's not like they can deploy ships to close the gap.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Iran has a different war strategy that the US is incredibly unprepared for. They spin up terror cells around the world using the atrocities commuted by their targets to justify their actions to impressionable people. The US keeps fighting this fight by giving them exactly the ammunition they need to keep fighting. Terror cells get fed into the mulcher but keep on coming back and the US pretends that’s a success.

    I live in a hopeless country that has no desire to improve anything, just to conquer. Trump burning everything down is probably better for the world since we won’t have the power to abuse them anymore but fuck if he’s not going to kill us all in the process.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago

    If Microslop went away one day, it would only improve my quality of life.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago

    it would be a hilarious turn of historical events if Americans were saved from the oligarchs by Iran.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Well, didnt musk and suckerberg get enlisted in the military for some bs reason for pentagon access?

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Not them, four other C-suites: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164460/1a-army-07-03-2025

    But I haven't heard anything else about it. They wouldn't need it for any access, either, civilians are granted access for various things all the time.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    Shit i may need to delete my google account before Iran does it for me!

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    [–] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I would fuck things up so bad out of spite if I was Iran.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    incredible how iran is more of an opposition party than the democrats. and i'm supposed to hate them?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    Iran's leadership is still solely comprised of repressive religious authoritarian buttmunches. There are no good guys in this war, only two bad guys and a bunch of Iranian civilians standing in the crossfire. Remember that their own people were already staging mass protests against the Iranian government before this all started, during which Iran's own government admits to killing 3,117 people (probably more in reality) while "cracking down."

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Oh fuck yea! Saves us the trouble of a war against AI and robots, trying to dismantle Palantir!

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Alex Karp and Peter Thiel should be made to light their own pyres.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago

    They funded his presidential campaign and own nearly all the media to oppress opposition and push propaganda. So big tech is getting from the world what they put into it?

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    stop dont come back

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago*

    If they digitally nuke them. I don't want to be apathetic to death and injury

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    No one I care about. Its hard to feel sorry for them since they helped make it happen.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    I want this war to end as soon as possible, but is this a surprise?

    They’re taking on hundreds of millions from the Pentagon, they are military contractors.

    I do not think bombing data centers will result in more than sporadic regional service disruptions though. Data will just get routed through other regions and increase latency. That’s what the internet was invented for and AWS + Google run multi zone clouds.

    It’s yet to be seen if Iranian hackers can deal any real damage to these companies.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    The reality is that these multi region "clouds" are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Everything runs on us-east-1 lol

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    There are at least two services I know of off the top of my head that rely on us-east-1, so even if you are using them in another region if us-east-1 goes down, so does that service in all regions (and so does your app)

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I'm far from an expert, but it seems like if one cloud node goes down, pay hackers to slam everything with bot traffic and the system is brought to its knees.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Correct. Plus it may not be as resilient as we think. Just because they're billion dollar companies doesn't mean they don't follow the tradition of building systems with duct tape and a prayer.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    In the age of MBA management, the removal of resilience such as fallback systems because "they're doing nothing" is the norm.

    Nowadays Engineering stuff isn't done according to Engineering Principles if it conflicts with short term profit maximization.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Also even if the digital infrastructure is resilient, what about the physical infrastructure? A couple sticks of Nobels great invention and viola there's now a gaping hole in your power transmission infrastructure or in the building itself if access can be achieved.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Not to mention the diminished teams who are now under resourced to handle their existing workloads. I'm sure they will do great as things spiral because the sloppy work of the AI has increased their workload, not reduced it. As the cracks begin to form on the human side of things, nothing could possibly go wrong. After all, the human element of any system is often the most secure. /s

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    You just triggered an old memory. Back when I was like 7 I remember watching some type of military debate on some type of public access thing, I think it was military historians and active duty guys talking about military communication over history interesting shit. Anyways something they say that's kinda stuck with me was the worry of degrading autonomy within the military due to ever increasing ever improving communication capabilities and how it may get to the point that units become effectively headless should communications be disrupted.

    So what happens when leadership becomes reliant on AI tools and the data centers become inoperable? Because frankly that may be an actual worry sooner than later, or advantage depending on the longevity of the federal government.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Having worked in several large public clouds, I will always keep a local backup of my cloud data even if I am snapshotting it and even if I'm using geographic replication. Too easy for a misunderstanding or a bug to result in all my stuff getting deleted.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    “President Trump is not worried”

    Welp, I’m satisfied, how about you? /s

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    some good news!

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    I guess Trump is getting what he wants, he's getting a spot in the history books - as the one who started WWIII.

    Congratulations. Peace Committee my ass.

    But do carry on with your plans, Iran.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Why bother with microslop, they just gave to be a bit patient and wait for the weekly ground zero updates 😄

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Blow 'em all up

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    Please do that !🙏 Save the entire west

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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