Nah, it sounds like they were mercenaries hired by militant groups in Mynamar to train them on modern drone and electronic warfare.

So while I'm not going to ever accuse mercenaries of being "good guys", the terrorism charges are also bullshit, like most terrorism charges are.

I can see why they've been persecuted throughout history!

The irony is that you're parroting Israeli propaganda by conflating Zionism with Judaism.

The state of Israel thanks you for your service and doing the work of Hasbara for them.

This is just self-serving messaging that he's hoping will impact the AI spend and policy of other CEOs.

Maybe he believes it, maybe he doesn't, but it's 100% in his interest to make other decision makers believe that he believes it.

For those confused, they're basically saying that if America tries to seize any of its Islands, or attack its coast, they won't just close the strait, they will mine the entire Persian Gulf, which has many ships currently loitering waiting for the straight to open.

They also claim to have mines that they can simply drop from their own coastline, which will then subsequently travel into the the Gulf. Which is entirely plausible.

The environmental damage will be catastrophic from all of the blown up oil tankers still in the Gulf, and those oil tankers are not easily replaceable for the shipping companies, so even more medium term economic damage will be added to the pile as a result.

Can't wait to see the reporting on how fucked up their air traffic control system is from Trump's cuts.

But they've never been this close to the nuclear football.

You were calling them mad in the context of geopolitical strategic thought i.e. madman theory, and that's just not true.

If you need evidence that they are thoughtful and measured, then just look at this war and how it's playing out.

And if you need more evidence, please read all of the reporting regarding the latest rounds of negotiations that Trump sabotaged.

Those are not the actions of mad men.

While I will not defend theocracy, the people running Iran are anything but mad.

Brutal and repressive authoritarians? Sure.

But their strategy going back 40 years has been thoughtful and measured, which are not the qualities of people who are "mad".

The same cannot be said for Trump, obviously.

I use Fedora, and honestly, I'm not even going to look for alternatives or work arounds unless and until my system actually tries to verify my age.

But that's good to know, thank you. I imagine that if I do have to dump Fedora, I will probably go to an Arch based system purely for the AUR.

But who's going to grope children and ransack luggage?

Oh right, ICE.

Nevermind, crisis averted.

As someone who has used Linux for over a decade, I have no idea how I would even go about replacing Systemd on my computer; even if I wanted to.

Ageless Linux, now that's something I can get behind: a script that I don't understand, to accomplish something I think I might need, or just think is neat.

Unfortunately, I don't use a Debian based distro, so I'm SOL on that front as well.

Get your conscience somewhere other than kalshi

Huh?