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  1. The point is that, as is mostly the case, two things are true at the same time. 1. Palestine, Israel, Hamas, etc. all have a sweeping history that spans decades if not centuries of conflict and 10/7 was just another in the long line of catalysmic event. 2. 10/7 absolutely kicked off this season of war- and it's turning out to be one of the largest pyrrhic victories in the conflict to date (as far as I can tell) in that it's playing out horribly for Anti-Israel factions of every stripe. So talking about life at and after 10/7 and analyzing from that angle isn't "tunnel vision" @Brian Fantana.
  2. Anyways...In a large epic story spanning thousands of pages, the plot is made up of scenes. Scenes drive the character(s) and the conflicts and the arcs therein. Not all scenes are weighted the same. The 10/7 was a massive scenic event that will go down as a huge event that set this powderkeg off again and one of the biggest events. But sure, let's just pretend that 10/7 wasn't a catalyst or a powder keg moment in history and minimize 10/7. I also pretend the Red Wedding wasn't a big deal in GoT.
  3. I think October 7th was the tactical error. It broke the tenous peace and invited a blowback that is still reveberating to this moment. And it's going horribly for the Anti-Israel faction of Hamas, Iran, non-peaceful Palestinians, etc. CEO of ADL had this to say about it and I generally agree with him:
  4. I mean, seriously. The epitome of poking the bear and FAFO in succession since that day.
  5. Because we live in a world of scarcity. It's truly that simple.
  6. From your mouth to God's ears because I could use the five large (and it would be funny as an anti-OKC fan).
  7. I just listened to a podcast interview with the CEO of Cursor. Wow. One of my friends just got a job with Windsurf AI which is hiring a ton right now in Austin in high-growth/scale mode btw if anyone wants on a rocketship IMO and is in the area.
  8. Vegas64

    "Bring it" songs

    I have a single "bring it song". It's very vulgar and visceral but speaks to me on an animalian and preternatural level. It's a song that you put in a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" because you I can only listen to it if I'm really going to slide.
  9. For my money (and John Goodman is one of my favorite all-timers):
  10. $.36 (+$1000) let's go IND! Though I can't say I feel good about Indiana winning this series. This game felt like fools gold in that if OKC even plays 10% better and make some FT's they would have won easily. Just my opinion from what I saw. Plus knowing that the Nuggets had OKC down 1-2 and OKC still pulled it out isn't comforting.
  11. Myles Turner owns you Chet! Blouses!
  12. Saw this today and thought it was funny:
  13. I and about 10,000 others were in the movie The Rookie (2002) starring Dennis Quad. Just in the crowd of a baseball game.
  14. "Amazon coders say their jobs now resemble warehouse work": Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html
  15. Encino man with a current teenager nephew. “This is what passed for comedy in the 90’s bro?” Was the reoccurring theme of feedback along with thinking Pauly Shore’s character was gay. It made me think, back then we didn’t really have mainstream gay characters in mainstream movies and they were just whacky. If encino man was made today, maybe Stoney is a gay highschool supporting character and not just “zesty” as the kids say.
  16. The goal is growth and knowledge and, God willing, ultimately a modicum of wisdom. Even though I'm an ancient person.
  17. @WhatTheBuck @Biff Tannen @wildcat09 - I was wrong. For some reason I thought I remembered that Iran was caught openly flaunting JCPOA but I just looked it up and was wrong-- all the IAEA and flagarant violations were right AFTER Trump pulled us out of the agreement (for reasons I'm still not able to understand) I had misremembered it being before. Or maybe I heard some misinformation at some point and took it as gospel. Either way-- sorry for the derail around JCPOA because you guys are correct. So let's just go back to that, eh?
  18. Wild Robot. I thought it would be better than it was. Thought it was going to be a grittier or better Wall-E, but was inferior in all respects.
  19. I follow you now. I agree the-- whipsaw or roughshod, I guess I'll call it-- way that Trump went about it was not helpful, but I think most who were paying attention saw the JCPOA as an imperfect deal with a bad actor who was doing the bare minimum in optics to keep sanctions off their back. https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/05/the-revenge-of-the-jcpoa.html Hank you are Persian. Would have never guessed. You and that other guy who posts here related?
  20. From Semafor (below) that confirms that when unofficial negotiations between Biden’s team and Iran collapsed, U.S. officials cited Iran’s refusal to cooperate on UN nuclear inspections. Specifically, Iran resisted addressing uranium traces found at undeclared sites and blocked International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. This lack of transparency led Western nations to pass a censure resolution against Iran at the IAEA. https://www.semafor.com/article/06/05/2024/iran-west-tensions-nuclear-transparency-uranium-inspections So yea, I guess if you turn a blind eye to someone not honoring the deal you can pretend the deal is a great success. It's like your wife cheating on you and pretending like you don't know about it so you can say you have a healthy marriage to others. By the way, life comes at you fast and progress enables speed. What took a year in Obama's day to enrich the uranimum and make a nuke, they can now do in days and since Trump's election they've gone from enriching 16 lbs of uranium per month to 75 lbs (and apparently for civilian use you only need a fraction of that, so clearly they are building)
  21. Never gets old. The epitome of infectious laughter.
  22. Pretty cool. And your dad looked like he was awesome for back then.
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