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Kind of a shame that they missed the chance to call him Aayatollah Khamenei.

Defense manufacturing takes a ton of time to bring online though — they’re over a year behind on scaling up 155mm shell production, and even there they’re not aiming for a level of production that would allow for continuous replenishment of stocks in real combat conditions.

At least it evokes the proper image of him waving his hands back and forth while watching the bombs fall.

The point is that Iran could still do quite a lot if we were trying for an actual ground invasion, but they’re able to do far less with the missiles unless we run out of interceptors.

This story is, excuse my language, absolutely fucking crazy

The habitat loss from sprawl is going to do far more damage to wild bird populations than any urban building will.

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

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This reminds me of my favorite fact about Sherman: marching bands were determined to relentlessly troll him by playing “Marching Through Georgia” whenever he was present.

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The one with both Russia and Ukraine in it is all sorts of fucked up at the moment.

I do sympathize— it is really infuriating that we are missing so many basic democratic protections in our constitution.

Awesome, love to see it!

We Must Save the Constitution from Itself The amendment process exists for a reason, and it’s time to talk about using it.

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This is unnecessarily condescending. A ton of us would love it to be better and are explicitly looking to the German constitution as a model for how it could be better, but you’re being willfully ignorant of how difficult the effort of reform will actually be.

You can’t have fire and brimstone without the sulfur content.

That can really mess a place up over time — like the NH Libertarian Party went from being similar to most other states in the early 90s to posting incredibly unhinged racist screeds because a bunch of the most extreme libertarians moved there.

I’m personally devastated to see my country betraying our allies like this and trying to abandon the cause of global democracy, and also sorry to see people being jerks to you at the same time.

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Circuit Diagram.

Only real consolation is that if it actually starts cutting through delusion he’s going to completely fall apart.

Kinda bummed to see he has a vajra, not fair of him to make it less cool by association.

Very telling that he’s not stopping to think about what that implies about the plausibility of using computerized interlocks to implement his preferred kind of fascism.

I would like to be powered off for at least a handful of seconds before being rebooted, as a treat.

Man, I’m with you there. I’d planned to buy around 10 BTC way back, but it seemed like I was going to have to commit money laundering on Liberty Reserve to do so. They got prosecuted a few years later.

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I wouldn’t send it out as a single enormous order, but based on medium.com/@ilya.kulyat... you could probably give up around 0.3% to 0.7% of your hypothetical millions to trade out of it over the course of a day. Even less if you split it up over a few days.

I’ve never invested in crypto, but that would be around 0.3% of average daily volume on a typical day and would be pretty easy to get out of without much price impact.

Thanks! Will have to try those both out.

What are the best ways to make it? Now I’m worried that I’m missing out.

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Is this related to the quotes from the State Department travel guidance about Haiti being used against them? Maybe they’re trying to pull anything public-facing about countries that could detract from the case for not deporting people.

Still blows my mind that Lutnick vouching for them saved them but no one has updated their view after seeing how much of a clown Lutnick is.