Throwaway05
2hr ago
Oh oops if I mixed that up but going on to add "you're ruled by millenarian fanatics worse than Shia Muslims" I'm fairly sure that's in reference to the reporting about U.S. leadership.
Also things like the later "Hegseth, Trump – are barely human but instead some degenerated swine from a Fromsoft game."
I mean that's Nazi talk. The level of dehumanization is I think new and totally collapses much of value of the contribution since you know it's all hiigghhhhly colored.
Throwaway05
4hr ago
I doubt it. The Iranian people have significant support for the US and Israel.
Leadership is either too religious and thinks the infidels should quietly sit down and be destroyed or are going to understand that state planned terrorism is a dangerous game.
Throwaway05
4hr ago
Look - I used to find your comments and insight to be a part of the special sauce that this place brought that I couldn't seem to find anywhere else.
But lately I've lost that feeling, and if I recall correctly you are a hair's breadth from catching a major ban.
I don't want that to happen, but you have to stop with some of this stuff. I'm not sure if it's meant to be rhetorical flourish but some of what you are saying sounds just as bad the worst TDS /r/politics user.
Yes the U.S. and the current admin has plenty worth complaining about, but saying the U.S. is a "clearly fascist nation committing genocide in the name of a crude ethnosupermacist theological doctrine" is wrong on so many levels that it has to have taken work to come up with that.
Calling Americans barely human? Come on man.
Like what the fuck are you doing.
If I was to try and deliberately write a comment to get me banned and convince Americans that Europeans have nothing worth listening to it would be like what you wrote.
What happened??????
Throwaway05
13hr ago
I had thought Singapore - asked someone here once who was following closer but they weren't sure.
Regardless of where I saw he is still active on Royal Road so maybe he'll write again soon. :/
Throwaway05
14hr ago
because simply listing all countries that had been attacked and implying that some of them lacked US Military bases or Troops would be ambiguous and useless in a good faith discussion.
I think this implies you understood what I meant and decided not to interpret it correctly?
Throwaway05
16hr ago
I'm sorry - based off of your response I think you may have misread my comment, or at least you are not responding to what I actually said.
Given the specifics of the way you jumped in here it could be as part of some didactic exercise, please clarify if so.
Thank you!
Throwaway05
19hr ago
I mean it's deeply unethical but it isn't a bad choice if you don't care about that. "Don't attack us or we'll make you regret it" requires carrying out the threat. And again their whole vibe has often been well, terrorism.
The random pain inflicted is part of the point.
Throwaway05
22hr ago
Like I said, people pretend it didn't happen.
You can be mad at how the government and our institutions did things without pretending it wasn't real.
I work in healthcare. I saw the bodies. I had colleagues and friends die. I saw the way our system nearly snapped. I saw the longterm bad health outcomes, decrease in quality of care, and dislike for healthcare that the situation generated.
Most of the COVID complainers aren't acknowledging what really happened.
This thing is you don't need to do that to make the point! What actually happened was bad enough, you don't need to building and burn a conspiracy theory straw man to get the job down.
Throwaway05
22hr ago
How so? Initial flattening the curve was a real thing that actually helped, public health institutions, cowardly politicians, and Karen energy betrayed the parts that worked and kept things going indefinitely. Banning people from parks and from fucking being outside was nonsense and only made sense (if ever) in dense urban environments). Don't punish people who live in places where shit made sense!
Anger at broken institutions, excess of conservatism and so on? Sure!
Acting like COVID didn't happen? ...tis nonsense.
Throwaway05
22hr ago
If you define random as "missiles unable to target adequately and therefore landing at random locations" they certainly to do lots of that.
If you define random as "flailing around targeting nearly every country in the area (every country but Syria?) intentionally and unintentionally for unclear reasons*" then that sounds random and that's happening.
Both are running at the same time.
*likely to sow terror and expense, which has been a frequent part of their strategic posture.
Throwaway05
1d ago
I imagine much of the frustration comes come from the middle/common sense feeling eroded- as someone who was mostly anti-lockdown (well pro common sense lockdown, which was swiftly abandoned) it certainly feels like a lot of anti-lockdown people deny COVID ever happened.
Having lived it through it...that's infuriating. I haven't reported but I can see a lot of people with personal experiences (like deaths in the family) freaking out.
Throwaway05
1d ago
IIRC Cyprus wasn't the U.S. (well I think they might have some classified assets there maybe?), I'm not sure where France got attacked but that probably was non-U.S. Iran seems to have accidentally attacked Palestine and Lebanon.
Iran lacks the targeting ability to actually hit what they are aiming at, which further complicates matters (see accidental attacks in Palestine, Lebanon).
Ultimately I think the comment can be reasonably described as uncritical repetition of Iranian propaganda however.
Throwaway05
1d ago
This is not factually accurate.
I am unaware of any U.S. military bases or U.S. troops in several of the attacked countries, of which there are over ten.
To list, at least: Israel, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Cyprus. By implication also the U.S., U.K., and France, and depending on how you want to count it Diego Garcia. Several of these were explicitly not getting involved.
I am also unaware of any evidence of U.S. military assets being present in a majority of the attacked civilian infrastructure. Some of the targets can be painted as part of an escalation ladder. Random civilian buildings can not.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Why do you think early admissions were down? Do you think it might have to do with the fact that people were in their homes quarantining themselves instead of crashing, social drinking, working, fucking, and spreading germs?
That stat may or may not be true, I'd have to look at the data.
Keep in mind that the system can be overwhelmed with admissions dramatically down - entire surgical floors that should be filled with boring wound care and uncomplicated recovery being replaced with 1/4 of that but actually real sick respiratory patients is already enough to fuck everything up.
An increase in ICU level care but no ICU beds? Disaster.
Kill the variety and easy cases and things get fucked real fast.
All kinds of tensions like that caused problems.
Throwaway05
2d ago
We should be precise in our statements, Iran is winning the propaganda war, you can find a large number of Americans and Europeans saying and believing things like "Iran is about as or more honest in reporting during this conflict" "Iran is about as or more following the rules of war/attacking civilians" "Israel is not checked will attack Europe and the rest of the world" (front page on reddit yesterday!).
This was has created situation where you have a truly unprecedented publishing of military and diplomatic information with near zero credible publishing of military and diplomatic interpretation.
Add in the usual TDS and you have a boiling pot of misinformation that we should be careful to avoid contributing to.
Some people do need to be reminded that Iran's government is evil.
I don't have any problem with criticism of the conflict.
Throwaway05
2d ago
I'm pointing out that "marked unconcern for legal niceties" isn't really accurate, something like "as usual legal niceties become a bit fuzzier during war time" or "the U.S. usually does a better job than most at maintaining legal niceties, however..." would be more accurate.
Your word choice implies that the U.S.'s approach is worthy of criticism and perhaps is worse than others.
If you feel that way, I think it should be explicit.
This is superficially a small matter of language but given the amount of criticism for certain actions taken by Israel and the U.S. and lack of criticism and even forgiveness for actions taken by the other side that are ten times worse....I think the loaded language needs to be pointed out.
Throwaway05
2d ago
The USA has shown a marked unconcern for legal niceties throughout,
How would you characterize the concern for legal niceties exhibited by everyone else in modern history then? Iran, for instance is attacking other nations seemingly at random and targeting infrastructure and hotels and other civilian targets.
The U.S. has shown the most concern for legal niceties out of any major combatant since those legal niceties existed.
That's not to say that the U.S. is particularly great on this front, just to say that nobody else really seems to even bother.
Throwaway05
3d ago
I'm not an open world guy, although my favorite on that front is The Witcher 3. It's also far too early for me to say if it is good or not, but I can say it delivers on the sheer number of things to do.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Yep, it seems simultaneously better than I could have imagined (yes you really do have that much shit to do and options for things) and worse than hoped (Korean slop writing).
It's been a great "watch low effort video content" while playing game so far, but I can understand if that's enough to justify the price.
Throwaway05
3d ago
I'm playing on PC and it looks great, but I've heard mixed things about base PS5, a lot of FUD though it seems, waiting for legit reviews seems like a good plan.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Anybody playing Crimson Desert?
Throwaway05
3d ago
I mean if everybody's fucked everybody is fucked.
I'm not saying we are immune to getting fucked, we'll just be along with everyone else.
That should be a comfort!
Throwaway05
4d ago
Sure self-driving cars are getting there, but they aren't fully in use yet, and the legal tests aren't all the way there yet.
AI may in fact replace everyone at some point, doctors have more physical work, patient interaction work, need to be a liability sponge, and so on than most other white collar work.
Yes the financial pressure to replace us is higher, but by the time they come for us in a serious way everyone else is gone too. Especially in psychiatry - you should have some safety there. More likely is an intractable increase in volume due to AI assistance.
In any case, even the finance people who love this shit are starting to push back against the way our economy is overweighted.
LLMs might just end up getting dropped as a boondoggle before they apply to too many use cases.
Throwaway05
4d ago
Seems like that glove fits you best.
"Please investigate the situation." "I refuse."
No worries, at least as of late I remember good faith engagement from you so no frustration on my part.
With respect to the millenarian bit I don't believe that at all, I haven't really heard it mentioned outside the typical TDS crowd and the amount of nonsense and propaganda right now is incredible and people are very fooled.
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