ravenaspiring
@ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 1 day ago:
So this doesn’t entirely answer your question, but it’s worth watching this reallifelore video on Why Iran Is Dying, as it’s good context for that background of what is going on and gives a frame for what’s next. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8kSGH4I8Ps
🇮🇷 Iran – TL;DR (Markdown)
🔥 Immediate Flash-Points
- Security nosedive: Hezbollah, Hamas, Assad proxies left in tatters; Israeli/US jets roam Iranian skies at will.
- New NATO wedge: US-brokered Armenia–Azerbaijan deal may choke Iran off from Russia via the Caucasus.
- Eastern squeeze: Taliban dams on the Helmand & Hari Rivers cut Iranian water to a trickle → border skirmishes.
- Mass deportation: 1.1 million Afghans expelled in one month in a doomed attempt to force more water downstream.
💧 Depleting, Salting, Sinking
Metric Recent Status Pre-Crisis Reference Tehran rainfall 2025 projection = 100 mm Historic norm = 260 mm Tehran reservoirs 258 Mm³ left Long-term average 618 Mm³ National groundwater 200 Bm³ gone, most rest is salty Original 500 Bm³ Land subsidence 10–31 cm / yr Critical global = 4 mm / yr - Lake Urmia – Former largest lake in ME is 90 % gone; dust-storms surging.
- Isfahan – 23 Bm³ air-void under city after centuries of aquifer tap.
🏗️ How We Got Here
-
1949–1979 – Shah‐Era
- Hoover-Dam envy → launch of mega-dam program. Displaced ancient qanat system.
- Industrialization forced onto the water-scarce central plateau.
-
1979+ – Post-Revolution Float-or-Die Policy
- Iraq war + US embargo → “Food-export-import is treason”.
- IRGC-crony “Water Mafia” bloats projects: 80k wells → 800 k wells, 316 dams (2012) → 647 dams (2018).
-
Climate & Corruption
- Fuel subsidies fund inefficient irrigation; 90 % of drinkable water now feeds ag that earns <12 % GDP.
- 90 % pipeline leakage vs <10 % in advanced countries.
🗺️ Ethnic Break-points
Region Issue Sistan-Baluchestan Helmand dam chokes wetlands → fuels Baloch separatism. Khuzestan Highly salted Karun River attacks Arab minority irrigation. Azerbaijan & Kurdistan Vanished Lake Urmia sparks Kurdish–Azeri clashes. 🔮 Forecast
- Even with optimal policy, models: +2.6 °C, –35 % rain in coming decades.
- Iran already spends more water/year than Turkey (similar pop). Beyond end-game for aquifers.
✋ What Would Fix It (but won’t happen soon)
- Immediate well capping & metering.
- Kill water-intensive farm subsidies.
- Redivert IRGC-controlled cash from nukes & foreign proxies to desalination & pipeline repair.
- Accept food import dependence as necessity.
TL;DR in one bold phrase:
Iran is simultaneous geopolitical whiplash + ecological free-fall.. - Comment on Gates McFadden Talks Ghost Candle Orgasms And Jean-Luc/Beverly Relationship Status After ‘Star Trek: Picard’ 3 months ago:
She’s awesome!
“Yes, I remember very clearly reading it, finishing it, and going… ‘That’s ridiculous. I’ve got to call the producer.’ What is it doing this to this woman who’s a high ranking officer—for years all the women in her family on this planet have been in love with a lamp? And the thing was, I know that the writer wanted me to have a romantic episode. It was a little more than romance, if you know what I mean. So I’m like, ‘Really, I have to do a ghost orgasm on—okay, all right.'”
…
“But you know what? Now, I love it because it’s such a cult thing, and I think it’s hilarious. So here’s the thing, don’t get too excited, BUT… Nacelle is coming out with a Sub Rosa—a Beverly Crusher action figure in the pink nightgown, okay, with lots of accoutrement, and that’s, you know, things. And so we have a lamp, we have different things, so it should be quite an interesting kind of an ACTION figure, okay? So be careful. Don’t use it–well… you can use it alone. But so is it really wild that after all these years… at first was like, I was like, I’m so embarrassed. Patrick couldn’t believe it, you know me and the nightgown, I mean the whole thing. And now? I love it. So there you go. You never should say never, because you sometimes are wrong.”
…
One fan told McFadden that watching “The Host” as a child was “remarkable,” as a story like that was not the norm on TV. The actress was eager to talk about the season 4 episode, which introduced an early version of the Trill species to the franchise. McFadden relished the opportunity to explore new territory in the story pitched by Michel Horvat (and the teleplay heavily rewritten by Jeri Taylor):
“I thought it was the first gay writer, openly gay writer, that we had used their script on the show. And I thought was a brilliant script. From the first time I read it, I thought, this is extraordinary. He’s asking what is the nature of love? How much is physical, how much is experiential… What is love? And that’s a great question to ask, a hard question to answer.”
…
“When I did the surgery and pulled out this… It did look like a scrotum, guys. Honestly, the male producers are really doing this to get to me. It could have looked sweet, right? It could have been sweet, right? So this is what I’m in love with, thank you so much. Then it’s Jonathan [Frakes], you know, it’s like all this is happening within a 24-hour period. And it turns out it goes into a woman. “
…
“It forced you to think, what is, what is love? I mean, it actually got you to think about it, things that you might not normally thought about in the same way. And I got some people—when I used to be on Twitter, I’m not now—but when I was on Twitter, they were, ‘Well, that was so anti-gay. She didn’t sleep with the woman.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, in 24 hours she’s been with that. She’s seen this scrotum sack. I think it’s enough for one day, you know? Like, let’s give her a break.’ And I feel that way. I feel it had nothing to do with that, and that wasn’t the purpose of it. It wasn’t like saying this is what you should do. And I thought she handled it very nicely. She said, ‘I’m just not ready.’ And that’s that’s perfectly reasonable as far as I’m concerned.”
- Comment on Los Angeles paid $400M+ in 4 years to people hurt/killed on the streets. LA spends more money paying off people injured or killed by its street designs than it spends making streets safer. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Anon goes camping 7 months ago:
Write at rite, right?
- Comment on On trees... 7 months ago:
I love this fact, and am curious where you learned it?
- Comment on On trees... 7 months ago:
🤣🤣🤣