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- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 2 days ago:
This is a great question and one that is worth diving into a bit, but not necessarily by me. There are a plethora of answers here with some insightful and some less so backgrounds. I suggest that you dig into some outside sources and potentially you can work through the complexity of the answer, as history often is.
I’m sure others have some great references as well, but given this crowd I’d suggest some youtube videos. I also suggest some recently written long form articles in foreign affairs which is always good for understanding context, as well as a few books.
RealLifeLore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8kSGH4I8Ps - Why Iran Regime is Failing (Water, economics, and more.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3l5bCGjqLE - Why It’s So Hard to Defeat Iran Militarily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmvB7KW7WJA - How The US & Iran Became Arch-Enemies
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oytfhLUy0Fg - How Israel Checkmated Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuFGyFLehNw - Why Russia’s New Axis is Way Dumber Than You Think
Also Foreign Affairs has some good long form pieces: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/why-iran-will-escalate https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/trump-iran-gamble-vaez https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/what-it-will-take-change-regime-iran https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/americas-best-chance-transform-iran-trump
Book wise I recommend:
Worlds Apart: A Documentary History of US-Iranian Relations, 1978–2018 by Malcolm Byrne and Kian Byrne - offers a meticulously curated collection of declassified documents tracing pivotal moments in bilateral tensions, including the Iranian Revolution and nuclear negotiations
Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations by Afshin Matin-Asgari - examines America’s Cold War hegemony, the shah’s regime, the 1979 Revolution, and Trump-era escalations, including the 2025 US-Israel attempt at regime change in Tehran
Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons by David Albright - uses Mossad-seized Iranian documents to detail clandestine weapons efforts, assassinations of scientists, and cyberwarfare like Stuxnet
- Comment on Why are Americans so hung up on Epstein and his egg head island and "the files"? 2 days ago:
I empathize with your off-topic comments, but I think it has much to do with the context of information today. Trump himself is trying to drive any comments of Epstein away by distraction and events. This is one paper on the topic. So many people are throwing the references in as an eye to defiance, anger, frustration, and as part of a trend. If the idiocy in charge wants to distract us, then more than ever we need to stay focused on why he wants to distract us.
That being said, it does have unintended consequences and is not necessarily the best way to handle this. However this new generation hasn’t really had a civil rights, suffrage, British tea party, or even just Arab Spring event to use as a baseline to make change in this entirely digital world now. People are still trying to figure out how to push, have a phone that causes attention distraction, live pay check to pay check, etc. Which is to say organization and protesting is still figuring itself out, so you get ‘release the files’ as a call to arms everywhere.
- Comment on Is there a tool where I can compare multiple copies of the same file in different directories / hard drives to check if files got corrupted? 4 days ago:
Going to guess this is a Windows question and you are thinking GUI. In that case I’d suggest the older https://checksumcompare.sanktuaire.com/downloads-en as it’ll do what you ask for visually.
There are a plethora of ways to do this in Linux on the CLI, TUI, and GUI, which is what most answers will likely lean towards given this community. If your apt toward that then start with https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/330933/diffing-two-directories-recursively-based-on-checksums
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Probably depends on the bank and their internal rules, but by Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), no. This stackexchange is relevant but not exact. Enough to show the point though.
- Comment on As Lemmy's Ice beans the only ICE we need, right? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll take a beany on the rocks, please.
- Comment on As Lemmy's Ice beans the only ICE we need, right? 3 weeks ago:
We might be lemmings, but we aren’t normal. We follow our leaders to beans! j/k
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- Comment on This is my 6,000th post on Lemmy. It's been great eating beans and learning how not to poop for 3 days with you guys! Brb, gotta send my weekly nudes to the admins 4 weeks ago:
https://lemmy.world/post/616615
I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can’t take up too much space. What food do I pack? - Lemmy.world
Please don’t ask why I need this. It would be great if the food also made me sweat less. It has to be something I can easily find. EDITS FOR CLARIFICATION: - I am not planning on partaking in any illegal activities. - I do not condone the use of illegal substances and am not planning on smuggling anything anywhere. - I am not going on a hiking trip or mailing myself anywhere. - I will be staying in a tent (not a small one; a huge with with air conditioning and everything). I will be traveling for five days, returning to my current location on day 3 and traveling again on the last two days. I will not poop on the first three days (hopefully). - Clean toilets with all the expected facilities will be available to me. I am not going to poop for reasons that I wish to keep to myself. - If it gets bad, like really bad, like a-piece-of-poop-is-literally-halfway-out-my-ass bad, I will use the toilets. Please stop asking because I am not telling anyone the reason.
- Comment on A Deep Dive On Creepy Cameras 5 months ago:
The video:
https://youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ[Jordan] was able to develop a transparent sticker that renders a license plate unreadable to the ALPR but still plainly visible to a human observer.
https://github.com/bennjordanOther links:
IR LEDs to confuse security cameras - Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 7 months ago:
I think this is what you are talking about. Not sure about the brave inventors website validity in passing along the donations, but it has a picture or two.
