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    Sen. John Fetterman casts deciding vote against limiting Trump’s war in Iran

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  • The old Republican party died a long time ago - with Nixon's Southern Strategy.

  • Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz

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  • Submarine cables exist because it is superior

    Submarine cables are usually cheaper and simpler at intercontinental scale, especially because they avoid negotiating rights-of-way across many countries. But unlike oil tankers, internet traffic is not physically constrained to the Strait of Hormuz itself. Capacity could be rerouted over terrestrial fiber links around the Gulf if the economics changed enough.

    The bigger issue would probably be the time, permits, and infrastructure investment needed to build enough alternative land routes. Not any physical impossibility of carrying the signals over land. The cables themselves are likely pretty cheap.

    And permits should be quite easy to come by, in the empty desert of the Arabian peninsula.

  • Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz

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  • But Iran would be pissing off everybody - for example China and India. Not just the US.

    War is pissing other people off. But does Iran want to be at war with all other countries in the world?

  • Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz

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  • Seems pretty short term gain for Iran by pissing everybody off.

    Because surely the cables can relatively easily be rerouted over land, instead of paying Iran's tolls. Unlike the tankers, the Internet signals do not need to go though the water.

    And how would Iran even justify forbidding the cables from going through the part of the strait which is not their territorial waters? The same way Iran "justifies" forbidding ships from doing that? - as in, no real attempt at a moral or legal justification.

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    The U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine has resigned and openly accused Trump of forging an alliance with Putin.

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  • Maybe. But the future is hard to predict, so maybe not. So no reason to burn the bridges under Trump, unless we have to.

    And even if it is only temporary, Russia is threatening to invade Europe now. So even a temporary 4 years reprieve under a Democrat President would be hugely valuable.

  • Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings: report

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  • But she is a woman. Isn't a woman having a job DEI per definition, according to Republicans?

  • Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings: report

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  • And doesn't stuff like that operate on a "need to know" basis? What does she need to know?

    And if it is a paid position, what are the chances that she was the most qualified candidate, and it is not nepotism?

  • Anything but metric

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  • I don’t know why the U.S. gets shit for using the system that our colonial overlords forced us to use in the first place.

    When America was colonized, the metric system did not exist. Saying that your "colonial overlords" forced it on you is silly - there were no better options at the time.

    In fact, the metric system was created after US independence. So the US can only blame itself for not adapting it, unlike the UK which mostly adapted it.

  • Chuck Grassley Caught On Hot Mic Asking Why Trump Nominees Won’t Say He Lost In 2020

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  • 92 years old, obviously doesn't have all his marbles, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Major "weekend at Bernie's" energy here.

  • He badly wants to be orange

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  • He is too cute to be guilty. So he is clearly innocent. Look at those eyes!

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    Democrats Are Pissed Another One of Their Own Has Died in Congress

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    Democrats Are Pissed Another One of Their Own Has Died in Congress

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  • I assume that Democrats can decide who is allowed to call themselves a "Democrat". So just make a rule that nobody is allowed to run in an election where they will be 70+ years old on the day of taking office.

  • Looking at you, No Man's Sky

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  • Also Star Wars... Star Wars even have a city covering an entire planet.

    From Irregular Webcomic!, #87 via https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SingleBiomePlanet

    Imperial Officer: Lord Vader, the rebels have fled the ice planet of Hoth. After going to the swamp planet of Dagobah, Skywalker has rejoined his friends on the desert world of Tatooine. And now the rebel fleet is massing for an attack on the forest moon of Endor.Darth Vader: I sense a great disturbance in the Force.Imperial Officer: My lord?Darth Vader: How else can so many worlds be totally covered with only one terrain type without regard to latitudinal variations?

  • Looking at you, No Man's Sky

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  • If there is somewhere where humans can live, then likely there are also zones nearer and further from the poles.

    So e.g. surely almost all planets with a livable zone would have polar ice caps.

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  • impeach two Supreme Court justices

    Only two?

  • Oh, Brother [@jasonadamk]

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  • I have a printer that works.

    I love how this is a statement that is said in all seriousness.

  • This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men

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  • Now Trump Reportedly Wants Nation’s Highest Military Honor... For Himself

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  • The recent video of Trump talking about the Iran War, while the anthropomorphic Easter bunny was standing besides him, was wild. I can only assume that parts of Trump's staff knows this is unsustainable, and are deliberately not stopping Trump from making such demonstrations of his mental decline.