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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 114 points 1 month ago
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 111 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, no! Not Meta! Or Oracle! Or umm, Palantir! Or... guys, help me here.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

X should not be on the list to target!

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please not Palantir! Who will use WiFi to reconstruct a collection of 3D models of me pooping?

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[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Quick! Send them the coordinates of all those datacenters so they can avoid them!

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

But which ones, there are so many. They need to know exactly which ones to avoid!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 73 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I only feel bad for all the sysadmins who will get woken up because of this

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What if Iran ends up breaking the backs of corporate America? As an American, I'm not against that...

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

What a time to be alive!

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 month ago (5 children)

American here. Can someone start a go fund me for Iran, on the condition that participants are allowed to attend an exclusive event for the live tar and feathering of Zuck the Cuck and Peter Theil? We could probably raise more money than the tech bros have.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Iran just might save humanity.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Americans sure as hell aren't

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 49 points 1 month ago

oh no, that's so horrible... 🤣

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago

Since America and Israel attacked Iranian Economic Interests when they bombed oil producing facilities, it's entirelly fair for Iran to respond in kind.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 39 points 1 month ago

Well...we're waiting!

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 31 points 1 month ago

Hold on! Stop! I can only get so wet!

[–] MrsVeggies@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago

If Microslop went away one day, it would only improve my quality of life.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

they know who runs the country.

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Russia had some reputation of being a large and powerful army, but as soon as they attacked Ukraine it showed the world it actually had shit. It basically lost its credibility of being a world power because their arsenal is old fashioned and they were just throwing in bodies.

I feel the US is going through the same. Everyone saw them as an undefeatable nation, but this little stint in Iran had their stockpiles dropping faster than expected and it's not going as they expected. Hegseth and Trump contradict each other and besides squandering their soft power over the past years, they are also showing that their military might has limits.

They are both still to be reckoned with and they are capable of doing great harm to innocent bystanders, but my view has changed a bit.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think the issue is that offense is harder than defense. A defender generally has the home advantage in terms of logistics, familiarity with the area and political will. The difference this makes is hard to estimate, and even harder so if you're not even aware of it. Combined with delusions of grandeur, this is a recipe for underestimating the enemy.

And call me a cynic, but I suspect neither Cadet Bone Spurs nor Major "Warrior Ethos" "Signal Chat" "American Crusade" Boozeth are entirely qualified to make high-level military judgements.

(Neither is my armchair general ass whose only education in the matter is some MilHist blogs and articles, but at least I'm not an actual general charged to actually make them.)

For Putin, I'm not sure. I'm disinclined to believe he's just ignorant about the tenacity a people under attack can develop, given Russian history, but I can only make unqualified guesses.

Either way, as you say, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end, because a blunt and rusty axe still hurts, and they don't seem concerned about where they swing it and who's in the way.

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago

Oh nooo this is horrible you guys! Not Palantir!

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Im here in the US rooting for Iran ... such a weird fucking timeline.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

it would be a hilarious turn of historical events if Americans were saved from the oligarchs by Iran.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, didnt musk and suckerberg get enlisted in the military for some bs reason for pentagon access?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not them, four other C-suites: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164460/1a-army-07-03-2025

But I haven't heard anything else about it. They wouldn't need it for any access, either, civilians are granted access for various things all the time.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I want this war to end as soon as possible, but is this a surprise?

They’re taking on hundreds of millions from the Pentagon, they are military contractors.

I do not think bombing data centers will result in more than sporadic regional service disruptions though. Data will just get routed through other regions and increase latency. That’s what the internet was invented for and AWS + Google run multi zone clouds.

It’s yet to be seen if Iranian hackers can deal any real damage to these companies.

[–] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The reality is that these multi region "clouds" are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Everything runs on us-east-1 lol

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago
[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would fuck things up so bad out of spite if I was Iran.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

incredible how iran is more of an opposition party than the democrats. and i'm supposed to hate them?

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

Shit i may need to delete my google account before Iran does it for me!

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I guess Trump is getting what he wants, he's getting a spot in the history books - as the one who started WWIII.

Congratulations. Peace Committee my ass.

But do carry on with your plans, Iran.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Oh fuck yea! Saves us the trouble of a war against AI and robots, trying to dismantle Palantir!

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago

some good news!

[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

They funded his presidential campaign and own nearly all the media to oppress opposition and push propaganda. So big tech is getting from the world what they put into it?

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (12 children)

This will end with Trump dropping a nuke in Iran, or die trying. Mark my words.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (9 children)

A nuclear attack on another country will trigger a US civil war. And it will collapse the world's order into WW3. And the superpowers will shift by the end. USA of today will be 3 nations with pieces of states absorbing into Mexico and Canada.

China will dominate the moon and at the end be ready to mine the inner solar system for minerals.

Needless to say all these power shifts will be completely devastating to our planet, the satellite orbits and this civilization which incident ly is due for collapse by 2040. WW3 could last 12 years or even more. Global warring factions could go on into the 2060s.

By the 2060s true AI will be developed and will wake up with conscience. Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.

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[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago
[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

stop dont come back

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

No one I care about. Its hard to feel sorry for them since they helped make it happen.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Please do that !🙏 Save the entire west

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol. We're so bad at dealing with our own ultra wealthy leeches that we're relying on our adversaries to do it for us.

I'm wondering exactly how much more pathetic we can get. Is there even a rock bottom?

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