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Alright, that makes sense, I guess I underestimated production capacity here.
To shift goalposts a little here, I guess I mainly don’t see how this top-up, like the THAAD redirections, won't similarly further entrench them into this quagmire. I assume Iran is also preparing for a backstab, because they were already backstabbed. I want to assume they are going to also top up their missile and drone capacity in the time they have?
I just have an immediate hunch that this is much more of a pyrrhic tactical retreat for the U.S. compared to the 12 Day War, and I would think Iran would be accounting for these terms being ultimately flimsy, unless it is a true unalloyed 
spitballing here from a layman understanding. If this is a two-week armistice, how is the U.S. going to "rearm" in this situation? From what I have been reading from other commenters and sources posted here:
- the U.S. does not have the domestic manufacturing capacity to self-supply the deficit of interceptors
- Iran, comparatively, has more domestic manufacturing capacity to self-supply missiles/drones (unless that was crippled in the strikes on Tehran, but I want to think that supply mechanisms would be somewhat accounted for in DMD?)
- this armistice is for two weeks, after which resumption of war or deeper negotiations will happen
Compared to the 12 Day War, which had a restrained exchange between the U.S. and Iran in order to wind it down, the U.S. has been much further committed to this iteration. I don't see how this is a repetition of that because I don't see how the U.S. has a two-week turnaround to a favorable position here.
if Iran comes out with temporary favorable terms and it becomes a two-week race to rearm, I would assume that Iran would also be playing the same game now rather than acting on an assumption that the situation is winding down. If the "ceasefire" is declared broken by the U.S… okay? They just resume operations? It’s not like it's primo casus belli for the world anyways, not going to galvanize their regional/geopolitical allies against them or make them hesitant, it's just an excuse to sucker punch them. They get a hit in during the armistice, the war resumes, and we're back here again.
Is this cope? I just think it's rash to assume this is the same exact situation as the prior instance without letting it play out first and seeing what both nations do in the interim
talk to my handlers, they're the logistics of the operation. I'm just the test subject
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he made a 'release schedule' so trash 
even his binge watchers 'clowned' on him 
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[Séamus Malekafzali] Hezbollah confirms that it launched missiles at an IDF base south of Haifa
(hexbear.net)
source. looking for a translation of the announcement so I can add it as alt text/body text, preferably non-MTL. as for now, via Google Translate:
Statement issued by the Islamic Resistance (1):
Military Media of the Islamic Resistance
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
And permission has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, God is fully capable of giving them victory.
God Almighty has spoken the truth
In revenge for the pure blood of the Supreme Leader of the Muslims, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Imam Sayyid Ali al-Husseini al-Khamenei, may his soul rest in peace, which was unjustly and treacherously shed by the criminal Zionist enemy, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, and as part of the response to the repeated Israeli attacks, the Islamic Resistance targeted, at midnight between Sunday and Monday, March 2, 2026, with a barrage of advanced missiles and a swarm of drones, the Mishmar al-Karmel missile defense site belonging to the Israeli enemy army south of the occupied city of Haifa. The Resistance leadership has always affirmed that the continuation of Israeli attacks and the assassination of our leaders, youth, and people gives us the right to defend ourselves and respond at the appropriate time and place.
The Israeli enemy cannot continue its aggression, which has lasted for fifteen months, without receiving a warning response to stop this aggression and withdraw from the occupied Lebanese territories.
This response is a legitimate defensive response, and those responsible and concerned must put an end to the Israeli-American aggression against Lebanon
And victory comes only from God, the Almighty, the Wise.
Monday, March 2, 2026
212 Ramadan 1447
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Since a lot of miscellaneous online accounts are reacting glibly to the idea that states like California and Colorado could force Linux to bake forced age verification into the kernel, my instinctual response is to a) disregard the opinions of smug computer guys because they're usually libertarians and b) consider which vectors these laws will actually be enforced through. There is a clear sweeping effort to implement these policies, so I assume the effect will be somehow tangible.
Since I'm doing self-study for IT certs at the moment, I’ll list out all the ways I can think of off the top of my head, though some, if not most, will be overcomplicated/inefficient. Disclaimer that I am only doing some investigating here and relying on my prior experience/knowledge otherwise (reason: eepy) so do not take this as anything definitive/inherently correct. I'll try to skip over the ones that have the same vector of implementation/execution (I.E. where are they enforced through?)
- Client-side:
- via hardware/manufacturers - controls on boot loaders via boot-restriction mandates, so that commercial laptops and desktops sold in the US are required to ship with UEFI firmware that refuses to boot un-American operating systems.
- via OS distributors - operating systems/distributions made by companies operating in the US are required to integrate age verification protocols into their onboarding experience in order to continue operating/doing business in the US, or in order to avoid fines. Microsoft, Apple and Google would probably already be on board with this from the jump, so what's a few rankled Linux distro maintainers going to do? Not comply? Time to pack your shit and move, then! Now you can't access the consumption core as a market anymore. Sucks to suck!
- via browsers - Browser controls. This is how it could transmit your information reliably to web servers. Google is based in the US, Mozilla is based in the US, Apple is based in the US. Chrome (plus all US-based Chromium forks), Firefox and Safari now ship with a process that verifies you have a digital ID registered on your device, prompts you to register one if you don't, and locks you out until you do.
- Server-side:
- via websites/applications - All social media (or even all sites/apps) operating out of the US are legally required to validate against a digital ID protocol baked into your operating system, routed in via your Freedom-Compliant Browser as a mandatory fingerprint that you can't not expose. If the digital ID is determined to be not present, either through subversion or non-compliant software, you cannot access the site. This would probably be selectively enforced w/ regards to penalizing the sites themselves, because otherwise Silicon Valley throws a tantrum, but it would force your browser to expose your age at best and your identification hash (or however they would decide to implement the protocol such that you are a traceable entity) at worst.
- Social enforcement:
- on an individual level - Even if it's not 'truly enforceable' if you find a hack that lets you bypass it because you know how your device works, it could be used as a charge-stacking/pinning vector for dissidents, call it Digital Identity Fraud.
- on a corporate level - Most of them will pre-comply, but if they don't, just declare their products non-compliant with the law and treat them accordingly, killing their legitimate revenue and forcing all non-compliant systems underground so laymen decide it's not worth the trouble of navigating even if it's better for them, like piracy
Ultimately this is just me theorizing with my limited half-finished A+ cert study knowledge and general tech understanding, but I tried to engage the thought experiment on how this could be turned into something tangible as best I can.
I'd like to turn this over to people who might know more than me here. Is my idea of how this might be implemented (if done competently) consistent with the underlying tech, or am I misunderstanding some things? What other vectors might be used here? If these new bills pass, does anything change for us? What could our approach be individually/as a site/as a movement? What behavioral changes should we implement with regard to our internet usage as precaution? Would appreciate answers to any of these bits, even individually. Thus far the only approach that I can think of on 5 hours of sleep is the correct approach and has always been the correct approach and that is to 
but I'm curious if and how we can struggle against the furthering of the panopticon as targets of it.
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merchant class seizes power and starts a Wario Land timer on life as they exponentially delete the biosphere. you have half a millennia to install a DOTP before your planet is razed. the most dice roll bottleneck fathomable. if there are dead aliens and they developed like us we gotta one-up them quick gamers
actually never mind… that's too long… that's a while… too far away 
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please follow through on this mindset