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I suppose as long as you limit yourself to launch sites you can make the arguement. Fortunately the US government is entirely trustworthy in that respect.

These people are so rich they wouldn't even notice the tax hike. They just don't like the idea of giving any of their money away it's not actually a problem for them though.

This is utterly stupid and I agree it needs to be highlighted however it's worth pointing out that a public consultation doesn't mean squat.

They're asking the general public if they think that VPNs should be regulated. They are not asking experts for feasibility studies. So even if we take it as red that this is 100% definitely going to happen, they are at stage -1 of the process right now, and we all know the speed which politics moves (continental drift in slow motion).

I would actually be perfectly prepared to put money on this not actually happening. Labour do not need more reasons for people to hate them.

You couldn't pay me to go to Dubai.

I've literally turned down job offers. They really want people to go too.

I work in the IT industry how am I supposed to operate in a dry country?

If you are eating the fertilised ones then you're just back around to eating chicken again.

It is actually quite funny that I show my partner YouTube videos and she shows me TikTok videos.

Yeah well I don't particularly want to watch TikTok videos about cabinet refurbishment. I also dislike the suggestion that "we should do this".

Yeah they're just evil oppressive dictators but at least they don't try and claim innocent. They own being dictators, they admit it.

Does Iran actually have the range to be a threat to the US? The last stats I saw had their maximum range and maybe enough to strike the Mediterranean and maybe a little inland in Italy and Spain. That's a far cry from being able to hit the US mainland. Hell even South Africa is probably out of range and it's not like they can deploy ships to close the gap.

I'm pretty sure the rest of the world wouldn't need to do anything. Nato isn't particularly pro-Iran either so they'd probably be very unhappy with the US, but not actually unhappy enough to do anything about it. Maybe some trade sanctions.

I highly doubt NATO would consider it a sensible response to nuke the US.

Also I can't see Russia or China getting involved. Russia won't because I suspect they don't actually have any functional nukes, and China won't because they don't care about Iran enough to risk a war. Obviously Israel isn't going to do anything. So that leaves maybe North Korea who probably don't have the range even if he did decide they wanted to respond.

So I can't see how this would spiral into anything more, unless the US decided to use an unprecedented number of nukes and just cause nuclear winter on purpose, but I don't think even the Trump administration is that stupid.

I'm fascinated by the idea that world war 3 wouldn't affect the development of AI. All any opposing force would need to do is bomb California and that would be the end of AI research.

Or die trying; you mean the effort of reading out a long string of letters in order to authorise the launch will overwhelm his tiny mind? I mean I guess it's possible, I'm not sure he actually can read.