@brownsaladchips @alexander22_eli @CameronCorduroy They don't host US bases, but they have an agreement to lend their own bases for US military usage.
Probably why Iran (allegedly) bombed Oman's ports at the outbreak of the war.
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@AphexColthorpe @alexander22_eli @CameronCorduroy oman doesn't host us bases. it does have british and indian though
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Oman getting half the oil toll money for doing literally nothing
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
BREAKING: Regional official says ceasefire plan allows Iran and Oman to charge fees to ships passing through Strait of Hormuz, according to Associated Press report.
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@alexander22_eli @CameronCorduroy You say that like Oman and the US don't have a military alliance that lets the US military use Omani military bases and weapons storage.
Oman gets the money because they share the waterway, it's that simple.
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@CameronCorduroy Low-key shows how dumb the Gulf States were for siding with Israel and the U.S thinking it'd be in their interest. Their economies/infrastructure got destroyed for hosting U.S bases and soldiers, while Oman gets a huge paycheck just for being pals with Iran.
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@LewisHoldenNZ Why not do both.
Free PT is a no brainer during a fuel crisis.
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Cool let's buy more instead of wasting money on "free" PT
Damian@telukwaitemata
Not UK, not USA, not Australia, not Norway, not Switzerland not Singapore. New Zealand.
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@TobiasMbonneAlm @ThomasNguyen7 @UltSportsBoards @TheOmniLiberal Might be something to do with the fact that American weapons aren't murdering their civilians?
The goods the US buys would be bought by India or China. Russia gets it's money regardless.
It's not equivalent!
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@ThomasNguyen7 @UltSportsBoards @TheOmniLiberal Allegedly. Also the US imports nearly 4 billion $ of goods from Russia. So why the fuck the double standard?
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@Skibidoumtabtam @txgermanbre @mehdirhasan @JenMactexas I wish those Iranian factories would reopen just so they could kill your entire family.
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@txgermanbre @mehdirhasan @JenMactexas I'm sure bombing them more and threatening to exterminate their entire civilization is gonna help tho🤡
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It's astonishing that you, a world leader who many respected for standing up to an illegal attack on your country, now support an illegal attack on another country. It completely kills your credibility.
Right now. Iran is Ukraine. You may not like to hear that but that is a fact
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський@ZelenskyyUa
It is unfortunate that the UN Security Council has once again failed to demonstrate effectiveness and act decisively in the face of such a global threat as the Iranian regime's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. No one should be allowed to block such globally significant sea lanes or undermine the security of dozens of nations through terrorist attacks against the freedom of navigation. We faced a similar challenge in the Black Sea when the Russians attempted to block our ports and civilian shipping—Russia was trying to suffocate our economy. And we found a way to solve that problem through decisive action, not inaction. Now, we see a similar problem on a global scale. The Strait of Hormuz must remain open to all vessels that sustain vital economy lifelines and maintain normal international trade. Countries in the region have spoken clearly on this, and we support the aspirations of the people of the Middle East and the Gulf for peace. Peace and security in this region directly impact stability, market predictability, and the cost of living in every single country. Such problems and this war must not be prolonged. The world needs a functional UNSC that acts more decisively to resolve acute security challenges of global magnitude.
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@ThatTimeYouSaw @extradeadjcb France is higher.
And you don't even need to watch your children die of starvation.
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good point
On what metric is DPRK really hitting it out of the park
cool timothy@dreadconquest
"aha, the capitalist state has a higher score in the capitalism metric"
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I guess the Iranians were not lying after all when they said they got to keep Hormuz.
The White House@WhiteHouse
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF IRAN:
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Barring (unlikely, imo) decision by the regime to cave to the US demands in the next 2 weeks, or the WH abandoning those demands & using this as a general off-ramp, this ceasefire seems much more useful to Iran.
About the only advantage for us is a temporary drop in oil prices.
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@impostersyndrum @LinkofSunshine Well that was near the end of the space race.
The Soviets repurposed ICBMs to send stuff into space.
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@AphexColthorpe @LinkofSunshine Ehh long range nukes were long solved before we went to the moon no?
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@impostersyndrum @LinkofSunshine The Space race and the nuclear arms race are effectively the same thing.
If you can send a rocket to the moon, you can send a nuke to Moscow.
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@LinkofSunshine The ai development race is like the nuclear arms race x100. Space Race is largely inconsequential in comparison IMO
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@lordcataplanga @Enrique_Cosp @ContraPoints The allies loved Germany civilization so much they made a second one.
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@Enrique_Cosp @ContraPoints They split Germany in two, and lots of countries who are allies now had the position back then that Germany should remain separated, otherwise it might become too powerful and become a threat again.
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Actually the rare instance where even the Dipshit’s Fallacy (“what if you replaced the thing in my argument with HITLER?”) doesn’t make it sound less crazy
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@LinkofSunshine The COVID response was totally unnecessary.
Unlike the Iran war which is critical to... Uh. What was it again? Oil? Nukes? Freedom?
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@dreadconquest Communism instead measures it's success in millions starved to death.
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"aha, the capitalist state has a higher score in the capitalism metric"
HotSotin 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇪🇺△@HotSotin
Crazy idea: Let's split a country in socialist and capitalist halves and check in on them in 75 years.
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@Mgkman13 @AptAptAPtmie @RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism I mean, no?
It's pretty basic shit, but knuckledragging retards like yourself would probably benefit from those tools.
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@AphexColthorpe @AptAptAPtmie @RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism Did your AI tools help you piece any of that together jackass?
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Data center hysteria is genuinely one of the dumbest populist panics in recent years
Resist Wire@ResistWire
BREAKING: 13 shots fired into home of Indianapolis councilor; note reading “No data centers” left at scene.
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@LukewSavage Britain shitting itself under tories and Brexit doesn't explain Trump at all.
The US in particular has had strong real wage rises, much more so than the other western countries.
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Amid all the inane chin-stroking and mystification that goes on to explain politics today, the mental circumlocutions about how someone like Trump was elected, the pained speculations as to why liberal democracy is crumbling and so on, stuff like this is immensely clarifying.
Joe Allen@Joe___Allen
Closing in on two golden decades.
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@AptAptAPtmie @RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism I mean that's sort of separate issue entirely.
Anyway, because power is mostly fungible it doesn't really matter where it's built. The additional demand is split over tens of millions of users.
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@AphexColthorpe @RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism The data centres are being subsidised by the government, thats not capitalism. Without government subsidies and initiatives there would be less, no? Also you can't say that for most power grid developments
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@AptAptAPtmie @RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism You could use that same reasoning to oppose literally any development plugged into the power grid.
It's not a legitimate argument.
It's a market implication, not an adverse impact.
Prices change, that's capitalism.
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@AphexColthorpe @RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism internet cables didnt increase the price of electricity for the community, if data centres didn't do that, id have no problem with the "development" but to increase the general price for a tool where only 5% of people will actually utilise it.
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@AptAptAPtmie @RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism That's your opinion, and nothing more.
Planning rules should be based on hard facts.
I for one use AI tools and have no issue with a data center lowering my costs and speeding up my technology.
Go back 20+ years and you'd be telling people they cant put internet cables down.
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@AphexColthorpe @RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism affordable housing benefits poor people in the community, data centres have no current benefit to anyone
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@RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism For example, should the local community be allowed to prevent the construction of affordable housing because it will lower their house prices?
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@RunawayMeerkat @CNLiberalism If the majority of people in your local area want to torture your cock and balls, why aren't your genitals in a vice?
You should need a valid reason to oppose development. Not vibes.
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