@GayBearRes I like how one report from unnamed officials on them allegedly chucking a couple missiles at Diego Garcia has everyone saying "Welp I guess this was all a good idea".
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late_night_cheese_enthusiast
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Look, not a fan of how we got this war going, but I think this is a pretty good indicator that it was going to be close to impossible to trust the Iranians on a nuclear deal.
Defense Intelligence@DI313_
⚡🇮🇷🇺🇸Iran may have just exposed a capability that raises serious concerns for the United States. Two missiles were launched toward Diego Garcia, nearly 4000 km away. One failed mid-course, but the second was intercepted by a US Navy SM-3 interceptor, a system that costs over 20 million dollars per shot and is produced in limited numbers each year. The key issue is not the interception. It is the range. Iran has repeatedly claimed its missile range is limited to 2000 km. This event suggests otherwise. A strike attempted at nearly double that distance points toward significantly more advanced long range capabilities, potentially extending into ICBM territory. This changes the equation. If Iran can project power this far, US bases and strategic positions across a much wider region may now be within reach.
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@GraduatedBen Maybe they'll find some yellow cake!?!?
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If the Iranian missile program was getting to the point of being able to hit Diego Garcia, suddenly the timing and urgency of this war makes a lot more sense.
Noah Rothman@NoahCRothman
“Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia… Neither of the missiles hit the base, but the move marked a significant attempt by Iran to reach far beyond the Middle East and threaten U.S. interests… One of the missiles failed in flight, and a U.S. warship fired an SM-3 interceptor at the other…” wsj.com/livecoverage/i…
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@funkychicken @notambiturner @MsMelChen Russia, at least, obviously.
This is the best thing that's happened to Russia in 30 years.
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> Iran just proved it has operational IRBMs with ~4,000–4,500 km range, far beyond its acknowledged official 2,000 km cap
> First direct strike on US/UK assets outside the Middle East (Diego Garcia is in the Indian Ocean).
> One missile failed, one intercepted by US Navy SM-3
> probably a retaliatory strike for Starmer allowing the Americans to use British bases for strikes to help reopen Strait of Hormuz
> Iran now credibly threatens Central Europe too, not just Israel/Gulf
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Iran fired a pair of intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK base in the Indian Ocean. One missile failed in flight, and another was engaged by a US Navy destroyer using an SM-3 missile.
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@deerrun98989 @politicalmath The statues remaining are reddotsonplane.png
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@deerrun98989 @politicalmath The Romans liked it so much that they had a term for it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_…
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I'm not exactly a Cesar Chavez booster but there is something about the insta-erasure of anything problematic that unsettles me
scott budman@scottbudman
Letter by letter, crews cover up “Plaza De Cesar Chavez” in San Jose.
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@Shorteverythin1 @AlexNoonan6 I want like an `88.
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@Hangsiin A single day!? I pull 15 hour days on fast with a pro account, usually with 2 or 3 worktrees going, and I've yet to run my plan out. Probably will once 2x is over.
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To be honest, if you're a power user, I'd say you absolutely shouldn't do it.
Unless you're planning to subscribe to multiple Pro accounts.
Even without using Fast, GPT-5.4 starts eating into your usage pretty quickly.
Part of it is probably that I've gotten more and more used to running things in parallel.
If I had used Fast, I probably would have burned through it all in a single day.
Sherwin Wu@sherwinwu
Set Codex to this and don't ever look back
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@bendreyfuss I have no idea when I bought mine, and no idea when I last filled / swapped the toner cartridge. It just prints whenever I need it to.
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Everyone’s printer needs are different but if you are like me and only printout text documents in B&W, Brother laser printers are a revelation. They will keep printing through a nuclear war.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It's sort of funny that we're going to have AGI before we have a printer that isn't constantly breaking.
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@R89Capital You can be plenty productive in Canada, just have to live in the West.
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@signulll @jfischoff Yeah, but almost no one does this. Natural weight loss would do the same thing, especially with people who have had puffier, fatter faces for 20, 30, 40 years. Skin is only so elastic.
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@defaultuser9999 Is this right? In the terminal it just says 2X in the App. I thought I saw something on here saying that it was 2x everywhere but not sure
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Quite looking forward to when the OpenAI 2x rate limit thing ends so that I can go back to using Codex in terminal... the Codex app is nice but I just want to stay in the CLI thanks
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@HarmlessYardDog Unless you're anticipating Canada cutting off exports, they're already up to capacity.
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So anyways, did you know Venezuela is full of the heavy crude that US refineries need to function?
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@TheCutieVixen @planefag In short, I think the Trump admin are a bunch of rubes on the international stage, and they're absolutely getting played by Israel and Russia (for very different reasons), and the deeper they stick their boot into this mud, the worse it's going to get.
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@TheCutieVixen @planefag I don't subscribe to the whole kompramat thing or whatever, but $110/bbl oil + Russia feeding Iran drones and intel to drain blood and treasure from the USA (and raise oil prices even higher) is truly christmas come early for ole Vlad.
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The single most enraging Euro attitude is this "TRUMP IS A RUSSIAN PUPPET" horseshit when the US is still selling Ukraine any and all weapons they want. Utterly delusional and deeply insulting. Stuff that BS. Now.
Szkielet Zbigniew@skelekilogram
@planefag I'm a fan but you're really getting a bit delusional lately about NATO. Trump doesn't get to act like he does, lick Putin's ass as he does, ask the same NATO to pay for Ukraine and now be all fussy about an attack that wasn't mentioned to the same allies he complains about now
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@GrantSlatton We have loads of these in Alberta, they work great: calgary.citynews.ca/2025/06/13/new…
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@SV72025 @natnewswatch Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, etc
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Feds earmark money for munitions factories in Quebec, Ontario nationalnewswatch.com/2026/03/18/fed… #nationlnewswatch via @natnewswatch
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@keysmashbandit @mayfer I find that maple does whatever I want, because I'm paying them. YMMV
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@mayfer Also, I've never successfully requested a test result from a Canadian doctor. When asked they look at me like I have three heads, say "If you want..." and then never send them + ignore followups
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The last time I checked my wait list for a family doctor it said 8 months and now it's 14. The MAID wait list is like 6 weeks. Get me out of this fucking country man!!!!!!!
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@InsiderGeo Oh there will be plenty of memes, they'll just be coming from Pakistani accounts.
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Let’s hope it never comes to this. If FPV drones start hitting U.S. soldiers like the footage we see from the Ukraine war, memes won’t be funny anymore. War is not a joke. Period.
Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork
POLITICO: Senior White House officials say wartime messaging focuses on "audience engagement," with videos reaching 3B+ impressions in four days. One adds: "We’re just grinding away on banger memes… there’s an entertainment factor to what we do."
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@BobLandell @ExnerPirot Should definitely let Russia do it then.
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@ExnerPirot How do you adjust for the compounding drag on economic growth that 2.7°C global temp rise by 2050 -projected for current policies—is projected to cause? Studies have estimated a permanent reduction of at least 4% in Canadian GDP by 2050, accelerating to over 13% by 2100.
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An additional 1.5 million barrels/day of pipeline capacity would add on average 1.1% or $31.4 billion in real GDP per year over the next decade for Canada
Nothing else can do that.
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