The CEP on these ballistic missiles must be insane. Reminds me how the first SCUD missiles had a CEP of 3,000m. They just kinda chucked them in the general direction of something.

war is always the worst possible option

I’m currently living in a country that was freed from British colonialism via war. I’m damn happy that war happened, I’m damn happy we have our own country.

The fun problem with isolationism is it just allows problems to fester; then you have something much worse to deal with later. You may want to ignore the world, but the world won’t ignore you.

Edit: An Iranian proxy has been shooting civilian shipping and civilian crews from all countries for the last year. There are problems one cannot simply ignore.

Their ability to make nukes has been delayed several times in the past, another delaying action is likely better than letting them get nukes.

On further thought the glow could be from reentry and not from burning rocket motors. So, no I’m not sure.

Currently waiting to see the level of damage and more detailed reports.

From watching the videos, it looks like a ton of low-level missile intercepts. The rocket motors are still active, which isn’t what you see for ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.

Probably will be lots of damage due to debris though.

Yeah, missile intercepts always look cool. Though, it is unfortunate that it’s due to what is assuredly an escalation. Israel took the first Iranian missile salvo two months ago without direct retaliation; I don’t see that happening again here.

What you’re missing is the understanding that this will keep getting worse, till we are all dead

Apparently the climate scientists are missing that understanding too, as I have yet to see any of them claim such.

Yeah, I think someone in Saudi Arabia looked at the expenses for The Line‡, and then put out a number that sounds nice and would help with that massive outflow; but like you said, didn’t trifle with a more realistic target. Meanwhile, Russia is pumping with whatever hasn’t been hit by a drone yet, as they can use every ruble they can get; depressing the price.

‡I still can’t get over how, instead of building up an industry in Saudi Arabia to vary the economy, instead they went for a vanity mega-project to … attract tourists?

when we’re all dead from climate change

Would you mind sharing an article from a climate scientist that claims all humans will die? What I have seen is that life will get harder, certain crops will not grow in certain areas anymore, resource-related wars will increase, and weather events will get stronger and more numerous. What I have not seen is that these things result in the extinction of humans. Which is a vastly different statement.

Everyone dying from climate change is not what climate scientists are predicting. Lying about reality will not help the cause.

I’m confused who this is for. Even many who agree with them don’t appreciate vandalism of art and art galleries.

NYT corroborates this reporting.

Polar bears hunt humans for food. You cannot scare them away, you and your loved ones are prey. You will not win a fight against them, they are too big and too strong.

Unless you are fine being dinner, then yes, the polar bear is getting shot.

Now why would Iran’s ambassador have a Hezbollah pager? 🤔

(we all know why)

Ok, but what if an entire programming language is made of whitespace?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

Unless you are retiring in the next decade, it is highly advisable to invest a 401k in the stock market. You get significantly higher returns over the long run. And any losses due to a recession are more than made up for by the significantly higher returns every other year.

When you are nearing retirement (5-10 years out), that is when you want to put the money into something safe and stable like bonds or CDs. That way if there is a recession as you retire, it won’t affect your fund.

Stocks are 293% higher today than they were at the peak of 2007. Even if they bought all of their stock at that peak right before the 2008 recession, the market had fully recovered by 2012. It isn’t the market keeping them from retiring…

On that note, it makes a ton of sense to take full advantage of 401k plans. At least put it enough for the company match to max out, and preferably put more in to cap out the annual limit for it. That isn’t possible for everyone, but it’s both tax advantaged and pre-tax money, so an extra $500/mo into the 401k is NOT $500 removed from your post-tax pay.

Even before, people would often work later into life. Many people are fucking terrible with money and if spent poorly, you may need a job even with the pension.