At least right now, there is no way the US declares a war of aggression against a former Ally and doesn’t fall into Civil War. It will take a hell of a lot of internal suppression for that to change

A $200 billion army explicitly created to suppress US citizens ought to fix that.

They are.

That’s actually one of the better scenarios.

Currently; it looks like MAGA is building the world’s third largest military force that’s greenlit to operate on US soil kidnapping and disappearing ANYONE without given reason, no legal process, and 0 recourse.

You’ll be fucking lucky if that money just disappears into some billionaires pockets.

Anyone can cosplay as an ICE agent; all you’ve gotta do is remove your license plate and wear a facemask+hat.

Not sure if just ‘haha tech-rhyme, using common error message’ or deeper:

Connection reset by peer = Other party ended the conversation. Immediately after you’d stated you’re queer…

They don’t use the same words I use, burn them at the stake!!

/s

A lot of the hate comes from Microsoft forcing it down everyones throats.

If it had been left to user choice, they may actually have a decent userbase; but instead it’s been forcefully installed on pretty much every windows computer regardless of the owners preferences, it repeatedly re-asserts itself as the default browser, some windows features are hard-coded to use it and break if its removed, there is no simple uninstall process, and windows update will re-install it if you manually remove it.

It’s my damn computer; if I don’t want a piece of software, I should be able to remove it.

Ditched Windows entirely 2 years ago partly because of that, partly because of the same upcoming behaviour with AI. Fuck Microshaft, I’ll take my money and attention elsewhere. (I was previously paying for/using pro licenses, for features like RDP hosting)

 sudo chown -R <user> /

Never have a permission issue again! Lmao

Participated in democracy? Devoured by vampires, lmao

But if you’re born in the USA, you didn’t agree to any ToS it was forced upon you at birth. Never chose to accept/agree to them, but obligated to follow them or face punishment.

A contract signed under duress is invalid.

-having no personal insight/knowledge of japan’s drug scene, just my impressions-

Saying you’ve found none in six years, doesn’t make me think there’s none comming through; I immediately think you haven’t been looking very hard.

Finding very little I could understand, but NONE? Na, you need to try harder.

An $11/yr domain pointed at my IP. Port 443 is open to nginx, which proxies to the desired service depending on subdomain. (and explicitly drops any connection that uses my raw ip or an unrecognized name to connect, without responding at all)

ACME.sh automatically refreshes my free ssl certificate every ~2months via DNS-01 verification and letsencrypt.

And finally, I’ve got a dynamic IP, so DDClient keeps my domain pointed at the correct IP when/if it changes.

There’s also pihole on the local network, replacing the WAN IP from external DNS, with the servers local IP, for LAN devices to use. But that’s very much optional, especially if your router performs NAT Hairpinning.

This setup covers all ~24 of the services/web applications I host, though most other services have some additional configuration to make them only accessible from LAN/VPN despite using the same ports and nginx service. I can go into that if there’s interest.

Only Emby/Jellyfin, Ombi, and Filebrowser are made accessible from WAN; so I can easily share those with friends/family without having to guide them through/restrict them to a vpn connection.

You can use cloudflares DNS and not use their WAF (the proxy bit) just fine. I have been for almost a decade.

For months, masked individuals with no police agency markings have been leaping out of unmarked vehicles that have no licence plates, refusing to identify themselves in any way, then kidnapping people off of the streets; and not one of them has faced any true resistance.

What the fucked has happened to America. Is “hey don’t do that”, really all you’ve got???

I know it’s much easier said than done; but I just wish the world as a whole would put more effort into diplomatic relations instead of just bombing eachother into ‘compliance’.

We don’t all have to like each other and work together; but if we could stop burning each others houses down, that’d be great.

Hopefully that’s not an unpopular opinion…

As nice as that would be, the unfortunate reality is that’s just not a realistic solution. You can’t put the cat back in the bag, so to speak.

The technology is already known; If everyone agreed to disarm, each party would just be even more worried about nations potentially ignoring that agreement and their now lack of defense against it.

The biggest reason I’m not all that concerned about Iran having nukes is the fact that so many nations are already nuclear armed. The use of nuclear weapons is so hated globally that they can only really be used in defence. If any individual nation chose to use their nukes offensively, the inevitable response from everyone else would mean the decision is suicide.

If Iran acquired nukes, then used them on say, Israel; America at the very least would turn Iran into a nuclear wasteland. I’m sure there are other nations that would join in, even if just on principle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal_framework

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-announce-us-withdrawing-iran-nuclear-deal-sources/story?id=55017606

As far as the NonProliferation Treaty goes, they are threatening to leave it, but haven’t actually yet.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/what-is-the-npt-and-why-has-iran-threatened-to-pull-out-of-the-treaty

The rest of the world says the same about America.

‘Terrorist’ isn’t a way of life, it’s the perspective of those against you.

Why are they saying ‘death to America’?

Because America won’t leave them alone. America started this shit, and continues to retaliate over and over for it’s own fuck ups comming back to bite it.

Obviously Iran is going to hate them and say things like ‘Death to America’ when America just wont stop giving them reasons to.

Maybe if America can demonstrate proper restraint and just leave the country to it’s own afairs, truly show themselves to NOT be an enemy of Iran, perhaps even an ally given sufficient time to heal; Iran will no longer feel the need to defend themselves against an immanent threat, whether real or perceived.

Bombing them sends the opposite message.

Yes, they have been seeking nukes since at lease the 90s, probably earlier, as around the 70s America on behalf of Britain orchestrated a coup and dismantled the countries progress, all so Britain could continue fucking Iran out of its oil and the profit they need to develop.

As far as the present goes;

I don’t know whether they were going for nukes specifically, or instead were developing civilian energy projects that produce/use the same if not very similar products; and that stockpile enabled them to pursue both.

Honestly I didn’t care. While I generally don’t think ANYONE should have nukes, the US and Russia keep proving over and over again that that is the only deterrent you can actually rely on; so I can totally understand various nations drive to ensure they actually get some peace. If Iran feels they want/need nukes to keep themselves safe; well power to em, unfortunately they are correct.

Leave them the fuck alone. Stop providing them with more and more reason to fucking despise the west and it’s allies; continually proving they HAVE to fight back to continue to exist. Continuing to attack isn’t turning them away from nukes, it’s hardening their resolve and proving further why nukes are necessary. Why do you think they felt it necessary to build a facility 200m under a damn mountain??

Afraid they’re going to use their nukes offensively? Then stop giving them reasons to. Actually show some progress towards world peace instead of of just bombing everyone that has a slightly different world view.