Take away Iran’s ability to control who continues to receive oil from the gulf region.

Reduce Iran’s ability to monetize passage through the straight.

Reduce Iran’s ability to make money from its oil production.

Encourage other countries to increase pressure on Iran to agree to US terms.

Not saying it’s a good idea, but the thinking behind it seems obvious.

I remember him promoting some crypto bullshit. I guess that didn’t work out as planned.

I read the original article from the New York Times and found it compelling. There are quite a few coincidences that kind of line up, although none of it is hard evidence. But it’s the most reasonable investigation I’ve seen so far.

Recently requested my data from Amazon. I received gigabytes worth of audio files of Alexa commands that I said. You can hear my voice, sometimes music in the background, I even found my previous girlfriend setting timers with Alexa. Years of my life. It’s genuinely unsettling.

Ah, The Orb, absolute classic. Sometimes people would get out of their cars to check out our contraption. Their abandoned cars would be found weeks later in the old creek. Good old times.

Let’s do a better job at building cities that have public transportation and safe bike infrastructure. Then people will actually have a choice on how to get around and they don’t need a car. You could still use the car if you want to, but you wouldn’t have to.

My renter complained that her dishwasher was broken. Bought her a new dishwasher. Complaints stopped because dishwasher works.

You - a deviant, horny, kinky, dirty, getting hard on anthropomorphic animal porn.

Me - an art critic, established, respectable, pure, enjoying masterful artwork.

Same. All expensive purchases are made using European online shops. The only time I use Amazon is for cheap fringe stuff that I can’t find anywhere else and where quality doesn’t matter.

Dont let perfect be the enemy of good.

When I’m up at night and I can’t sleep… does that mean that there are monsters nearby?

Shitting on your allies, then asking them for help in the war you recklessly started. Exactly my kind of humor.

I mean, the Iranian regime is still a group of brutal murderers and criminals who should be in jail. But it still brings me some sick joy to watch Trump get his ass handed to him.

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I pulled that number out of my ass. My point was: He’s lying, but that’s to be expected.

Wait, you guys can read?

“The Department of War has everything it needs to execute any mission at the time and place of the President’s choosing and on any timeline,” chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to Reuters.

What kind of bullshit answer is that? On the other hand, what else is he supposed to say? “Oh yeah, we burned through 90% of our ballistic missiles, we’re completely defenseless right now”?

But that’s just crypto again, isn’t it? They tried the same bullshit.

Yeah, how about we all be a little more positive about the great war he started. Enjoy it a little bit, goddamn!

Sir, the billionaire-owned media would prefer you use the friendlier term “underage women”

I agree. Most countries are trying to reduce their dependency on the USA right now. And why wouldn’t they, when the whole world can watch how Trump uses this dependency as a weapon against them.

I’m not sure if he doesn’t understand trust and soft power or doesn’t care. Maybe he realized that he is able to utilize it to temporarily get what he wants, which makes him look like a tough negotiator, and that someone else will have to deal with the long-term consequences of the broken trust.