If americans succesfully blockade Iran, the regime will collapse in 1 month.

Berlin by Christmas energy

Shippers have insurance now and they don’t care about the lives of their crews

Are insurance companies willing to pay out for any ship running a blockade? They seem exceedingly risk averse.

Marie Antoinette wants her sentiment back

(Yes I know it’s apocryphal don’t @ me)

What was never there can’t remain

How’s that?

Sorry to interrupt the circlejerk, but the author is a Brit

Are the begging Iranian negotiators in the room with us right now, Pete?

If the past decade has taught me anything it is that meme magic is real

As part of the plan, the US has in principle agreed to lift all primary and secondary sanctions against Iran and to withdraw US combat forces from all bases in the region, the council said according to state media.

Yeah… none of this will happen. I hate Trump and this illegal war is abhorrent. That said, if you take Iranian state media at face value I have a bridge to sell you.

Fair enough, happy Moopday to Mr. Moop

Someone who is under the delusion that they’re in a relationship with an AI chatbot

Is this a Seinfeld reference?

It always meant “girls obsessed with horses” to me growing up. I remember some of the assholes at my high school giving them a hard time asking them if they want to fuck the horses.

This seems like a whole different thing entirely.

The AI slop image in the story is a real doozy

Yeah, the punk/metal scene is still solid and largely outside of the Ticketmaster bs, with the exception of the huge acts. I see lots of shows at independent venues in Philly

Normally I’d say just leave it off your network, but I’ve read some awful stuff Hisense does to coerce users into connecting their TVs to their network.

Ah so just like Xbox 360

They clearly shouldn’t have chosen to be born in Germany if they don’t like it.

I think about the battle of New Orleans during the war of 1812 a lot for that exact reason. The war was over for weeks and they had no idea. Over 300 people died and thousands of casualties for nothing. To make matters worse, it made Andrew Jackson popular

It’s always felt punitive for the egg left on the US’ face following the collapse of Batista’s rule and subsequent loss of US business interests. The fact that Cuba hasn’t been a legitimate military threat to the United States for well over 50 years only reinforces that.