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New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

Galaxeblaffer — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:36:53 +0000

Og course there's so much more to the story.. but the fact is that the monarchy was effectively overthrown and shah had given up power and fled the country. In this particular instance it's very simple.. the us and the uk was bad

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

Galaxeblaffer — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:25:39 +0000

In this case, the US was pretty involved in destabilizing the country. If the us and the uk hadn't intervened in 50s, Iran would have made a successful transition from monarchy to democracy. I guess we can discuss if the US owes anything to anyone, but a case for the us correcting earlier mistakes can definitely be made.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Can we have the day off?"

Galaxeblaffer — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:22:13 +0000

From experience, take Monday off instead of Friday and optimally also Wednesday.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

Galaxeblaffer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:49:30 +0000

Not everything, only stuff that are suddenly in higher demand that can't increase supply. If you take food as an example i don't imagine demand would increase? And if it did we could probably just produce more? And also it's not like everyone will have unlimited money, so you'll still have to prioritize and luckily we don't all have the same priorities. I'm pretty sure the idea is to fund this by taxing production and not by printing money, so inflation shouldn't be a problem.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown"

Galaxeblaffer — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:32:23 +0000

I'm sure there was tons of external meddling in most of eastern Europe before the many regime changes. It's very hard to draw any comparison between 80s eastern Europe and today's Iran. I don't think you really fathom how ingrained the regime really is. First of all Iran is huge and very rich in resources which makes the regime very rich and iran is technically self sufficient with food and energy. second, the regime has evolved and learned from the mistakes if other regimes making sure to have large foreign armies that don't give a shit about the Iranian people as long as the money keeps flowing, i could go on.

Also you seem to not grasp that the current regime are viewed as invaders forcing Islamic rule which I'm pretty sure is very very different from the scenarios your mentioning. And even in your scenario, if Trump really succeeds in destroying American democracy and takes everyone's guns away and closes the internet to the world and starts killing every and all opposition and terrorizes America for 40 years I'm pretty sure you'd like who ever the duck is capable of removing that to intervene. And it's not like I'm making it up, i happen to have many Iranians in my family, and many of them living in Iran still and i can assure you that the vast majority in the big cities want the US to kill off the regime. I'm sure there's some kind of rural population that loves sharia like the us has maga, but i don't think they are the majority any more.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown"

Galaxeblaffer — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:07:13 +0000

Fair enough, and yes it might fail, but what i gather from all Iranians I've talked to (family), the consensus is that it can't get much worse than it is now, so they'd rather live with the consequences for even a small chance that things will be better.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown"

Galaxeblaffer — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:09:23 +0000

One big thing your missing is that there simply is no way imaginable that a regime change can happen without the US, it's simply impossible at this stage. I can certainly understand why many if not most Iranians want the US to intervene, it's simply the only way regime change is ever going to happen.w

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"

Galaxeblaffer — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:00:45 +0000

Gemini really only shines when using it in planning life in th vscode fork antigravity. It also supports opus so it's easy to compare.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Claude can now search the web"

Galaxeblaffer — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:06:43 +0000

there's no reason we couldn't incentivize the important jobs..

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope"

Galaxeblaffer — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:26:06 +0000

> Like seeing things in a rawer form that doesnt align well with more normative views of society.

Psycedelics in a nutshell

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "The year I didn't survive"

Galaxeblaffer — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:02:51 +0000

I really hope you guys are getting propper help, this state of being must be horrible, especially since nothing happened in the end. Nothing happened because your wife after all made sure to not be too far away and was alert enough to hear her call. We're all 2 minutes away from death should we somehow stop breathing, best we can do is to minimize risk.

Me and my wife had a horrible experience ourselves where our 2 year old daughters best friend(also 2 years old) drowned in their family swimming pool after figuring out how to open the door herself. I know this wasn't nearly as close to heart as the other stories in this post, but receiving that text on a Saturday evening was super tough and me and my partner was crushed for months after it happened. It's now been 10 months and we rarely think about it anymore although we did end up in a house WITHOUT a swimming pool, so in a way it's still with us.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017)"

Galaxeblaffer — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:23:36 +0000

I think i misread your comment a bit. i thought you where making the point that evolution was only about mutations on a large scale and that individuals doesn't really matter. But what you are writing is true even though populations can become very small where these small populations that survive have sometimes been selected for because of traits that mutated in a larger population earlier. Sometimes though it's just the lucky ones that weren't in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017)"

Galaxeblaffer — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:47:21 +0000

can't remember where i read this, but significant and big leaps in evolution seem to often happen in times of crisis when the environment forces it. that's not to say that evolution doesn't happen all the time with little pressure it's just very slow when things are more stable. by extension big leaps in evolution can really be down to a low number of individuals. read an article about a genetic study claiming the human population was down to a few thousand individuals around 90k years ago.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject"

Galaxeblaffer — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 05:57:31 +0000

biofuels are not green and require huge land mass and come on dude, sails, really ?

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject"

Galaxeblaffer — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:37:04 +0000

I don't disagree that nuclear propulsion has a long way to go before becoming safe enough for civilian use and might require extra security and regulation forever, but we need to do something other than dumping bunker fuel waste into the sea and atmosphere even coubting in several terrorist attacks and accidents it might still end up killing less people using nuclear. As you say going with hydrogen and by extension ammonia, which is probably the only viable way to fuel ships, will require unthinkable amounts of renewables which is mostly intermittent energy meaning hydrogen electrolysis plants will have to be ramped up and down as the wind blows or the sun shines. this makes the efficiency calculations even worse for an already super wasteful undertaking. i guess we could potentially use nuclear but why waste 80-90% of the energy created by converting and then using hydrogen ? My opinion is that we need to throw much more money at making nuclear fission safer.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject"

Galaxeblaffer — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:26:02 +0000

The only real synthetic alternative is ammonia which brings it's own host of problems and potential for malicious use. while your arguments are valid, i think we can overcome most of the problems you mention with more research. at some point we'll need to make the hard decision to either give up on the environment or go nuclear and accept the extra cost of safeguarding it. It simply seems there's no other realistic alternative.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject"

Galaxeblaffer — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:38:42 +0000

you are right that hydrogen is a fantasy.. but wait.. what is this solar and wind plus storage you speak of that overdeliver, specifically what storage are you talking about? the wind industry has heavily been pushing hydrogen as this storage at least in Germany and Denmark and as far as i know there's absolutely zero success here despite maasny years of trying

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject"

Galaxeblaffer — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:31:21 +0000

hydrogen definitely not the only way for long distance sea, nuclear would just make so much more sense. and for place travel it also such the same as batteries, first of all its an explosive gas and second we only get less than 20%. hydrogen is just not a good solution to anything other than being a byproduct in the natural gas industry.

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "One surprising psychosis treatment that works: Learning to live with the voices"

Galaxeblaffer — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:22:51 +0000

wait.. really ? please share some links with info. I've had this several times in my life and i don't think I've ever been an alcoholic but i have had a relationship with several substances but I'm not really sure I've ever had withdrawal symptoms from any of them

New comment by Galaxeblaffer in "Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest"

Galaxeblaffer — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 04:44:27 +0000

you got it.. and grain is not the only thing we get shipped from Brazil.. to look green, we've replaced most our coal burning for energy with bio fuels, essentially wood and that gets shipped in from Brazil as well.. very green.. because fuck nuclear, because of.. checks notes.. reasons