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New comment by nerfbatplz in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

nerfbatplz — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:27:26 +0000

Incorrect, plenty of countries have had their ships transit the Strait including China, Philippines and Pakistan

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79jqx1xdy9o

New comment by nerfbatplz in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

nerfbatplz — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:13:08 +0000

American destroyers and aircraft carriers have been chased away from the Strait multiple times now.

Hilariously the USS George HW Bush had to go the long way around Africa rather than risk transiting the Bab El Mandeb after the Houthis defeated the US Navy last year.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

nerfbatplz — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:09:46 +0000

Ironically the US has never ratified UNCLOS. The American professed interest in maintaining right of passage does not appear to require them to be held to the same standards.

Also the Strait of Hormuz is an international strait not international waters. The entire strait lies within Iranian and Omani waters. Frankly it's a bit absurd to complain that your ships can't transit a country's waters while you bomb them.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

nerfbatplz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:10:56 +0000

Subs in WW2 rescued survivors all the time until the US bombed a rescue operation and ended the gentleman's agreement.

https://www.beachesofnormandy.com/didyouknow/Did_you_know_wh...

There was zero threat to that American submarine, they fired on an unarmed ship that the US Navy had just held ceremonial activities with literally days prior. Absolutely disgusting behaviour but we can't expect anything less from the Americans unfortunately.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

nerfbatplz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:08:01 +0000

They tried restraint and proportionality for decades and where did that get them? 47 years of non-stop aggression, espionage, sanctions and the mass deaths of Iranian civilians.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

nerfbatplz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:01:09 +0000

UAE wants that because their leaders are highly Israel aligned. Saudi Arabia is a lot more pragmatic, they take their role as the "leader" of the Islamic world pretty seriously.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

nerfbatplz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:59:33 +0000

I think this was the nail in the coffin. Not only has the US exsanguinated their military capability at the behest of Israel, everyone with half a brain watched closely as they took AD out of the gulf states and moved them into Israel. Taiwan, Japan and South Korea are not morons, they will see the writing on the wall and they will move to make diplomatic peace with their neighbours (China) now that the US has keeled over with self-inflicted wounds.

It doesn't really matter what happens internally in the US now, everyone realizes that every four years the world will roll the dice.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

nerfbatplz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:39:05 +0000

Palantir is part of the IDF's kill chain. In Gaza that means supporting the automated targeting systems that choose targets with little to no human oversight, and then the automated tracking systems that follow targets until they are at home with their families so that the entire family can be killed at once.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticia...

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

>Lavender and systems like Where’s Daddy? were thus combined with deadly effect, killing entire families, sources said. By adding a name from the Lavender-generated lists to the Where’s Daddy? home tracking system, A. explained, the marked person would be placed under ongoing surveillance, and could be attacked as soon as they set foot in their home, collapsing the house on everyone inside.

>“Let’s say you calculate [that there is one] Hamas [operative] plus 10 [civilians in the house],” A. said. “Usually, these 10 will be women and children. So absurdly, it turns out that most of the people you killed were women and children.”

New comment by nerfbatplz in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

nerfbatplz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:58:06 +0000

To be clear, Trump announced that the US had destroyed Iran's air defenses, missiles and missile launch capabilities. Trump also said that the US enjoyed air supremacy over Iran and were flying when and where they wished.

Maybe one of these days we'll see a B-52 take off with JDAMs and not JASSMs but probably not, kind of scary to try and drop gravity bombs on a country that your stealth fighters can't fly over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohttYlvFvU

New comment by nerfbatplz in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

nerfbatplz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:34:19 +0000

Technically Iran fires SRBMs and MRBMs not ICBMs. They intentionally gimp their missiles to avoid advertising ICBM range as a way of placating Europe.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

nerfbatplz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:31:33 +0000

The Iranians just hit an F35 with a proverbial box of scraps they put together in a cave. The Chinese military must have experienced collective euphoria when they saw that.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

nerfbatplz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:28:34 +0000

There's videos from Israel showing Iranian missiles performing AD evading maneuvers that western media was saying was impossible a few months ago.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "I resigned from OpenAI"

nerfbatplz — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:23:58 +0000

The last time China bombed a foreign country was 1979, 47 years ago. Has the US gone even 47 days in the last 80 years without bombing another country?

New comment by nerfbatplz in "NameCheap revokes a domain dedicated to hosting footage from Gaza"

nerfbatplz — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:55:18 +0000

https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti...

It’s especially egregious that they didn’t give a chance for the domain to be transferred, they terminated the domain without due notice.

This website had been cited by journalists, academics and even at the International Court of Justice.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "How to Preserve Physical Photos"

nerfbatplz — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 19:59:45 +0000

If you have a DSLR or mirrorless camera scanning the negatives with it and then batch processing them into positives is probably the fastest method.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal"

nerfbatplz — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:47:07 +0000

I propose we change the term enshitification to engoogleification in regards to the internet.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

nerfbatplz — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:04:21 +0000

Haaretz reports that the ground troops in Gaza are acting on their own and in a state of anarchy.

https://archive.is/2024.04.02-205352/https://www.haaretz.com...

New comment by nerfbatplz in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

nerfbatplz — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:20:41 +0000

Already deleted, that was quick.

If we can’t trust AI to drive a car, how the hell can we trust it to pick who lives and who dies?

New comment by nerfbatplz in "The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem"

nerfbatplz — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:19:46 +0000

Yeah the Israeli left has come to accept that the final solution is to push the Gazans into Sinai as exemplified by Benny Morris' opinion that he has stated repeatedly since October 7th.

New comment by nerfbatplz in "The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem"

nerfbatplz — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:18:50 +0000

> Hamas has, for a very long time, refused to recognize that Israel has any right to exist anywhere in former Mandatory Palestine.

Why is this piece of misinformation so pervasive?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/hamas-new-char...