However if you're also very traditional and practice their faith, you'll fit right in. At least in Iran it's like that.

There's going to be relationship issues regardless due to human nature but those disputes are easier to solve in the local Church / Mosque / what have you.

I know because my dad retired near a rural area from Lahijan and has become much more religious sense. but at least he's at peace..

But I digress, all that so that it's just not a place for someone with "out of box" ideas.

This is the reason the security counsel refuses to give up any of its uranium.. and to be fair, I've had a change of heart regarding this. I think the only true deterrence against a nuclear power state is nuclear weapons. It assures at a minimum that your country won't be nuked.

A big reason why Israel hasn't completely destroyed Iran with nukes is the fact that it's a small country and Iran can take it out. Israel having nukes is also another reason why Iran isn't hitting them as hard, it's to avoid backing them in a corner.

I think that after the current Russia / Ukraine and Iran / US war, it's becoming very apparent to many countries that your nation is only secure if you have nuclear deterrence.

Sure but food doesn't have to equate to consume large quantities of junk food for it to be pleasurable.

We can learn to have a healthy meal with a reasonable portion that is as satisfying.

This is actually true.. in my country we used to have 3 different tiers for Mathematics like 416, 426, 436, etc for high school students. You would get the right class for how good you were.

They dropped this and made a simple "sciences" vs "humanity" path. Then they also removed percentage grades and replaced with alphabets A, B, C, etc. There used to special awards for high performers with medals and gifts and the end of year, those events also got the shaft.

The idea was to reduce stress on students..

Iranian here, please give me the names of the 30,000 dead people so we can corroborate your claims with reality.

I have no lover for IRGC, my own family members were severly harmed by them but this claim is of 30k/40k dead is false.

Next, regarding the United State's ability to "block' the Strait: If the previous blockade was successful, it would have never been lifted.

Regarding the causalities: In this war alone, United State's have killed more than 3k Iranians, bombed schools, hospitals, bridges and other civilian infrastructure. IRAQ war resulted in 211k civilian deaths thanks to United States. I could go further back but I'll stop here.

I'm not saying Iran hasn't harmed anyone but simply on numbers alone, I would be more concerned about US as an adversary than Iran if I was a sovereign nation.

> The Straight and their attempt to hold global oil production hostage

Iran repeatedly warned everyone that if it is attacked, the Strait would be closed. TRUMP decided that we apparently needed to be "freed" and caused a global catastrophe. I like how you you shift the blame here.

Further, any attempts at diplomacy between US and Iran has failed because of US. United States attacked Iran during negotiations or reneged the deal.

Here is a reminder for you:

1. May 2018 - TRUMP wrecks the JCPOA that Obama negotiated (after 20 months of difficult talks from both sides)

2. June 2025 - Us attacks nuclear facilities, weeks after negotiations of April.

3. February 2026 - US strikes Iran during indirect talks in Switzerland

4. Multiple rounds of strikes by US during the 60 day "negotiation", US ignoring everything in the MOU, including trying to covertly move ships from the Oman side

I'm ignoring all other incidents of assassinating Iranian scientists and other diplomats.

Clearly, one side is not interested in peace.

He hasn't done it yet, at least not publicly but he very well might. If you look at the moves he has been making, he is putting people in charge of IRGC who are bigger hardliners. The new commanders in charge are very pro war, for example Vahidi and Mohsen Rezaei.

I think United States and Israel made a big mistake in their calculus, underestimating the number of supporters they have in Iran. I assume mostly because you only hear the voices of expats who are either Pahlavis or classic Liberals in the West.

Easily 40% of population is in support of the Republic and for good reason. Decades of US trying to destroy Iran has solidified their position and the war of 2025 put the final nail in the coffin.

The people here discussing the "Strait" are missing the forest for the trees.. Iran will control it, there may or not be alternative solutions but the biggest issue is that the entire region will be forever destabilized. At least until one side gives major concessions, even if US wanted to have an agreement, Israel wouldn't allow it.

It's a bad situation for everyone.

Everything is just getting worse these days: TVs becoming junk ad boxes, consoles removing physical ownership, cars becoming subscription services, phones are now glorified walled gardens, operating systems are filled with ads and telemetry, and don't even get me started on software.

My phone provider doesn't have an emotional breakdown when I fire them, why should I?

People should never take anything corporations do personally. This is why all the messaging about "we're a family" is BS..

The biggest issue is the lack of safety net and healthcare for people when they are let go.. severance kind of take care of this but it varies greatly.

But hey.. perhaps working in this industry for decades has made me too cynical.

This basically makes their AI useless.

In any case, moving from USD -> Yuan would pose the same risk as people may perceive with USD today.

Having a single currency controlled by one nation is too risky.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge the long tenured engineers. They probably realized that moving business forward is more important than writing artisan code.

You always have some young hotshot who comes in and wants to rewrite your old boring Java monolith into a micro services disaster for "better architecture".

The greybeards learned the life lessons the hard way.

The other aspect to consider is this: stay in this industry long enough and it will beat the soul out of you.

I'm not sure I understand.. we have objective realities in the world that are certainly not "opinions".

According this logic, gravity exists because opinions coincide?

C&C Community did this with Renegade X and EA not only allowed to build the game but even helped them with marketing!

Worse case scenario, they say you need to take it down and it ends there.. but worth a shot.

P.S I love it!

I promise you that you didn't kill 3,000+ IRGC members.

I remember when they would always hallucinate APIs that wasn't there or make up fields that didn't exist.. those problems are virtually solved now.

So with that in mind, why wouldn't AI be able to write better code?

The code would have to be maintainable by AI itself (operating based on the assumption that the future will be Agentic Engineering)

If software genuinely becomes a solved problem, everyone is going to working in AI labs (or its verticals).

If AI is also going to maintain itself, then there is no need for AI labs either, at which point we've reached singularity and no one is safe.