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Yes, and I see the 8 year Iraq-Iran war as a sign of poor leadership on both sides. Just as I now consider Zelensky allowing the Ukraine-Russia war to drag on for 4+ years now as a foolish endeavour under his stewardship (especially as Ukraine has no real hope of winning the war). Stepping back from a conflict, even if the terms aren't ideal, shouldn't be considered a defeat (think like your enemy - the US never retreats, it only does "conflict management" when the odds are against it). Prioritise people's well-being over territory, over everything because without them you have no civilisation or culture to preserve. (India has fought many wars since independence, but never allowed any of it to drag on for years). All that said, I will concede that the current foes of Iran are irrational fanatics, and Iran has very difficult choices to make ...

Yes, but I guess it was a poor example. I was thinking that technically, they aren't at war all the time. Every decade or two, they declare a war and fight each other, and then settle. In between they even talk with each other civilly.

I can think of some:

1. North Korea doesn't really need a nuke. That the western allies of South Korea haven't attacked North Korea because it has nukes is overstated. The reason nobody has attacked North Korea yet is because South Koreans don't want to fight a war and endanger their economy. Geographical factors means that South Korea will face significant destruction - missile and artillery fire from NK already can target most regions of SK. And any war with North Korea guarantees the involvement of the Chinese and the Russians too.

2. If we accept the arguments of the west that the nukes are the only reason North Korea has been sanctioned, then giving up nuclear weapons should mean that all economic sanctions on North Korea would be lifted. North Korea already has a reasonably strong conventional military. If the sanctions are lifted, a strong economy + a strong conventional military (along with the military alliance with China and / or Russia) can be enough of a deterrent. Especially if North Korea also behaves as any other responsible nation.

3. Without giving up its nukes, even China and Russia won't allow an independent North Korea, with nukes, to become economically stronger or a democratic country.

4. Right now, the nukes are like an albatross around the neck. Getting rid of them voluntarily can provide immense benefits. NK already knows how to build nuclear weapons. With careful planning, they can resume a nuclear WMD program any time again in the future, if need be.

5. They do not have to give up their nuclear research or civilian nuclear programs.

> Iran has effectively defeated militarily the US, who threw everything at them ...

Let's not lose track of the truth in the hubris. The Iranian strategy to immediately target all the alliance partners of the US ("peace and prosperity for everyone or no one") in the region has lead to a stalemate in the war, with both side recognising that their goals cannot be achieved militarily without a very high cost. (And as you noted, the US has only used a quarter of its firepower yet). But, just like the Ukranians, Iran shouldn't forget that they are fighting a superpower, with a stronger economy and military than them, and neither Ukraine or Iran can defeat them in a conventional sense, if at all. Any nation can survive against a stronger enemy, as both India and Iran have proved with their civilisational heritage. However, the true test of good leadership is survival without extreme harm and suffering to the people while ensuring the unity of the nation.

NK doesn't have to abandon the nukes to have peace with South Korea. As it has abandoned re-unification, and now recognises South Korea as an independent state, they could move on to a hot and cold "hostile" relation like Pakistan and India, who have learnt to tolerate each other.

It's Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, named after Homi Bhabha.

It's been many years since Firefox dropped support for XUL extensions and XUL itself. It even lead to Firefox being forked, and Palemoon browser (amongst other forks of it) now carry the legacy of XUL ( https://udn.realityripple.com/ ). Also, that hasn't stopped Firefox from offering stand alone Gecko on Android ( https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ ) now, has it? If they can do it for Android, why not all the other desktop platforms? Start redirecting the 300+ million dollars they have earned from Firefox to the developers instead of the CEO et al and maybe we will see some good innovation happening in Firefox ...

How realistic is this? While North Korea has apparently recognised South Korea, the hostilities will not cease or end from the North Koreans unless South Korea stops hosting American military on its soil. But does South Korea feel confident enough to defend itself without the Americans? As a superpower, is the US willing to forego a military presence in that region? Under what conditions will China / Russia allow both side to repair their relationships? Both China and Russia really upped their ante against the South Koreans, by helping the North Koreans upgrade their military, when they made public their intention to join the AUKUS alliance ( https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3261039/fir... ).

Wow, have you really been maintaining that site for 20+ years now?

There is no real support for uBlock Origin on Orion - it's still very buggy and doesn't work. They do have their own adblocking built-in though.

Both the Brave browser, and Vivaldi browser have some kind of built-in adblocking API. The makers of Brave browser even pay some of the adblocking list curators.

Can you share your source for this?

I am cynical about this move - this could be used by them to cripple support for uBlock Origin eventually, to keep Google happy.

> What flaws exactly?

It's not modular, for example. You can't just use the Gecko engine in your project. To do so, you have to deal and hack through the whole codebase of the Firefox browser.

That's his own personal style of "distractionary" politics. It's really no different from the commonplace adversarial politicking of other American politicians (that all seem have to adopted in the last 4-5 decades), where whatever one says or do is cheered by one group and treated as something repulsive by the other. You getting irritated or offended by what he says is the desired response because it distracts you from the real issues.

You never know - when India elected a Prime Minister, from a new and inexperienced party, in 1977, he blurted out to his Pakistani counterparts on how India had obtained intel on Pakistan's covert nuclear program. Pakistan immediately busted all the Indian R&W agent network and tightened its information security. (How Morarji Desai helped Pakistan become a nuclear state - https://www.dailyo.in/politics/morarji-desai-kargil-war-perv... ). While that incident can be attributed to naivety / inexperience and / or value-based politics, note that it isn't a coincidence that in the last 2 - 3 decades, western media and social platforms have been encouraging everyone to develop narcissistic personality traits leading them to share / brag about all aspects of their life online ...

And note that the IRGC leader didn't stop with "no comments" - he also said that Iran produces more missile in a day than they they use. So that has now given something for the intelligence agencies to actually explore ...

Why do you think it is depression? My first thought was that they spoiled it by giving into its tantrums (I experienced the same with a pet in the past).

Don't forget the politics too behind it:

- Facebook and Genocide: How Facebook contributed to genocide in Myanmar and why it will not be held accountable - https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho...

- UN: Facebook had a ‘role’ in Rohingya genocide - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/3/13/un-facebook-had-a-r...

- Rohingya refugees sue Facebook over genocide - https://www.dw.com/en/rohingya-refugees-file-lawsuit-against...

Netanyahu is a shrewd politician who is really good at manipulating American politicians. That said, the US (especially under Trump) doesn't go on to support Netanyahu's adventurism until it also serves their own self-interest.

Unless the US has turned from a superpower to a SuperIdiot, why wouldn't it? And note that all these repeated distant deliberately engineered conflicts are specifically meant to try out new weapons, tactics and strategies in the battlefield, test an adversaries capabilities and blooding the new generation of American soldiers.

As a foreigner to the US and its politics, it is both refreshing and depressing to see Trump as a President. It is refreshing because Trump is straight-forward and transparent that America has always been a country for the rich, run by the rich. In the final political outcome, his foreign policy politics really isn't anything different from other past Presidents (Democrats or Republicans) except that unlike them, he doesn't strive to pretend to be goody two-shoes. It is depressing because once the facade of democratic political theatrics is ripped apart by the President himself, Americans will invariably lose faith due to the ugly and cynical politics it exposes.

Love your commitment to this. You are doing excellent work to keep Wirth's computing spirit alive. Oberon's philosophy ( https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf ) is beautiful for the power it hides behind its simplicity and I wish it was a more popular language ...

It's not for you or me - it's for the AI companies so that they can have "human" content (good luck with that).

True. Australia is part of the Five Eyes alliance. Fastmail is an Australian company. Australia also has the Assistance and Access Act - https://havenmessenger.com/blog/posts/australia-assistance-a... - which just stops shy of asking Australian tech companies, like Fastmail, to build backdoors into their products so that the government can "legally access" data from them. (When the law passed, Fastmail lost many clients - https://www.itnews.com.au/news/fastmail-loses-customers-face... ).

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208461

What rubbish - only fools will believe that Russia has an interest in starting a nuclear WW3. Historically, Russia has never militarily attacked any NATO country. (And most of the NATO countries are already militarily weaker than Russia - what has stopped NATO's or Russia's military adventurism, against each other, is the fear of the nuclear weapons that both sides have). Since the cold war ended Russia has only tried to become part of the west. There wouldn't be a European Union if Russia hadn't voluntarily left East Germany and acceded to its re-unification. Naive Gorbachev (and even a political fool, I would venture) and a drunk Yeltsin bent over backwards to accommodate many western demands that encroached on Russia's sphere of influence, and even diminished it, in the hope of earning their trust.

The Anglo-Americans didn't want an independent and united Europe, with Russia a part of it, because it undermines their own influence in the region. The future will judge them poorly for it because what could have been a region of peace and prosperity, post-USSR, could now be the arena for yet another WW.

If it is local, they probably can. But VoIP being international is the problem. See Why in the year of our lord 2022 am I still getting robocalls??? - https://www.vox.com/recode/22882647/robocalls-robotexts-scam... ...

Many scammers use internet telephony to call someone and some even spoof the caller id. In India, the mobile companies request subscribers to report any international call which shows local spoofed caller ids to them, so they can investigate it. So I am guessing it is trickier than we believe to track them ...

When there is smoke, there is often a fire. Columbia's Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has also accused Israel and US of political interference and electoral manipulations - https://www.rt.com/news/643770-colombia-trump-palestine-isra... :

> Petro severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2024 over its military campaign in Gaza, repeatedly accusing West Jerusalem of committing genocide and becoming one of Israel’s fiercest critics in Latin America. He also suspended all Israeli arms purchases, ending Colombia’s long-standing reliance on Israeli military technology, banned coal exports to Israel, and later expelled Israel’s remaining diplomats after an aid flotilla carrying Colombian activists was intercepted by Israeli forces. Colombia also formally joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

> Petro is due to hand power to President-elect de la Espriella on August 7. He has said he will not attend the inauguration, challenged the legitimacy of the election, and alleged that Israel manipulated Colombia’s presidential vote by hacking election servers. Apart from aligning Colombia more closely with Washington, de la Espriella has pledged to restore full diplomatic ties with Israel, effectively reversing nearly every major foreign-policy decision of the Petro administration.

That's one part of it. The current Government of Spain also believes it's a ploy to cause their electoral defeat in the future and help the Spanish right- come to power, and that this has been orchestrated by the US and Israel via Morocco as a proxy.

- Why did nearly 60,000 migrants suddenly storm the border into Spain? - https://www.rt.com/news/643727-spain-ceuta-crisis-explainer/

- Spanish commentators accuse Israel and US of involvement in Ceuta crisis - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/spanish-minister-clashes-...

- The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/right-...

The current government of Spain did anger Netanyahu / Israel by publicly and harshly criticising the ongoing Gaza genocide, recalling their diplomats from Israel and by granting recognition to Palestine, while it pissed of Trump / US by not allowing the use of its bases for the current Israel-US-Iran war. Doesn't help that the current leaders of Spain and the US + Israel are ideologically on the opposing ends of the political spectrum.