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It's actually too late for that. The majority of the population now lives in the center of the country: The cost to move desalinated water from the gulf to the current urban areas is essentially a non-starter. The additional cost of desalinating the Caspian Sea to feed the northern...

Iran will likely cease to exist as a functioning country over the next thirty years. Interestingly enough, they will have been done in by their own incompetence as opposed to any foreign plot. Also, this incompetence stretches back to the Shah's regime, so whoever is left won't even be able to...

Haven't scrolled through all the posts, so I don't know if this vid has already been posted. It's a superficial overview of the current situation, but it's not bad. The basic gist is that things are bad now, but this was expected and Milei even said that things were going to suck, but there...

I was asking the same question, Odell. One of the worst defenses against the run in the league... why the fuck are you not running the ball? Why did you sign Dalvin Cook? Oh that's right: the head coach is a fraud and the only offensive weapon that the Ravens have who shows up, balls out and...

This actually isn't true. The nuclear family structure predates capitalism by thousands of years. Emmanuel Todd, the noted French anthropologist/historian/sociologist, wrote a fascinating and interesting book called "The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems" where he...

Sounds like Daryl needs some extra cash. He has a side hustle where he buys really old houses (as in houses built over a hundred years ago) and then restores them. He owns several in both the UK and the US. That shit was probably a moneypit even before the days of inflation and high interest...

I've worked three Eagles concerts. One of my claims to fame as an ad hoc roadie was working Glenn Frey's last show before he died. I saw Irving Azoff backstage at that show as well. Bear in mind, at this point Azoff was the most powerful man in the music business. On top of managing acts...

The IDF has released the names of the soldiers that have died since combat operations in Gaza began. Of the 25 soldiers lost in combat, 8 are from the IDF armor corps and 11 were infantry soldiers killed when an APC was taken out (you can search for Merkava APC 'Namer' incident and find the...

Eh, to me the cinematic universe is just mirroring the problems Marvel, the comic book company, had back in the day. Marvel always had ups and downs. A talented writer or artist would join a title, revitalize it, and sales would go up. Then the writer or artist would move on to other projects...

Safeguards for persons whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable The following procedural safeguards apply to persons’ whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable (*indicates safeguards specific to those requests): request for MAID must be made in writing: a written request must...

Title is a little clickbaity. There's always some baseline level of frustration with department heads who are political appointees from the actual SME workforce in government. That's nothing new. I did find this line interesting though. US interests in that specific area of the sandbox is...

Of course. How do you think this is going to end? There are no surgical options. When all is said and done, Gaza will look like Bakhmut, Mariupol and Mosul, only worse. This is what Hamas wants. They want Israel to invade Gaza; it's the only way they can somewhat neutralize Israeli air...

The Battle of Mosul gives the Israelis a fairly solid template from which to draw up battle plans to go into Gaza and annihilate Hamas. It took nine months to recapture Mosul from ISIS; let's hope the Israelis shatter that record.

Fucking bonkers that not one intelligence agency in the world saw this coming. Hamas must've gone full Paul Cicero and abandoned the use of anything electronic for the planning and execution of this attack. Interesting to see that in several of the videos floating out there that Hamas are...

Over 2 million people live in the Gaza Strip.

And if you check out the breakdown of the investments, the only "new" fab facilities that are going to come on line in the next couple years are the ones where companies are either renovating or expanding facilities that are already in existence and operating. That will not significantly...

I would actually argue that isn't happening. Unless you've been underway, you can't comprehend the sheer size of the ocean and that the idea of the US Navy with its 490 ships can patrol all of it and ensure the safety of every commercial M/V out there is ludicrous. The US Navy has a very large...

I like Peter Zeihan, but with him you always have to keep in mind that while he doesn't state anything that's factually incorrect, he does cherry-pick the facts to fit his preferred narrative. Bretton Woods is a perfect example of this. Zeihan references this monetary management system quite a...

I doubt anything comes of this; the Biden Administration is already distancing itself from Henry's antics. Too many things are going wrong for China right now and Xi's grasping at straws. China's single biggest problem isn't Taiwan or a trade war with the US; it's the fact that the local...

34 million tons?!?!? When did that happen? I saw that 60,000 tonnes went up in flames yesterday, but when did all this other grain go up in smoke?