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PolygonSheep commented on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule   npr.org/2026/02/28/112349... · Posted by u/andsoitis
seanmcdirmid · 17 days ago
What country in the Middle East has actually gotten better after removal of a bad status quo, in the last 26 years? I really can’t think of any. Is even Iraq considered a success?
PolygonSheep · 16 days ago
> I really can’t think of any. Is even Iraq considered a success?

It was for Netanyahu, and that's the important thing here.

PolygonSheep commented on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule   npr.org/2026/02/28/112349... · Posted by u/andsoitis
1a527dd5 · 17 days ago
I wonder how old the rest of the commentators are. I watched the Shock and Awe campaign. I watched Saddam fall. I remember thinking this is great.

Years later, I understand it was a complete folly. Removing Saddam in itself was good but what it did the wider region was not good.

PolygonSheep · 16 days ago
It's because we do these things not for American interests, but for the interests of a small country that has captured our political establishment through campaign finance and blackmail.
PolygonSheep commented on I'm in Tehran, what do you think will be happen?    · Posted by u/pajuhaan
PolygonSheep · 16 days ago
Did OP get killed by Israel yet?
PolygonSheep commented on Iran agreed zero enriched uranium, and israel immediately bombs Tehran   twitter.com/muhammadsheha... · Posted by u/proshno
DivingForGold · 17 days ago
The US president (if fact, all history of US administrations) have been compromised by Israel.

So few are aware that Israel is and has been the largest recipient of US Foreign aid for decades, and the highest percentage - - - among any foreign aid recipient - - - goes right back into to lobbying (bribery) US politicians. Politicians don't cut off their "free money" stream . . .

PolygonSheep · 16 days ago
It's always funny to me how every few years some Republican representative/senator gets the bright idea of running on "cutting foreign aid", then someone quietly points out most foreign aid goes to either Israel or Israel's neighbors so they play nice with Israel. Then the proposal is quietly dropped.
PolygonSheep commented on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere   reuters.com/world/us-plan... · Posted by u/c420
sublimefire · a month ago
What limits? You can do pretty much what you want but make sure you can defend yourself in the court. I feel there is a bit of a disconnect in terms where people get the news where in US you kind of expect biggest news providers to be biassed, eg Fox, hence reliance on social media. In Europe gov media is quite strong and objective, and the idea that it restricts something is odd. A great example is the banning of RT, they lost licenses IMO in multiple countries, but the agency was spreading a lot of lies. IMO what we all want is objective news reporting.
PolygonSheep · a month ago
I have heard of RT lying but I have never actually seen examples of specific lies. Is there any list out there where they list any specific ones? If they do it a lot, it should be quite easy, no?
PolygonSheep commented on Days numbered for 'risky' lithium-ion batteries   livescience.com/technolog... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
dcrazy · 2 months ago
In addition to the article’s stated benefits of faster charging than Li-ion, less temperature sensitivity, and lower propensity of thermal runaway, does switching to sodium also potentially address a raw materials problem? (Imagine if desalination could be made ecologically viable by harvesting the waste sodium for batteries…)

And what’s the downside? More complex chemistry to make the cathode?

PolygonSheep · 2 months ago
> harvesting the waste sodium for batteries

But what would you do with all the waste chlorine?

PolygonSheep commented on Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)   soapstone.mradford.com/em... · Posted by u/MattyRad
stackskipton · 2 months ago
After seeing the flood of resumes for application, I do think a small cost to apply wouldn't be a bad thing for either applicants or companies. I also realize that if someone is unemployed, getting them to pay money they don't have to find a new job is counterproductive.

However, when we wanted to hire a new Ops person at work, the flood of obviously not qualified at all applicants we got was insane.

PolygonSheep · 2 months ago
I'd gladly pay the 78 cents for a stamp if it meant my application was opened and read by an actual human.
PolygonSheep commented on Tesla is committing automotive suicide   electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/jethronethro
jjfoooo4 · 2 months ago
I recently read Origins of Efficiency by Brian Potter, and one of the interesting things it talks about is the path of the Model T.

Ford invested heavily in an in-house, highly optimized production pathway for the Model T. Other manufacturers sourced a lot of their parts from vendors.

This gave the Model T a great advantage at first, but they had a lot more trouble than competitors in coming up with new models. Ford ended up converging with the rest of the industry in sourcing more of their parts externally.

The lack of new Tesla models makes me feel like a similar pivot is what Tesla needs. My suspicion is that they probably need a less terminally distracted Musk to pull it off.

PolygonSheep · 2 months ago
> they had a lot more trouble than competitors in coming up with new models.

I'd read somewhere that it was mainly because Henry Ford was dogmatic that the Model T was perfect, all the car anyone would ever need forever.

PolygonSheep commented on TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
PolygonSheep · 2 months ago
It's a private company they don't have to platform your speech!
PolygonSheep commented on Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Race Science'   nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us... · Posted by u/perihelions
2OEH8eoCRo0 · 2 months ago
> A group of fringe researchers thwarted safeguards at the National Institutes of Health and gained access to data from thousands of children. The researchers have used it to produce at least 16 papers purporting to find biological evidence for differences in intelligence between races, ranking ethnicities by I.Q. scores and suggesting Black people earn less because they are not very smart.

Yikes

PolygonSheep · 2 months ago
Are they, like, wrong though??

u/PolygonSheep

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