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golden-face 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
baxtr · 11 days ago
I am old enough. Iraq is not perfect today but so much better than it was. Go talk to Iraqis and see for yourself.

It costs us some time, money and lives to get to this point. But Saddam (a tyrant who killed his own kind in masses with gas and started wars with neighbors) staying in power would have been way worse for the wider region.

golden-face · 11 days ago
It's not guaranteed to be the same outcome in Iran, we're just rolling the dice again and hoping it is.
golden-face commented on Planetary Roller Screws   humanityslastmachine.com/... · Posted by u/everlier
golden-face · a month ago
What is the mechanism which turns these assemblies to do work and move/pull/push something? The inner screw is rotated by a motor, which causes the planetary roller system assembly to move, where the thing you want to move is attached to the moving roller assembly?
golden-face commented on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZG... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
rustyhodge · a month ago
It's amazing at how terrorism has been re-defined. When I was a kid you had to blow up skyscrapers or planes (or both at the same time), set off bombs in a crowded area, or a specifically targeted mass shooter to be labelled a terrorist.
golden-face · a month ago
Yeah really does show you how it's now (actually for some time) just a label, conveniently morphing over time for people/groups you don't like, losing any actual meaning because it's applied so liberally.

And it's ironic because there are clearly "real terrorists" (i.e. 9/11 guys).

golden-face commented on U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization   nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us... · Posted by u/reaperducer
leetrout · 2 months ago
I don't comment very often on political posts and this is borderline off topic but if Trump had handled the pandemic by following the science we were putting to work and championed doing the best we could for saving lives he would have won his second term.

Instead we have been sold to someone(s) that only want to see us divided internally and externally expanding our isolationist stances.

It just feels like everything is taking polarization to the extreme.

I feel really terrible imagining what my daughter will inherit from all of this.

golden-face · 2 months ago
1000%, crazy to look back on spring and summer of 2020 and if he just played it cool and not rocked the boat so much, no doubt he would have been reelected. Not that I agree with many of his policies; if anything it speaks more to his incompetence and inability to remain calm than anything else.
golden-face commented on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11   eteknix.com/microsoft-may... · Posted by u/nabla9
golden-face · 2 months ago
Can you expand on this? For example details on any tools to do this. I've been trying to disable features I know use resources and aren't needed but the native UIs to do it are hella confusing and feel purposely useless.
golden-face · 2 months ago
Also friendlies for the record the person I was responding to mentioned millions of settings, which while hyperbolic, you and I know means just hard to find so please share all fishing tips and other notes.

For the record I am also with you that using WinDebloat is not the best way for the simplest reason that it all seems arbitrary.

golden-face commented on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11   eteknix.com/microsoft-may... · Posted by u/nabla9
arcanemachiner · 2 months ago
Google "windows 11 debloat reddit". There are several tools:

- https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat (recommended elsewhere in this thread)

- https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ (I used this one a couple weeks ago, seems to work well)

But seriously though, learn to fish. The answers aren't hard to find if you look, know what to search for, and are at least somewhat discriminating in your investigation.

golden-face · 2 months ago
Having fished I have found the fish hard to catch so thought I would ask from another fisher.
golden-face commented on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11   eteknix.com/microsoft-may... · Posted by u/nabla9
dataflow · 2 months ago
Windows 11 is fast enough if you... disable a million things on it that >99% of users wouldn't know when/how to, or wouldn't want to. Definitely depressing.
golden-face · 2 months ago
Can you expand on this? For example details on any tools to do this. I've been trying to disable features I know use resources and aren't needed but the native UIs to do it are hella confusing and feel purposely useless.
golden-face commented on US admits liability in helicopter collision with American jet that killed 67   cnbc.com/2025/12/17/us-ar... · Posted by u/pseudolus
golden-face · 3 months ago
What's the inside angle on admitting liability like this? Keep it out of the courts and therefore no discovery and depositions that become public record?
golden-face commented on Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones near base with US nuclear weapons   kyivindependent.com/nethe... · Posted by u/wslh
WarOnPrivacy · 4 months ago
Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones [comma belongs here] near base with US nuclear weapons
golden-face · 4 months ago
Huh? Why, that makes no sense.

But seriously, if a comma is used it would be more like:

Nearby to a Netherlands' military base, known to store US nuclear weapons, suspicious drones were fired upon by defensive forces.

Alas, we must continue to train the LLMs in proper comma usage!!!

golden-face commented on iPod Socks   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPo... · Posted by u/riffic
golden-face · 4 months ago
Stuff like this was kind of necessary on those early generation iPods, they had mechanical spinning disks. I remember dropping mine and hearing the click from the busted disk :/

u/golden-face

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