Hopefully they took out some of the infrastructure Iran uses to support Russia's drone warfare against Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136
Readit Newsmkfs commented on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says cnn.com/2025/06/12/middle... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
mkfs commented on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says cnn.com/2025/06/12/middle... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
> There are no indications that Iran intends to use nuclear weapons against Israel.
The Iranian government are rather extreme theocrats, but they aren’t a suicide cult. They know that a nuclear first strike against Israel would result in massive nuclear retaliation aimed at annihilating Iran as a modern nation-state. They aren’t going to do that.
I think their primary reason for pursuing nuclear weapons is as a deterrent against conventional invasion, forcible “regime change” like what the US did to Saddam Hussein - much as Iran welcomed the removal of one of their national archenemies - given Iraq is majority Shi’a, a democratic Iraq is generally more friendly to Iran, although not all Iraqi Shi’a are pro-Iranian (e.g. Ayatollah Sistani, who is very influential, dislikes how Iran has politicised the religion) - but it raised the risk the Americans might try the same thing on them.
> I think their primary reason for pursuing nuclear weapons is as a deterrent against conventional invasion
Israel just showed how effective that deterrent is.
mkfs commented on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says cnn.com/2025/06/12/middle... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
> Imagine a world where the USA and Israel had no nukes.
The US and Russia were committed to working towards that world, at least back in the 80s.
mkfs commented on Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
Lol at all the people in this thread stressing out about their artificial sweetener consumption while disregarding all the other dangerous shit they do, eat, and drink.
Forest for the trees.
It's even funnier when you realize a good chunk of them are still doing low-carb diets like keto or carnivore, gorging on saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium.
mkfs commented on Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.
This is about sugar alcohols, not simple sugars, and total sugar consumption in the US has been declining since a peak around the turn of the millennium, reverting back to levels on par with the 1970s, yet overweight/obesity rates just kept right on climbing until the recent advent of GLP-1 drugs.
mkfs commented on Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard theguardian.com/world/liv... · Posted by u/Gud
one dude sitting in 11A jumped out & survived pretty much unharmed. This was the Emergency Exit.
Given the fake news that came out of India after Sindoor, with the government insisting no fighters were lost even after third-party confirmation from France and the US, I'm hesitant to believe a purported "sole survivor" silver lining narrative when the only evidence is a few still photos and some brief video clips, especially in the age of AI.
If only speed running communities existed, where they made different categories like any%, any% No major glitches/skips, all with varying prestige and competitiveness, as well as agreed upon which skips are so soul crushingly shit to do that they're excluded from every category aside from any% :(
You might consider therapy, if playing games fast makes you angry.
> If only speed running communities existed, where they made different categories like any%, any% No major glitches/skips, all with varying prestige and competitiveness, as well as agreed upon which skips are so soul crushingly shit to do that they're excluded from every category aside from any% :(
Arbitrarily delineating good vs. bad glitches is dumb, and even glitch-free speedruns are more about persistence, just trying over and over again until you get the exact right sequence of inputs (or "RNG") to claim the record, rather than repeatable skill. This isn't like some high-level CS:GO player who can consistently headshot fast-moving targets or a high-level SF player who's mastered techniques like hit confirms.
> You might consider therapy, if playing games fast makes you angry.
I'm not the one downvoting comments, and unlike speedrunners, I don't throw tantrums over games.
mkfs commented on What MS-DOS Can Do That Linux Can't webarchive.me/geocities/S... · Posted by u/wizardforhire
Games on old consoles such as Nintendo 64 and the Playstation One use a variety of tricks to be playable on limited hardware. For the specific example of Final Fantasy VII, there is one trick that allows you to skip almost the entirely of Disk 1 once you reach the open world. In particular, the trick involves a use-after-free in the world collision cache (fun fact: a lot of speedrun techniques are security flaws!). This video explains it without spoilers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llQnrUHS0yA ; a better video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHn6jpKsYCk, but that might have minor spoilers IIRC (Note: this trick is relatively new, and probably not used in that video).
> the trick involves a use-after-free in the world collision cache (fun fact: a lot of speedrun techniques are security flaws!
In other words:
> Hey, you know those super difficult parts from games of your childhood that you're probably curious to see how we, the supposed speediest of gamers, swiftly navigate? Well, guess what? We just skip them altogether by glitching! Any% new record!
That's why no one cares about this. These people will play the same game or level thousands of times to trigger 1/1,000,000 glitches to skip huge swaths of games, then claim some made-up "record."
This is not skill. Even the non-glitch speedruns are more down to persistence (if not mental illness) than skill--which is a result of deliberate practice--like one sees in competitive shooters or fighting games. And these people throw tantrums constantly, like children, and curse the "RNG" (an admission this isn't about skill) the way a primitive tribesman might damn the gods for a prolonged drought.
Supporting Israel in preventing Iran from getting nuclear capabilities is destablizing, not the opposite.
> effectively uninvadable
Yet Israel was invaded during the Yom Kippur War when it had nuclear weapons, the UK was invaded by Argentina during the Falklands War, Russia was invaded briefly by Ukraine (Kursk). And Israel arguably just demonstrated that developing a survivable nuclear deterrent probably isn't as easy as many thought. (Ukraine, to a lesser extent, also with Spiderweb.)
> Supporting Israel in preventing Iran from getting nuclear capabilities is destablizing, not the opposite.
On the contrary, it sends a strong "fuck around and find out" message to any country pursuing nuclear weapons. And if Israel is capable of this kind of decapitating strike against a country's nuclear program, imagine what the US (or China) could pull off.