"might have been ome of those other tomahawk owners"

sure, lets look at Denmark and Australia to see how active they were in this conflict...

To be fair, the deepseek model was happy to talk about that stuff - it was just if you used it via the deepseek website that it got filtered.

À l'eau - c'est l'heure.

We can prove this just using Trump's own words...

"But what this does is it allows the ships to go. If we keep bombing, those ships won't be going"

So Trump is admitting that Iran controls the strait. What, practically, does that mean for the US?

"we run out of [oil] reserves in about four weeks"

Sounds like he is under some time pressure! What would happen if it wasn't solved by then?

"[markets would] go down at levels that nobody ever saw before, maybe except for 1929"

Oh. That sounds bad?

So how likely is he to avoid this outcome by winning the war within the next four weeks?

"if we didn't do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years. You would never have the Hormuz Strait open. You would never have success"

There you have it! If he doesn't agree to the deal, the US is guaranteed an economic collapse. So he is forced to take the deal.

What do you call it when one side in a war is forced to take a deal?

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-closes-strait-hormuz-over-ceasefire-violations-mehr-2026-06-20/

https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-june-20-2026-6e23fb5f37e23427dbfc2bc80c59bda8

I'd have to credit Belle for the idea, but thanks!

define it as ( __LINE__ % 10) so that the problem goes away when you add a debug statement

A good observation from previous threads: "Whenever utility cycling is discussed on the internet, suddenly everyone has to move their fridge 100 miles in the rain"

“I’m sure we are all confused as to why morale has been so low these last few weeks,” Peter said, although everyone else seems to agree that the layoffs are to blame. “It’s about time we got to the bottom of this mystery. I’ve conducted a thorough search and determined that remote work is to blame.”

Are you spying at the company I work for?

(it's not quite the same; one of their connectors is a shrouded socket)

Meanwhile the newspapers: "FACT CHECK: It is incorrect to associate project 2025 with the Trump campaign" 🙄

"oh, the line you are typing is incomplete and therefore the whole file is invalid which means there is nothing to suggest for autocomplete"

Nostradamus [Belle] two days ago:

"If they keep the details quiet [of the recent closed-door meeting], you'll be able to tell what they're going after [in the budget] by listening to their rhetoric".

"They'll start scapegoating a demographic, to try and prime the [voter] base to accept their cuts."

(e.g.) "If they start talking about able-bodied people, it's Medicaid."

"If you believed x, maybe it's time to look at who told you x and whether they're a trustworthy source of information"

Do the voters know where usaid buys its food, and what's going to happen to farms if it closes?

There's a linux file called fstab which is often pronounced f-s-tab because it's a table of file systems. It was somewhat surprising to hear Dave Plummer pronounce it as "f-stab", as in stabbing someone...

Google a recent medical symptom - your smart watch already knows the gritty details

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