Just a reminder of how millennial-centric HN is. Everyone here is in their 40s and moving to the suburbs to raise their kids, and this article provides validation.

It is kind of funny that people here tend to dump on Reddit a lot (often times warranted, don’t get me wrong), when this place is an echo chamber in a similar way.

With Israel being able to sic the USA on its enemy of the month, it is clear that Israel is the most powerful country in the world.

Are you aware of the Iran hostage crisis of 1979? Iran has been an enemy of the US since the revolution.

idk about that, telling people to get ready for body bags does not sound like the hands-off fireworks show of previous episodes.

Given the amount of planes this isn’t going to be a single precision strike

Those spiked like 50x in the past 4 months. Doesn't seem to mean anything.

The only time it didn't spike was for the Venezuela Maduro operation.

At this point, the pizza index is another vector of (dis)information managed by the Pentagon.

Once that side channel was found, it was kind of inevitable it would be plugged. Even under a normal administration, that's an opsec leak.

Seriously. They can put a Burger King anywhere on the planet in 24 hours, but can't do their own pizza at the Pentagon?

It's everything. NASA doesn't have the money, brainpower, efficiency etc. to implement SpaceX development method. They can't fab it fast enough, nor can they iterate on the engineering fast enough, nor are they will to sustain the optics of a "government rocket blowing up" like Musk is. They don't have the caliber of engineering talent available or a workflow setup (high autonomy, long hours, better pay).

They don’t do the fabbing or (a lot of) the engineering now - they contract it all out. They could oversee those contracts differently but that would just be hiring SpaceX instead of Boeing or Blue Origin. Which they are doing some anyway.

Noam Chomsky said AI should be called, "plagiarism software."

And aeroplanes should be called featherless bipeds

Aeroplanes usually have tricycle landing gear so that doesn't make sense. But AI is literally plagiarism in a huge proportion of cases.

You can't spell plagiarism without AI. Twice.

Tech industry composed of many of the smartest people in the world with the most money, and the backing of the current US presidency vs. average middle America school district. Hmm.

Russia level of inefficiency in infrastructure implementation.

It's pretty much certain this guy is going to commit suicide within 5 years, right?

It's more likely that he gets pardoned after a few years. President Park Geun-Hye only served less than 4 years of her combined 32-year prison sentence.

The reality is that presidents (in almost every system), like MPs, are representatives of some faction of entrenched interests somewhere or another, or they wouldn’t get to be president.

It’s the same for dictators, and well pretty much any singular leader.

The factions may fight back and forth, and counting coup by imprisoning the figurehead for one of them certainly has some attraction - but the pendulum swings, and nobody wants to end up really getting punished at the end of the day when it swings away from them.

That’s how you get murderous resistance instead of (relatively) sane transfers of power.

Well Park Geun-hye is still alive.