TriplePlaid

Curious to hear how those opposed to the conflict see this playing out - diplomacy? Containment? How does this play out for the region in the long term?

For me it is hard to see how this could resolve without the demilitarization of Iran, or at the very least the dissolution of the IRGC.

IIRC the government has actually always had a large number of nodes because the government helped to create the Tor network. I don't think they operate "most" of the entry and exit nodes though. With appropriate precautions it is still a hugely effective tool to preserve privacy.

For example, the person who ran the "Silk Road" (formerly the most famous website marketplace on the darknet) was only caught because of revealing personal information theough forum posts and on the clearnet, not because the government can see the traffic of anyone using Tor (which they cannot if you are using https). There are way too many curious high schoolers out there for it to make sense for them to monitor like that anyway. The more people who use it, the more effective of a tool for privacy it becomes.

Am I being overly paranoid?

Yes, simply connecting to the Tor network is not a sketchy thing and browsing the clearnet using Tor is a smart way to preserve your privacy if you aren't in a hurry for your pages to load.

I used to browse the clearnet with Tor regularly but eventually I decided it was overkill and stopped (Tor really is slow a lot of the time so it isn't always a walk in the park).

I shudder to think of the impact this could have on plants and animals. We have already seen horrifying mass environmental death in the oceans (see: coral bleaching) and other crazy biological imbalances like red tides. Soon we are going to be experiencing similar insanity everywhere. Not just the ocean, not just that other part of the world that you yourself don't live in - everywhere.

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It's "super clocked" so you know it's good!!

While I can see how that bank account is a can of worms and potentially connected to more than one reason Trump could/should be impeached, I am not aware of/was not able to find any connection between the TikTok deal and that account.

While looking that up, I found this article that does a better job describing why the TikTok deal may be connected to an impeachable offense (the people running the companies that are involved in the purchase have given Trump money in the past).

I am not seeing why the massive fee here is being seen as a reason for impeachment, maybe someone can explain?

Sounds to me like the fee goes to the treasury department, so it's not like Trump is getting this money. Maybe I am misunderstanding this?

Great article. The rise of sports betting and other gambling has been hard to watch as someone on the outside who doesn't have an interest in gambling.

I think one side of the story that this article didn't touch on that separates modern gambling such as Polymarket from the life insurance gambling of old is the participation of youth gamblers in today's market. I think for me and many others it is especially alarming to imagine that children are the ones gambling on whether people will die. And I think that the normalization of children in betting sits in its own context of rising "loot crate" schemes in video games (not that it is completely normalized for children to gamble yet, but it is gradually becoming so).

I think it's a "confirmation bias" type of thing, which likely originally evolved to "reduce cognitive load," so it is something that all human brains are designed to do unfortunately...

Or maybe it is fortunate? Who knows how torturesome it would be to experience no cognitive bias at ALL. How would you settle on a decision? Thinking of Chidi from The Good Place.

What problem do you mean?

The blastophaga psenes wasps in Turkey die during pollination just like the blastophaga psenes wasps in California do.

Here is more information about how figs (and fig wasps) came to be cultivated in the US.

Pretty soon you'll be hearing folks say things like "why are you worried if you don't have anything to hide" as if personal privacy has no value whatsoever. It's a slippery slope!!!

I'm not sure I would call the particular missile the article is referring to "retaliatory" since afaik Turkey has not attacked Iran.