> Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.
Iran cut it itself. Its running its own domestic internet where everything domestic works. All domestic banks, apps.
Literal arrogance to think that the US owns the world.
Iran is sanctioned for so long now, they had no other choice than to become as independent as possible.
Cutting communications hinders iran less then outsiders trying to spark a revolution. I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.
> I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.
They have that for the same reason they always have a military, even if it's 100 years behind anyone else's - to keep the populace in check. A T-55 might be completely obsolete against a cheap FPV drone, but it's still a formidable weapon against a crowd of unarmed people.
Not sure how that determines "Literal arrogance...". My assumption, perhaps naive, is that Iran had connections to the outside world from which the hacking was taking place.
You can buy access to compromised computers anywhere in the world. This would require cutting off any path to anywhere in the world, since the person performing the attacks can also be anywhere in the world.
The US isolating itself from the rest of the world isn't financially feasible.
What part of hereditary aristocrats and religious and otherwise lifetime appointees being able to send back bills to the parliament an infinite number of times until they are changed as they want them. There are cases in which they sent bills back as many as 60 times until they got them changed.
> Pretty sure if they were capable of that then they would just do it instead of threatening to do it
They warned about hitting the oil infrastructure first. Then they did it. This is the same. They are warning so that the civilian personnel will be withdrawn from the targets and measures will be taken. Then they will strike them.
> I noticed I was spending more time reconstructing context than actually building: – figuring out what changed – tracing data flow – rebuilding mental models before I could even prompt properly (without breaking other features) - debugging slop with more slop
Yep. We literally shifted the workload from writing the code to reviewing the code.
JP Morgan turned out to have acted as the intermediary for 5-6 major bank clients of it to short the market. They did again what they were fined for and their traders were jailed for years ago.
What everyone is really sleeping on is Deepseek paid API with Cline and VSCode. An agent that can refactor entire codebases with a 128.0k context window that costs dimes. It generates entire blocks of code and tests them for $0.02 a pop. Deepseek paid API brings the low cost large context window and memory. VSCode the interface, CLine the agent.
That's exactly what a lot of people said in 2003. Angloamerican propaganda does character assassination by reporting with double standards to demonize a target. After 5 to 10 years, those who feed on it are ripe for believing any 'bad deed' could have been done by Angloamerica's enemy because 'it is evil'.
Meanwhile, the US is censoring TikTok on behalf of a genocidal settler-colonial regime because its genocidal president asked for it in 2025. And that very US is the source of all these 'truths'.
> House of Lords amendments do not have to be accepted by the House of Commons and may not make it into law
Except the Lords can send back a law indefinitely until the Commons accepts it. There have been cases in which laws were sent back 60 times until what the Lords wanted was added. A house with hereditary posts with infinite veto power.
Iran cut it itself. Its running its own domestic internet where everything domestic works. All domestic banks, apps.
Literal arrogance to think that the US owns the world.
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