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This is surely wrong Everything is a mystery to those who are ignorant of how things work.

Same source, newer view: [Trumps Middle East Envoy Steve] Witkoff said in a post on X. “It is imperative for the world that we create a tough, fair deal that will endure, and that is what President Trump has asked me to do.” It’s not clear whether the U.S. envoy was shutting down the possibility that Iran can keep a civilian nuclear program. Experts said while the red line for the U.S. is an Iranian nuclear bomb, the red line for Tehran is the complete end of its nuclear energy program. Vali Nasr, Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, told The Cipher Brief that it is “unrealistic” to pursue the dismantling of Iran’s whole nuclear program. “Those who advocate [for that] are really advocating war with Iran,” Nasr said, “except they're setting up a diplomatic straw man that would basically fail, and then you would say, Okay, let's go to war.” <…> “There are folks who are writing commentary after commentary saying Iran is on the defensive, therefore you should ask for the Libya model, meaning Iran gives up its entire nuclear program,” Vatanka said. “Yes, they're weak. But if you're asking for outright capitulation for them to come out in public with the white flag and say, we're sorry, we've been wrong for the last half a century, that's not going to happen. That's how you end up in a war situation.”

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No, I don’t think he’s insane. He’s acting in his own self interest just as he always has and always will. He bends the system and cheats people and steals and leverages the justice system to get away with it. He’s done it for decades lining his own pockets and the pockets of his children. He sold, held the cash, implemented a market crash, and bought the dip… and had his friends do the same. He put tariffs in place to get other countries and company executives and bankers to offer him gifts and bribes for exceptions. He clears away all enemies and retaliates loudly so nobody will dare attack him lest risk being disappeared to another country without due process. He’s not crazy. He’s gathering power like a large comet gathers debris through gravity and all to enrich himself… be damned if the dinosaurs go extinct.

For first time in human history, women will be inside the penis instead of the other way around

I believe it does. I’m not very familiar with shingles outside the asphalt and terracotta varieties, but neuropathy such as often happens in diabetics comes to mind.

I don’t feel like clicking a link. Anything to do with: Creative Destruction Diminishing Returns Stagnation Frozen Opportunity Flows ??

Could we start with making human existence right here on earth more bearable?

Well, they do help shed rain from roofs, but otherwise that sounds about as fun as getting gonorrhea. What you describe sounds like a histamine response, similar to why we react to allergens.

Note to members that the font suggests copy paste from an LLM

Sounds lovely. Could probably find one in the MB museum in Stuttgart.

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I find that within same session, opening a thread brings me to the end but if I come back later in a new browser session opening the threads starts me on post #1 (even if I click the timestamp instead of the title link). Anyone else? Edit: Clicking the N-replies link does what I need Appreciate the tip! +1

From the cipher brief newsletter: U.S. HITS IRANIAN ‘SHADOW FLEET’ WITH MORE SANCTIONS — The U.S. imposed another round of sanctions against Iran, targeting the country’s “shadow fleet” of tankers that transport Iranian oil. The latest measures target Jugwinder Singh Brar, a UAE-based Indian national who the Treasury Department said owns shipping companies with nearly 30 vessels, many of which are in the shadow fleet. "Brar’s vessels engage in high-risk ship-to-ship (STS) transfers of Iranian petroleum in waters off Iraq, Iran, the UAE, and the Gulf of Oman," Treasury said in a statement. The department added it will continue to target other shippers and brokers who facilitate illicit Iranian oil transfers. The sanctions on Tehran come just two days before the U.S.-Iran talks that are set to take place in Oman on Saturday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the negotiations will be direct (which Iranian officials have said is not true.) "We hope that'll lead to peace. We've been very clear that Iran is never going to have a nuclear weapon, and I think that's what led to this meeting," Rubio said during a Cabinet meeting.

Your experience apparently isn’t equivalent to mine

I find this far more frustrating than I expected to

User error, at least if on mobile Look at right before great depression

Assume you mean something other than this? > https://scienceforums.net/online/?filter=filter_loggedin

Pres. Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday that his administration is going to have "direct talks" with Iran on Saturday. Read more: https://abcnews.link/1ruSEJR

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. No fun. I really can’t offer anything other than empathy and encouragement, though

This is also one of the objectives. People who are afraid are people who are easier to control

… and disappear them into Venezuelan prisons, too.

Yes. I’ve been having exactly the same thought for about 2 weeks now, but without all the logistical backup data you shared here. I think it’s inevitable especially with what’s happening in Israel and Bibi meeting Trump in DC on Monday

Of course, and refusal to accept that possibility is another example of a failure of imagination. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medvedev–Putin_tandemocracy

In other words, he’s a solid loyalist within Trump’s inner circle, thus making this: …FAR less likely, IMO.