of course. How do you think they systematically massacred so many people in so many cities during the protests. All those personnel are now devastated.
Exactly. Oddly enough most countries have politics split down the middle. A left and right. Up and down. Rarely even a 2/3 majority.
If you wanted to find people celebrating, you'd find people celebrating.
But my opinion is more often than not, you have two bad guys fighting each other for the top spot. They don't support Option B because they're dumb, they support B because Option A would sell his mom for power, while Option C would just become a puppet to A.
9/11 was the first major attack on the continental US in living memory. It was literally a world-altering event for most of the population, and it radically changed the geopolitical calculus of the average citizen.
Lots of american citizens demanded retaliation. Our counterattacks weren't sanctioned by congress, but they were by the people.
Meanwhile, the current president just started a war based on a temper tantrum and an attempt to distract the population.
I agree with you that the Iran strike is an effort to distract the public from Trump’s failure to bring down grocery prices like he promised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog
I was addressing the hypothetical of how Americans would react if Trump was killed by a foreign country in airstrikes similar to how the Ayatollah was killed. I think Americans would react like they did after 9/11, instead of celebrating like many are in Iran.
I agree. Half the country would be happy if an entity composed of Americans killed Trump, but most of those would be unhappy with a non-American entity doing it. Or at least I hope they would.
if starting a war in the middle east gets you high approval ratings after campaigning as “presdent of peace” and crying like a little bitch trying to get nobel “peace” prize, the downfall of America is coming a lot sooner than most are ballparking (we are well on the way)
You may be right, but a lot has changed in the last quarter century. The 9/11 attacks came at a time when the Cold War had just ended and the dotcom boom had just given us a strong economy. There was a lot of resentment over the 2000 election but it didn't seem like the end of the world.
Since then public discourse has almost completely broken down. The President spends his days thinking of insults, and has deployed masked armed forces against civilians. As bitter as 2000 was, it's nothing compared to January 6 2021.
I imagine the details would depend on the circumstances. Say, a targeted assassination versus killing thousands of civilians. But I'm not so sure that things would look anything like 9/11.
Bush’s approval rating benefited from the US being attacked, and then responding. Trump has the order wrong; preemptively attacking countries (even bad ones) doesn’t poll very well with Americans.
(This is ahead of Trump’s base being isolationist; it’s not even clear who wants this besides conventional hawks.)
Combined with the fact that the media will be confused about how to respond. You’ll have Iranian diaspora celebrating, like Venezuelans did after the capture of Maduro, making it impossible for the media to frame this simply in terms of “Trump is racist.” As a result, the whole thing will get memory holed, just like the Venezuela attack.
I didn’t say the attack on Iran was like 9/11. I was responding to OP’s hypothetical about what would happen if the situation was reversed and Trump was killed.
Now imagine if Bush & his family were assassinated by AQ on 9/11, and you’ll understand why the majority of Iranians inside Iran will not be celebrating.
I mean Pakistan is a nation founded on the idea that Muslims cannot live with non Muslims. /R/Pakistan is currently talking about this. What do you expect?
This is done by diaspora lead by US, they started destroying public resources first and created public unrest on top of falling Rial due to sanctions, this lead the govt take matters in to their hands. Cunning US indeed, always playing cheap tricks.
Love that it is in NC! Though, I'm confused who this is for. Is it for genomics data scientists mainly or is it general compute (I would also compare with hetzner and the other clouds if you are going the general compute method). If genomics or data scientists is the main audience, is this going to grow to be more collab notebook plug and play? Very cool and wish you the best!
Really it's for both. One of our cofounders came from a genomics background and so that's why we have the Marimo notebooks + R Studio Server + genomics container. But we've also had a lot of requests for general VMs so we made some of those as well.
At the end of the article:
> Update 9/1/2025 11:11 a.m. ET: 40-minutes of footage of Star Wars Outlaws running on Switch 2 in docked mode has seemingly leaked ahead of launch. What’s shown looks decent enough compared to what was described of the PAX West demo running in handheld mode
I appreciate it when publications include corrections at the end of their articles. Even though I don't own a Switch, I enjoyed the piece, and I believe the main point about running AAA games on hardware below the recommended specifications still holds true.
The trouble with AAA games requiring high specs is that hardware is not improving the way that it used to.
The PS3 started out crazy expensive and got cheap. Current gen consoles like the PS5 and PS5 Pro either went sideways or went up! As a result a PS6 is kinda unthinkable, to be solidly better than the PS5 Pro it is going to have to cost upwards of $1k.
My suspicion is that it mostly is about problems in the electronics industry and secondarily about crypto, AI and all that. Not too long ago you couldn't get a top of the line GPU whatever you were willing to pay. Intel's roadmap for improving their chips went off the rails 10 years ago, it seems the only silicon vendor that is making steady progress is Apple and their idea of gaming is primarily Candy Crush and secondarily Genshin Impact.
This may be because LanceDB is the most attractive with a price point of standard S3 storage ($0.023/GB vs $0.06/GB). I also like that Lancedb works with S3 compatible stores, such as Backblaze B2 which is even cheaper (~70% cheaper).
This response comes across as unnecessarily toxic and quip-y, which is a shame because there's real substance here. The author clearly understands database design, referencing concepts like normal forms and Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF). Even if I don't agree with the conclusion, I have to respect anyone who takes the time to lay out their argument. Challenging ideas are what help our community grow.
That is not what the BBC link says (text copied below. including their weird British spelling of "recognisable"). It's seems much more light hearted and funny than what you are portraying.
> German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames
Londoners spotted this ship on the Thames near Tower Bridge, playing the iconic Imperial March theme from the Star Wars trilogies, otherwise recognisable as the Darth Vader music.
But it wasn’t coming from a galaxy far, far away - it was a German Navy ship, in London for training and a supply stop.
A spokesperson from the German Navy told the BBC the music had "no deeper message" and "the commander can choose the music freely".
Are they shutting down CodeCatalyst as well? Or are they just forcing new customers over to CodeCatalyst? It’s weird (for Amazon) they recommend Github and Gitlab over an AWS alternative if they are shifting people over to CodeCatalyst
I've been playing with https://huggingface.co/microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten which has been pretty good so far. I want to take it and fine-tune on my own handwriting. For equations, I either use mathpix or just type them manually.
But inside Tehran (and in my neighborhood of D.C.) there have been celebrations https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-kha...