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So they managed to make it all the way up and then they were denied entry and then assaulted? That about right?

“No, you can’t come inside our shelter. It’s not safe! See all the people out there? It’s not safe in here!”

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…*stab*

Because this costs money and time in the medium and long term. Concerning myself with the opinions of the obscenely uneducated is just not something I’m interested in doing.

I honestly don’t know enough about economics to dispute anything you’ve said. I will point out that this dispute is nearly entirely unrelated to nuclear capabilities, though. Were both Israel and Iran to both disarm their nuclear capabilities, they’d both still seek to tear into one another for a host of theology-adjacent reasons.

To be fair, they really don’t have any other option. They’ve already made the US a long-term enemy both culturally and politically, and, despite that, Iran still seeks to be a key geopolitical player. There aren’t many other avenues for that in the short term, which is all that usually matters for a dictatorship.

Things will be shaking up in the next few years, so let’s see whether they’ll continue to be perceived as antagonistic to the world at large as the US shifts into goblin mode and khamenei kicks the bucket, hopefully loosening oppression.

Unforced error number ? out of ???

“What percentage of them are classic Americans?”

“What, like natives? I think abou-“

“No, I mean claaaaaassic Americans”

“British? Almost none?”

“No, I mean claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassic Americans”

“White puritans?”

“Patriots, yes. And no fatties.”

Could you imagine? “Hey wanna hop down to America for extreme inner fulfillment through measured hallucinogen intake, and then later bombs and gambling?” Shit, we should get started immediately.

That was a relatively cheap, shitty little safe. Sawing through it took a relatively short time. A safe 3x thicker, with higher build quality, and better security would have required far more than one night to rob and far longer to plan.

I don’t know how much stolen property usually goes for, but I guessed less than half of resale, which is usually like a fourth of original price. 12, 4, 2. Could be less. I genuinely have no frame of reference.

They’ll get like 10x that if they know someone who won’t melt it down for the materials. Resale on jewelry is uniquely awful

1.3 million in jewelry? So like 20,000 dollars resale?

Damn, I could have been disappointed even earlier? (I appreciate you pointing this out)

I was into it until the final reveal.

Governments will use drones. It will cost little. War will be a lighter proposition. That’s what I’m getting at.

Your semantic argument costs 300 dollars to destroy with a grenade sent through a closed window from a person 500 miles away.

No, definitely terrifying. War should be costly and terrible. That’s the only reason it isn’t more common, that its cost is objectionable. Pax economica, while flawed, is more subjective than ever before. And I do not like that.

The shelves of your nearest hobby store hold the weapons of the future, with only a minimal cost. And that’s terrifying.

Asparagus should either be turned into a sauce or blistered with salt. Any other preparation is wrong. That is my political opinion.

Japan’s so weird about whale meat. Supposedly, Japanese people don’t even like whale meat. It’s considered low class fare, and unpleasant. And yet they catch plenty. Anyone have an explanation beyond “cultural heritage of eating food they hate”?