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Israel wields a lot of power over the US.

They said, without any justification at all, merely reinforcing my own point.

People want to shift blame. The influence and money between the US and Israel is a revolving door. The US gives Israel tons of money in defense and security contracts, orgs like AIPAC redistribute some of those funds back to the US to keep the revolving door greased.

I think it's incorrect to say Israel is pulling the strings when admins of both have been colluding almost since Israel's existence.


We don't know what happened with the bulk of Epstein's private island videos. Who knows, they may well have resurfaced in Tel Aviv or Moscow. Both countries have a lot to gain from this disastrous campaign.


What I find interesting is that Trump officials says Trump was the target here, but the guy was arrested in July of 2024 - which is when Biden was still in office.

Sure. Just like Trump was an informant for the FBI on Epstein island.

I don't believe it's impossible Donald Trump spoke against his friends to the feds. I think it's likely.

It was a convenient misunderstanding about a call to the Palm Beach Sheriff. The FBI has a recording of the call, but probably ambiently from the Sheriff’s side. It’s a small ray of innocence for a guy like Trump. And he forgot all about it until by luck it was in the Epstein files.

Although the UAE and everyone else Iran has attacked may not have directly attacked Iran, they are hosting the American infrastructure making the attacks possible.

I can understand why Iran considers most gulf states complicit.


Here's a map of the 'complicit' nations the IRGC has been bombing:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/b7ef/live/f6673...

That's: Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Oman.

There is no point for the IRGC to do this other than to create such chaos and fear that the world pressures America to relent.


And why do you believe the USA doesn’t have bases at these locations?

I believe Iran leadership are aware of geo politics much better than the American and even European.

They are experts at the new type of war fare, war with low cost kamikaze drones.


No thanks. I prefer my jails just the way they are and think Docker sucks.

The OCI work mentioned upthread is about interface, not implementation.

Most people who think "Docker sucks" are talking about it's somewhat questionable network layer on Linux and the poor security isolation of the daemon. Non-docker alternatives like Podman don't have that characteristic.

But no one (at least no one reasonable) thinks Dockerfile's building docker images for download from docker-compatible repositories are a bad thing. That stuff runs the world. And the FreeBSD refusal to make a real attempt at interoperability is a confusing wart on what otherwise is pretty good tech.


I believe it’s a “bad thing” and prefer my FreeBSD + jails setup and installing my packages using the FreeBSD package manager.

Docker sucks and only exists because after all these years, Linux STILL doesn’t have a great way to handle third party applications.

Unlike FreeBSD, which has both the excellent ports and package systems.

FWIW I am not married to FreeBSD. I use Arch Linux as well.


> Docker sucks and only exists because after all these years, Linux STILL doesn’t have a great way to handle third party applications.

That's... not at all a correct characterization of where Docker found its purchase or what it's used for. Easy containerization dead-to-rights solved the version hell problem of shipping software at scale from vendors and upstreams that can't agree on dependency management. That's not something you can fiat away with "excellent ports and package systems" unless you imagine a world where literally every tiny microservice or cloud backend gadget ends up as a port in a single tree.

Basically you're saying "Docker sucks because I don't do anything that needs containers for anything but security". Well... yeah. I guess it would seem that way.


No, but you can put them in independent jails.

You are fixating on security. I use jails to keep my softwares separated, for the identical reasons use docker. Except jails is both lighter and much more secure, and I believe, easier to configure.


More money?

The UAE is hosting multiple US military bases and is absolutely a valid target.

Why does a person need to be disciplined because they made a mistake?

A couple years ago I was at the Virginia DMV along with about 50 other people doing DMV things when all of a sudden someone comes out from the back and gets in front of all the service windows and announces "The DMV is now closed for the day due to a computer problem. Please leave now."

Some of the people in that crowd had driven hours to get there.

That's why the person who made the coding error should have been disciplined.


How do you determine it was the person who had done the "coding error"s fault?

Sounds to me they are seriously underfunded and you are pointing the blame at an individual in a systemic issue.


5 things:

1. https://www.stonkys.com/ is a bold creation: congratulations

2. white on black is harder on the eyes than black on white

3. how do you decide which items to post/feature?

4. you should have an "About" link/page

5. you should have a "Contact" link


1. Thanks for the kind words!

2. The original version had a toggle for this, I dropped it to simplify development. Will return the feature for sure

3. I just trying to keep a record of sorts what the fuck is going on in the world. Originally it was more of a long form blog with original content. My plan is to have a mix with short news updates and long form opinion pieces.

4. good suggestion

5. good suggestion


The recurring fact of major companies' websites being down for prolonged periods indicates coding errors are not the result of underfunding.

That would only be nominally correct regarding UAE, which consists of seven emirates.

Emiratis would describe themselves as a cohesive nation of Emiratis living under seven different Emirs. (There are many YouTube videos about it.) Emiratis from different Emirs do not view themselves as from different ethnicities/tribes/nations.

BTW -- My original post forgot to mention Kuwait as a cohesive nation.


Yes, I agree with you on this part, but the Emirs are very different places. I lived for two years in Dubai, not really by choice, I was sent on a three month assignment by my company that just got extended.

I came to appreciate the place.


This has been going on since the dawn of capitalism, probably before that.

I believe the problem is making sex about morality.

No kink-shaming.

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