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[Constant @Constant_Corpse]

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain #FridayFeeling

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Everyone will have their take on the deal.

Mine is kinda what you'd expect.

1. Trump caved. The early-May naval attempt to break the closure of Hormuz -- Project Freedom -- could have worked. He didn't give it a chance.

2. He may nevertheless have done the right thing from an American perspective. On the larger chessboard, the one where America is curtailing Chinese lines of influence and supply on all fronts, he's gotten everything he needs. Iran's nuclear program is also set back dramatically. And worrying about gas prices come November is an extremely valid concern for an American president.

As I argued back in February, the US and Israel weren't fighting the same war. Roughly 80% of each side's war overlapped with the other's. But toward the end, their interests would diverge and America would bow out.

And so it was.

3. Israel remains in the region, Hezbollah remains ensconced in Lebanon and committed to murdering us all, Iran remains the same muqawama regime it always was, committed to mass-murder and mass-sacrifice of its own people. The decades-long war between the muqawama ideology and the Jews of Israel continues.

4. Israelis owe the United States a vast and abiding debt of gratitude for what it has done to Iran's missile and nuclear programs. That this finished on America's timetable rather than ours, that it was doing it for its own interests and not ours, these don't diminish the fact that we received from America more than we had a right to ask for.

5. And still, #3 remains true. We fight on. Because that regime is undeterrable, actually wants to destroy us all, and like the Nasserist ideology that once sent army after army at us to destroy us, will require a few more wars and perhaps another decade or two to defeat completely.

6. The new IRGC military dictatorship now in charge in Iran is built to survive catastrophe. But not to govern, reform or build anything of value.

Some commentators on the deal have suggested that the most damaging thing you could do to the Iranian regime at this point is send it back to its embittered people to try to govern the peace.

I think they might be onto something. It'd be a much safer and happier and more peaceful region if the regime falls from within and a new and better day dawns for the long-suffering people of Iran.

[Dylan Allman @dylanmallman]

My new book is out. On reality, the self, and the fictions that run us.

Paperback on Amazon, free audiobook, and the full text free and public domain.

The simulation holds. So does the one running inside it. And the one running inside that.

Find it at https://t.co/VegjDjzWst

[Constant @Constant_Corpse]

@narendramodi Such good!

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I think the compromise consensus position for pretty much everybody of good faith should be that the full text of the agreement be released. There’s no reason to take Trump’s word or Iran’s or random leakers’ word for it. Release the text, period.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

I’m gonna need to see this deal in written form so I can explain it to everyone

[Benny 'Sensible Jeans' Rollins @citizenkawala]

I can't really relate to any of you. I was cool in highschool too.

[Frankie MacDonald @frankiemacd]

Here is the New Picture of Frankie MacDonald and here it is.

[Constant @Constant_Corpse]

@citizenkawala There is absolutely a Ratatouille controlling him

[Constant @Constant_Corpse]

@citizenkawala I think she does your taxes

[The Card @JaggedAuthor]

Between a rock AND a hard place? In this economy?

[Benny 'Sensible Jeans' Rollins @citizenkawala]

I will never pay for the app I use all day every day.

[Constant @Constant_Corpse]

@MaxNordau Why are they so tiny?

[Constant @Constant_Corpse]

@TopLobsta If God gets fooled that's on Him

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

Telling the barista at Starbucks i clogged the toilet as Im leaving

[Constant @Constant_Corpse]

@octopuscaveman You can linger on the sssssssssssssss in piss as long as you want

[Constant @Constant_Corpse]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! In fact, I have the same amount of impressions and traffic!#MyXAnniversary

[doomer @uncledoomer]

its called the power of positive thinking

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I sense some major bullshit is headed our way.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

do you understand what just happened to your computer..

Google Chrome secretly downloaded a 4GB AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you..

It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your system folders. It powers Gemini Nano - Google's on-device AI.

And if you delete it? Chrome re-downloads it automatically. Like nothing happened.

Just Google deciding your hard drive is their storage unit.

At 1 billion Chrome users - that's 4 BILLION gigabytes of data pushed silently across the internet.

The carbon footprint alone equals tens of thousands of cars running for a year.

Check your disk right now:
📁 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel

To stop it: chrome://flags → disable Optimization Guide On Device Model → restart Chrome → delete the folder.

Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

No, I don’t work for the FBI.