@ShamashAran Thing is, you really don't know the strength of an enemy until you experience it. We experience the weakness of our elected leaders every day.
@paulg Yes. We should recruit the world's top talent - the people actually advancing science and technology. And once we've secured that few thousand people globally, we can have a discussion about how many mediocre Indian IT guys we need to import to take jobs from average Americans.
The alternative to the deal is not a prolonged ground war. That's the point.
We're not advocating for an invasion and occupation. We're not even advocating for forced regime change per se.
Our issue is with the terms of the deal. That is what we find unacceptable.
If Trump decided he no longer wants to pursue the war, that's fine, but why did we need to give up so much when we could have just stepped back?
Why do we need to let them sell their oil on the free market? Why are we giving them a $300 billion "reconstruction" package? Why are we unfreezing their funds? Why are we lifting sanctions? Why are we protecting Hezbollah?
We had them in a military and economic chokehold, and we just gave it up for nothing.
They didn't suddenly become friendly. They didn't change their behavior. They didn't stop funding terrorism.
Pursue the war or not, this surrender was completely unnecessary. The deal sounds like it was made when we were surrounded by the enemy and had no choice.
But we did have a choice. We could have won.
@nicksortor@HappyGrammy Believe it or not, people can look at these negotiations and see it as the weak capitulation that it is without it being "an op" or "foreign propaganda". This deal is being criticized because it deserves it.
Naive Westerners ask why Iranians don't just take to the streets, bang pots & pans, and overthrow the regime. Truth: they can't. Everyone who could has been systematically killed. Regimes fall by military force, internal military betrayal or external defeat.
🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 Iran is accelerating the execution of political dissidents by employing fabricated charges such as "espionage" and "enmity against God" following sham trials.
Young activists and ethnic minorities are being targeted through torture-extracted confessions to silence domestic dissent.
Product quality comes from doing irrational things. Dax Raad(@thdxr), creator of OpenCode, on how quality is a constant practice, not a decision:
“It's easier than ever to rot your product, with these agents and everything.
You see it with big companies. Big companies' products are rotting faster than ever. Even startups' products. Now if a product is a year old, it's probably already kind of going to shit. And I think it's because of all these agent workflows.
I still believe quality is a huge differentiator. It's not just something you can decide to do. I think it needs to show up in every single aspect of your company. You have to do things that are irrational.
Even if you look at our story: when we first launched OpenCode, ClaudeCode was the only other real thing we were going up against and a big initial differentiator was that our terminal experience just felt better.
We built our own terminal framework. Building your own framework is the first thing they tell you not to do, right? It's the thing that no engineering team should do.
It's irrational, but we looked at it and we're like, we couldn't achieve the experience we wanted."