Their absence of self-awareness is a serious pathology. They just killed 3k civilians (really, civilians) and are complaining that their invading soldiers are facing some risks WHILE INVADING.
Not just a terrorist state, but a terrorist society masked with propaganda playing with your brain. And you are playing along.
You wimps and suckers, let that sink in.
Wow! This war has really gone acc. to all international conventions, incl. no war of aggression, no breaking the UN charter, no killing of leaders, no destroying hospitals, no killing of pupils, no genocide---but Iran must obey the Geneva convention.
"Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile
Aside from being a mensch ("Voilà un homme!"), Goethe was a genuine scholar by temperament. It is not just his voracious intellectual curiosity.
One does not realize how difficult it is for beginners to write Arabic in cursive form, without using joined blocks of letters.
NOPE. THE U.S. COULD DO WHATEVER THE FUCK IT WANTED UNTIL CIRCA 2014 WHEN THE PENTAGON NOTICED CHINA WAS DOING RARE EARTHS AND DUAL USE PARTS EMBARGO.
NOW, IT CAN'T.
SUPPLY CHAINS HAVE BROKEN DOWN, IT CAN'T SUSTAIN SUPPLY OF AMMUNITION OR WEAPONRY.
https://t.co/1CsxlsxYdM
@levelsio Telegram is a textbook example of antifragility.
The more authorities try to suppress it, the more it grows.
Its success is tightly correlated with declining trust in institutions.