rambodoc

Founder, AWR Surgeons' Community. Libertarian/Objectivist/Atheist. Loves freedom, strength, mobility, dogs, photography, music, sugar and truth. Decaying SOH.

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

What an unpleasant experience to have been hacked and locked out of my account! It took lots of backend persuasion and help from @drbawa to finally be back here. Apologies to those who must have received some DMs with a link. Never again!

[Aali J Sheen @aalisheen]

@rambodoc on #hernia #herniasurgery and life in Australia from India https://t.co/P2cNfIawYE via @YouTube

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

@prernao2 @drbawa Yeah I did. This was from someone we both knew from before, I reckon.

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

What an unpleasant experience to have been hacked and locked out of my account! It took lots of backend persuasion and help from @drbawa to finally be back here. Apologies to those who must have received some DMs with a link. Never again!

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Not surprising that many people don't think anything bad about the Iranian revolutionary guards and find everything Israeli to be evil.
How does one spell "thoughtless indoctrination"?

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif posted the following on X on April 9, hours before the Islamabad talks begin: “Israel is evil and a curse for humanity, while peace talks are underway in Islamabad, genocide is being committed in Lebanon. Innocent citizens are being killed by Israel, first Gaza, then Iran and now Lebanon, bloodletting continues unabated. I hope and pray people who created this cancerous state on Palestinian land to get rid of European jews burn in hell.”

This is the Defense Minister of the host country. Not a backbencher. Not a provincial politician. The cabinet member responsible for Pakistan’s military coordination with the United States, including with CENTCOM. The official whose ministry is managing the security arrangements for the very talks at which Vice President Vance will sit down on Saturday morning. The man overseeing Vance’s safety in Islamabad just called Vance’s closest ally in this war “evil,” a “curse for humanity,” and a “cancerous state.”

No one in the Sharif government issued a rebuke. No clarification. No distancing. The silence is the signal.

This is not an isolated outburst. It is the second structural crack in Pakistan’s mediator neutrality in 72 hours. The first was Prime Minister Sharif’s April 7 ceasefire announcement, which the New York Times and Forbes revealed carried a “Draft” header and had been pre-approved by the White House. That announcement declared the ceasefire applied “everywhere including Lebanon.” Within hours, Netanyahu’s office stated the ceasefire “does not include Lebanon.” Vance called this a “legitimate misunderstanding.” Araghchi quote-tweeted Sharif’s “including Lebanon” text and highlighted those two words for 3.69 million viewers. Pakistan’s announcement created the scope ambiguity. And now Pakistan’s Defense Minister has publicly sided with Iran’s interpretation of what that scope requires.

The mediator is not mediating. The mediator is arguing.

Asif’s post arrived at 17:02 GMT on April 9, while the Iranian delegation was already on Pakistani soil, while the Serena Hotel was being emptied of guests, while seven layers of security were being erected around the Red Zone, while a 30-member US security advance team was already on the ground. It was posted into the exact diplomatic window where the host country’s perceived neutrality is the single most important variable determining whether both delegations sit down in good faith.

Israel did not agree to include Lebanon in the ceasefire. This is confirmed. Netanyahu’s office said it explicitly. The White House confirmed it. The IDF launched Operation Eternal Darkness on April 8, the heaviest coordinated bombardment of Lebanon since the war began, killing at least 254 people in a single day. Israel’s position is that Lebanon is a “separate skirmish” and its operations against Hezbollah are covered by separate security mandates. Whether one agrees with that position or not, it is the stated position of a key party to the broader conflict.

And the host country’s Defense Minister just called that party a “cancerous state” whose creators should “burn in hell.”

Pakistan was chosen as mediator precisely because it maintains working relationships with both Washington and Tehran. That was the entire basis of its credibility. Army chief Asim Munir held calls with leaders in both capitals. Islamabad offered the Serena, the security, the diplomatic infrastructure. CNN described Pakistan as having been elevated from “pariah state” to indispensable mediator. Axios called Vance’s visit the most significant US-Iran engagement since 1979.

And the man responsible for the host country’s defense posture used his personal platform, hours before the highest-stakes diplomatic encounter in a generation, to declare one side’s ally a curse upon humanity.

The talks may still proceed. The logistics are in motion. But the mediator’s mask just slipped, and both delegations saw it fall.

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

😂🔥

[Ulrich @UlrichFY]

Jusqu'à ce jour, les marxistes sont incapables de donner une réponse satisfaisante à ce genre de meme. C'est dire la nullité de leur pensée économique.

La valeur n'est pas dans le bien ni dans l'effort fourni pour le produire. Elle est dans l'esprit de celui qui désire ce bien pour résoudre un besoin individuel. La valeur est donc subjective, marginale, contextuelle. Elle n'est pas objective, mesurable, mathématisable.

Ainsi s'écrase lamentablement la théorie marxiste de la valeur travail et les théories classiques de la valeur objective. Si ces théories ont réussi à survivre jusqu'à aujourd'hui, c'est uniquement parce qu'elle donne une caution scientifique à l'interventionnisme étatique, rien d'autre.

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

The revival of Stalinism has been instituted since decades from universities teaching moral relativism, socialism, religious indoctrination and all manner of woke activism. It's just a question of when it comes back.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1924-53 with absolute terror, as he attempted to enforce communism through total state control. Historians estimate that 15–20 million died as a result of man-made famine, political persecution and in the system of Gulag labour camps.
🧵

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

💪😆😍

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Recent research from Kyoto University reveals that female dogs actively assess human competence—while male dogs do not.

Female dogs clearly prefer approaching humans who successfully complete tasks, such as opening food containers, over those who fail. In contrast, male dogs show no preference and treat both competent and incompetent humans equally.

These findings, published in a study titled "Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans," indicate that female dogs exhibit a more advanced form of social evaluation, particularly when food or resources are involved. They pay closer attention to human actions and their outcomes, using this information to decide who is the most reliable partner for obtaining rewards.

This competence bias suggests female dogs are more sensitive to efficiency and social results than previously thought. For dog owners, it means your female companion isn't just loyal—she's also quietly evaluating your ability to provide. These results highlight an intriguing sex difference in canine social cognition, potentially evolved to enhance females' chances of securing resources and survival.

[Chijiiwa, H., Horisaki, E., Hori, Y., Anderson, J. R., Fujita, K., & Kuroshima, H. (2022). Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans. Behavioural Processes, 203, 104778. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104778]

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Holy moly!
Amazing!!

[Oli @CARN0N]

An Australian breakfast radio show spent their morning show today seeing how far they could drive their Tesla past 0%.

Probably the most entertaining piece of Tesla content I’ve ever watched 😂

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

This should have been on the front page of The New York Times.
I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom.
No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔

Thank you, Australia.

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Such simple but evocative prose!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Iran just confirmed it. Esmaeil Khatib, the Intelligence Minister, is dead. Israeli strikes. The regime that has controlled every syllable of its information war for nineteen days has now officially acknowledged the killing of the man who ran its surveillance state.

Massive funeral processions are moving through Tehran today for Ali Larijani and Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani. State media broadcasting live. Three of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic buried in a single week, mourned by crowds that do not yet know how they were found.

They were found by traffic cameras.

Israel compromised nearly every traffic camera in Tehran years before the first bomb fell, according to the Financial Times. The footage streams in real time to Israeli intelligence. Pattern-of-life analysis. Facial recognition. Vehicle tracking. Route prediction. The FT describes the AI system as a target production machine: it processes billions of data points from mobile networks, social graphs, and intercepted communications, closing the targeting circle before a human operator could finish reading the briefing.

On March 18, AI-guided drone swarms with facial recognition struck Basij checkpoint positions across Tehran. Roughly 300 operatives killed in a single wave according to Iran International. The drones used fibre-optic guidance that renders radio-frequency jamming useless. Reports indicate Mossad is calling IRGC commanders directly on personal phones with a single message: you have 12 hours to disappear or you are next.

Defence Minister Katz has authorised the IDF to eliminate any senior Iranian official the moment the targeting circle closes. No additional political approval required. Netanyahu gave full operational freedom. The cycle from identification to elimination is now measured in the minutes the AI needs, not the hours a cabinet takes to debate.

This is the most technologically advanced targeting apparatus ever deployed in warfare. Hacked municipal surveillance. Autonomous authority. Facial recognition at national scale. Drone swarms with fibre-optic control. Direct psychological contact with enemy commanders. It has killed the Supreme Leader, the intelligence minister, the Basij commander, the diplomatic negotiator, and dozens of senior officials according to aggregated Israeli and Iranian reports. It has degraded 90 to 95 percent of missile production. Israeli military sources indicate three or more weeks of planned strikes remain.

Iran confirms the kills by burying the dead. The funerals are the verification that Israeli press conferences could not provide. Tehran’s own processions are the evidence. The crowds are the confirmation.

And none of it has moved the urea price by a single dollar.

$610 on the CBOT March settlement. Unchanged. Because the Hormuz permissioned chokepoint is not run by the men being buried in Tehran. It is run by a sealed packet in a radio room in Bandar Abbas, written years before this war by men whose funerals happened long ago or have not happened yet. The packet says: grant passage to allied vessels via AIS and VHF confirmation. Deny all others. Continue until further notice from a central command that today has fewer members than it did yesterday.

The AI can find a face in a crowd of millions. It cannot find a standing order in a filing cabinet. The targeting circle closes on humans. It does not close on instructions.

Tehran buries its intelligence minister, its negotiator, and its Basij commander in a single week. The cameras that found them still watch. The drones that killed them still fly. And the paper that governs whether four billion people eat does not attend funerals.

Full analysis:
https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Legend.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Israel's intelligence is next-level:

4 IRGC commanders in Lebanon tried to hide. They booked 15 hotel rooms under false names, and used only 1 room. They disabled all hotel security cameras.

All 4 were killed today with a single missile to their room. No hotel guest was harmed.

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Very true, and sad, like so many things in life.

[Blaine Pardoe @bpardoe870]

Imagine being Iranian and this once in a lifetime opportunity comes to rise up and take back your freedom. Then you realize that the nations of Europe and the rest of the world don't care. In fact, to keep gas prices low, they are willing to leave you oppressed. That your only hope lies with the people liberating you, who you've been told are worst enemies of your people.
We live in remarkable times...

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Oh, ye Ubiquitous God of the Demented Brain, please have mercy!

[Markandey Katju @mkatju]

Long live the Iranian people !

The US-Israeli war has been going on since 28th February 2026, with no end in sight.

To my mind this war has a historical significance, which most people following it have missed : the Iranians are not only putting up a heroic resistance to the brutal unprovoked aggression by the US-Israeli forces, by their valiant, fearless, and lion hearted fight back with missiles and drones, they are also inspiring and showing the way out to the entire underdeveloped world.

Let me explain.

This world actually consists of two worlds

(1) the world of the developed countries i.e. North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and China, which are relatively affluent, and

(2) the world of the underdeveloped countries, i.e  Asian countries ( except China and Japan ), African and Latin American countries, in which most people are poor. The majority of people of the world live in the latter.

There is a secret, unwritten rule among the developed countries ( which they will never openly speak about ), that underdeveloped countries must not be allowed to become developed, for the reason given below :

However, the people of the underdeveloped countries realize that they must become developed ( i.e. highly industrialised ) otherwise they will never be able to abolish their huge socio-economic evils i.e. massive poverty, massive unemployment, appalling level of child malnutrition ( every second child in India is malnourished, according to Global Hunger Index ), almost total lack of proper healthcare and good education for the masses, etc.

In my opinion, the 21st century will be the century in which the struggles of the people of the underdeveloped countries to become developed ones will be fought out to a conclusion, and result in creating societies everywhere free of these evils, and in which everyone gets a high standard of living and decent lives.

Earlier I had thought that it is India which will give leadership to the underdeveloped countries in their historical struggle to create a new world order free of the huge socio-economic evils which have plagued them for centuries.

But India has today broadly joined the US camp, so it cannot give that leadership.

Instead, in my opinion, it is Iran which is now giving that leadership, by their heroic, undaunted resistance in the present war against US and Israeli aggression. The Iranians are inspiring not only the Muslim world ( whose governments are mostly US puppet, but their peoples are mostly anti-Americans ), but  also peoples of all underderveloped countries, that they must fight for a just world order, in which they do not simply accept domination of the developed countries, who set up their puppets, and loot them, but fight heroically for their real independence and equality.

Prof Marandi of Tehran University has become their voice in this war. Among the things the Iranians have taught by their actions is that unity of the people of underdeveloped countries is absolutely essential, if their struggle is to be successful.

In India, for instance, the people are often divided on caste and communal lines, which makes the waging of the struggle difficult. On the other hand, Iranians are united in the present war. The Americans thought that the killing of Ayatollah Khameini and many top officials would bring Iranians on the streets demanding a regime change ( which the Americans wanted ). But what actually happened was just the reverse. Iranians did indeed come on the streets ( despite the bombing by US and Israeli forces ), but it was to condemn America and Israel, and to mourn the death of their revered leader.

One is reminded of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's memorable speech on 4th June 1940 in the House of Commons, in the dark days when German invasion was looming and Britain stood alone in the world :
''  We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender ''.

The same indomitable and undaunted spirit, undismayed by the powerful odds, is being displayed by the brave Iranians. They have therefore earned the honour of being called the leaders of the underdeveloped world.

The Iranians will win this war because they are fighting for a just cause. And that cause is the right of all nations, however poor, to self-determination, which is indeed embodied in the UN Charter. The days of colonialism, when powerful countries could conquer, trample over, enslave, and loot poor countries, have gone, and now the latter, inspired by the spirit of nationalism and patriotism, will put up fierce resistance against these attempts.

In the Mahabharat war, the Kauravas had a more powerful army, yet they were defeated by the Pandavas, as the latter had Lord Krishna on their side. Lord Krishna represents justice and righteousness, and the Iranians have justice and righteousness on their side.

In the Bhagawad Gita (chapter 18 shloka 78) it is said:

यत्र योगेश्वर: कृष्णो यत्र पार्थो धनुर्धर:
तत्र श्रीर्विजयो भूतिर्ध्रुवा नीतिर्मितर्मम्
i.e.

Wherever there is Lord Krishna and Arjuna, there is victory, great power, and righteousness.

Long live the Iranian people !

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Didn’t need a person with around two brain cells to figure that out on 8th October 2023.
🙄😡

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Tells you a lot about their sources of funding, as well.

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Hoping for the best. And the quickest.

[سيف الدرعي| Saif alderei @saif_aldareei]

Raising the opposition flag in the heart of Tehran is not a minor detail…
it is a sign that the Iranian regime’s collapse is getting closer from within, not from outside.

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Banger of a free kick!

[Aswathy Santhosh @_Aswathy_S]

When was the last time Indian football got this much positive global attention? I honestly can’t remember.

So proud of Manisha Kalyan. Her free-kick vs Chinese Taipei is going viral everywhere 🇮🇳⚽️

#IndianFootball #ManishaKalyan

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

"The region’s only democracy, with more than two million Arab citizens, is transformed in the Western press into a global-scale evil. Meanwhile, Iran—a state that has threatened “death to Israel” and “death to America” for decades [and sponsored terrorist groups and attacks all over the world - GK] and is developing a nuclear program—suddenly appears in headlines as a “victim” and a “country defending its sovereignty."

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

A speech at the UN today by one of my heroes, Iranian national football player Shiva Amini, brought tears to my eyes.

She spoke about how Iran’s regime threatens female athletes even with rape, simply for competing freely, playing against Israeli teams, or refusing compulsory hijab.

And now we see it again.

Five players from Iran’s women’s national team had to flee their hotel in Australia and seek police protection just for refusing to sing the regime’s anthem.

Imagine that.
Playing football can make you an enemy of the state.

Everyone needs to hear
@Shiva_amini_11 and be the voice of athletes who have been killed or those who were still in prison. In Iran.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

I, as an Iranian, actually became more supportive of Israel and America after watching absolute morons try to explain my own country to me.

Imagine telling an Iranian woman, who lived there and only left seven years ago, that my experiences weren’t real. That everything I saw with my own eyes since I was a child was just “Mossad and CIA disinformation about the Islamic Republic.”

[rambodoc @rambodoc]

Awesome. And generous!

[Tony Burke @Tony_Burke]

Last night I was able to tell five women from the Iranian Women’s Soccer team that they are welcome to stay in Australia, to be safe and have a home here.