I seem to recall last time Trump announced there was a ceasefire, and the Israel cut loose again, Trump was absolutely livid. I still there there could be a chance where Netanyahu pissed off Trump so badly that he cuts all support. Trump might accidentally do something beneficial for the US.

Obama’s treaty with Iran ensured that any nuclear development would be done under the inspection of the UN, which put hard limits on what they could do. Trump destroyed that agreement, and his new MoU has zero mention of nuclear weapons. Iran is completely free to develop these weapons now, and thanks to Trump’s surrender, they will be funded by massive amounts of cash directly from the US and from the tolls that Iran will now charge for anyone using the Straight. THAT is the threat.

Missed your reply yesterday, but as we can see today Israel has NOT behaved, and the Straight is closed once again.

And ugh… I hadn’t even considered the cost of the damage to the bases. I knew Hegseth had depleted our stockpile of munitions but I thought the $80b was the cost to replace those, and that still leaves us dangerously exposed for several years. I’m sure Trump probably thinks he can order some on Amazon and have them delivered the next day, that’s just how out of touch he is with reality.

Naw, I just want Congress to hold him personally responsible for starting a war where there was never any threat and creating a situation where there now IS a threat, and hold him financially responsible for the payout. He certainly has the money from all those ill-gotten gains of using the Presidency as a platform for his cons.

Is that to cover the $80 billion in missiles launched, or is this just the first installment on that $300 billion which we were assured would not be paid by taxpayers?

I mean, at this point you might as well stop wasting money on the military anyway, we all know the moment anyone attacks us Trump is just going to surrender.

Trump wasn’t really elected in 2024, and he only hates mail-in ballots because they overwhelmed his cheat in 2020.

Not to mention some idiot decided to put these water-pollution factories in places that historically have limited access to water and right now are experiencing one of the worst droughts of all time (at least in the top-5). People are a little protective of their precious water at times like these.

Happy to say I filled my tank yesterday (lowest I’ve seen since the war of choice began), looks like the price already jumped 22 cents today. A couple weeks ago when I topped off we nearly broke COVID records, the cost was only 2 cents below the highest cost of gas ever recorded here.

So much winning, the MAGAts must be proud of their Dear Leader.

How does this compare with other self-hosted packages like Ollama? Does Odysseus have any unique features that others might not offer?

Here’s a novel idea… if you don’t want to be attacked, maybe GTFO of other people’s countries and start acting civilized? Wow look at that, all drone attacks would immediately cease and you wouldn’t even have to spend any money to reach your goal.

Also have not read the article, but I would presume it’s his same old tripe about how no company can ever succeed without his “wisdom” and “leadership”.

On our wedding night, my wife and I grabbed Taco Bell. If your date expects you to go broke to impress her, cut it off right there. She’s never going to change, and definitely never going to be worth it. Find someone who understands the value of putting your money into things that will last longer than a meal.

Damn was he able to actually publish this in the newspaper? That would get flagged NSFW so hard these days.

I still think rear signaling could be improved dramatically by using a wide third-brake light to show the intensity of braking.

For example – I have seen some aftermarket turn signals which are bars the width of the vehicle, and show a “moving” signal starting in the center and then progressing towards the outer edge of the vehicle.

So now take that idea for brake. When you barely have your foot on the brake pedal, it would light a couple lights in the center of your brake signal. Press a little harder and now it’s lighting up 1/4 of the lights from the center towards the outside edge of the vehicle. And when you’re pressing the brake pedal to the floor, all of the lights are lit up from the center to the outside edges of the vehicle. The harder you press on the pedal, the more lights are illuminated.

Now you have an immediate indication of just how hard the person in front of you is braking. With the normal on/off brake signals, you don’t know what’s happening until moments later as you determine how fast you are approaching that car. They could be casually slowing, or they could be locking up their wheels for an accident in front of them.

This article doesn’t really touch on the biggest issue of getting into an EV - the price tag. I mean, $26k to get into an entry-level model? I paid $11k for my SUV, and the only reason I could afford that was due to a pay-out from the company that totaled my previous vehicle. Show me a used EV with towing and storage capacity more in the range of $6k that I can expect to drive for twenty years with basic maintenance and you might get me interested.

Beyond that, they claim that an EV is cheaper to maintain over the years? OK I’ve been driving my used SUV for 15 years now and I’ve spent less than a grand on replacing parts (not including stuff like tires that are going to be replaced on any vehicle). My previous vehicle was driven for 24 years and cost even less to maintain because it didn’t have 4WD. It looks like within these time periods I would have expected to replace EV batteries several times (most estimates put battery lifetime between 8-15 years), and how much would that have cost? I understand that most people can’t be bothered to learn how to perform even the most basic maintenance tasks and believe that you need to buy a new car every 5 years, but I would like to see realistic maintenance estimates for those of us who don’t treat our vehicles like a piece of disposable tupperware.