No, it is an interesting question. I suspect that with such an old culture, it would probably stick around longer than the Roman one did in Britain. Maybe it would be more like the Roman culture in Germany or maybe it would be entirely unique.

Of course, to your point that it’s not a hard and fast line, I’ve seen the argument that the Roman Empire still exists in Turkey or Russia. I don’t agree, but I can see what they’re getting at.

I’m not saying this is unlikely, I just think he’s blood drunk enough to do it. Our understanding of the effects of dozens of modern nuclear bombs on an urban center is theoretical, thankfully, but even with Iran’s geography, it’s going to cause huge problems with oil production, causing downstream food distribution issues etc.

I guess it depends on your definition of society- they wouldn’t have a functioning government for a while, but the people surviving would still be Iranian and depending on whether they’re Kurdish, Persian, or other, might still have loyalty to the idea of an Iranian state.

I don’t think you can do enough damage to the people that there’s no Iranian (or Persian) state in 100 years without damaging the rest of the world irreparably. It’s not 100% clear what the death of a civilization entails, but it feels closer to wiping out the culture to me than destroying the big cities.

My point was, if he throws enough nukes at Iran to kill 90 million people, we’re all going down together.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki still exist. A nuclear bombardment powerful enough to kill everyone in Iran would almost certainly be enough that Iran would be only one of many cultures instantly erased.

God, imagine being one of those astronauts watching it all go down. You’re definitely dead too, just on a separate timeline from the rest of us, whether you for some reason try to get back or not.

Plastic up, the others down

Imagine paying for gas or electricity.

This meme brought to you by the pedestrian/bicycle gang.

TIL Douglas Adams published the real name and address of presumably, either a friend or a former school rival, then only changed it upon request.

In comparison to the rest of the thread, it’s nothing, but that’s fucked up.

Unternehmer/undertaker is also fun

You can joke about anything, but if you make dead baby jokes to unknown audiences while in the NICU, you’re still a dick. Most people know this and avoid that sort of thing, but some edgelords need it explicitly said

How would I feel? Uncomfortable. What would I do with that feeling if it’s based on exclusively my knowledge of their ages? Nothing.

When I was 28, I dated a 43 year old and it was a fine relationship. He agreed to stay in shitty hotels when we traveled because it was all I could afford and I didn’t want to take his money. He was definitely more emotionally mature and experienced than I was though and that’s what made us ultimately incompatible.

When it works, I bet it works well.

And these are the terms of use for that purchase. If I sign a contract with a party magician for them to come and perform, and then violate the terms of the contract, they can stop providing their services without being in breach of contract. If those terms include that you don’t later publish videos of them on social media and then you do, you open yourself up to being sued, even though after the service has been provided you are no longer receiving an active benefit.

Your consideration is being able to access the game.

Edit: I brain farted, and think I mixed up terms. Aleatory contracts are still valid, the issuers just have to withstand higher scrutiny if challenged.

Portuguese doesn’t really have a tilde, but that’s what the h following an n (or an L) is there to indicate

That’s the perfect tone for this letter, it’s very well worded. It maintains deep pride in Iran alongside positive acknowledgement of her emigrants that contrasts with how the west would expect the government to feel towards them as an example of the inaccuracy of western reporting on Iran. I don’t know if it’s genuine (I know too many Persian and Kurdish people from Iran to fully believe it, but I also know several people whose families are refugees in Iran and who feel very positively towards it, so I think the question of Iran’s benevolence has an answer with more complexities than I am capable of understanding without having gone there or even to any politically neutral or allied country), but it’s a hell of a piece of political art. To be clear, I’m just talking about his tone here, I do absolutely believe that Iran was not intending and just about to create and use nuclear weapons against the US or Israel, but that was also true before I read this letter.

Anyway, I hope it works.

I mean, I can get a gas chromatograph, then test it however many times I need to, to prove to myself that it’s accurate, then use it to test whatever I’m suspicious of. I don’t feel the need personally, but if a person wants to, they can. It’s honestly not even as expensive as I would have expected- plenty of options under €1000.

And for more advanced science, the same applies- it would require a lot more faith to believe that everyone with more than two college chemistry classes is lying about the nature of the world than that they’re not.

But yes, you need faith in either direction. Just a lot less of it if science is real.

Only what you aren’t capable of reasoning on your own. I can’t reason astrophysics, so I take what astrophysicists say on faith. I can reason some physics, though, and I have to either accept that there’s a giant conspiracy with upper level physics, or that the people who study it know what they’re talking about. Each takes a kind of faith, but the latter requires much less.

Byzantine Empire II: electric boogaloo

I think he deadass plans on holing himself up in a secret bunker and getting McDonald’s delivered every night. I bet his cover story would be something like a secret daily ritual and it wouldn’t even occur to him that the new president might keep in friendly enough contact with previous presidents to compare notes.