https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/is-a-ground-war-with-iran-imminent

If you squint, an invasion seems inevitable. But look closer at the actual state of each force being cited, and a very different picture emerges. How is it possible, for instance, that every news organization from the New York Times on down, can report three ships leaving Japan with the Tripoli group when there were only two? Secrecy. Sloppiness. Sops.

With Trump in charge, one never knows. But even if there were a ground operation against Kharg Island, it would most likely involve Army Rangers and special operations forces, Green Berets and Navy SEALs — not some conventional ground assault à la Normandy. The idea of the U.S. Marines storming the beaches while the 82nd Airborne drops on parachutes from above is a cable news fever dream.

This is a bit alarmist but it is also real, they are talking about HMPV its like a different version of RSV I think. I think this article explains it a bit more. https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/a-little-known-respiratory-virus-human-metapneumovirus-surging-in-northern-california/2026/03

its crazy to me the simplest shit like putting salt on things is a mystery to some people. cooking gulag for them all I swear.

However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.

“If we have a high confidence that they are an adult, they will not have to go through the other age verification flows,”

fuck me... solidarity with our Cuban comrades just trying to exist...

I really don't want to think about the timeline we don't get preemptively dropped from lemmy.world now.

is no joke.

not yet your not

they have pronouns!

wait there is only 12 posts in months

I hope they continue to prop her up in a chair until the aids have to do diaper changes on the senate floor.