Yes and no. Technically yes, but practically no. There has been a lot of unrest and the majority of the people are not willing to fight for this regime. So if Iran were to go all out against Israel or the US with the people and means they have, the popular protests would make it impossible to keep that going very quickly.
It's like the queen being pinned to the king in chess. You can't move it because that would actually be worse.
If it would allow you to end the commercial early, it would kind of be genius. "Watch this 2 minute ad or say 'I love McDonald's' to immediately continue watching" is something that definitely would work. It would get these phrases or slogans ingrained while providing a better viewing experience.
Don't get me wrong, I would hate it as much as anyone any other lemmy user. However from a marketing perspective it's pretty solid while a significant percentage of the viewership would not only participate, but laud it as a good solution to skip the forced commercials.
Meanwhile I strongly suspect our legal reviewer of using chatgpt to review contracts, because he sends some laughably stupid comments that look fully AI generated.
Sure and that gets a wikipedia page for you to cite. You're not wrong, just heavily downplaying the problem with this whataboutism. It's not about France where this thing is an exception, but about the US where this is becoming the norm.
By the time I started driving, we already had gps, but I do remember my dad pulling those folder or foldable maps when driving somewhere for the first time. His advice on how to read these things was "Look for the river crossings. It usually doesn't matter much which road you take, you will always end up at the same crossings."
And this is why, when planning a road trip in the pre-waze days, I would always check the river crossings first and when is a low traffic time to cross them, because you don't want to be stuck for 2 hours because an ungodly amount of drivers need to be squeezed through a narrow tunnel.
But nowadays it's hardly relevant anymore, only to make sure you don't take too long of a lunch/dinner break or get stuck in said situation.
The bbc listed 160k confirmed Russian deaths at the end of 2025, with estimates of the actual total between 248 and 325k. So probably around 5-1 which is high for attackers vs defenders (I think historically this is estimated at a 3-1 disadvantage, so 1 defender dies for every 3 attackers).
Meaning Ukraine is doing a pretty good job and Russia a terrible one. Nothing new there
That is exactly how it should work and not nearly enough people recognize that. It's part of the social contract: You break the rules, you get punished. After the punishment, you are a full member of society again.
Otherwise you just get punished again and that should not be the case.
It'll be quantum computing. Since the last hype around it, a lot of progress has been made to the point that quantum computers are actually becoming useful, since error correction is now mostly resolved.
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