He’s saying that the US is responsible for the Ayatollahs being in power (even though that wasn’t the intent) because they installed the Shah who the people didn’t want the but was friendly to US interests.
So I think it’s accurate to say that the US unintentionally ushered the current regime into power by putting in an unpopular puppet dictator to replace an elected leader who was popular with his people (Mossadegh).
I don’t think anyone is saying that the Shah was a good ruler. He was NOT, and he was propped up by US, UK because he was friendly to their interests. That’s the whole problem that is the reason the current regime was put in place in 1979.
Prior to the Shah, Iranians had a better regime but it wasn’t friendly to US, UK interests so was overthrown by the US, UK.
The “lesson learned” should have been that meddling in regime change can result in a worse outcome. US, UK thought the democratically elected regime wasn’t friendly enough to them, they installed the Shah, then ended up instead with an even less friendly regime.
Now we see the Republicans didn’t learn that lesson, because their voters largely don’t know the history. So here we are again, tried to meddle in regime change and likely just made their regime stronger and even less friendly.
Lol. “We couldn’t possibly do the bare minimum and disclose that we’re collecting a shit ton of data about you, so we’d rather just block you”.
How much paid vacation did he get?
A big part of the problem here is this licensed fruit.
It seems like the guy agreed to grow this fruit that needed to be exclusively licensed or you wouldn’t be allowed to grow it.
He also agreed that the company he licensed the fruit from had exclusive rights to buy and market the fruit.
The company with exclusive rights apparently wasn’t paying for all the fruit that was grown. Unclear why.
The jury ruled that the farmer broke the contract, but there’s so much fucked up about the contract to begin with.
If the company didn’t want the fruit, the farmer should be able to sell it or give it away. They decided NOT to exercise their exclusive rights.
And now the trees will be destroyed because they are unlicensed… What a dumb system.
The Garmin vivoactive 5 is the one I was considering since it seems relatively affordable and apparently once the card is on the watch through the Garmin Pay app then it works without the phone being connected.
The reason I’ll never pay Google a subscription fee is because they still spy on you and make money off your data even if you pay them.
The deal is supposed to be either:
OR
Any service that doesn’t fall into one of those two categories can GTFO.
They claim that “well regulated” doesn’t mean “well regulated”. They claim that it means “in good working order”.
I don’t know whether that’s really how the phrase was used at the time, but if they want to play that game… How was the term “arms” used at the time? Did it refer to weapons that can mow down an entire crowd in several minutes with one pull if the trigger?
NFC pay is not ubiquitous enough in my area so I use a phone case that has room for cards. I still need to carry a physical health insurance card and a physical ID as well so my wallet case is not going away. I actually bought a pixel 9 instead of 10 just because my favorite wallet case was available.
I’m considering just getting a Garmin watch that I keep disconnected from my phone to use for NFC pay. Seems like I would be able to set up my cards in Garmin Pay app and then just disconnect it.
It doesn’t even need to be in the store, just let me order one online and check off a “GrapheneOS” box, the same way that I can order a Framework laptop with either Windows or Linux.
But I get your point, I can see how someone could get confused when their phone arrived and required some extra tinkering to get Google stuff to work.
Wouldn’t it be better if it DID? Wouldn’t that get around all the “tamper” detection stuff?
Right now I have Google Play disabled in my owner profile, but it would be nice if apps in secondary profiles could pass the full Play Integrity checks… even though I’m actively trying to transition away from them.
For example Cisco DUO says my device with GrapheneOS installed has been tampered with, and I was hoping that would go away if I could just buy the phone with GrapheneOS installed.
We make no-stir risotto in a Dutch oven, I’m sure a deep-ish cast iron with a lid would work as well. We use a cast iron camping pot from Ozark.
Yeah… for the most part they just double down. You can point out the war in Iran that they supposedly didn’t want, the deficits they supposedly wanted to reduce, the prices that they thought would go down with tariffs somehow, and they will just say that doesn’t matter because the Democrats were going to turn their boys into girls.
The average number of Palestinians killed per day since October 7th, 2023 is around 70. Is he advocating that the Israelis take their foot off the gas a little on their genocide?
I’m in a red region of a blue state. There’s a good amount of Trumpism around. Most people I talk to made it through school without learning history or civics. They don’t understand the economic issues and mostly vote red because they believe that the Democrats want to take their guns away, turn their sons into daughters, or give their money to brown people both at home and abroad.
I guess the only way to be sure is to watch live sporting events. Maybe one of the side effects of this LLM boom is that F1, MLB, NBA, etc will have more viewers.
This is interesting… but I’m not sure if the presence of a leak backs him into a corner. He could even refuse to confirm it’s true once it leaks, which probably would have been the professional way to handle it.
Someone should tell the politicians of both parties that, because they are still bending over for big tech.
Iran elects popular leader who wants oil revenue to benefit his people instead of foreign interests -> US installs the Shah who is unpopular but friendly to US oil interests -> Iranian revolution of 1979 installs the current regime.
And your solution to this is… more regime change? Shouldn’t the US have learned a lesson?
Maybe a more recent lesson would make more sense?
Iraq regime is unfriendly to the US - US takes out Saddam’s regime -> Rise of ISIS -> US has a huge mess to clean up now in both Iraq and Syria -> forever war continues.
At what point do we admit that US interventions probably aren’t a good idea?