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The US could take over Iran easily but it’d require a full ground invasion and political will that isn’t there. There’d be videos on socials of US soldiers getting blown to bits by drones which would be a disaster for the republicans.

Without that, to keep the Strait closed all Iran has to do is keep the threat active which isn’t very costly comparatively.

And even with that, they’d need a continued presence indefinitely or they’d just hand it back to them when they left like they did with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

They’ve also spent generations compartmentalising and decentralising their command structures in preparation for this war so for every commander they kill a new one pops up to replace them.

We’re in a very dangerous position right now. If the Strait stays closed it will cause a global depression within a few months. China gets 35% of its energy through the straight and could pass advanced targeting data + supersonic anti-ship missiles to Iran to enable them to clear the blockade. Who knows how Trump would respond to that. Apparently he’s already written a letter to Xi asking him to pls not do that 😂

China would much prefer to do nothing of course but if they’re backed into a corner all bets are off.

There are multiple factions in Iran, and it seems the main one isn’t for backing down so we need Trump to be able to frame his defeat as a win somehow and fuck off before this gets really messy.

On Russia, it has a smaller GDP than Italy and it’s not just competing against Ukraine but Ukraine + support from Europe and partial support from the US depending on Trumps mood.

On both fronts it has created a rallying around the flag effect where the threat is existential to the population. That is very hard to beat.

Trump and his minions were hoping for a rebellion they could back/support in Iran - but instead the natives are surrounding power plants and acting as human shields.

20 years ago, almost to the hour, (only remember as it was a long Easter weekend), I’d sat up from the Thursday night and had worked my way through ~40 Shrek 2 ecstasy tablets over that timespan. It was later reported in the papers they were adulterated with methamphetamine. Which explains why we were hiding in a closet watching every fault on the wall turn into some sort of insect and scurry away.

But the real killer was the gravity bongs with cheap hash (there was literal bits of plastic bags in it as filler). On my 10th one or so I got kicked back out my body like I’d just been hadoukened by The Ancient One and was in some plane in space where I could see all my memories like wee tv screens. I was pulled back into the current timeline and was hovering just above my body for a second before being jolted back in.

I immediately had excruciating pain in my wrists and it felt like invisible inter-dimensional chains were being dragged through them. Not metaphorically. It felt mechanical. Deliberate. But the worst bit was the time loops. The same minute kept repeating for what felt like an eternity, I could see time rewinding and it’d repeat the same minute again and again and again until I realised I had free will and told my cousin to phone and ambulance before I jumped out the window to break the loop.

And that kids, is how I got persistent hallucinogenic perception disorder and about a decade of sleep paralysis (every night).

Clickbait, they aren’t stopping anyone from leaving the country and it’s not new.

Don’t worry it’s not as close as the popsci blogs would like you to believe.

This meme was brought to you by the Chilean gang

Probably a myth but interesting none the less:

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/the-pharaohs-daughter-who-was-the-mother-of-all-scots-2507668

Scota, Iberia, Gaels, and Brutus for Britain

If we treat the medieval origin legends as literal history, the story goes far beyond just Scota — it ties the Gaelic and British peoples into a single sweeping migration narrative that connects Biblical, Egyptian, Scythian, Iberian, and Celtic threads.

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📜 Medieval Storyline with Sources and Dates

1. Historia Brittonum (c. 830)

This early British text, attributed to Nennius, combines the Scota legend with another powerful myth: that Britain itself was named after Brutus of Troy, the great-grandson of the Trojan hero Aeneas. According to this version, Brutus fled Troy after its fall, wandered through the Mediterranean, and finally landed in Albion (Britain), naming it after himself and becoming its first king.

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1. Lebor Gabála Érenn (11th century)

This “Book of Invasions” describes how Scota, daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh, married Niul, who was connected to the legendary linguist Fenius Farsaidh. Their son, Goídel Glas, supposedly created the Gaelic language.

This Gaelic line migrated through Scythia and eventually reached Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal). In the myth, the people named the region Iberia after a leader named Ith, or in some versions, the name connects back to these same wandering Gaelic ancestors. From Iberia, the Milesians — Scota’s descendants — sailed to Ireland and Scotland, conquering the land and giving their name, Gaels (from Goídel Glas), to the people and Scotia (from Scota) to the land.

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🌍 How Names Were “Transferred”

🏰 Iberia
• In these legends, the Gaelic ancestors settled in Iberia before Ireland. Some texts claim the region took its name from Ith, a Milesian scout and leader, though historians see this as an invented connection.
• This narrative frames the Iberian Peninsula as a stepping stone on the Gaelic migration path, reinforcing their ancient, far-ranging pedigree.

🏰 Gaels
• The people are said to take their name directly from Goídel Glas, Scota’s son, who created the Gaelic language by mixing tongues during his wanderings.
• “Gael” became synonymous with the Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking peoples, while “Scoti” or “Scotia” tied the name back to Scota herself.

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⚔️ Brutus and Britain
• In parallel, the Historia Brittonum and later Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae (12th century) tell how Brutus, the Trojan exile, landed in Britain and founded a new kingdom.
• The legend says Albion was renamed Britannia after Brutus, giving the people their name — Britons.
• Together, Brutus for Britain and Scota for Scotia formed a matched pair of noble origin myths that linked the whole British Isles to classical and Biblical civilizations.

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🏺 Local “Evidence” and Sites
• For Scota, places like Scota’s Grave at Slieve Mish in County Kerry are shown as proof she died fighting for the Milesians’ conquest of Ireland.
• Some local traditions claim wells, hills, and burial mounds mark her passage.
• For Brutus, the supposed site of his landing is sometimes pointed out around Totnes, Devon, or other coastal locations in southern England.

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✅ If Taken as “True”

All of this together forms a grand medieval framework:
• The Gaels trace their name to Goídel Glas, their land to Scota, and their early migrations through Scythia and Iberia.
• The Britons claim descent from Brutus, a Trojan prince.
• Both peoples are woven into a mythic genealogy that connects them to Egypt, Troy, Spain, and the Biblical world, boosting the prestige of medieval Irish and British kings by tying them to ancient global empires.

While modern historians and geneticists view these as legendary rather than literal, they remain some of the most powerful origin stories in medieval Celtic and British tradition.

I would imagine they all have busses? All rural areas in Scotland do at least.

And rural areas tend to be situated around villages with main streets - rather than random houses built outwards.

The people it would trigger would though.

Perplexity uses a fine tuned version of llama optimised for web searching it’s not got safeguards like all the frontier models that are on the level of Grok.

No, babies suck the first year.

Try some granola

Fun fact, this is the only conservative band or artist that could arguably be considered “good”

Ok try it and take a screenshot.

You shouldn’t as that’s not how the models respond.

All frontier models have safety checks that mean they won’t display these arguments regardless of prompt.

Not gatekeeping at all, they didnt try and enter the gate.

You however, are lucky your patter is atrocious.

What the fuck are you talking about, I didn’t dismiss or invalidate any experiences. The view he expressed is wrong and problematic. Get a grip Jesus Christ, blocked so you never waste my time with such pish again.

You have a very poor understanding of what ADHD is.

Why don’t you?