circuscritic

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It's not getting passed in Congress specifically because Trump told Thune that he would publicly go after any Republicans who supported it.

I think I read reporting where he even asked Thune for names of any of the Senators who supported the idea behind closed doors, but I could be mistaken on the part, so definitely don't take my word on that specific detail.

For those confused, they're basically saying that if America tries to seize any of its Islands, or attack its coast, they won't just close the strait, they will mine the entire Persian Gulf, which has many ships currently loitering waiting for the straight to open.

They also claim to have mines that they can simply drop from their own coastline, which will then subsequently travel into the the Gulf. Which is entirely plausible.

The environmental damage will be catastrophic from all of the blown up oil tankers still in the Gulf, and those oil tankers are not easily replaceable for the shipping companies, so even more medium term economic damage will be added to the pile as a result.

I think there is some limited truth in this.

I think what really happened is that Iran and the GCC countries had conversations, where Iran confirmed their position, and the GCC countries relayed to Trump that they will default on every single financial obligation they have to him personally, once their countries are made unlivable.

So in a way, there was a negotiation, just not directly.

You were calling them mad in the context of geopolitical strategic thought i.e. madman theory, and that's just not true.

If you need evidence that they are thoughtful and measured, then just look at this war and how it's playing out.

And if you need more evidence, please read all of the reporting regarding the latest rounds of negotiations that Trump sabotaged.

Those are not the actions of mad men.

I use Fedora, and honestly, I'm not even going to look for alternatives or work arounds unless and until my system actually tries to verify my age.

But that's good to know, thank you. I imagine that if I do have to dump Fedora, I will probably go to an Arch based system purely for the AUR.

As someone who has used Linux for over a decade, I have no idea how I would even go about replacing Systemd on my computer; even if I wanted to.

Ageless Linux, now that's something I can get behind: a script that I don't understand, to accomplish something I think I might need, or just think is neat.

Unfortunately, I don't use a Debian based distro, so I'm SOL on that front as well.