dasdoak.bsky.social
Gentleman adventurer, mostly decent bastard, only slightly pessimistic optimist. I ride bikes, tinker, program, and read way too much.
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"They might have paved Paradise and put up a parking lot, but the parking lot is also Paradise!"
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Which is why you plan in advance.
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We all have slow days, no worries.
Shit, I'm going to have a slow day when my alarm goes off
...in four and a half hours.
I really should go to bed.
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Most Latin Americans are Catholic, and Latin Americans are the people *primarily* being targeted by ICE at present.
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It does help that, this go-round, the primary groups being persecuted are Catholics.
Of course, it also helps that Leo XIV seems to have more moral clarity and urgency than Pius XII did.
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She actually went far enough up the alley that, on my first pass, I missed her completely. I had to go back and try again before I managed to catch her.
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Anyways, Morrison is just as simple; drive a few miles to Federal Center, get on the W, transfer to the A at Union Station, and then take it the rest of the way to the airport.
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Sorry, that transfer happens at Union station. My mistake
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For Highlands Ranch, drive ~5-6 miles to the Ridgeway Park and Ride, park in a multi-story garage that will protect your car from the weather for $4 a day, pay $2.75 for a 3-hour ticket, get on the E, transfer to the A at Auraria West, and then go straight to the airport. No traffic.
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Did you just completely miss the part where I said "build a train"?
In Denver, you can park at any of the park-and-rides in the entire city for up to 30 days, and the park-and-ride parking fee *plus* the train ticket to the airport is going to be less than literally any airport parking.
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People who complain about Jar Jar Binks forget that, while he isn't a racist caricature, C-3PO is, unquestionably, the most annoying character in the entire series.
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I'm just referring to the practical implications of having a large city's airport out in the boonies as far from the city as possible. It's objectively better for everyone to *not* have the major source of noise and air pollution located in the middle of the city like LAX, LAS, PHX, MDW, DCA, etc.
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lol, I just posted something to basically the same effect:
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But let's remember that this is Trump's White House; it's entirely possible that Trump forgot or didn't realize that he allowed coordination with the Israelis for this strike, the coordination happened without his knowledge, or he's just lying, and any combination of those is about equally possible.
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Meh, we'll see where the reporting lands on this ultimately - assuming we ever get a good answer. Regardless, my key point remains; this changes the game for Iran in ways that will ultimately be *very* bad for Israel.
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The reporting I've read suggests that Trump said "don't do it" - because he *really* wants a big, shiny deal somewhere given the abject failure of his tariff negotiations, which gives the Israelis even more incentive to wreck it because it's likely he was going to give away a lot to get it.
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There are the domestic considerations for Netanyahu that you mentioned as well - but the key part of the overreach imho is that, prior to this, Iranian leadership didn't think that Israel was going to try and kill them in their beds and, now that they have that fear, the game changes for *them*.
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Iran doesn't have a nuke, isn't close to one, and was about to enter into negotiations with the US TOMORROW for ending their program. This is about keeping Iran from normalizing relations, much as 10/7 was - in part - an attempt by Hamas to keep Israel from normalizing with Saudi Arabia.
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The strikes going well might prolong Netanyahu's survival, but having it devolve into the slog necessary for regime change ultimately imperils his survival; he thinks he can knock Iran around a little and that'll help keep him safe for a bit longer.
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My take is that Israel doesn't really think this is an existential conflict and they're just trying to do their "you put one of ours in the hospital we'll put one of yours in a morgue" routine, while Iran's leadership is realizing that it actually is existential - for them.
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Fun how, the minute you think through applying *most* anarchic scenarios to the US as it currently exists, it almost instantly turns into a speedrun of Coventry.
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They're demanding that she lead us while still being completely unwilling to support her leadership or grant her the power to lead.
Sounds about right.
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One of the problems with treating non-existential conflicts as though they are existential is that, eventually, the other party in the conflict realizes it is actually existential *for them*.
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And, because Israel has been seemingly laser-focused on alienating its allies, there's a good that that, when it's finally facing a competent connection of Arab states, it'll be doing so alone and under sanctions.
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The problem is that, the longer this goes on and the clearer a threat Israel becomes, the greater the incentive becomes for those states to get their shit together per the general theory of Fuck That Guy.
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Hey, you might've just been on one side of a large rotating counterweight station! Did you check for the Coriolis Effect when you were pouring your coffee?
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Yup. The real shame is that, if we'd done nothing, there's a good chance Saddam would've gotten the boot during the Arab Spring.
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And because DEN is in the middle of nowhere *miles* outside the city when you get off the train and walk around the city, you aren't surrounded by the sound of airplanes taking off and landing.
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Damn good show.
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Yup. The Air Force is also concerned with maintaining human-compatible pressure vessels, but for far shorter periods of time, and only if there's steak and fresh salad waiting for them at the end of the day.
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On which topic:
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Plus, the Marines are probably the only branch crazy enough to shoot guns when *everything* is a pressure vessel, including themselves.
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The only duty station worse than Thule. At least until we get to Mars.
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Yup. It's entirely possible that Israel may have triggered the general theory of Fuck That Guy for basically every Arab-majority state. Given that the IDF has been running *hard* for the last year and a half, there's a good chance this goes much worse than 1967 if it continues escalating.
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Here's Google's translation:
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No, it doesn't matter because Zohran's statement was made on October 8th, *AFTER* Israelis had started killing Palestinians in Gaza again.
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Of course, if you aren't a psychopath, you will recognize that killing large numbers of civilians is bad, when Zohran made his statement, *both* Israeli and Palestinian civilians have been killed, and it was worthwhile to mourn *all* of those deaths.
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Oh, then if it's OK to murder civilians in retaliation, I suppose you must support Hamas' actions on October Seventh as they were in retaliation for multiple crimes against Palestinians by Israelis, which they listed and which you can go read!
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For all your talk about erasure of Hamas' culpability, you sure as hell are erasing the fact that Israel was killing Gazans by the hundreds before the sun rose on October 8th.
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Israel had already killed more than 400 Palestinians in Gaza by the time he made this statement! The Israelis had already started airstrikes ON THE 7th!
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However, this distracts from the key point of Zohran's statement; at the time he gave it it was clear that Israel had mopped up the Hamas fighters and was preparing for a truly devastating punitive attack on Gaza - which is why he spends most of the statement asking for the killing to stop!
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Similarly, it was "Obama's drone strikes," "Clinton bombing Yugoslavia", etc. The language is *extremely* flexible and always has been.
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God, you just keep digging, don't you? We blame political actors within democratic states for specific state actions *ALL THE TIME* - to use a key example, it was *very* common to describe the second Iraq war as "Bush's war" because of how incredibly tied to it he was.
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If you're going to use the IR meaning of "Polity" it *primarily* is about groups self-organized around a specific identity; i.e. the Kurds are a polity, Evangelical Christians in the US are a polity, etc.