“alleged”

Palantir is also deep diving into Israeli war crimes, helping to operate the apartheid surveillance and designating women and children as targets for assassinations.

The last years saw up to 50°C in Northern Africa already. This will be the fate of Southern Europe, as the peak temperatures in the center and North of Europe will go to 45°C.

As the mean temperature rises roughly linear, so do the peak temperatures, but at a much faster rate. So 1,5-2°C increase in mean temperature often correspond to 5-7°C increase in peak temperatures.

For new buildings that is already case. For older buildings there is limits to how well you can retrofit them with new heating/cooling/insulation systems. Lots of building are messed up, because changes to insulation and heating/cooling lead to humidity and mold or worse mushrooms.

It really depends on the company. Some look for any way to squeeze you. Others are pretty decent and probably more efficient as they dont waste as many working hours on bullshit claims and claim resolution.

Also if i rent a car i want things to go smoothly. I got places to be. You make my life easy, ill happily pay again and do my best to make yours easy too.

Arguably letting a big weight fall down after being brought into the air somehow is also pyramid age tech.

The US intelligence community kept asserting that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon as late as Spring 2025.

Nothing of this was based on consistent intelligence.

In the late 2000s, for instance, rumors circulated about a bunker in Iran struck by a bunker-buster bomb. The bomb had failed to penetrate—and remained embedded in—the surface of the bunker, presumably until the occupants called in a bomb-disposal team. Rather than smashing through the concrete, the bomb had been unexpectedly stopped dead. The reason was not hard to guess: Iran was a leader in the new technology of Ultra High Performance Concrete, or UHPC, and its latest concrete advancements were evidently too much for standard bunker busters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordow_Fuel_Enrichment_Plant

Construction on the facility started in 2006, but the existence of the enrichment plant was only disclosed to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by Iran on 21 September 2009,[6][7] after the site became known to Western intelligence services. Western officials strongly condemned Iran for not disclosing the site earlier;

Seems to fall into the same timeframe.

It is not that it can do what concrete cannot. It is just that digging a tunnel under a mountain is much easier than making a mountain out of concrete.

It is like a rifle vs. a cannon.

Yes it is functionally the same, but the “bullet” is much much larger.

In other words:

Upholding a rules based international order is actually beneficial, also to the West. By undermining the ICC to parade around the genocidal scumbag Netanyahu, countries like the US, Hungary and Germany are hurting themselves as it grants people like Putin more movement and recognition in the world.

Meanwhile “the global south” has a vested interest in strengthening the ICC and ICJ as these institutions can help bring some balance against the imperial actors who have been suppressing them far too long.

If someone brings up Mongolia because of Putin having visited there, Mongolia is a landlocked country with 3.5 million people, sandwiched between Russia and China. They have very little diplomatic maneuverability.

So far all the other outlets i have seen reported that CNN reported on it. So the interesting bit apparently only is with CNN.

It does contradict the Israel narrative of how they would have things under control.

I think “cash and run” is rather simple minded.

Imagine doing a larger “raid” at a farm or cobstruction site and take tractors, machines and equipment in the hundreds of thousands or even millions…

As these are also in more remote places it would take longer for any responder to arrive.

“We were able to determine that to the best of our estimation he was an ICE agent. … We will not look into it any deeper than that,” he said.

So having a shoddy fake card that looks like it could be real on a shoddy video camera is good enough for the police to not investigate further? Human traffickers must be having a blast in the US right now.

I think it would be trivial for the US to bury some bunkers in the desert, choke them full of cameras and sensors and test their bombs on them.

There is no reason why this kind of weapon would be needed to be “life tested” to understand its effects.

Systems that directly compete with defensive systems, weapons on soldiers, tactics and so on need to be tested in actual combat sure.

The only thjng the US learned here is that Iran is not capable of shooting down B2s, which isnt all that surprising.

For the same reason they are rich. It is a network that is looking out after each other and protecting their class interests. You go there you shake some hands, exchange some numbers and strike a deal or two.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement: “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

Everything else aside. I can’t get over the fact that the White House is now communicating like a teenager getting high with his friends.

Yes i know. But after Iran Israel will move to the next country, most likely an Arab country again, to attack.

War happens, and countries will get flattened within weeks by a coalition

Why didn’t the US and UK and France flatten OPEC at its inception? Why did the US fail in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan?

The military might of the US can flatten a lot, no doubt about it, but it cannot build something to its benefit after, unless it is some smaller countries.

And what happens if the Oil and Gas are cut off to the US and its allies? Even if the US is producing enough by now to cover itself domestically, it would need to jump in for all its allies, unless it wants to loose them. And well, they cannot product this much.