Really though? When push comes to shove we see them grovel at his feet. Just look at the embarrassment that is Denmark pledging its loyalty to the US and surrendering Greenland.

Loopholes implies rules and laws. It’s abundantly clear that those don’t exist. They have long been a fiction wielded by “the west” against “lesser” states. Iran is trying to ensure its own survival against a determined aggressor. It seems to me that they have been very measured in their self defense. You and anyone else concerned about the flow of oil are better off pressuring the the countries responsible for the situation, than complaining that Iran isn’t capitulating. But hey, you made your choice to be a salty asshole. You’re an adult, and you knew where that would lead you. Take your lumps and get a bicycle, I guess.

Iran is using the leverage it has. Whereas the US can project its destructive power around the globe to slaughter wholesale political leaders and schoolchildren alike, Iran can close a trade corridor. Iran says, “we are under attack. No ships shall pass through these waters. Any attempting will be fired upon.” Before Iran was attacked, there was no restriction on navigation through the SOH. If they didn’t restrict this traffic, they would have about zero leverage to negotiate. Blame the US for creating this situation, and refusing to uphold reasonable agreements.

Then I’m sure this project will be forked by slop kiddies and go on to be very successful!

I mean the US is? I’m sure they are assisting (as is Europe) with intelligence/targeting. I’m saying, that all seems to be working fine as evidenced by so many successful strikes in Russian territory. The one thing that Ukraine desperately needs is air defence, and we’ve used it all up losing a fight with Iran! Look, fucckk Trump. He’s a total piece of shit. But the reality of his policy towards Ukraine isn’t much different from what Biden’s was. It seems pretty clear to me that US policy is to maintain a stalemate in Ukraine. They like keeping Russia bogged down, and the MIC making money.

And I’m asking: how? What actually, could Trump do differently? As I said, there’s nothing left to sanction. Ukraine is able to project attacks against valuable Russian assets. It looks to me that what Ukraine is lacking is missile/drone defense which just doesn’t exist. I mean maybe Trump could take them away from Israel, but good luck with that!

You’re the one asking Trump to “dooo something”. Trump doesn’t give a shit about Ukraine. He’s scapegoating Zelensky over high fuel costs, that he’s caused himself by fucking around with Iran.

In what way could the US pressure Russia that it isn’t already doing? There are sanctions on top of sanctions. Ukraine seems to have plenty of offensive weapons, and the thing they do need (Patriot missiles) are globally in short supply.

In what way do the Houthis qualify as “Isis” that the Saudis do not?

I had some issues with config changes, but it’s working now :)

Go out to the bar!

Evil empire.

Running server backs up to two local disks which can each hold 2 days at a time, but they both hold the same 2 days. Every night the most recent backup is uploaded offsite (friend’s house) where is stored versions in a normal scheme.

https://doc.yunohost.org/en/dev/packaging/

Looks really cool. I’ve been using own tracks with Nextcloud, but it’s not very reliable, especially with my wife’s iPhone. Unfortunately for me, Reitti hasn’t been packaged for Yunohost yet, but I will keep an eye on it!

I’m from a navy base hospital!

How can you say this about industry, but not something already publicly owned, like police, fire departments or military? And yes, yes, I know how well some of those are run, BUT, would they be better under private control? Hell no. In fact, I’m pretty sure they’d be better without the corrupting influence private wealth has on our political system.

I got into Linux while earning a degree in social sciences. That led to self-hosting, which later led me to a job in IT.

Death to Israel. May we all live to see its destruction.

The way that I handled this, was to get a $5 VPS, and have it proxy all my traffic over wireguard. Your DNS records (and SSL cert) all point to the VPS public IP address. IPtables rules route all relevant traffic.