Irony.

What on earth could Ukraine do that would crater oil prices though? Without a viable options, I think refineries going pop is the best option they have.

I ain’t defending Iran, they ain’t good guys. They just got attacked by worse guys. Probably as a distraction from the ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza.

My personal stance is all war is bad, and I will call out aggressors, because it’s always civilians that bear the brunt of it. Nothing good ever comes from it, and it’ll just harden people and if any bad folk are killed, they’re inevitably replaced with worse.

You’re going to have to elaborate. I need to understand the logical contortion you went through to muster that question…

The UK media did not. It was mentioned they were used but with no judgement one way over another. The amount of UK weapons used to execute civilians, to them this is state normal.

Myanmar are Ethiopia are doing much worse to civilians. Saudi are horrific for rights. Those countries are barely mentioned. It’s not about atrocities. It’s about Western foreign policy.

What?

I didn’t say no problem, I said tolerable. You really need to read the dictionary and understand words. You cannot just interpret things how you feel, rather than what the words mean.

Did you not see how quick policy and media narratives switch. Recently they tried to rehabilitate the Syrian leader, who’s group was allied to American enemies, and all of a sudden, he wasn’t that bad, let’s drop sanctions.

You have to realise that, what is good and bad, and what the media tells you is good and bad are two different things. You have to critically challenge the narratives you’re fed.

I said a few months ago. I’m pretty sure 24+ months doesn’t fall under the categorisation of “a few”. Iran has been barely touched upon for years, and now the headlines are rolling about how horrible they are now there is a war to justify.

Basically nothing for 2 years (the protests ended), and the first term for Trump ended in 2021, so 4 years ago. The only thing I have seen is about arms sales, occasionally and it doesn’t express any opinion other than an Iran drone was used.

In the last few days since the attack, it’s quite a lot about nuclear weapons that may be 2 months, 2 years or a 20 years away, and now about journalists. Basically, the strategy has changed to bumping them up the enemies list to justify the attacks.

We don’t see much about the Syrian leader, as he’s not much of a terrorist now he’s working with the West.

It’s interesting how media can pivot their narratives about who the heroes and villains are at any time, and it’s always in line with government foreign policy.

I said tolerable to the media. Been barely discussed in UK media until Israel attacked them, now they’re scrambling to justify it based on how bad Iran is…

If you read your sources, you’ll realise Palestine is the worst. “Palestine has become the world’s most dangerous state for journalists, as almost 200 reporters were killed in Gaza by the Israeli army over the first 18 months of war, at least 42 of whom were likely killed due to their work. In the West Bank, where journalists were already the victims of abuses by both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli occupying forces, Israeli pressure has intensified since 7 October 2023, with an increase in arrests of reporters and obstructions to their work.”

2 bad guys are fighting it out here. One was an aggressor who started this conflict…

In the UK they were not a problem. Not even discussed until Israel attacked and now they’re scrambling to paint them as the biggest evil to retroactively justify the attacks.

Media freedom is rubbish in Iran. They’re not good guys. However, media is silent on the number of journalists Israel has killed recently, and no, they’re not allowed in Gaza, so the threat of death and lack of freedom seems to apply to the aggressors also.

In reality, they should be clearly communicating this is 2 bad guys fighting this out. It’s obvious who the aggressor is who kicked off another front though.

Israel attacks Iran. Iran which was tolerable to media a few months ago is now the root of all evil.

Talk of manufacturing consent in an unprovoked attack on another country. The scrambling to justify these attacks on Iran is real interesting.

See you tomorrow and the next day for an Iran did this bad thing story. Keep drip feeding that narrative.

Pay more and more people apply. Also fine folk for misuse of emergency number time.

I’m on the 6A. Very happy. It does everything I need. I bank via browser.

My next phone will likely be similar.

My battery would usually be suffering by now. I’m assuming Android bloat was the issue.

Is it in a data centre or someone’s house? If the latter, would they let a stranger in?

Surely they would need a backup and replicate db to so in case of hardware failure they switch over.

Sounds like they could improve their setup.

Too much of a single point of failure.