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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • So the USA want to turn everyone against them? There are insufficient amount of resources outside the Gulf and this move will only further reduce the amount of goods available. The US “allies” will compete directly with US citizens for resources, the neutral great powers will have even more incentive to directly help Iran break US arm force and reduce the US capacity and all the rest of the world (the global South) will further destabilized and hate the US cause they’re causing greater suffering. Even without sinking a single US ship. If Iran can stop everything from moving through the strait the US will keep sinking further into crisis. This is an insane move that doesn’t solve the fundamental problem and will backfire hugely soon.



  • You don’t need the original anymore. Majority of the original are just encrypted (DRMed) .awz, .pdf or whatever the publisher gave to Amazon. After you’ve done dedrm you should have the same content as original files. Storing all those working files just fill up your disks. Now there’s a potential loss in quality if Amazon or other online distributor do some type of optimization to the original files they received, which they do for a lot of manga, but there’s nothing you can do about that one besides not buying it from that reseller again.







  • Having a toll booth at Hormuz in any capacity would be the goal for Iran that would made any other points kinda moot in the long term. Here is a short list of some of the impacts:

    • Erode the power of the petrodollar collapsing the US empire economy
    • Allow Iran to basically circumvent any sanctions place on them since they can just take that back as toll
    • De-legitimized the gulf monarchies and allow Iran to build up friendly group inside those states
    • Place other gulf nations economic control in the hand of Iran and thus boost their ability to build up friendly forces there
    • Threaten the US and any hostile states intervention in the gulf states since those states will have tons of people depending on Iran

    With that kinda power in hand even if the US and occupied Palestine want to keep their bases and vassals in the gulf, it would just be a losing battle since the population will be hostile and cost of maintenance will be lopsidedly expensive.


  • The UN and what army’s gonna remove that toll booth on Hormuz? the UN is just a negotiation platform for the great powers. If China and Russia decide to keep out of this or just backing Iran under the table, the only army left would be whatever the US and their coalitions can muster, and that one is failing miserably for now. As for why won’t the toll booth be gone ‘after’ the war, when will the war actually end? what if one side just go home and never announce the end of the conflict? what if a state no longer exist and a bunch of smaller states just continue fighting? what if both states cease fire indefinitely but never negotiate? Are we even at war yet when the USA haven’t officially announced that they are at war? The war only truly end only when the material difference in Iran or the West have been substantially difference and both side can negotiate some actual agreeable deals.





  • Yeah, there’s a lot of niche software for specific needs that’s doesn’t have alternative or have subpar alternatives on Linux. Even as a full-time Linux users and supporter, I still have to acknowledge that the amount of investments gone into enterprise stuff over the year have basically made switching from Windows for a lot of professions almost impossible. Unless we start having more funding and development from state actors, the market share of OS won’t change significantly anytime soon.


  • I was in Sichuan just this Lunar New Year for a tour and the whole time I have to have my caffeine addiction fixed by either instant coffee I bagged myself or tea. Almost nobody drink coffee over there. There are some coffee shops here and there in tourist attractions but I wasn’t able to locate a place that can make a stiff cup of Joe, most are bland instant coffee like water with milk. Supposedly you would have more luck with that going somewhere more south east and closer to Vietnam