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AntV   
24 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

You are talking to a Michigander now Mr. Boastful

To a feeble-minded Michigander, my Buckeye elegance and savant like talent may seem boastful, but, in truth, my humility is so profound and deep that I'd blush at even thinking about mentioning my aforementioned qualities.

Detroit's population has increased in the past two years

No kidding? I guess I stand corrected. Good for Detroit. Still, Boise's better.

That was some great writing

Very kind of you.
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

This makes me think the Iranian foreign ministry guy was telling the truth

EDIT:

I'm not so sure. Why the decoy to the west out of Whitehead, then?
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@Bobko

Trump's a different animal. Good play by him, IMO. He knows it was nothing but a face saving move on Iran's part and it was feeble. It's kind of a backhand slap to Iran. Nobody trolls like the Trumpster.

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AntV   
23 Jun 2025
Travel / Traveling! What to do in Warsaw and Krakow? [39]

😂. Thanks, I appreciate the input. The Reera will come in handy for the family outing to Fordow and Natanz. Recommend any beaches while we're there?
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
Travel / Traveling! What to do in Warsaw and Krakow? [39]

We'll be in Poland in a couple weeks. Looking at cars to rent while we are there. The Peugeot 208 keeps popping up.

Anyone familiar with this car? Would it fit 5 people and 3 carry on bags and one bigger piece of luggage?
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Breaking:

President Trump, who never ever speaks in grandiose or embellished terms, has reported that Iran and Israel have agreed to a complete and total ceasefire.

You think Russia is giving Iran some cover? Or, maybe, Pooty-Poot told the Grand Ayatollah, "I'd love to help ya, but I'm tapped. Good luck!" Or some other iteration?
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Is then this really the best time to bomb Iran?

With such profound musings, I see you are currently atop the Throne of Deliberation.

But to answer your question:
What I mean - is why does a kid born in the inner city of Detroit face a 10X higher potential mortality than a white kid in Boise, Idaho?

The kid in Boise is somewhere in the neighborhood of 40x more likely to grow up with both parents in the home.

Boise's population is growing, while Detroit's is declining. So, yes, it's a good time to bomb Iran. Not that I've concluded we should've done such yet; although, I'm leaning towards thumbs up.
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [844]

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23 Jun 2025
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23 Jun 2025
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23 Jun 2025
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23 Jun 2025
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AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@Bobko

Mmm...hmmm. Nice cover Wasilly..um, I mean, Bobko Bobkovich. 😀
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Who you think I am when you say "anyone else

Well, let's be real, we know that after your day job of investing capital in promising going-concerns, your real job starts.

Typical Bobi post 9-5 evening:

A trip to the Upper Eastside for a dinner with monied well-connected patricians whose surnames have become brands within the market of influence. You beguile them with your erudition-with how you seamless knit together a tapestry of early 20th century Icelandic literature, Bantu philosophy (who even knew such existed), the effects of Polynesian economic policy on the common fruit fly population in the Pacific, and the octatonic scale used by Russian composers of tonal music.

After the upper crusted have been properly seduced, you excuse yourself and make your way down to the Village to a small warehouse flat owned by the former Tom Schmidt who now goes by GLOM to meet up with post-modern and anarchist artists from Bushwick and DUMBO. Here you explore and strategize how their talents can be used for certain political means.

It's about 9:15 pm now, so you hail a taxi and make your way to the Financial District to have a drink or two with your heavily intoxicated banking contacts. This is the part of the evening you hate most as these guys lack the remotest hint of elan.

You purify yourself by heading over to Alphabet City to listen to poetry and plant ideas. The underground has ears in the Alphabet.

On your way home, you stroll the John Finley not just to soak in the East River, but to retrieve a tightly wrapped inconspicuous package.

You arrive home tired. Rub your eyes. Open the laptop tucked in the floorboard in your closet. Enter your vpn password. Write and send your daily dispatch to your Kremlin handlers.

So, considering the above, I thought maybe, just maybe, every now-and-again you receive a dispatch coming the other way.
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [844]

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AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@Bobko

I see. Putin has said Russia is taking steps to help the Iranian people. Any word in Russian media or anyone else what steps he means?
From Dresden and Hamburg, to Tokyo, to Ho Chi Minh City.

...to Kyiv.

But, I wonder if Israel knows something us mere mortals don't...I mean, Mossad is pretty crafty and treacherous.
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

This may mean that Medvedev's rant isn't just bluster, and that there truly was minimal damage.

His bluster was to arm Iran with nukes, so that may mean significant damage was done? IAEA believes highly probable Fordow suffered significant damage.

Just read in WSJ that Israel is now hitting symbolic targets to message to the Iranian people the regime is weak.
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23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [844]

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23 Jun 2025
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23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

while sitting on the toilet,

You mean the Throne of Deliberation.

Anyway - just very curious.

Me too. Too many unknowns right now for a declaration of victory.

It seems Israel had well placed intel assets in Iran, so the location of these strikes may be dead on.

The only ones who know for sure the damage done are the Iranians on site.
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / An average brain weight by ethnicity/nation [36]

Nah, both software and hardware are important. You're only saying that because you have a smaller brain lol!

Dammit, Iron! You had an opening for a clever putdown and you screwed it up. You started off with some promise then you went banal.

You've got such promise, Iron, such promise. A little better work effort and you could make it to the Majors.
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23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [844]

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23 Jun 2025
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23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / An average brain weight by ethnicity/nation [36]

@Torq

Now that's some stuff right there.

But, fellas, it's not the weight of the brain that matters but the efficiency if its circuitry. Think about the comparison of a 2 ton mainframe computer from back in the day to a lightweight idiotphone that fits in your pocket, which is more powerful? Hence, the white American brain coming in so light. It's nimble, not clunky. Quick, not sluggish. Trim, not obese.

The French, Nips, AfAms, and Ozzies are light because they are indeed inferior. Like a bunch of underdeveloped pygmies...no offense to pygmies.
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [844]

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23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

According to Iran, their enriched uranium was moved before the recent attack

That's why this victory lap is premature. Only time will tell how successful this mission was.

Satellite showed a lengthy line of cargo trucks outside the Fordow site just last week.
Now, what do posters here think about the risk of a dirty bomb

I'd think the regime would have to go into deep hiding, then. Their heads will not be attached to their bodies for much longer if they did something like that. The response from US or Israel would be horrible and devastating.
AntV   
23 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@Bobko

Yes, it can be destructive-not only to others but America as well, see Iraq.

But mostly the things you highlight are not much different than other countries...to varying degrees.

I'd disagree about America doing anything to protect its boys. I've been around a lot of soldiers and marines who were in Iraq or Afghanistan. Most of them griped about the engagement rules and restrictions put on them to prevent collateral damage or death of innocent civilians. Some of what they described was insane and completely the opposite of doing everything to protect the American soldier or marine.
AntV   
22 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@Bobko

Interesting enough, I too don't want us the bomb whoever we want whenever we want...remember I'm an American Catholic (notice I didn't say a Carholic American). I'm not certain bombing the Iranian nuke sights were the right thing to do i'm still thinking it through.

Where we disagree is the bully thing. I don't think we act as a bully, we act like all other countries: to further our interests. The difference is our economic and military power projects more boldly which may give off the patina of bullying.

I'll go even further and say that more times than not our projection has a residual effect that benefits others-obviously not all benefit, but most do.

But then again, maybe I'm blinded by the glare of Old Faithful and am more naive than your cold war style wishes.