“The United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before,” Hegseth told reporters.

I don’t think anybody doubted the US could decimate Iran’s military. But that is a military objective - not a political goal. War is “politics by other means” after all and we have not yet heard a single rational idea for what America’s goal is.

Iran’s military being decimated does nothing for me. What is the goal you sociopath?

Trump: Oh shiny thing over here now!

You’re talking a lot of storage - it might be worth investing in some low-end server hardware. A Dell tower or something, maybe one off eBay if you’re looking to cut costs.

I picked up a PowerEdge T110II a long time ago and it’s been… flawless. Just a simple server with a 4x4TB RAID5. No hardware problems (aside from occasional disk failures over the years), easy to manage. It costs a bit more - but server hardware is often just more reliable and for a NAS that’s job #1. This server just runs.

I just upgraded the memory in it to 32GB for ~$100USD. Before that it had 8GB. I needed more for restic doing backups. I probably could have gotten away with 16GB but I figured I’d max it out for that price.

Because they’ll be in the US and subject to the little king’s ICE secret police?

You think this is the worst that could be done? I admire your optimism.

Iran is showing commendable fighting spirit

And not just against their own citizens.

Man - all these soldiers dying just to make Trump look bad.

Nonetheless, he feels that the bombing campaign is “the price that we should pay to get rid of this monstrous regime.”

Yeah, Trump doesn’t care about that. You could get a worse regime so long as it swears fealty to Trump.

This week - Apache Airflow setup to automate running backups (replacing cron).

Trump, holding a pistol, takes aim at his left foot, shoots, and completely misses. Hits right foot instead.

Also not regime change. But also is regime change. But still not regime change.

He hasn’t yet attacked Greenland or Canada. But he’s been using the fear of that to try to negotiate… Something.

I’m not saying he won’t back it up with craziness, just that he uses fear as a negotiation tactic.

Don’t engage with any moron who thinks “not voting” is a useful strategy to get anything done.

This is their strategy. Make everyone terrified of the administration so they get their way.

Yeah, these “we interviewed the 1 out 10 doctors who think cavities are swell” articles are ridiculous.

If somebody’s not having kids because “nukes” then I suppose I’m happy they’re not reproducing.

Sounds like their goals are to hold up their end of the defense agreement with Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Jordan and Iraq.

Iran has gone nuts. Attacking every and anyone has to be the stupidest response to the US/Israel attacks. They’re going to find zero allies. Though I’m not sure Iran has had a lot of allies in the region to begin with. But there’s a difference between “getting no help” and “now fighting 7 nations rather than 2”.

We? Fuck you Trump, I want my vermut!

Stupid reply.