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#51
Aneristic Illusions / Re: How Not to Actually Win a ...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - March 01, 2026, 01:40:11 PMI don't know where this is going. But, it brings back memories of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis:
As per this article:
"Tensions with Cuba ratcheted up after Cuban forces this week killed four exiles and wounded six others who sailed into Cuban waters aboard a Florida-registered speedboat and opened fire on a Cuban patrol. Rubio denied it was a U.S. operation and said no U.S. government personnel were involved.
The incident took place as the United States has blocked virtually all oil shipments to the island, increasing pressure on the Communist government. Last month, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, removing a key Cuban ally from power.
"Rubio has railed against the Cuban government in recent weeks, calling the status quo there unsustainable, and saying Cuba needed to change "dramatically."
Cuban exiles who are largely concentrated in Miami have long dreamed of overthrowing the Cuban government or seeing it fall and have in the past plotted against the government that was established by the late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
Trump mentioned the large Cuban community, saying a takeover of Cuba by the U.S. could be "something good ... very positive" for people who had been expelled from the country.
"We have people living here that want to go back to Cuba, and they're very happy with what's going on," he said."
And, I don't remember the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis as being 'friendly' historical events.
The POSOTUS has driven his crazy train off the rails.
As per this article:
"Tensions with Cuba ratcheted up after Cuban forces this week killed four exiles and wounded six others who sailed into Cuban waters aboard a Florida-registered speedboat and opened fire on a Cuban patrol. Rubio denied it was a U.S. operation and said no U.S. government personnel were involved.
The incident took place as the United States has blocked virtually all oil shipments to the island, increasing pressure on the Communist government. Last month, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, removing a key Cuban ally from power.
"Rubio has railed against the Cuban government in recent weeks, calling the status quo there unsustainable, and saying Cuba needed to change "dramatically."
Cuban exiles who are largely concentrated in Miami have long dreamed of overthrowing the Cuban government or seeing it fall and have in the past plotted against the government that was established by the late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
Trump mentioned the large Cuban community, saying a takeover of Cuba by the U.S. could be "something good ... very positive" for people who had been expelled from the country.
"We have people living here that want to go back to Cuba, and they're very happy with what's going on," he said."
And, I don't remember the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis as being 'friendly' historical events.
The POSOTUS has driven his crazy train off the rails.
#52
Aneristic Illusions / Re: How Not to Actually Win a ...
Last post by Faust - February 28, 2026, 09:08:16 PMIran has a lot of problems, but this is pointless murder of civilians. Firing missles blindly into residential targets and schools killing children isnt going to overthrow the government. Nor will calling on its citizens, they are not armed, trained and have very in the little in the way of of resources to combat their government. Any protests have just led to deaths in the thousands.
This accomplishes nothing.
This accomplishes nothing.
#53
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Yoon Suk Yeol has been rem...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - February 28, 2026, 07:12:33 PMSouth Korea could give 'Merica lessons in how democracy is supposed to work.
#54
Aneristic Illusions / How Not to Actually Win a Nobe...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - February 28, 2026, 05:10:25 PMNot long ago, I hesitated to start this thread. Unfortunately, its time has come.
Words can not describe my disgust that the POSOTUS and his Republicult™ have once again allowed a foreign war criminal to dictate America's foreign policy. Tuesday, November 3, 2026, can not get here fast enough.
Words can not describe my disgust that the POSOTUS and his Republicult™ have once again allowed a foreign war criminal to dictate America's foreign policy. Tuesday, November 3, 2026, can not get here fast enough.
#55
Literate Chaotic / Re: Five word horror
Last post by Abbot Mythos - February 27, 2026, 07:09:45 PM
#56
Bring and Brag / Re: Favorite Sentences Megathr...
Last post by Maerman - February 26, 2026, 06:37:03 AM"Never stop thinking about the thing with which you think."
#57
Apple Talk / Re: ABSOLUTE CHAOS
Last post by Doktor Howl - February 25, 2026, 10:15:44 PMQuote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 05, 2017, 04:13:58 AMNext bad science project Dave and I have been handed is data infrastructure collapse. At what point does miniaturization of electronics - combined with traffic - overload the error-correcting firmware that prevents random bit-flipping (by background radiation, etc)?
We are of course not expected to answer this myself. We're supposed to nominate a team of experts that will answer it.
So I told them to get one electronic engineer and a couple of epidemiologists. This was questioned, but it's a propagation problem, and epidemiologists are the correct type of mathematician for this, I think.
Dave is panicking because he's an environmental engineer and this isn't about water. But I'm starting to believe that problem solving isn't based on any one discipline, but instead on finding the right discipline for the job and then, unreasonably, letting them do their work. What he isn't seeing is that this isn't about he and I answering problems, but instead getting the answers and then distributing them.
Plus maybe we help some grad students with their advanced degrees and also with the whole starving to death thing.
I think this was the greatest learning moment of my career.
#58
Apple Talk / Re: Jim, please pick up line t...
Last post by Doktor Howl - February 25, 2026, 08:50:43 PM8 years later. 
#59
Apple Talk / Re: Woooooo
Last post by Doktor Howl - February 25, 2026, 08:47:22 PMBump to listen to this later tonight
#60
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Money Can't Buy Class - Ex...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - February 25, 2026, 03:18:35 PMThe POSOTUS set a new low with his SOTU performance last night. Other than writing this, I'm at a loss for words.