The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
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Love watching these WIRED expert interviews. This one was specially educational, 10/10.
Part I:
Spoiler
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On 6/26/2025 at 5:25 PM, Matt! said:"Most complex and secretive military operation in history". This just proves that Pete knows absolutely nothing about U.S. military operations - from D-Day, Desert Storm to the Bin Laden raid and modern-day black ops.
TBH all the trash talking, fraud and boasting makes them look weak and fearful rather than strong, like they are covering up a scam.
I think the claims that the Iranians are very close to the bomb are questionable. Both the US/Israel constantly claim a nuclear iran for 30 years. Also dubious is the claim that the targets they went after are the keys to final victory. The country is large and very mountainous, did they check every nook & cranny?
Also Israel claimed that they killed 30 top leaders and scientists, the majority of them without proof.
In less than 2 weeks, Israel has claimed $12 billion dollars of damages and war expenses so far, and this is on top of whatever the US spent to support their offensive.
If Israel claim this than the real number is probably way higher. I see some analysts estimate 40-25 billion dollars of expenditure/losses:
What is more interesting is how Iran is relatively quiet and unaggressive outside of firing 550+ missiles at Israel, outside the Ayatollah's communication. They can rightfully claim that they won this round, they absorbed what the US-Israel did and they got Trump to ceasefire.
Overall it is likely that Israel and the US threw in the towel when they realized the cost of defending against those missiles.
Iran foreign minister tweeted a threat to Trump.., also Iran sent officials to China.
9 hours ago, Cult Icon said:TBH all the trash talking, fraud and boasting makes them look weak and fearful rather than strong, like they are covering up a scam.
I think the claims that the Iranians are very close to the bomb are questionable. Both the US/Israel constantly claim a nuclear iran for 30 years. Also dubious is the claim that the targets they went after are the keys to final victory. The country is large and very mountainous, did they check every nook & cranny?
Also Israel claimed that they killed 30 top leaders and scientists, the majority of them without proof.
In less than 2 weeks, Israel has claimed $12 billion dollars of damages and war expenses so far, and this is on top of whatever the US spent to support their offensive.
If Israel claim this than the real number is probably way higher. I see some analysts estimate 40-25 billion dollars of expenditure/losses:
What is more interesting is how Iran is relatively quiet and unaggressive outside of firing 550+ missiles at Israel, outside the Ayatollah's communication. They can rightfully claim that they won this round, they absorbed what the US-Israel did and they got Trump to ceasefire.
Overall it is likely that Israel and the US threw in the towel when they realized the cost of defending against those missiles.
Agreed. The USA and Israel have been claiming since 1995 that Iran is just months/weeks away from obtaining a nuclear bomb, and that was the narrative again this time. My wild guess is that Bibi has some kind of leverage over Donald the butler, which pushed him to act now.
Where did you get the $25-40B estimate? The article’s estimate is more conservative between $3-12B?
6 hours ago, Cult Icon said:Iran foreign minister tweeted a threat to Trump.., also Iran sent officials to China.
So much for the "Iran respects us very much".
Incredible indeed. Please Apple copy this design, I need one.
https://www.theverge.com/news/669778/huawei-matebook-fold-laptop-launch
They're going to deport Elmo to Mars for that.
Wild.
Renaming US military bases to Confederate figures...
6 hours ago, Cult Icon said:Renaming US military bases to Confederate figures...
I believe they’re actually restoring the original names that were changed in 2023 to remove Confederate ties. Not saying it’s the right move, though.
I love that they’re forcing the chamber to read the entire bill before any debate/vote. This way, both the lawmakers and their voters know exactly what’s in it, no more excuses like "I didn’t know that was in the bill" or "They must’ve slipped that in at the last second."
She went full Mar-a-Lago. 
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Imagine thinking that this is an "upgrade".
HONDA?! Honda entering the space race wasn’t on my bingo card.
