The trap is that Trump has to stop Israel or the Straights close again. More importantly for him, he would also look week and incompetent if he can’t control Israel. Honestly, Iran played a blinder here, and Trump didn’t even notice.

Iran new perfectly well what would happen. Trump just walked into the obvious trap.

Gymnastics is dressage…

No, that would be Putin’s 3 day SMO.

Hell, let’s go American sizes… XXXL Hadron Collider!

Sounds like a Special Military Operation.

I can’t find a great reference, but Wikipedia’s page is a good start. Long story short, William the Conqueror never conquered the city of London. After a lengthy seige, they came to an agreement that involved them accepting him as king in return for certain special privileges.

Its not a new idea: the City of London in the U.K. has had one MP chosen by the businesses there since the mid 13th century*. There are businesses with offices there just so they can influence the result.

** Some would say the Norman conquest. The city certainly had special privileges then, but parliament didn’t exist in a recognisable form until Magna Carta.

Doesn’t need to be the submitter, could be a filter that runs on Linus’s own laptop

Surely the traffic is blocked? The firewall in your router can’t know if they came from your CPU OE something else

Nope, I plan on going out of my way to make sure I have exactly 0 exposure to that crap.

Crickey, that took a surprising turn!

Seriously… Do. Not. Show. Up. Its just a bunch of adults kicking a ball around. Its not worth risking incarceration, its not even worth giving these fascists your money. Don’t go. Don’t watch. Don’t buy merchandise. Don’t engage in any way.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Also, I don’t of any VM provider that doesn’t require some sort of I’d already, at least an email address.

Yeah… But I know of no purely mathematical theory that predicts entropy - this really is a physics thing.

Just as well that this is physics then!

Two answers to this question:

• No, Israel and the Arabs hate Iran and would never allow it
• Yes, via Pakistan. Iran already had this contingency plan in place with Pakistan, but it’s taking some time to implement.

Sooner or later Bristol airport is going to rebrand as London-Bristol.

No one should be able to delete or change backups. This infra was in any case vulnerable to a ransomware attack as any bad actor that breaks in can delete the database and encrypt the backups with a key they promise to share in return for bitcoin.