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Also, the operation in Venezuela happened first to make sure that their oil can't substitute for the gulf oil being blockaded.

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I'm starting to think Brian Berletic is right. And I think Iran has no good reason to put mines in the strait, because it isn't a reasonable threat of deterrance against a superpower that has plenty of oil (22m barrels a day, second is Saudi Arabia at only 10). And Iran has no good reason to destroy oil infrastructure in the gulf, only to destroy US bases there. If mines show up in the strait, or gulf oil assets are hit, I think that is US forces doing it, perhaps Iraq. The one who benefits from the strait being closed is the US, and the ones who suffer is everybody else and especially China who still gets 20% of their energy from the gulf. Blockading China at the 2nd island chain seems to have not worked out (China too on top of that one) so this strategy of shutting down the gulf and blaming Iran is Plan B. And also, Israel doesn't control the US, it gets attacked by missiles on behalf of the US, same as Ukraine does. Now of course Netanyahu is a homocidal maniac, and there is a greater Israel plan, and this stuff dovetails together, I didn't say otherwise. But I think the US faceless policy people are running the show and Trump is running the distrations.

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I think odds are high this war with Iran won't be short. Russia benefits from the US being bogged down in another long conflict, just as the US benefits when Russia is bogged down in Ukraine. China is winning.

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I think the only real solution might be simple. Simple but very difficult. Never assist evil. If people truly followed that, America and Israel would be nearly empty of people fleeing who could not in good conscience pay taxes to those regimes. But people rationalize, say they don't have a choice (even though they know they do have the capability to move). And thus evil wins. The only people who think clearly on this seem to me to be the Muslims.

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!!! SECRET PLAN LEAKED !!! Unnamed official leaks that the true military objective is to widen the Strait of Hormuz https://chorus.mikedilger.com:444/13513b17d8cb6ca7d13d5578d660987ff2539996817b36278a8f0aa6e846b76f.jpg

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I hereby and officially condemn New Zealand for condemning Iran's missile strikes on [US military assets in] Gulf States. What dumbfucks. Hard to even believe that people of such levels of stupidity can survive to adulthood.

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I truly believe IPv6 is an improvement over IPv4. But the only real effect it has ever had for me is to cause timeouts on my computer.

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IMHO regarding coverage: clients don't need to find a minimum set with maximum coverage. Clients can just connect to 500 relays to follow 500 people. It still works. But of course it is more efficient to do otherwise, and especially if some relays are down, to find the set that is up and covers everyone. I think (as you describe in (8) that real world considerations probably far outweigh theoretical algorithm choices. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't bother to get the algorithms right.

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Yeah, I got cobwebs in my brain still about nostr. Clearly relays need to filter nasty things. But if the option Leo suggests (asking the relay to filter by WoT) were filtered at the relay (rejecting events outside of the WoT when they arrive, instead of when they are downloaded) then that relay could only really serve as a personal inbox relay for the one person.

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Sorry I keep thinking about write relays not inbox relays. Just ignore my wanderings here. I need another coffee.

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Like I say, I'm not sure what the performance impact is without trying it. It saves some, it costs some. Should be explored. In any case if I follow 500 people, which relays am I asking this of? My presumption is that I still find those 500 people's write relays and go ask them, which means I wouldn't be "subscribed" to many of these relays, or I'd have to sign up to a lot of relays, or else relays also have to shuttle from other relays.