Information flow can never go backwards. There’s plenty of examples of reporters or even social media compromising military operations. In at least a few cases, it has lead to the destruction of military assets. Once broadcast, the damage is done.

Trying to force reporters to think hard about what they are broadcasting is a good thing, from the point of view of national defence.

Is it normal to allow people to send military information to your enemy?

I’m not a huge fan of either of the two belligerent, but this is not exactly an unreasonable position to take. And they are at least putting reporters on notice.

The US is obligated by law,

Yea, that’s a law we passed, right? One which we could repeal, too?

And we provide Israel weapons to bomb Gaza.

That doesn’t always work.

We used to have an agreement, didn’t we? What happened to it?

Oh. Right.

Are they running out of people to murder in Gaza? Or do they just need someone to fight back, so they can look oppressed?

almost certainly.

Such things have to be wire guided, or autonomous. Subs have really good wire deployment systems, so it’s not something out of the question, but water blocks radio signals quite effectively.

I mean, that’s like claiming that he lied repeatedly and vociferously that jumping in the pool will not lead to getting wet. There is no way to believe that lie aside from deep, deep ignorance.

That seems incredibly unlikely.

Once again, I long for precidented times.

Appreciate the heads up. I’m pretty sure it’s an AMD processor, but I don’t know about the video card.

Is Bazzite an OS that I would use, or is it a set of drivers that lets SteamOS play nice with Nvidia?

I’ve got a gaming laptop from a few years back. Republic of gamers, or some such nonsense.

Been thinking of switching to some brand of Linux. Seems like this might be a good way to try it out.

I’m not saying I approve of what he’s doing. Quite the contrary.

But it’s what he’s asking, and how he’s asking, not that he’s asking.

Trying to control the way other countries are run is fucking wild, the notion of which should never even be remotely entertained.

In happier times, we call the process “diplomacy,” and mostly limit it to things that affect us, directly or indirectly.

But pressuring other countries to, for example, clean up their corruption so we can reliably do business with them is common. (Also hilariously hypocritical) Pressuring other countries to enact civil rights laws is fairly common, too.

I have to admit, seeing pressure to remove civil rights is unusual, at least from countries not named UAE.

Trump won’t buckle, this is true.

But there are plenty of other people around him that will. Sooner or later, either a real war will break out, or Trump will be removed, or nutered, or otherwise brought to heel by the Senate, or the military, or the oligarchs.

This may not be only about tariffs, but they play into it, if only by making other countries unhappy with us.

I wonder if he understands the conflict between “open market” and “tariffs,” or if this is just a case of him not understanding that other countries get to make their own policy, or what.

I don’t want the patient of the US to be operating under Maxim 13.

Hummm. No boob jokes. This might be legitimate.

Seems you understood the spirit of it.