Curious which American election observers are neutral parties then, if you refuse to believe that the Carter Center is unbiased. Because I’ll bet you I can use similar mental gymnastics to tie every single American election observer to one side or the other (or even both, just for fun).

He was wearing one. Later in the BBC article it mentions him posting pictures of his ruined helmet on twitter Instagram

Well Castro came to power via revolution in 1959, which pissed off the US, and started the push towards the Soviet Union. The nation also hosted Soviet nukes for a very brief time in 1962.

More detailed timeline found here, if you’re interested.

Operation Praying Mantis II: Naval Boogaloo?

In all likelihood, they’ve been open for business to make it easier to nab intellectual property from the rightful owners. China has probably just decided they’ve learned enough to make their own “homegrown” products, and can safely kick all the western businesses out of the market.

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Either South Korea or Vietnam! Not China, surprisingly!

I mean, similar to that argument, I’m not using Chinese software/hardware, so at least I’m doing something?

The only guarantee for privacy is to not be online at all, but that ship has sailed for all of us

Every country tries to hack each other. Doesn’t mean we should make it easy for them.

Near as I can tell, Iran sold the plane to Venezuela in 2022, but it has been grounded in Argentina since then [for some reason I don’t quite get]. Argentina is trying to score brownie points with the US, so they handed the plane over to Washington, and that’s how we got this headline.

Because, as the warships are US flagged, all that matters for their conduct (until a UN resolution is passed or ICC takes action) is US Law.

Since the USN vessels are not within the internationally recognized jurisdiction of Yemen, Yemeni laws don’t apply. So it can’t really be illegal, then? Or is the law that no one, anywhere on earth, is allowed to disagree with them?

Yes it does. Look up the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, if you’re not being purposefully obtuse.

And as much as we may not like it, with the way US laws currently are, there is nothing illegal about USN vessels being in the Red Sea

Yes it does. Ships of any nation have a right to transit international waters.

When Iranian ships (or ships of any nation, really) engage in acts of privacy, then they open themselves up to the consequences, whatever those may be.

If a ship is in international waters, it has every right to be there, regardless of nationalities involved.

Yeah that doesn’t make hijacking a boat and taking the crew hostage okay by any stretch of the imagination

No civilian causalities…because we’ve been shooting down all the missiles. The Houthis have been firing off rockets, drones, and missiles pretty indiscriminately at passing cargo boats, some of which do have US nationals aboard. If the US and allies hadn’t been there, there’s a good chance there’d be a half dozen cargo ships at the bottom of the Red Sea, and then there would be civilian causalities.

While technically accurate, the water could still transport entrained fission daughter products, so there still might be a significant spread of contamination outside the pool, even if the water itself isn’t activated.

But here is the scenario I think you’re referencing!

The act of nuclear fission is not safe. What is safe is how we design the systems that contain the reaction and protect the workers, the public, and the environment. We should never ignore the potential dangers of nuclear power, lest we become complacent and really screw up. Instead, we should continue constructing, operating, and maintaining nuclear power plants with the highest appropriate levels of safety.

The reason people have to come out of the woodwork to “go to any length to ignore it’s dangers” is that the “dangers” reported in the media almost always pose absolutely zero risk to the public, and only serve to inflame anti-nuclear rhetoric.

Take this case: 14L of liquid spilled inside a closed and sealed containment building. There is zero chance of any of that radioactivity encountering the public or the environment. The operators noticed the problem, and are (as far as we know) taking appropriate recovery actions. Really, it shouldn’t even be news. But it is, because nUcLeAr bOgEyMaN sCaRy.

I don’t know that I can say anything to really convince anyone otherwise, especially not without sounding like the nuclear simp you mention (even more than I’m sure I already do), but truly, (given the facts at hand) there is zero danger to the workers, public, or environment from this isolated incident.

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