Schools, colleges, research institutions … Trump really hates education, huh?

Yes, but then the US army will pay you a visit instead of Iran, and unless you’ve been spending the last decade building tunnels and drones it probably won’t work out as well for you.

It’s a two-tier system. Friendly countries - China, Russia, Malaysia and Bangladesh - don’t even need to pay the toll. ‘Neutral’ countries like India, Indonesia, etc. can transport oil after paying the toll. US and its allies don’t get oil, toll or no toll.

As non_burglar said, RISC-V is so far mostly used for small chips for embedded systems. This could change in the future, of course, but you might not have a good RISC-V laptop by 2027-28. There is also a concern that the chips themselves need not be open-source, but there have been open-source designs such as XiangShan, which is comparable to A76.

Currently, your options are DeepComputing’s DC-ROMA, which uses a SpacemiT SoC K1, and Framework’s Laptop 13, which has a StarFive JH7110. Neither CPU is fully open.

On the software side, there is better news. Debian has accepted RISC-V as one of its main architectures.

the only verifiable guarantee that such attacks will not be repeated is economic and energetic death of the usonian empire

I feel that Iran should ask for Russia to act as guaranteer. Perhaps with a fund set aside as collateral.

even if we were only using half the oil we presently are when the strait was shut down, the same portion would likely be coming from there, so the “shock” would still be the same

The same fraction of oil production, yes, but a much smaller fraction of total energy production.

You would still have shortages of specific fractions that have non-energy uses (like Helium or plastics), but at least fuel would be less affected.

But in 10-15 years nobody will let the Strait of Hormuz get blocked like this again.

How??? You have giant, slow, unarmed ships filled with flammable liquid that are forced to go through a small channel. Forget missiles and drones; you could set them on fire with artillery.

More likely, in 10-15 years we will have moved away from fossil fuels to the point that a closure will no longer crash the world economy.

Good. Air defence systems are cheap and effective, as seen in the Middle East and Ukraine. We should stop wasting money on white elephants like Rafale fighters and aircraft carriers, and buy the stuff that works and actually keeps us safe.

Leopard, meet face.

And it’s not like this has never happened before. Iran is between two countries destroyed by the US.

Guerillas. Gorillas are the apes.

‘Allahu Akbar’ means ‘God is great’. It has nothing to do with battle.

This is so stupid. Of all the possible options, why are we buying the one that we know won’t work against Pakistan? Entire contract should have been cancelled.

Iraq Iran has WMDs anti-ship missiles.

Epstein’s friend

You realise how little that narrows it down?

Cuba is a threat to the United States?

???

Yeah, this is most likely about oil.

In principle yes, but isn’t a relatively neutral authority that includes countries like Russia and Qatar better than Israel being allowed to bomb Gazans as they like?

The country that loses a war is the one that is forced to make concessions. Right and wrong have nothing to do with it.

What exactly is the point of rolling release?

Newer features. At the cost of a higher risk of stuff breaking.

Or is it for security?

No, point release OSs do have security updates. It’s feature updates that they avoid.

The ruling class will makes sure they are insulated from the consequences of war. It’s always the poor who are sent out to die.