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  • Collection of Pinned Threads

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  • ChatGPT

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    AxtremusA
    Good collection of AI-generated videos and images of the Iraq war: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/14/business/media/iran-disinfo-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TFA.kRNw.ZHh2IouL883z
  • The Dark or Inappropriate Humor Thread

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    bachophileB
    https://x.com/fastbreakhoops5/status/2032571905178550445?s=61
  • The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread

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    bachophileB
    From @shanaka86 on X Long but interesting BREAKING: President Trump just released the footage. The most secretive bomber in the American arsenal hitting the most valuable military real estate in Iran. And he wants the world to watch. The video published on Truth Social shows B-2 Spirit stealth bombers conducting precision strikes on Kharg Island’s military infrastructure. Runway cratering charges tear the airbase apart in sequential detonations. Multiple explosions bloom across IRGC missile launch sites, coastal defence batteries, radar installations, and garrison facilities. The footage is steady, clinical, and unmistakable. The bombs are 2,000-pound JDAMs, GPS-guided GBU-31 and GBU-32 variants, the same munitions that cratered Iraqi airfields in 2003 and Afghan command centres for two decades. They are dropped by an aircraft that Iran’s air defence network cannot detect, track, or engage. The oil terminals are visible in every frame. They are untouched. That is the message. Not the destruction. The restraint. Ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports flow through those terminals. The loading jetties stand. The storage tanks are full. The infrastructure that funds the IRGC, that pays for the Shaheds, that finances the Mosaic Doctrine’s 31 autonomous commands, that underwrites every mine on the seabed of Hormuz, is intact and one presidential decision from joining the rubble surrounding it. The B-2 Spirit was designed to penetrate Soviet air defence networks during nuclear war. It carries 40,000 pounds of ordnance inside a flying wing with a radar cross-section smaller than a bird. Twenty aircraft exist. Each costs $2.1 billion. The United States sent its most expensive, most classified, most capable strategic asset to crater a runway on a 20-square-kilometre island in the Persian Gulf because the message required the messenger. A B-52 could have dropped the same JDAMs. An F-15E could have cratered the same runway. The B-2 was chosen because its presence means Iran had no warning, no interception opportunity, and no defence. The bombs arrived before the sound. The runway cratering is tactically decisive. A cratered runway cannot launch aircraft, receive resupply, or evacuate personnel. The IRGC garrison of 250 to 500 personnel is now isolated on an island whose military defences have been destroyed, whose airstrip is inoperable, and whose only remaining value is the oil infrastructure the United States deliberately chose not to destroy. The garrison cannot be reinforced by air. It cannot project force by sea because the IRGC Navy is at the bottom of the Gulf. It exists on an island that America controls from the sky while Iran controls from the ground, and the ground shrinks every hour the runway stays cratered. The footage itself is a weapon. Trump did not release it for documentation. He released it for deterrence. Every IRGC commander watching the video sees an aircraft they cannot detect delivering ordnance they cannot stop onto an island they cannot defend. Every Iranian decision-maker watching the terminals standing untouched beside the rubble understands the conditional: the restraint is voluntary. The next strike does not need to be restrained. The strategy emerging from the strike, the Marines deployment, and the Kharg footage is sequential strangulation. Destroy the military capacity to defend the island. Crater the runway to isolate the garrison. Deploy the Tripoli ARG with 2,500 Marines and F-35Bs for air superiority and potential amphibious seizure. Hold the oil terminals as leverage for a war-ending negotiation in which Iran’s 90% export revenue becomes the ransom for every American objective: open the Strait, surrender the uranium, dismantle the enrichment programme. Iran’s crown jewel is no longer Iran’s. It is a hostage sitting on a cratered runway surrounded by rubble, guarded by a garrison that cannot be reinforced, watched by an aircraft it cannot see, and one decision away from ceasing to exist.
  • The Venezuelan Oil Thread

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    AxtremusA
    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/trump-seized-oil-tankers-cost.html The Oil Tankers Trump Seized Are Costing the U.S. Millions of Dollars ... the cost of maintaining just one aging ship has already reached $47 million [in three months]. And the oil cannot be sold yet pending litigation.
  • Marco's shoes

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    taiwan_girlT
    https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/64/funny-pics/8357?_=1773454740123
  • Anybody MIssing Some Luggage?

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    AxtremusA
    @taiwan_girl said: Ten most weirdest things: ... Gold Plated gold clubs ... Look for passengers going to Palm Beach International, filter for those with convicted family/friends/clients. The owner was probably traveling for a pardon.
  • No Visa Required

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    89th8
    Not sure about you but I think everyone uses a shithole, just sometimes it's nicer than others.
  • Life Under the Taliban

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    MikM
    Not to belittle her plight as I detest those barbaric bastards, but how much damage can you do with a phone charger cord?
  • Are Stell Pipes Alive?

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    bachophileB
    Just some boomer stuff
  • Did John D'Oh and Mrs. D'Oh participate???

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Not fully clothed we don't
  • Who Wants a Pizza, Just Like the Romans Ate?

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    MikM
    Very cool idea!
  • Old Dominion shooter ..

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  • Mildly interesting

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    Tom-KT
    @taiwan_girl said: Only 42 years separate the first solo plane going across the Atlantic non stop until man landed on the moon. And it's bee 53 years since man last walked on the moon.
  • What are you reading now?

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    Tom-KT
    I just finished reading Hamlet--an amazing play. Almost every other sentence is a famous quote people use all the time. Now I'm reading (or will be when the book arrives): [image: 1773405093556-b20628de-6435-4088-be84-b22b6c430e4b-image.jpeg] François Mauriac won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952.
  • Funny Pics

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    taiwan_girlT
    @jon-nyc said: https://x.com/covie_93/status/2031739873409863715?s=46 Supposed, President Trump bought all the members of his cabinet the shoes, and all in the same size. Everybody is afraid NOT to wear them. LOL
  • The "Surgeon" General

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  • Voter literacy - git you some

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    MikM
    It means you bring up some really dumb rebuttals.
  • Visiting Washington DC soon ...

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    LuFins DadL
    @89th said: Why the visit? I'll be there in a few weeks for work. Should time it nicely to be mobbed by Cherry Blossom gawkers. Likely to go to the memorial service for the WaPo.
  • No salute for you.

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    taiwan_girlT
    @Andrea-B Welcome!!! I will ask the usual questions: How did you find us? (OKay, I guess only one question. 555)