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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 172 points 3 weeks ago
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 159 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh, no! Not Meta! Or Oracle! Or umm, Palantir! Or... guys, help me here.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 79 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

X should not be on the list to target!

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 63 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Please not Palantir! Who will use WiFi to reconstruct a collection of 3D models of me pooping?

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[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Quick! Send them the coordinates of all those datacenters so they can avoid them!

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 110 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I only feel bad for all the sysadmins who will get woken up because of this

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 95 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What if Iran ends up breaking the backs of corporate America? As an American, I'm not against that...

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

What a time to be alive!

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

American here. Can someone start a go fund me for Iran, on the condition that participants are allowed to attend an exclusive event for the live tar and feathering of Zuck the Cuck and Peter Theil? We could probably raise more money than the tech bros have.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Iran just might save humanity.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 32 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Americans sure as hell aren't

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 66 points 3 weeks ago

oh no, that's so horrible... 🤣

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 3 weeks ago

Since America and Israel attacked Iranian Economic Interests when they bombed oil producing facilities, it's entirelly fair for Iran to respond in kind.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 52 points 3 weeks ago

Well...we're waiting!

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 51 points 3 weeks ago

Hold on! Stop! I can only get so wet!

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Russia had some reputation of being a large and powerful army, but as soon as they attacked Ukraine it showed the world it actually had shit. It basically lost its credibility of being a world power because their arsenal is old fashioned and they were just throwing in bodies.

I feel the US is going through the same. Everyone saw them as an undefeatable nation, but this little stint in Iran had their stockpiles dropping faster than expected and it's not going as they expected. Hegseth and Trump contradict each other and besides squandering their soft power over the past years, they are also showing that their military might has limits.

They are both still to be reckoned with and they are capable of doing great harm to innocent bystanders, but my view has changed a bit.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I think the issue is that offense is harder than defense. A defender generally has the home advantage in terms of logistics, familiarity with the area and political will. The difference this makes is hard to estimate, and even harder so if you're not even aware of it. Combined with delusions of grandeur, this is a recipe for underestimating the enemy.

And call me a cynic, but I suspect neither Cadet Bone Spurs nor Major "Warrior Ethos" "Signal Chat" "American Crusade" Boozeth are entirely qualified to make high-level military judgements.

(Neither is my armchair general ass whose only education in the matter is some MilHist blogs and articles, but at least I'm not an actual general charged to actually make them.)

For Putin, I'm not sure. I'm disinclined to believe he's just ignorant about the tenacity a people under attack can develop, given Russian history, but I can only make unqualified guesses.

Either way, as you say, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end, because a blunt and rusty axe still hurts, and they don't seem concerned about where they swing it and who's in the way.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

they know who runs the country.

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[–] MrsVeggies@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 3 weeks ago

If Microslop went away one day, it would only improve my quality of life.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I want this war to end as soon as possible, but is this a surprise?

They’re taking on hundreds of millions from the Pentagon, they are military contractors.

I do not think bombing data centers will result in more than sporadic regional service disruptions though. Data will just get routed through other regions and increase latency. That’s what the internet was invented for and AWS + Google run multi zone clouds.

It’s yet to be seen if Iranian hackers can deal any real damage to these companies.

[–] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The reality is that these multi region "clouds" are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Everything runs on us-east-1 lol

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

it would be a hilarious turn of historical events if Americans were saved from the oligarchs by Iran.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 31 points 3 weeks ago

Oh nooo this is horrible you guys! Not Palantir!

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, didnt musk and suckerberg get enlisted in the military for some bs reason for pentagon access?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not them, four other C-suites: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164460/1a-army-07-03-2025

But I haven't heard anything else about it. They wouldn't need it for any access, either, civilians are granted access for various things all the time.

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[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago

Shit i may need to delete my google account before Iran does it for me!

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Im here in the US rooting for Iran ... such a weird fucking timeline.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 27 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Oh fuck yea! Saves us the trouble of a war against AI and robots, trying to dismantle Palantir!

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would fuck things up so bad out of spite if I was Iran.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

incredible how iran is more of an opposition party than the democrats. and i'm supposed to hate them?

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 weeks ago
[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 weeks ago

They funded his presidential campaign and own nearly all the media to oppress opposition and push propaganda. So big tech is getting from the world what they put into it?

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

No one I care about. Its hard to feel sorry for them since they helped make it happen.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago

stop dont come back

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If they digitally nuke them. I don't want to be apathetic to death and injury

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

“President Trump is not worried”

Welp, I’m satisfied, how about you? /s

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

This will end with Trump dropping a nuke in Iran, or die trying. Mark my words.

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[–] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago
[–] biscuitfree@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago

Why bother with microslop, they just gave to be a bit patient and wait for the weekly ground zero updates 😄

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol. We're so bad at dealing with our own ultra wealthy leeches that we're relying on our adversaries to do it for us.

I'm wondering exactly how much more pathetic we can get. Is there even a rock bottom?

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