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Cake day: November 20th, 2025

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  • Yeah, taking the L would be best for everyone in the short term, but the Iranians must seek nuclear arms now, at any cost, because it’s the only thing that makes other countries take each other seriously so it seems. So the options of the US all suck:

    1. Allow Iran to gain nuclear capability, and deal with the consequences (which I think may include a nuclear detonation on US soil). Israel and the US won’t let that happen.
    2. Invade, get all fissile material out of Iran, and engage in nation building activities (again) which has never ended badly /s. I think this is the most likely option.
    3. Declare victory and leave Israel to do their worst.

    I really don’t see any other option here. The market will tank, energy prices go trough the roof, we hit another depression, and everyone the world over feels the pain. 30% of Americans will still back this play because of “freedom” or because “Kamala would have done the same thing” (I disagree, but guess who did do this? NOT KAMALA).

    This die was cast when Trump tore up the nuclear deal which met be the biggest strategic blunder since Bush The Lesser invaded Iraq for no reason other than to “get even”.

    My entire life we’ve been at war and I can’t believe we’re here again…


  • I migrated openaw from docker running on my raspberry pi to an old nuc I had lying around. Backed it with mainly models off of OpenRouter or my local Ollama instance. For very difficult tasks it uses anthropic. Added it to my GitHub repo and implemented Plane for task management. Added a subagent for coding and have it work on touch up or research tasks I don’t have personal time to do. Made an sdlc document that it follows so I can review all of its work. Added a cron so it checks for work every hour. It ran out of tasks in five days. Work quality: C+, but it’s a hell of a lot better than having nothing.

    It helped research and implement SilverBullet for personal notes management in one shot.

    I also migrated all of my services’ DNS resolution to CloudFlare so I get automatic TLS handoff and set up nginx with deny rules so any app I don’t want exposed don’t get proxied.

    This weekend I’m resurrecting my HomeAssistant build.





  • We’ve done it before (violating sovereignty). Kind of a lot. Oh man…I hate this list. Looking at it all (AI generated) at once is a big oof. Several are joint operations.

    Year(s) – Aggressor – Victim – Colloquial name / shorthand

    • 1846–1848 – United States – Mexico – Mexican–American War
    • 1893 / 1898 – United States – Kingdom of Hawaii – Overthrow & Annexation of Hawaii
    • 1899–1902 – United States – Philippines – Philippine–American War
    • 1903 – United States – Colombia / Panama – Panama Secession (Canal Coup)
    • 1912–1933 – United States – Nicaragua – U.S. Occupation of Nicaragua
    • 1915–1934 – United States – Haiti – U.S. Occupation of Haiti
    • 1916–1924 – United States – Dominican Republic – U.S. Occupation of DR
    • 1953 – United States (CIA) – Iran – Operation Ajax
    • 1954 – United States (CIA) – Guatemala – Guatemalan Coup
    • 1958 – United States – Lebanon – Lebanon Crisis
    • 1960–1965 – United States (CIA) – Congo – Lumumba Assassination / Congo Crisis
    • 1961 – United States – Cuba – Bay of Pigs Invasion
    • 1964 – United States – Brazil – Brazilian Military Coup
    • 1965 – United States – Dominican Republic – Operation Power Pack
    • 1969–1973 – United States – Cambodia – Secret Bombing of Cambodia
    • 1960s–1970s – United States – Laos – Secret War in Laos
    • 1970–1973 – United States (CIA) – Chile – Chilean Coup
    • 1976 – United States – Argentina – Dirty War / Junta Support
    • 1979–1989 – United States – Afghanistan – Operation Cyclone
    • 1980s – United States – Nicaragua – Contra War
    • 1983 – United States – Grenada – Invasion of Grenada
    • 1989 – United States – Panama – Operation Just Cause
    • 2001–2021 – United States – Afghanistan – War in Afghanistan
    • 2003 – United States – Iraq – Iraq War
    • 2011 – United States / NATO – Libya – Libyan Intervention
    • 2011–present – United States – Syria – Syrian Civil War (U.S. Intervention)