I'm sure the Iranian government know about anti-radiation missiles. And I'd be willing to bet the protesters have accounted for that and are stringing their starlink stations well away from their homes using long ethernet cables or similar.
Not to mention the fact that you can't deal with starlink the same way you'd knock out a SAM site - if you drop a missile on an apartment building and kill tens or hundreds of people, that's not going to help defuse the protests that are currently going on.
When I was at university there were doctoral students who taught some of our classes, and some of them had assorted middle eastern backgrounds, including Iranian. They were all incredibly smart and remarkably nice people, some of whom had the bad luck to be born in a theocratic dictatorship. It certainly was not genetic. You should reconsider your prejudices.
I expect the Iranian government will be firing the rockets. These people are backwards. They’ll execute you on a beach for wearing a bikini. It happens quite regularly. They’ll drive up with machine guns in the name of allah.
I’m not saying they’re stupid. Rather 50+ generations of executing the critical thinkers in their communities has ‘bred’ a specific cognitive deficit into their gene pool. They’re gullible. They’ll believe anything they’re told so long as it appears to come from an authority and their close peers agree. That’s why they’re wearing black burkas in the burning desert sun, and believing that nonsense religious hogwash and drinking rubbing alcohol. I’m just making an observation, it’s not prejudice.
So no account for the "genetic" intelligence required to navigate such a society intelligently? You have some extremely disgusting conclusions that aren't based in facts but merely extremely prejudice and racist conjecture amplified by propoganda. I really hope you rethink them. You claim you have depression in your post history. May I make a suggestion. Stick to things you know, ideas to create, and find new constructive habits that don't feed whatever the hell this kind of output of yours is. It will cause you problems.
Actually, I’m half Iranian. And I lived there in the 90s for 5 months so I know first hand exactly how backwards and primitive the people are and the conditions they live in.
The roads have no traffic lights or speed limits it’s total chaos. They can’t make uniform bricks to build houses from. The toilets are a hole in the ground and there’s no toilet paper just a shared wet cloth. They don’t even have air conditioning where it’s so hot you can fry an egg on the pavement. The religious nuts come to your house if you don’t turn up at the mosque for prayer 3 times a day and you better have a good excuse why. Back then there were posters up to report your neighbor for having a satellite dish for watching western television. People were scared to talk on the phone. They have no furniture everything is done on the floor.
They have no refrigerators, everything is bought fresh at the bazaars, mostly goat cheese and unleavened bread and jam and black tea with sugar. There are mosquitos everywhere. Women are considered a type of animal, and many men have multiple wives in separate houses as allowed by law. When I say primitive I mean primitive. And anyone with sense ie the young college students desperately want out of the country. They fight tooth and nail to get a placement in a western university just to escape that hellhole.
And that story about people getting shot on the beach by machine gunners on jeeps? Those were my cousins. They didn’t get shot but it was a really really close call. Had the men not been there to negotiate, they would’ve been killed for sure.
The stories I heard about Iran before going were complete bullshit. They lie and lie about their country some type of national pride, but they live in squalor and under religious oppression. Since I grew up in a Christian school I once made the mistake of saying I was a Christian (I’m not). There was total outrage from the family and I was told to STFU in no uncertain terms.
Also at least in my family the parents beat the children. I mean full on assault punching kicking and with sticks and belts, all the way violent. There was screaming and crying every other day, and I mean true despair. One of my cousins had her nose broken and a black eye for having a fit having failed to get into college.
The pressure for the young to escape is intense. Some, like my uncle, joined the army to escape, at 15. He was dead in a week in the Iraq war. They named the street after him to encourage other kids to join up.
Ok, I’m saying a lot of negative things, so in fairness, the common folk are friendly and humble and kind. They aren’t bad people, but they’ve let the religious nuts totally break the countries infrastructure and destroyed any opportunity for joining the civilized world, and while they claim to be a democracy, which next to their neighboring countries is comparatively true, there is no form of freedom in Iran. They’re still hanging people for being gay and cutting the hands off thieves.
So, clearly not enough time or experience to make scientifically false statements about an entire country of nearly 90 million people, many of which are much smarter than you or I.
I don't doubt that problems exist. And I'm sorry your family has to deal with that. But going on rants about genetic inferiority is not the solution.
I appreciate you telling some of your experiences, but don't let them poison your tongue. Put that energy into something constructive. Just my thoughts. I wish you and your relatives the best.
If the Iranians want out of the mess they’re in they’re going to have to fight, but it’ll be bloody. The police shoot protesters dead in the street. They need a full revolution.
Consider that for some people that terrible operating system might have been the first system the have ever used, maybe as a kid.
I (an avid linux user who spends more time in the terminal than on a UI) certainly recall that my first contact with any computer with a keyboard was Windows 95. It was a complete mystery to me. The fascination that unexplainable object had on a 7 year old certainly had an effect on my life.
And guess what I remember? That grey interface with the blue title bar.
So as crappy as it might have been, as ethically unsound as the company who made it might have behaved themselves, the visual likeness of the system of my childhood tingles some old memories. And that is not even remotely odd. People can be nostalgic for literally everything, because we do not long for the old artifacts themselves, but for the feelings, friends and times we might have had when they were around.
For some of us the grey windows of Microsofts operating system have gained symbolic value beyond the aesthetical or functional qualities inherent to the system itself.
First computer I used was running Dos and Windows 3.1.
But my favorite Windows version is XP, I was doing service desk / junior sysadmin at the time and XP was just so easy to work with. You could fix a lot of problems by simply editing the registry or files in the windows folder directly and you could re-image a machine in about 2 minutes. The control panel was really easy to navigate and consistent.
Well alright, but I was tech support for many Windows 98 users back in the day and wow did I hate microsoft. It was such a ridiculous mess, like a house of cards. Fix one thing and another broke, cryptic dll packs when installed fixed some problems then needed patching again and again and again. And everyone blamed tech support. We were incompetent, the software came from god. fml I hate that os
Everyone still blames tech support for everything and I think that will likely continue indefinitely regardless of correctness and quality of software.
Just like for someone working at a 90s McDonalds the old architecture might make them want to vomit while for a kid that grew up during that time that architecture might carry good memories for them.
Both (and more) perspectives can be valid at the same time.
When it comes to look and feel specifically, these days it's not rare for websites and even apps to use styling such that it's impossible to tell a link from a label, and either from a button - everything is flat, and color differences are often deliberately minimal. That was not a problem in Win98 days.
I can imagine this making the internet a little less scary to some legacy users who are still working with ‘98 tech (you would be horrified at how many there are).
I have a Thelio (AMD, I agree with you on Intel) and I think the case is great. Mine has the wood trim and looks much nicer than almost every desktop case I’ve seen.
You’re wrong, women can have children naturally up to 42 and even after that with hormone therapy. If your spouse says no, you clearly should leave her*(I assume) and find a partner who does want children. It’s not a small compromise to not have kids and the resentment will kick in and you’ll likely break up anyway.
Isn’t it obvious you should leave that city if there are rockets falling from the sky? And Kyiv would be target #1 for a nuclear strike. Why don’t you run?
