As per the article you linked, Iran had prior to that fired at Cyprus, but not hit anything, but looks like you’re right that none of the missiles/drones actually made it to land until after the position changed, fair enough.

But prior to that Iran had already hit:

• Saudi (28th of Feb)
• UAE (1st march, so same day as the position changed but it says its early in the morning so I assume before)
• Bahrain (multiple attacks starting 28th feb)
• Qatar (starting 28th of feb)

and others.

Moscow is in Europe, as is Petersburg, as are something like 80% of the population. So if you want to be like that and say a country has to be entirely in one continent then Russia is in Europe.

The UK’s military base on Cypress was attacked in the opening weekend of the war. At the time the UK was not allowing the US to use any of its bases. Once that (and attacks on the gulf states who also werent participating in the war) happened the UK shifted to allowing the US to use its bases for “defensive” strikes.

The wisdom of crowds is a real thing, but, it only applies when people are making decisions independently of each other. That is decidedly not the case when we are talking about an social media pile on about something.

Alexander and Catherine are both great, but so is Peter.

Well, like I said then: full of shit.

The median US full time salary is 62k, you’re earning 2 and a half times that. Anyone who tells you that’s poverty is either full of shit or deliberately trying to bring you down.

Even if they are “solid” at a human sized scale they are effectively liquid on a planetary scale. Gravity is just so much stronger than the internal stiffness at that scale that they behave as if they are a liquid with effectively no interal stiffness. That’s why as you get smaller down to moons and asteroids you start to se shapes that arent spheres, the materials strength has sufficient strength to be able to resist gravity at those scales and the material is acting more like a solid.

Planets are balls of liquid really, they might have a thin shell that’s solid but they behave as a liquid under pretty much any interaction. For gentle interactions they stay as near perfect spheres as a liquid under self gravity does. For more violent interactions they behave like the simulation shown.

Depends on the type. Coal takes hours to ramp up to temperature but combined-cycle gas turbines ramp up and down in minutes.

Thats fine, I’d agree with that advice, though I dont think its a 100% never ever do this under any situation.

My sole point was that a young woman going on an ill advised date should not be mixed up with children being raped, which is what you were doing by calling someone going on a date with an 18 year old a pedo. That would apply if the man in question was 28 or 68.

You may be shocked to learn that there are positions available between loving the idea of your adult daughter going on a date with someone 10 years older than her and screaming “pedo!” at them.

The part where you call someone going on a date with an 18 year old a paedophile.

Can we please not demean the horrors of child sexual abuse by conflating it with two concenting adults going on a date, even if you find the age gap icky.

Did Cypress attack Iran? Did Dubai, Jordan, the UAE? They were all struck by Iran and only after that did the UK allow the US to use its bases. Based on your “if you get hit first then hitting back is legitamate” why does that apply to Iran but not those countries?

I completly agree that Iran attacking Isreal after being attacked is fair, but i dont see how you can make that argument without saying the Gulf states have the right to defend themselves too.

I agree, for the most part, the UK should have as little to do with this as possible. Though there is the consideration of protecting the Gulf states we have a commitment to.

But my point is that this isnt going against the stated UK government position as lots of people (including you) are saying in this thread.

No, after Iran started targeting the gulf states and Cypress the UK shifted its position to allowing the US to use the UK’s bases for missions targeting Iran’s long range strike capabilities but not anything else. This video is consistent with that.

I actually used this same example further up. Yes the GWOT made some terrible legislation that has done real damage, but it wasnt a slippery slope. They didnt make laws a little bit invasive but generally ok before slowly nudging it further until it got to the point where it was able to be used for ill. They went in hard and fast with abusable legislation which could be criticised for what it actually was, not what it would lead to in further legislation down the line (and it was criticised at the time).

I know its a metaphor, but you can come up with any metaphor you want its still just speculation based on nothing. It’s precicily the same argument that conservatives made about gay marriage: this is just the thin end of the wedge, it starts with allowing people to marry people of the same sex and then they’ll move on to incest and bestiality.

Its a crap argument, if you want to oppose something show how this wither makes things worse or how it makes worse things easier to happen in the future. A good example would be the freedom restricting legislation brought in after 9/11. Despite assurances at the time that it would just be used against “terrorists” there was nothing in it to garuntee that, at you could make the argument that the legislation with no further changes could be used to do harm. Lo and behold it was.

Just pointing at something and saying “slipperly slope” or “boiling the frog” is not an argument against something unless you can show how it makes the next step easier, and I havent seen any actually thought through argument how this does make mandatory identification easier.

So exactly the same argument, while referencing an experiment where the frogs did jump out of the boiling water unless they were lobotomised. Very convincing.