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Post by FilosofumRex »

helloaltalt wrote: post #286
FilosofumRex wrote: post #181

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No, they're just better educated about Iran than are you. Iran provides substantial food, fuel, education and healthcare subsidies to the average citizen and has a very effective state bureaucracy which functions independent of political appointees. Pensioners' checks are issued regularly and social services are delivered by charitable "Bonyads", which are run by local mosques, which don't report to any government mi…

My ex was iranian and we frequently talked about iran and you are so wrong. She had frequent black outs with complete electricity downage for many hours a day and she was in a major city One of the largest problems is that Iran's average income is so poor and the rising inflation and rising prices. They didn't even have a battery or something which could store electricity while it came because the batteries were so e…

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Post by perching_aix »

FilosofumRex wrote: post #189
amir734jj wrote: post #90

I'm an Iranian and this protest is very different because it's not about a specific government policy ... It's about the totality of the regime. Unfortunately, government has been following the same old brutal playbook by killing protesters and cutting off the Internet.

that would make it much more suspicious the protests are being orchestrated from outside by CIA/Mossad... The "regime" is a republic with regularly held presidential (8 presidents in 45 years) and parliamentary elections. What would you like to replace it with? Monarchy

> The "regime" is a republic with regularly held presidential (8 presidents in 45 years) and parliamentary elections.

I'd think the regime thing refers to the Supreme Leader of 36 years and his Guardian Council, no?

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

lukan wrote: post #301
kelvinjps10 wrote: post #290

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You also forget how panama Germany, Japan, South Korea are better now after removing their authoritarian regimes.

Unfortunately, that was 75+ years ago and all the more recent examples were disasters as of my knowledge.

Panama was on 1989 and Venezuela situation it's closer to that, than the middle East countries, We are united in this, more than 80% are against the current government and we even voted him out. There is not religious divide as it happens in those countries, even by ethnicity most people are just mixed.

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Post by twelvedogs »

Yizahi wrote: post #277
scoofy wrote: post #269

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Huge idiot here with an honest question: with starlink, could a rogue actor just point a bunch of high-powered lasers at the satellites and brick them?

Cheaper to launch a barrel of metal trash to the Starlink orbits. Or a few barrels. Iran has rockets for that.

you might be able to hit one but it'd be pretty impressive, like firing a bullet and hitting someone in another country impressive

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Post by rasz »

m4rtink wrote: post #309
esseph wrote: post #197

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Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain... Scroll down to Russian use. Starlink receivers have been found in use in drones by both sides in the war. There's a lot of Open Source intel on this.

I guess it is to a degree unavoidable - ukrainian units are using a lot of crowdfunded starlink terminals on the front, so even if you geo fenced usage only to the virtual cells outside of Russia controlled territory, you would also disable ukrainian sets at the front. So if Russians smuggle sets from other countries, they might not be really easy to tell from the "good" sets crowdsourced by the ukrainians and used a…

It doesnt matter where starlink terminals came from, all end up registered with Ukrainian MOD. Btw Poland pays subscription on ~50K of those.

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Post by sigmonsays »

rnhmjoj wrote: post #125
sigmonsays wrote: post #77

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how does Yggdrasil work if ipv6 is dead?

Yggdrasil uses exclusively IPv6 for routing on its own overlay network, but not on the Internet. See https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/faq.html#does-yggdrasil-...

aha! Thanks

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Post by octoberfranklin »

bhhaskin wrote: post #308
octoberfranklin wrote: post #236

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Flinging spacejunk pollution into orbit is extremely simple if you have rockets. Iran has lots of rockets. Iran also has basically zero of their own satellites in orbit that they care about. Spacejunk is a highly asymmetric tactic.

They don't have that many rockets that are capable of orbital flight let alone an ASAT capability. Imagine trying to hit a specific speeding car by throwing a dart from another moving car, except Both cars are invisible most of the time. They’re moving 17,000 mph. The dart has no steering wheel only tiny nudges. If you miss by a few feet, you miss by miles. Countries that can do this reliably aren’t showing off missi…

> Imagine trying to hit a specific speeding car by throwing a dart from another moving car

Um no. Imagine rendering a highway unusable by driving a semitruck full of tire spikes down it and dumping them out the back.

No precision required.

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Post by croes »

csb6 wrote: post #198
reissbaker wrote: post #157

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It worked out poorly for America — we got stuck in a long expensive war that we got basically nothing from — but for the average Iraqi? I'd much rather be an Iraqi citizen than an Iranian one, and that wouldn't have been true in the 90s. Saddam was pretty evil — and a bad leader. Iraq's GDP per capita is 6x higher today than it was in 2002, a year before the invasion.

It worked out pretty poorly for the average Iraqi. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed (some estimates put it at around 1 million), and millions of people became refugees. Citing the relative GDP per capita number is reductive and doesn’t give a good picture of the average person’s life.

The whole mess led to ISIS and they claim victims in multiple countries.

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Post by dgrin91 »

helloaltalt wrote: post #68

marcosdumay's comment of here explained situation (giving it more attention) they can censor IPv4 when they want, but they don't know how to censor IPv6. So they block it entirely. This is the reason why they aren't blacking out IPv4 From my own experience, my ex gf was iranian. She was using discord via some psiphon vpn or something iirc idk how she got access to it but she had it. I didn't trust psiphon that much s…

> they can censor IPv4 when they want, but they don't know how to censor IPv6

I'm curious why this is the case? As far as I know the primary benefits of v6 is just the increased address space. Does it provide any privacy benefits? What would prevent Iran from doing the same censorship?

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