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Would we be in this situation had Trump not withdrawn from the nuclear deal?

It wouldn't be surprising if we were. This is your daily reminder trump is an inconsistent chickenhawk piece of shit, being advised by the likes of fucking bolton, who would see us all explode into fountains of blood and die. Screwing with iran almost certainly would have continued, as would have parts of it screwing back in their small ways.

As a species? I haven't seen any research showing that other animals are any better at memory. The more interesting observation would be that we tend to be a lot more confident in the accuracy of our memories than we should be.

As a species, as in our brainmeats in general ain't good at it and none of us are particularly free of the issue, even before various sorts of cognitive degeneration sinks its claws in. Haven't seen anything mentioning comparative cross species capability, but that doesn't somehow mean we're good at.

We are a lot more confident in our memories than we have actual grounds to be, though, yeah. The implication of that being we're pretty bad at remembering stuff accurately. Drum on that front seems to be getting noticed and beat in particularly in relation to eye-witness testimony (and confessions) in legal/criminal cases, where it's getting ever more increasingly clear both are unreliable as all hell.

... in any case, in unrelated wtf, there's this:

Unfortunately, she never did become a Spirit Immortal, but she did leave behind eight remarkable children, each awakening different water elemental Spirits.”

“Monarch of the Oceans, The Colossal Leviathan
Champion of the Swamp, The Divine King Serpent
Terror of the Seas, The Abominable Cthulhu
Majesty of the Rivers, The Seven-Headed Hydra
Beauty of the Arctic, The Enigmatic Narwhal
Devourer of Tides, The Obsidian Xuanwu
Emperor of the Lagoon, The Heavenly Sturgeon
Eminence of the Lake, The Sovereign Koi

Fish, legendary aquatic creatures of myth, and then Cthulhu. One of these is not like the others.

!!! Stick rangers 2 is seeing releases! !!!

Seems like it's going to be a bit more contained stage wise (if somewhat drastically more involved ones), but at least as neat otherwise. Huzzah!

[Again with the "deport illegals == genocide." It's not clever, it's just an appeal to emotion that doesn't have any relation to what's actually happening. It doesn't suddenly become wrong to get rid of them once they reach some nebulous critical mass. If the system is that saturated with illegals it's cause to increase the efforts to getting rid of them, because it clearly isn't enough to meet the demands placed upon it as-is.

What are you even babbling about? The genocide I was referring to is what our ancestors did to the natives. Modern immigrants can skip that step, since we've already pretty done most of the work on that front and what we're still trying to do is largely outside the sphere of what first gen immigrants are likely to have much influence over.

Seriously, how the hell did you even get that out of what I wrote? Our ancestors didn't exactly do much in the way of deportation, more actual invasion and murder/displacement of natives. These modern immigrants are a hell of a lot nicer than the ones that birthed this nation, which makes turning around and dumping on them for doing what our people did with not even half as much murder and pillaging that much more bullshit.

While they would agree with you with you as far as being hardcore draconian on regulations etc, they don't see the harm in ripping communities apart, which is the whole problem since they see the hardcore draconian methods as not only acceptable, but neccesary.

What? No, these sorts have been caught out repeatedly saying they understand quite well the harm involved and it's part of what they're explicitly trying to do. Cruelty is literally the point of a lot of what modern anti-immigration hawks are peddling. "Deterrent", as if that somehow reduces the moral culpability in heaping unethical bullshit on the vulnerable.

... vanilla instant hellavators? That's a planned addition?

For what it's worth, there seems to already be like a couple dozen autochess mobile apps of varying sorts, if you're looking for that sort of thing.

I recognize that Iran isn't like Iraq, but would Iran realistically have a chance of beating the US?

Put it this way: If we go into Iran, we lose. They might not "win" by any particular measure, but the US will absolutely lose that conflict. They've largely tooled themselves to turn into a complete quagmire if invaded or otherwise attacked, and if we go in we're eventually going to be pulling out in even more disgrace than our afghan/iraq excursions have brought. It would take a metric fuckton more domestic support than even remotely exists in this country for shit to go well for the US if it starts going hard on Iran. No one comes out better than they started with this one.

And with the relative strength of the countries involved, the US coming out missing a pound of flesh looks a hell of a lot worse. I'unno if beat is the right word, but whatever the right one is it's going to be pretty close to it in meaning.