IIUC bright IR LEDs can harm your eyes if you stare at them too long.

I don't have much of an objection to Blind people wearing these, but there are all kinds of things that are OK to do with a disability that aren't OK to do if you don't need special accomodation.

Exactly, people are distracted by nothing being done about the Epstein files, a genocide being committed out in the open for 2+ years, fascist private army running around abducting DoorDash drivers and shooting people in the head. It's a great time for anyone wanting to do a society-level bad thing.

It's harder to tape it when it's now a small island in the screen.

Unfortunately the current Iraqi government has a record of torturing people too. You just don't hear about it ever because they're a US client state.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/10/iraq-people-h...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/19/iraq-chilling-accounts-t...

There was a This American Life story about it which unfortunately I can't find.

Trump literally said it was about the oil on television?

Wild, right? He said it out loud. It reminds me of Chappelle's Show - Black Bush.

It's interesting that they're all flying the flag of the Shah.

The son of a Shah that was deposed by mass protests by well-educated students and intellectuals during the Islamic Revolution, who are now in their 60s.

Time is a circle.

sometimes you just have to try Islamism before you decide you don't like it

It's moot anyways since the fundamentalist side of the coalition purged the leftwing intellectuals shortly after the latter had served the purpose of toppling the Shah.

For lazy folks like me https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10114-5/figures/5

The squid is pretty impressive, multiple curves.

Promising tech

I asked Grok to rewrite your comment and it did it in 2400 words. I hope you know you'll be obsolete soon.

Folks should Google "PBA card". I was shocked when I read about that practice.