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  1. mat200

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    youtube AI summaries have been very good so far .. not perfect, but good enough to save time
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    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    Some good points made here .. ( see AI summary below, it's a short clip so not a full answer to Why .. ) John Bolton: The Real Reason Why Trump's Iran War Became Such a Disaster In this video, John Bolton discusses the systemic failures in decision-making during the first Trump...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    LA had another massive warehouse fire .. this time frozen food warehouse, solar panel work started the fire, looks like it was basically a giant Igloo Cooler which started to burn LA Cold Storage Fire: Burned for a Week Jun 24, 2026 Training & Consulting: https://www.stachedtraining.comOn...
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    bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)

    very cool .. so far my experience with Claude Code has been interesting, tho at times I suspect Claude is often just doing productivity theater as often I have to kick it to get it to do the right thing This behavior is most commonly referred to as ghostworking or productivity theater...
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    10/10 all time hotties thread

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    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    Holy Smokes .. The Saudi U-Turn on Iran No One’s Talking About Months ago, Saudi Arabia was privately pushing Trump toward war with Iran. Now Riyadh is reportedly helping guarantee Iran’s frozen funds get released. We trace the reversal — from MBS’s phone calls urging strikes, to the $12...
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    The official "WTF" thread

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    Funny / Satire

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    The official "WTF" thread

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    Funny / Satire

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    The decay of Western Civilization and threats to it, internal and other

    The 100 year history of ‘woke’ (in 15 minutes) | Paul Marshall Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Jun 23, 2026 Why does it feel like the West has lost its confidence? In his ARC 2026 speech, Sir Paul Marshall explained the long march of cultural deconstruction, the crisis of meaning facing...
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    The decay of Western Civilization and threats to it, internal and other

    How society failed our boys (and how we can save them) | Nick Freitas [ARC 2026] Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Jun 23, 2026 Why are so many young men searching for meaning, purpose, and belonging? In this powerful keynote, Nick Freitas explores the crisis of modern masculinity, the...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    iirc wasn't the same said of Soviets ?
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    Funny / Satire

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    10/10 all time hotties thread

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    Money & Economics

    AMT is gonna be a killer for those working in the AI field .. The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) is a parallel U.S. federal tax system that requires certain taxpayers to calculate their liability twice—once under regular income tax rules and once under AMT rules—and pay whichever amount is...
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    AI Good and Bad

    seeing numerous stories on "Just as good" or "even better than" Mythos .. too bad they took fable offline before I played with it. been playing with Opus 4.8 .. and while I am impressed, it also seems great at getting you to a 80-90% there result. Finishing up the extra 10-20% is the...
  18. mat200

    Yes I am a N3wb

    welcome @MrRooksta looking forward to some good WTF stories https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/the-official-wtf-thread.66699/ or wall of shame stories https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/electrical-inspection-wall-of-shame.63332/
  19. mat200

    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    um .. iirc don't you like Blondes, like really like them ?
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    Money & Economics

    AI and the question of valuation .. MIT Just Revealed the AI Bubble's Fatal Flaw This video, presented by Brendan Dell, analyzes the current AI landscape, arguing that the massive market hype surrounding OpenAI and Anthropic—both preparing for 2026 IPOs—rests on a potentially flawed...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    The World Turned Upside Down: The Aftermath of the Iran War Jun 22, 2026 The Last Line of Defense Host Seth G. Jones sits down with Walter Russell Mead to examine the war in Iran, including its political implications, the state of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the historical forces shaping the...
  22. mat200

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    Ok .. feed the chatGPT imagine into Google and got this ..
  23. mat200

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    Not just pretty good .. Iran basically going to own the entire Middle East
  24. mat200

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    Google refused so far to give me a good image .. so here's one from ChatGPT :
  25. mat200

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    recall during the Pandemic Putin forced Trump to stick it to many USA frackers when the oil hit negative numbers .. Truth is at that time USA should have filled up the SPR to the max and buy out all the shadow fleet .. oh well, someone else profited instead of the USA Bag Holding Tax Payers ..
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    Direct burial cable recommendation

    14-2 for power ? should be in a separate conduit perhaps 1 foot away from the other one
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    Funny / Satire

    AI censorship .. can not believe it ..
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    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    Trump got into a Hornets Nest .. MOU is designed to fail .. Iran Controls the Strait of Hormuz Now Eckard Enterprises | Oil & Gas Investing Jun 19, 2026 The Strait of Hormuz is the most critical chokepoint in global oil supply — and Iran just used a fake ceasefire to tighten its grip. The MOU...
  29. mat200

    Direct burial cable recommendation

    That's what I've used .. worked well enough so far for me
  30. mat200

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    yup, then again not like the folks in the White House have been the epitome of class .. guess Qatar is a bit pissed about becoming one of the punching bags of Tehran in this bar brawl when all it wanted to do was play the game and count chips