these missiles have a 1,000 pound payload, and there's apparently roughly 2000 of them ready to be deployed. trump's threat to destroy iran is looking very real.

if donald trump is reading this, let me make a last minute plea: target the regime, and the regime's infrastructure. blow up the palaces. kill the clerics and the judges and the mullahs and the police. leave the civilians alone.

i need to put out yet another call for the iranian opposition, which is mostly the kurds, to react independently of the united states. trump is right about one thing: this is still your best chance. don't blow this, like the americans are.

The U.S. military is actively developing and testing hypersonic weapons, with the Army and Navy's joint Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), also known as Dark Eagle, nearing operational deployment as of early 2026.

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Successful Tests: The U.S. Army and Navy conducted a successful flight test of a common hypersonic missile from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on March 26, 2026, marking a significant step toward deployment.

yeah.

exactly.

The next phase of the US military offensive against Iran is set to utilize nearly the nation’s entire global inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, necessitating a massive diversion of stockpiles originally allocated to other regions, according to reporting from Bloomberg.

An order was issued in late March to pull the $1.5 million precision weapons from Pacific command centers, a source told Bloomberg. To sustain the air campaign, missiles currently stationed within the continental US and other global facilities are being rerouted to the US Central Command (Centcom) bases and RAF Fairford in the UK.

i want to give credit to thomas pynchon for teaching me that one of the purposes of the war that we experience, rather than war in the abstract, which is what i usually talk about here, is to eliminate old stockpiles of weapons. it's not a coincidence that russia started using cruise missiles against ukraine shortly after it tested it's new hypersonic missiles, which it has used sparingly, and is instead stockpiling. the seemingly unending barrage of missiles russia is using on ukraine is almost entirely obsolete technology that the russians need to get rid of, as they upgrade their offensive and defensive weapons systems. even canada is sending it's old rifles and ammunition to ukraine.

this consequently makes more sense than it looks like it does, as these cruise missiles are no longer current technology in the hypersonic era. those systems in the pacific need to be replaced and upgraded, or they're just money holes, that will have little actual success in a real war against the chinese.

the iranians couldn't even shoot down a f-15 without russian or chinese help, but there's a reason the americans are using these planes from the 70s rather than their fancy new ones, which the israelis actually are using. it's not often pointed out that america's massive military footprint is, while still capable, often using technology from the 1960s or 1970s. the computers in these devices are ancient and extremely primitive. 

america has fought a fair number of wars since 1970, but it has suffered minimal casualties, so it has all of this obsolete equipment that probably costs more to maintain than it is actually worth. while the pentagon does not have difficulty getting funding from congress, one of the few restraints it faces is in replacing working equipment, and the best way to convince congress that the pentagon needs to replace the working equipment is to blow it up so it needs to be replaced.

given that the americans are actually targeting chinese equipment, and they know that, it is very important that they replace these missiles, but i'm sure that's not been overlooked, because i realize that that's the point in the first place. 

if you want a smart conspiracy theory about ukraine that actually is probably partly true, it's that the russians were just looking to burn through supply. and if you want a smart conspiracy theory about iran that is beginning to look like it has some truth to it, it's that the americans are copying the russians, in burning through their own supply. if that is the case, and what the americans are actually doing is using old weapons up so they can buy new ones, this could go on for a while.

we don't need 1000 ai companies competing with each other. it's redundant and wasteful.

all of these competing ais are beginning to clog up the internet, like an old myspace homepage, and it's just going to get worse and worse unless some regulatory body restricts trawling as a means to collect data to search engines.

i can't find any signs of insects that would bite me in here and am ruling insect bites out, for now.

so, ultimately, the hives mean my immune system is working. which is good. right?

but it had better stop pretty soon.

i don't have any symptoms besides the rash, right now. i get periodic migraines. but i'm not vomiting or anything like that. i will get to a clinic if i get sick, besides the rash.

right now, i'm hoping that it will clear up if i'm persistent about cleaning.

but this is why i stopped to clean in here, too. we all have staph in and on us. but i don't know, it's just a guess.

the constant cloudfare bot checks are becoming extremely onerous. i get one every ten minutes, it seems.

i'm not afraid of ai, and welcome it to ease the strain of monotonous labour on society. however, there needs to be rules put in place to stop it from crawling the internet and collecting data, so we can get rid of this 'not a robot' bullshit.

asimov was all about rights for robots. he'd be extremely upset with us for stigmatizing robots like this, but it's our fault, not theirs.

i'm deciding that this rash is probably a staph infection. i'm not a doctor, and i don't have a lab test, but getting to a clinic while i'm waiting out the crackheads is going to be difficult. i'll need to wait a few weeks.

the rash clears up pretty fast with the application of anything from wet wipes to bar soap, telling me it's probably bacteria, but it also keeps coming back, in different places. i don't know what the cause is. i've been doing extra laundry and it's not really helping.

so, it is clearing up.

but it's also coming back.

so, i dunno.

if it hasn't cleared up by the time the crackheads are evicted, i'll go to a clinic, but i don't want to give them an access point while they're being removed.