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Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by sfifs on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:21PM (#47634581)
Wouldn't it me much more effective and efficient to have a mechanism to simply not pick leaders who choose war?
Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by christophilus on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:02PM (#47634880)
History suggests we’ll have wars periodically, probably for as long as humans exist.
Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by iridjfndi38dd on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:24PM (#47635373)
Progress is possible, it just requires retaining lessons from the past, and education

Without those, yes, we remain unevolved and the argument — we are powerful apes is indeed valid

Price of Peace 1945 (Beveridge) https://ia601505.us.archive.org/17/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.2...

And Price of Peace 2020 (Carter) https://www.amazon.com/Price-Peace-Democracy-Maynard-Keynes/...

Should be required reading

Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by adrianN on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:33PM (#47635427)
Most people on the planet did not pick Trump or Putin or any of the other leaders who recently chose to start a war.
Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by voidfunc on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:05PM (#47634901)
Sure but thats really fucking hard tho.
Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by jurgenburgen on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:25AM (#47637403)
Seems to be really fucking difficult if the previous US election is any indication. May as well build all our infrastructure underground.