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Ducks, Geese same thing. We recently had a handful of Canadian Geese with a bunch of baby Goslings show up near our work. Annoying traffic etc as they wander all over the street back and forth taking their sweet ass time stopping trucks as they please. Well once a week I close up the shop and we have two swing fence gates I lock up and close at the end of the night. After I moved my car, locked the inside gate and was just about to lock the outside gate and leave a couple of Geese and a couple of Goslings waddle up to the inner gate and start looking around. I thought about leaving them for a second or two, there is a hole in the fence they would probably eventually find but I opened everything back up and of course as I open the inner gate they wander off to the back of the yard. I herded the fuckers all the way out meanwhile the one is hissing at me the whole way and flapping his wings near the end. I took a little video anyways of my herding exploits.

HAS to be third choice. Kelleher has show himself to be much more assured.

They had to have infiltrated Iranian intelligence - and probably other members of Iran's political apparatus that keep everything "under control" like the Revolutionary Guard. Iran's cultivated a society where there's a lot of benefit to being "a traitor" to their government. They're incredibly repressive and continually mismanage the economy (granted, sanctions don't help - but they're not going to get sanctions removed while maintaining a hard line) while government elites somehow manage to keep getting richer and richer. But there's no way they conducted that really sophisticated assassination of the recent head of nuclear science for Iran without having people on the inside working for them. And I wouldn't be surprised if the reason they've got access to computer systems of critical infrastructure is due to similar infiltration. But also, what can Iran really do in response? Israel's basically given a free pass at whatever they want to do on the international stage due to the US intervening, whereas if Iran responds they'll get bombed back into the stoneage by Israel and the US. With hardliners coming back into power soon, I think the government isn't showing their hand... but it's easy to see how they're going to play their cards. They've got no interest in rejoining the JCPOA or any new deal with America - any deal will only be as good as Biden's administration is in power... which might not even be 2 full terms. And the US and Israel will act with inpunity for as long as Iran isn't nuclear. So unfortunately, I think the regime is going to be on a fast track to building up a nuclear weapon... as well as generally modernising it's military. And once they've got a nuclear weapon, I think all hope of reform in Iran is pretty much dead - the status quo will be maintained because turbulent politics and upheaval will be too much to worry about for the world powers to allow. Basically, Trump showed them the path they should follow with the way he treated North Korea compared to them.

Are they bottling it here? I'm torn between whether the delay is extra-cautious because of what's happened in the past and the fact that hospitalisations are rising. It seems that with the Indian/Delta variant that only having the first jab is closer to unvaccinated in effectiveness than it is to fully vaccinated. A lot of people are crying about the government moving the goalposts but they did always say this was a possibility and if that variant is now the dominant strain in the UK then the relevant percentage when it comes to jabs is how many people have had both. And you may also need to factor in that in takes a couple of weeks after your second jab to reach peak immunity. I think it's the right thing to do but I can see why people are angry when it was made out early on that if the vulnerable were vaccinated then we'd be sound. Also, it's not like the UK are in 'lockdown' anymore. The majority of most stringent restrictions have been lifted bang on schedule. The real criticism you have to level at the government is allowing (I've read) 20,000 travellers into the country from India at the height of their outbreak without the infrastructure in place to enforce an effective isolation period. Hopefully those of you who are personally affected beyond day to day life like @Stan planning a wedding get some clarity soon.

https://iranintl.com/en/world/ahmadinejad-claims-israel-infiltrated-iranian-intelligence Ahmedinijad speaks about Israel infiltrating Iranian intelligence. Believable for me, there is no way Israel attacks Iran's top security/nuclear sites and kills nuclear scientists with such impunity without having internal intel.

I just shifted to a new job yesterday and they have a policy of working from the office four/three days a week with the rest from home. Granted of course this is going to be the new norm for the foreseeable future but I do agree that your productivity really swings just based on mood, what kind of work you're doing and most importantly deadlines.

Bet still on