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On the evening of February 28, 2026, American B-2 bombers lifted off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. By the time they reached Iranian airspace, Tomahawk missiles were already in flight from submarines in the Persian Gulf. Operation Epic Fury hit over a thousand targets in its opening hours. The opening salvo killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and approximately 40 other Iranian officials. Within two weeks, more than 1,200 Iranian civilians were dead and over 12,000 injured.

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This is superb. I’ve read it multiple times and shared the link from the web page with multiple people. As our civilization gets more and more complex, the right frames with which to understand it get increasingly valuable. This is pure gold.

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This one’s writing felt much too LLM-assisted for me to stomach happily, though the premise is super strong. (Seeing the third variant of “the [gap/space/distance] between X and Y is Z” in the second last paragraph hammered this feeling home.)

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Way to pee in my cornflakes dude. But thanks for pointing it out.