They mean what they say and it is propaganda. In addition, the amount of civilian targets hit are few. The Islamic regime itself is responsible for a lot more deaths. The opinions of regime-critical Iranians inside the country can be summarized like this: yes, bombs are scary, but the regime is more scary.

Bombed, yes. Carpet bombed, no.

There is no carpet bombing of Tehran. This person is thus not a reputable source and you need to start doubting the rest of the claims until you find a better source.

You’re deliberately misrepresenting what I’m saying.

Regarding the school attack, it is not clear who were the perpetrators and all information is from regime media. UNESCO has initiated an investigation into it and we will see what the conclusion is.

Well, then I invite you to read some on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests

Most prominently, here’s videos from within Iran, celebrating the death of Khamenei:

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603012558

Here’s a video of happy people watching explosions from their roof:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVWWwYKFVEJ/

More excitement:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVVtg3XCoE4/

Excited people stated they hit Khamenei’s palace:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVTV4B0FXdA/

Here’s a video of people calmly watching fires from burning buildings hit by missiles. They trust that they are not in danger, the strikes are precise.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVbmtmSE7Dt/

Edit: another video:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVWEZJZjsYl/

I’m not denying people are being killed. I’m saying there is some collateral damage but it’s probably a lot less than reported. In all conflicts there will unfortunately be some innocent people that die, this is impossible to avoid.

And yes, Iranians approve and even celebrate the attacks against the regime, of which they see themselves as hostages of. There are plenty of videos showing this. You should try talking to some actual Iranians.

This is pure propaganda. Let me explain.

All friends and family we have contact with within Iran are not afraid of any strikes and describe the attacks as highly targeted. There is no “carpet bombing”.

The article cites NIAC, a propaganda piece of the IRGC, as a source, of which Trita Parsi is the head. All first-hand sources are directly controlled by the Islamic regime. The article even cites Hezbollah (!!!). I think this is very telling regarding overall credibility. Of course they have an interest in showing as high numbers of dead innocent civilians as possible.

Let’s say the number 500 over 4 days is correct. Of course this is tragic, but compare that to the 40 000 slaughtered by the Islamic regime on Jan 8-9. Iranians against the regime, which are the vast majority, see the US-Israeli attacks not as a start of the war but as a continuation of a war against the regime that has already started. The Iranians were screaming for foreign intervention, not because they necessarily like it, especially by the US and Israel, but because they see it as a necessity to get rid of the regime. Iranian civilians have tried and failed to get rid of the regime, because they lack weapons.

Iranians in general are pleased with the strikes on the leaders of the regime, there have especially been much celebration of the ayatollah being killed, but there is also a worry regarding what the war may bring, especially as they know that the US and Israel don’t have the best interest of the Iranian people in mind.

No. LLM-generated code can follow all standards and best practices while being utterly conceptually flawed. Code that is conceptually flawed would usually stink from afar, but LLMs enable people to easily produce utterly flawed code that does not smell, ruining one of the main rules of thumb that progranmers use to review code.

In the comments of this link you have two different people theorizing it is the IRGC who did this. I’ve read elsewhere that that this school is located within a military complex has been lifted as an argument that it is the work of the IRGC, as it would be easy for them to carry it out.

I haven’t seen any concrete evidence that it is this way or another. Let’s say that it is an Israeli attack - you could perhaps explain it as an attempt to hit the military complex that went horribly wrong. But the US and Israeli attacks have overall been more precise than this.

The collateral damage in other cases have been limited to unlucky people being at the wrong place at the wrong time, where the legitimate target happens to be. I read that so far there’s 133 civilians confirmed dead, of which 108 were at this school in question. Attacks like this will always have some collateral damage, and except for this school, I think it has been rather low.

I do not doubt anything about this attack taking place nor these details about it. It is a horrible attack. Do you have any evidence linking it to Israel, that is not just “Israel is attacking Iran today so this must be the work of Israel too”?

I also believe Israel is committing genocide and war crimes against Palestinians, and it is true that Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank have included it attacking civilian targets. As you say, allies of Israel tend to deny this for political reasons. (For completeness, let me also state that I believe that Hamas are just as evil as Israel - but with less power, so Israel is simply able to kill more.)

However, so far, the attacks of the US and Israel against Iran have been very precise and only legitimate military targets and personnel have been hit. Soon into the 12 day war Iranian civilians realized how precise the attacks were and were not afraid of going out. Instead, the attacks have been celebrated.

There’s been leaks from the IRGC that the plan was to attack its own people in the case of a US or Israeli attack. This combined is why I doubt this to be an attack by Israel. Of course eye witness accounts would count, but I do not trust media controlled by the Islamic regime, directly or indirectly.

There have been widespread rumors that the Islamic regime would perform an attack on their own citizens to discredit the attacks, in case the US or Israel does attack them. This report of 40+ school girls killed in a missile attack fits the agenda of the regime perfectly. It’s telling how quickly foreign journalists were reporting on this, as the regime fully controls what they may or may not do.

Before believing this, independent reports are needed. No, journalists allowed into the country do not count, as they only get to report what the regime allows them to. I bet no independent journalist is allowed to examine the rubble to see what type of missile this may have been.

May the Lord open

Also, higher ram usage by programs makes it less likely that their actively used RAM (ie what it is actually currently using) fits in your CPUs caches, making them run slower.

See: Battlestar Galactica

I’m not a USAian, but this is what I heard what the praxis would be like there. Even a small town would typically not be walkable, you’d need the car to go around. Of course, taking a taxi or having a designated driver would be a good solution, but it’s common to drive yourself.

Big parts of the US? The justification being, how do you otherwise go home from the bar in a small town?

So, crab apples?

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