For those in power, anything that allows them to stay in power is a victory.

#18 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-06-21 08:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

For the party in power, I agree. For the individual in power, not so much. Lot of churn in the Iranian upper management this war.

Way too many liberal arts dropouts here. This is what happens when you don't have to take intro to bio and intro to chem.

Clearly, you do not know jack fuggin ---- about the topic at hand.

#45 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-06-21 05:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

You are consistently the most retarded poster on this forum, and that takes effort.

It's just pool math. One day, you'll be fortunate enough to own one, and then you won't be angry. It's hard to be angry in a nice pool.

Ahh, the "moral victory". Usually won by getting your ass beat.

"Commander of the IRGC Quds Force Qaani issued message to the Israeli soldiers: you have caused the deaths of 100 people in less than four days! If you do not leave southern Lebanon on your own feet, the same scenario of 2000 will repeat itself, in which you fled from this land in shame and disgrace. Today, if you insist on aggression and occupation, you will be expelled in humiliation and defeat"

Wikipedia says Hezbollah won that one too. War didn't really end, they traded attacks for another two decades before Hezbollah got their dicks blown off by pager bombs and reoccupied.

That's a very short term view strategically. It's caused a massive ramp on hardened infrastructure pivoted away from the strait. Financially, Iran also lost their air force, all naval assets above speedboat size, the 5th or 6th most dense air defense system on the planet, a large portion of their missile stockpile. Add it up and you'll get over $200 billion quite fast, and that's before we get to infrastructure.

It's not going great for their allies, Gaza is 70% occupied.
The Houthi Red Sea Shutdown never happened.

How's it going in Southern Lebanon? That's the important one. Without it, all talk of who gets the phyric victory on wikipedia is irrelevant. Lets check in!

A senior Israeli official to, responding to reports from Lebanon, said: "There are no concessions and no withdrawals. The Israeli army is deployed along the Blue Line in positions deemed optimal for the protection of our forces"

Yep, still occupied.

Leave it to reins to thinking winning is getting your civilians and allies slaughtered hundreds and thousands to one. but they had to redirect oil! victory!

Wikipedia Lists Result of Iran War as Iranian Victory

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-06-19 12:02 PM

Check the citations and the casualty list while you're at it lol.

The Germans won't admit to knowing what was happening to the people in WWII.

why even paint it when you could just have it with a concrete bottom like it was originally?
#34 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2026-06-21 02:04 PM | Reply

A good bottom coat makes it easier to clean. Debris goes in the pool, goes to the bottom, and acts as a blanket which causes a spot of algae growth, which in turn can stain concrete slabs.

More importantly with this pool is that it's put together with expansion joints. Those leak. Between the joints and pipes, 16,000,000 gallons per year loss. That's 24 Olympic pools. You have to seal them properly and go back every 2-5 years and re-do it.

The reflecting pool looks awesome, but it's a complete teardown and rebuild. That thing is rekt.

He doesn't? He's the most influential figure in baseball analytics ever. Maybe it gets lost in the noise of what came after?

Chadwick's batting averages very early on, early 1900s I think.
James' sabermetrics was in the 90s.
The institutionalization "moneyball" era started by Beane. They start hiring data science staff in the early 2000s.
Then came a thing called WAR which was trying to quantify single player value around 2005.
Stat Cast and Hawk-Eye Innovations came around 2015. It marked the pivot to sensor driven analytics.
By 2018 it moved to the Data Science era for predictive modelling.
Now it's pushing forward again with Real Time Decisions Systems.