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Enzo5:
chelsea is playing you are busy watching u21 finals, who do you this thing ibime

England match started 8 and Chelsea match 9 so I watched first half

If you like no watch match, later you go come dey use Livescores

See the way Lavia dey control midfield, Benfica no see chance. That's what happens when you remove Enzo from the midfield.

This Benfica keeper no get joy at all

We have been completely dominant and comfortable. That's what you get with a Lavia-Caicedo pivot

Formation is OK except for Badiashile inclusion

Ireti always does something infuriating even after getting some things right

TheLequte:
Salah played with Mane and Firminho, two outstanding forwards who ensured he got all the glory. He played a role in Liverpool’s progress but he didn’t carry the team on his back.

What of Pires and Begkamp

Harvey Elliot again

Enzo5 go soon cry

Player of the Tournament

semid4lyfe:
I know the numerous bans and blocked posts from the AI bot has contributed to your vexation but please calm down, and try to see the bigger picture.

Now make I address the issues wey you don raise.

According to NCC, Nigeria has about 107 million active internet users. Nairaland has 3.2 million registered members, and just recently, Statisense reported that NL is the 4th most visited Nigerian website with 10.83 million visits. But when you compare that with how long NL has been around (since 2005), way before the current top three websites, the numbers are piss poor. For a platform that has been in existence for 20 years, NL should have a far better reach.

Also. from my interactions with Gen Zs in my line of work, many of them no even sabi Nairaland. But these same people dey TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc. And the reality is that NL cannot grow without attracting Gen Zs. That’s why this new share button makes sense. Unlike the old way that only shared posts within NL and only URLs externally, this one lets people share posts within NL, and send both URL and post content directly to WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, and Facebook, which is a smart move to improve visibility and traffic.

Yes, NL is primarily text-based but make you no dey talk like say no one go wan share NL content. Real life stories, personal experiences, expert opinions. professional advice, political commentaries etc emanating from NL are posted elsewhere. I’ve seen Nairaland posts on WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Telegram and even get quoted in blogs and newspapers. So the idea that because it’s not video or picture, nobody go share NL content no follow..

Lastly, sharing ≠ losing anonymity. I have used the feature to share a post to myself on whatsapp and nobody’s identity was exposed. The shared post appeared as posted by Ibime on NL. We're all using monickers so wetin be the fuss about this anonymity? Has sharing Ibime's post unravelled his identity to me? No! I am still as clueless as I have always been about him. In fact, this one na just unfounded paranoia and no follow at all.

You’re right about the spambot being frustrating though, but that’s a different issue entirely. Despite the inaccurate AI bot, NL still needs proper sharing tools and better visibility for content. Both things can exist together and one doesn’t cancel the other.

Most people opposed to this new share feature, na status quo bias dey worry them. Change isn't always easy but sometimes it's the exact thing that's needed to move forward.

I done hear you. At least make local share still remain and fix bot issues before trying to attract external users

seankafor:
I'm sharing updates from around the globe 🌎🌍 sir

Thank God for block button if you continue down this path

semid4lyfe:
True. The simple fix is to switch between mobile and desktop view in your mobile browser depending on where you want to share a post.

Why should we have to do that because Seun cannot get basic things right? Why not just have 2 share button options, one internal and one external?

How many months now, he has been unable to fix the sensitivity on his Spambot?

Theflint1:
I don't think it's a bad move, the share and like buttons seemed to overlap in function, and the ease of sharing posts outside Nairaland means people can introduce external traffic to the site a little more easily.

External traffic that will be banned by Spambot soon as they make an innocent post and immediately leave due to the poor user experience with Spambot?

It's obvious (as he has admitted) that Seun is not a regular user of Nairaland

What pictures or videos does Nairaland host that anyone will want to share externally? Nairaland is a text based site and simple copy of the URL is all that's needed if you want to copy a thread to a friend. Besides a key feature of Nairaland is anonymity which you lose by sharing posts

The owner of this site needs to open a burner account and use it regularly as a normal user ( not a mod) instead of abandoning it for Elon app. If he knew his user experience, I'm sure he will not make all these decisions we are seeing

Share externally ke, as if na video or picture

Too much auto tune on Burna voice these days

Man has smoked his vocal chords into oblivion

seankafor:
⚡️⭕️ Trump:

I will respond to Sayed Khamenei's statement regarding victory in war. I will consider bombing Iran again if it continues uranium enrichment.

Ayatollah Khamenei, as a faithful and believing man, must accept his defeat.
Israel and Netanyahu have also been defeated in this war.

Are you trying to become a Temu version of Writerng here, copying his bold formatting?

Dont turn here into that thread please

Simi done turn lame duck Paper Tiger

They removed his bollz before they put him back in the office

Come to find out the only Israeli soldier killed was an off duty on leave at his home in Beersheba who got taken out by the last missile strike

During the war, Israel was announcing soldiers killed in Gaza by Hamas. I saw 3 or 4 of these reports during those 12 days. That means Hamas outperformed Iran on battlefield

seankafor:
BREAKING

Iran's Foreign Minister says that it was Israel that asked for a ceasefire, and we made it clear to Israel that Iran is not Lebanon and that if they break the ceasefire, the response will come from Iran

Iran is still also playing videos of downed B2 bomber on their TV station and celebrating, yeah we believe them

All I see is a broke nugga simping

Ain't nobody reading all that

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MorataFC:

I dey watch one Indian film now, titled - 3 idi*ts

Which of the 4 is missing from the 3

Are we absolving Okafor?

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Audio billionaire....
Even if there's, a billionaire will donate his hard earned billions of dollars to support an unprovoked attack against a sovereign country. Abeg how many Ukrainian/Jewish billionaires don donate give Zelenesky? Mr Zelenesky is also a jew. ..

Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin to name a few. That's Facebook, Oracle and Google I just mentioned. Even baby billionaires go cover am much less centibillionaires like the above.

Jewish diaspora contribute heavily to the setup and maintenance of Israel since the days of Rothschild

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I dey tell you. This is just the cost of what Iranian missiles damaged on ground. we're not talking about the cost of logistics, missiles interceptors, dozens of refueling aircraft

Israeli Govt budget is 4 times that of Irans. Over $200bln to just over $50bln. Infact just one Israeli billionaire will donate the $3bln you are making noise about, and the Jewish diaspora billionaires do make such heavy donations

Now calculate the cost of a nuclear facility much less one dug deep in a mountain. Just one of those facilities is worth more than $3bln

Elon Musk Boring company can help you with quotes just for the digging aspect, much less the equipment, centrifuges and capitalised wage expenses of the technical expertise over the decades

LordAdam16:
Arak was not operational.
That was the point.
Iran decommissioned it under IAEA supervision to adhere to the JCPOA.

You do not need more than one facility to produce enough material.
You only need the right centrifuge.

I've had my fill of expert opinions.
An expert opinion also said that damage to Fordo was limited and centrifuges still present there were likely intact.
NYT and CNN reported on it.
I don't see you pushing that report.
You've found the report that confirms your bias and you're treating it as gospel.

Ask that expert if he has seen any recent radioactivity report since that day.
I know the answer he'll give.

You'll notice I've not made a definitive statement on Fordo and that I've insisted I'll wait for a proper report.
Everyone knows that takes time. At least 2-3 weeks.
So any expert who can say authoritatively that "X happened in Fordo" is talking out of his ass.
Even the US Joint Chief of Staff right now is only saying the bomb hit their targets. That's his version of my "the US drilled holes into a mountain".
He'll say nothing else until a proper BDA is conducted.
I triple dare you to bring a definitive statement from General Caine that backs your "expert's" opinion on complete damage to Fodro.
The General is choosing his words, but a two-bit "expert" is pushing his opinion as fact on everyone's favorite trust-me-bro social network without the correct collection of data types.

Let me put this in words that you can parse:
Your expert does not know what he's talking about because he has no access to the data that'll lead to a correct assessment.
We are waiting for the assessment borne out of comprehensive data collected.

What we don't need a BDA for is to know that Pickaxe is still operational.
We don't need a BDA to know that Iran has other secret nuclear sites.
We don't need a BDA to know that Iran still has its enriched uranium and advanced centrifuges intact.

Don't be a Jon Snow.
Iran as of right now has all the components. Facilities, material, centrifuge, personnel to continue its nuclear program.
Why in the world will it not continue with its nuclear program after the just concluded war?
Why would it publicize continued enrichment anymore?

I am willing to let it go.
I only added to his comment. I did not even attack it at first. Because it's an opinion piece.
Everyone is free to have those. But you should not make it something it is not.

-Lord

Stop giving us headache bro, this shalaye too much

fredoooooo:
Ibime enter my head ke .. you dey play ni? ..
Me a one man army .. you think I'm part of the Argument going on in here abi? I don't do Argument, i validate everyone opinion but you see that my own opinion , Nobody on this earth can charge it ... Oga reason why I say PERSONALLY... I'm a one man Army ... I don't follow group or mob.
One of the reason why I like Airmark on this page, better person..if you like use Grammer to deceive yourself and the foolish ones ..We stand Gidigba for the truth we believe

Ibime done enter that guy head na him make he dey mention me upandan, he no know say Fredo na one man mopol

LordAdam16:
He is wrong on several accounts.
Everyone knows about Pickaxe. It is still operational.
Everyone knows Iran still has other secret facilities.
Centrifuge manufacturing is still intact.
Enriched stockpile is intact.
Isfahan even has lower levels that are deeper than Fodro.

What everyone can attest to is that Iran's nuclear program is not completely destroyed.
If anything, it will continue unimpeded but away from the watchful eyes of IAEA inspectors.
Those who would have balked at this in the past, including Russia, now welcome it.

To your last statement, Iran signed the JCPOA deal and adhered to it.
The Arak reactor is a testament to this.
In fact, Iran kept adhering to the deal after the US left until a year later when Israel influenced Trump to start making maximalist demands.
Biden came and continued to push Trump's maximalist demands.
Iran's red lines still remain at the end of the war as it was at the start.

-Lord

Arak and every other heavy water unit is gone

It takes more than one facility to produce enough material. Fordow itself was a junior partner to Natanz which has the main stock of 60% enriched uranium while Fordow had mostly 20% and under

You must know more than him who is an expert in the field for over 30 years

Make we just leave am

BTW the projection of Iran being degraded to 10 to 20 ballistic missiles per day was achieved

LordAdam16:
Only adding color to that "expert's" opinion for anyone interested.

-Lord

That expert determined he nuclear facilities were badly damaged, no centrifuge production facilities left and nuclear program put back years. But did admit same as JD Vance that Iran could build back so Israel will need to keep mowing the grass periodically

He also analysed the damage to the mountain and assesses that the dust on the side showed it penetrated deep

So the nuclear goals were achieved and on the battleground, the difference was clear

The US and Israel shared a laundry list of strategic targets and Israel hit all of them, allowing both parties to achieve their goals and exit while still up on points.

My main takeout from this is Iran should stop terrifyng it's neighbours with terrorist groups. Nobody will have problem with them being successful traders, they should just start behaving themselves

LordAdam16:
The Western orthodoxy that Iran is a pariah struggling to keep its nuclear program afloat is a myth.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-israel-planned-bomb-pakistan-stop-it-building-nuclear-weapons
That article lays out that Iran does have the capacity to get a nuclear bomb at any time.
Pakistan transferred complete designs and processes to Iran and North Korea.

Iran wants to be the ME Japan.
To be Japan, it must retain the ability to enrich uranium.
Israel fiercely opposes this.

Trump had agreed to this Japan settlement at the start of his second term
Russia had offered a solution. Iran will enrich but with the strict 2015 cap. Russia will evacuate the 60+% enriched uranium stockpile.
A JCPOA reset.
Israel opposed both because Iran is already a nuclear threshold state.
It enriched from the JCPOA limit of 4% to 60% in under a year (2019 to 2020/2021).
That was 5 years ago. If Iran wanted, it would enrich to 90%, but it held off and only intermittently added to its existing stockpile.
In fact, if IAEA reports are to be believed, IAEA already found traces of 80+% enriched uranium, so Iran potentially has a smaller stockpile of weapon-grade uranium.
So like Japan, if Iran retains its enrichment capacity, it will be able to enrich and acquire a bomb at a moment's notice if it finds itself in an existential crisis.
That's the deterrence Iran seeks.

And that's the reason for the war.
Israel wants to completely eliminate Iran's ability to enrich.
That's what a complete destruction of its nuclear program entails.
Iran has said over their dead bodies.

On some level, it does appear that Israel has made the tradeoff that they'd rather have a North Korea.
Iran with a nuke but crippling sanctions that'd destabilize the government as it did Syria.
The mullahs will struggle to have the same level of control as the Kims. We've already seen how easily Iran can be infiltrated.
There are no protests in NK, protests occur regularly in Iran.
So there is a chance the regime could be toppled or become a Pakistan where compliant generals manage things.

As opposed to a prosperous Japan.
Iran as a nuclear threshold state. No sanctions. Lots of trade deals.
Growing economy that'll make the mullahs the next CCP or Gulf Monarchs.
And essentially becoming the Turkey/Japan/South Korea of the Axis Bloc on account of Iran's innate technical proficiency.

That is why Iran will sacrifice as many generals, nuclear scientists, and Khamenei himself to retain its nuclear program.
And if Iran does not change its stance, a second war is all but assured.
If push comes to shove, Iran would just test a nuke as Medvedev as said, either one that is transferred or one developed by its own means in secret facilities; and cross its fingers.
But it will not leap at this decision until it exhausts all other options.
Iran is playing a very dangerous game. But so far, they're still in it. Barely.

-Lord

Let it go bro.

nihilistjnr:
Nuclear facilities intact. Generals intact. Regime intact.
If fact, nothing actually happened in Iran. No bomb fell in Iranian airspace, whilst Israel has been removed from the map entirely

Imagine one werey here saying he will wait for his nuclear scientist friends to tell him whether 16 60,000kg bombs dropped in sequence at a single location can potentially do damage.

The person I follow on nuclear matters is David Albright. Anyone interested can follow his assessment here

https://x.com/DAVIDHALBRIGHT1/status/1937556394766450949?t=1xb4b9yOH-cL865t0LT1hQ&s=19

fredoooooo:
Woltemade .. The German striker ..The best I the Tournee so far

4 of his 6 goals against Slovenia and Czech Republic. One a penalty

Harvey Elliot 4 goals as a midfielder

Difference is clear

Our neck is paining us abeg. Two days now, rivers of Babylon won't stop flowing

Harvey Elliot = Player of the tournament at Euro Under 21s