Re: aphorism

On 29/06/2025 11:20 pm, john larkin wrote:

Simplicity is a force multiplier.
 - J Larkin
 (probably not original)

Nor any kind of aphorism, since it doesn't make any kind of sense.
The real world is rarely simple, and people who try to force it to conform to the simple schemes they can understand almost always get effects that they didn't expect or want.
Trump wanted his bunker buster bombs to obliterate the Iranian underground nuclear enrichment factories, and he's been remarkably unwilling to admit that he doesn't know if they had the desired  effect, and can't know until somebody digs down into the complex and finds out what they actually did.
Peter Hegseth got quite snotty about the press not taking the Pentagon's computer models as seriously as he would have liked them too.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/hegseth-iran-nuclear-strike-intel
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Bill Sloman, Sydney