Paula Blart, LADY Mall Cop, Ultra Ph.D., IQ: 212

For comparison: the Japanese offshore seismic network and earthquake early warning system cost like $78 million to put and place and about $2 million a year to maintain.

So much stuff could be done if we stopped deciding we loved killing people more than literally anything else.

The IRGC’s sequencing—first degrading long-range early warning in Qatar, then targeting theatre-level radar in the UAE, followed by the interceptor battery itself—suggests a deliberate operational design aimed at collapsing multiple defensive layers in a cascading manner. Such sequencing implies advanced target intelligence, persistent surveillance, and calibrated strike planning that prioritised sensor nodes before kinetic interceptors, reflecting a systems-level approach to dismantling missile defence rather than symbolic attacks. If the IRGC’s claim of total operational loss is accurate, the United States now faces a theatre-level gap in high-altitude interception coverage across critical Gulf sectors, compressing warning-to-intercept timelines and increasing the probability of successful missile penetration. This structural weakening of layered defence forces Gulf-based commanders to reconsider force dispersion, hardened infrastructure utilisation, and aircraft generation cycles at key installations, including those hosting rotational US combat aircraft and logistics hubs. The psychological dimension is equally significant, as THAAD’s presence has long served as a visible deterrent signal of American commitment and technological superiority, and its reported destruction challenges that perception among allies and adversaries alike.

Reading this section in particular made me feel a little crazy. The blinding hubris preventing these fucking bozos from recognizing their adversaries as complex humans capable of strategic thinking ... a tale as old as time.

It seems fairly clear that we are being subjected to a massive media blackout/disinformation campaign about what is actually happening in and around Iran right now, given that Iran is apparently still quite capable of launching drones and missiles.

Using chatgpt to laugh at a joke for me

I aspire to exude as much confidence as this little Kinesin protein strutting along a microtubule while hauling intracellular cargo.

Look at that little guy go! 🔬🧪

Ryan Grim would you consider yourself a fan of said "popular vet podcast"

hey guys quick question. does anyone know what’s going on. with anything

I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to engage in a guided imagery exercise where I imagine beating a specific old man into a bloody pulp with a baseball bat while taking a nice warm Epsom salt bath

Do you ever catch yourself before you're about to do or say something really mean to someone? Maybe you might decide to still say it anyway, but I think it's worth striving to be consciously aware of that urge and understand the underlying motivations behind it.

I think people should try to be more self critical of their impulse to be cruel, even to targets that could be considered "justified." Maybe even especially so.

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.

It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

Imagine if another country bombed the US and took out its leader! Just imagine that! Now keep imagining it. Maybe have a beer and a joint.

something unforgivable, undoubtedly

I thought about it and decided that you're right

this actually also fits into the first category

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

There are two kinds of people in the world: people who think there are two kinds of things, and people who think there are more than two kinds of things.

I haven't watched it yet because at the time it seemed too frustrating and I didn't know who Garland was, but we just watched 28 years later (the perfect brexit movie) and bone temple (the perfect COVID movie) and I'm garlandpilled now

wowwwwwwwwwwwww, I can't wait to be its new mommy

this fucking sucks

all the the mighty and morally superior “West” knows how to do anymore is murder children

And amazing that this is the guy who once twote this

Yeah that's true, it's just that the only person who embodies the American ethos more than Donald Trump is Patrick Bateman

I guess it would make narrative sense for the US to elect this Patrick Bateman ass bitch as president next. Pathetic.

The long 2010s are finally over

30 years.

This video should be on every network.

side of the neck or nothing

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Mass deportations aren’t a policy, they’re a Forever War. Years to execute, impossible to finish, and built on prison camps, contractors, and mercenary forces. Once this carceral machine exists, it feeds itself. That’s not border control, it’s a permanent domestic war state.