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Public, military, and social history, in this galaxy and beyond. Also TTRPGS and this space camp I went to one time.

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15074    πŸ” 4838    πŸ’¬ 121    πŸ“Œ 93

The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.

And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.

05.03.2026 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1866    πŸ” 521    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 21

DHS keeps the fuck plane. Lewandowski stays on it and he has to fuck. Markwayne's problem now.

05.03.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3534    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 31

Not a bad way to find out.

05.03.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All it would take for me to join the Shadow Academy is for them to book me for a weekly training session with Tamith Kai where she taught me to serve face.

05.03.2026 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MTG just released a really cool Final Fantasy set, which would be a hilarious way to backdoor get into that.

05.03.2026 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pure godless evil.

04.03.2026 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6856    πŸ” 1037    πŸ’¬ 229    πŸ“Œ 39

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

04.03.2026 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7121    πŸ” 2588    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 36

Bodega owner and assembly line worker at a Ford plant.

04.03.2026 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These two in particular being in the bag for platner is a smoking gun as far as I'm concerned

04.03.2026 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 318    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

Might be a little tough after The Rise of Skywalker, but through the Force all things are possible.

04.03.2026 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dream blunt rotation, honestly.

04.03.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What’s the name of this organization?

We call it the Department of War

And the head of that department is?

The Secretary of War

And the workers in this organization?

Warfighters

And these people are fighting a war.

Oh no. My goodness no.

03.03.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Exegol, but yes. And commanded high risk special forces squadrons for what we know of his post-Endor military career.

04.03.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A history book starting with Wedge Antilles' all-encompassing survivor's guilt.

04.03.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Most telling part of this rant: That the war will go on until "we decide it is over," not until the aims of the war are achieved - because there are no stated aims; and Trump prefers having none, so any result will allow him to try to claim a "win."

04.03.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1626    πŸ” 444    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 12

$270 million own goal.

04.03.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That Kuwaiti F/A-18 pilot probably felt so cool for about five minutes

04.03.2026 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 330    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Chapter One: Wait, What Do You Mean My Son Was There

03.03.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dream book. Dream narrator. Dream author.

03.03.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

WAJ ANTILLES

03.03.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh shit!

03.03.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the Pentagon still has a lot of highly professional PhD level analysts and logistics and strategic wonks and they're living on pepto bismol and bourbon rn

02.03.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

These guys have been smug pricks over there with their slave labour and are now shocked that moving a small stretch of water away from Iran puts you close to Iran

02.03.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTurns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine” - Gavrilo Princip

02.03.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 956    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 6
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I don't know why this is the image that popped into my mind.

02.03.2026 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's me, Oct 2, 2022. "...apart from that print material, we’ve not stated his age with any specificity, so he could very well be well over 100 in Episode I if [you want] him to be."

02.03.2026 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 452    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 0

I would have loved it if they had filmed some of their scenes in Spanish.

02.03.2026 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That missile probably cost a considerable portion of what that Phantom was bought for.

02.03.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Josh D'Amaro admittedly has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

01.03.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0