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austerity may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people not drive to work, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not

Did anyone ever take a shot at estimating a death toll from that spreadsheet error?

My version of this is that numbers fuck team is fine when evidence based is a sufficient condition, but when it becomes a necessary condition for policy, it becomes a hindrance

Lmaoooo

The portion of dem opposition to Mamdani that wasn't entirely racist came from this. This was about 30% of the dem opposition to Mamdani

they're Democrats in the sense that even their states' conservatives are Democrats, i think

I'm calling this "serious personism". They want their positions to be seen as the "serious person" position no matter where they stand in reality. There's a parallel to "the economy is when men hit steel with hammers" laborism

How close together do two people need to be masturbating before it becomes a mutual act?

I think people have witnessed Ukrainians taking a whole of society approach to countering Shaheds and thought that this shit was easy. It is not, Ukrainians are surviving through immense hardships because they have to. There is not other choice for them.

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

This from 2024 is essential reporting about AI, target generation, and tempo, deadly deadly deadly tempo.

www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

Yeah it's somehow still underrated but Biden (and Harris by extension because she was operating under the thesis of no daylight) essentially did everything possible to avoid clamping down on Israel against the trendline of their own party's base and the response from the pro-Israel lobby was scorn.

Institute for the Study of War on X: "2/ Iranian strikes targeting US bases in the region have caused some material damage and casualties. Commercially available satellite imagery captured on March 4 shows that Iranian airstrikes on the Ali al Salem Airbase in Kuwait damaged several buildings, including aircraft https://t.co/Gm4lS7sfJT" / X 2/ Iranian strikes targeting US bases in the region have caused some material damage and casualties. Commercially available satellite imagery captured on March 4 shows that Iranian airstrikes on the Ali al Salem Airbase in Kuwait damaged several buildings, including aircraft https://t.co/Gm4lS7sfJT

Link for those curious

And what the political blowback does

Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.

Have you seen the imagery of the Ali al Salem airbase? The accuracy is much, much higher than I think most people suspected

Those bases are getting hammered much harder than most people believe

Ask it to check the news

We bombed them. To do what? So we can bomb them. To do what? To facilitate strikes. To do what? To enable kinetic operations. To do what? To shape the battlefield. To do what? So we can bomb them.

It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"

Sell low dose Vyvanse in blister packs as an OTC decongestant imo

Sharing screnshots from a FARS News post only because you can see 8 distinct groupings; each grouping appears to be of 10.

This is far more than the previously believed total of 24 submunitions per missile.

“The terms this war will be set by us at every step” reflects an ignorance of the entire human experience with warfare.

1,000 far right podcasters drinking 1,000 energy drinks typing into 1,000 iPhones for 1,000 years would struggle to conjure such an extraordinary statement.

Remarkable, really.

You should be protected by at least a 6 foot wall, obviously.

"Obviously don't go outside and protest when bombs are dropping around, you know, Tehran"

-Hegseth

U.S. CENTCOM COMMANDER: WE HAVE STRUCK IRAN'S EQUIVALENT OF SPACE COMMAND

@vanhollen.senate.gov?