Warren Terra

The good news: after a week of the US trying to kill all the candidates, one person has emerged with whom the US and the world could in theory negotiate, who might have the authority to reopen the straits.
The bad news: who the one person is.

Now I'm trying to figure out how many miles a day that is.

Looking back fondly and nostalgically at the $90/bbl of yesterday.

Harvard institute of Politics announces acquisition of a dedicated Academic Research Fuck Jet.

At least the instigators of Suez had a plan and a theory and a model. Not a good one, least of all an ethical one, but it existed. No-one has been able to figure out what the instigators of this latest cavalcade of horrors thought was going to happen on day 2 or day 20 to somehow offer a resolution.

Just because something is written on a hat doesn't mean it's true.

1970s hair looks like it was a lot of work tbh.

This is a real departure for Trump, the man for whom it's permanently 1988.

But at least the Pahlavi fans managed to see Iran ruled by a hereditary monarchy again.

Maybe some of that sentiment was real? But a sudden unprovoked massive sustained attack that has no coherent political aims and lacks local allies and involves blowing up a desalination plant and has oil raining in Tehran as rivers of fire run through the streets can't be what that person imagined.

BBC Audio | The Documentary Podcast | Forty-eight hours in Isfahan Iranians describe seeing armed forces loyal to the Islamic regime kill protesters

With absolutely cursed timing (on the assumption they'd been working on it for a couple of weeks) the BBC released a podcast episode on Thursday giving accounts from the Iranian street demonstrations and their murderous repression. One person even says maybe Trump will intervene and help them.

Also there's at least a theory that blowing up the machinery of repressive state power might encourage people considering an anti-government popular uprising, but I'm pretty sure raining oil and rivers of fire in Tehran wouldn't.

Look on the bright side: if you filled up your car a couple of weeks ago and haven't driven it since, your car is now measurably more valuable!

One constant in Truth Social screenshots is that for a platform that essentially only exists to give Trump an audience, the audience often isn't all that large.

Let's say for the sake of argument that they're correct ... how *quickly* is it regenerating? Compared to, say, the rate at which we're extracting it.

Also: is dwindling supply the problem? There's loads and loads of coal, but burning it would be a really terrible idea.

This surprised me because I didn't expect any Germans to give a shit about this incident.

The applause lines - seems wrong to call them jokes - about Minneapolis and "water warfare, baby!" really stand out. They remind me of the videos I've seen that Olivia Rheingold made for the same website, it's clearly what they're shooting for. Just absolute aesthetics of fascism stuff.

Thanks, not sure what I was misremembering.

Back about 30 years ago Microsoft tried this: the clock in Windows would prompt the user at 3AM to approve moving the clock back to 2AM. And if the user was still at the computer an hour later it would prompt them again. And again. Someone on the Windows team had never heard of night owls.

Didn't he make that mistake in his first term, thinking he could do a "pocket veto" and accidentally letting a bill become law?

Oh, fuck off.

Well you can't do whole continents obviously, Mexico and parts of Arizona don't do Daylight Savings.

I will be very curious to see if there's ever more information about these supposed IEDs. Jake Lang and his Nazi pals haven't been badly harmed yet and I'm suspicious about how serious any supposed IEDs targeting them were. Though I'd certainly believe stink bombs were a (very stupid) possibility.

Merely changing the clocks shows a paucity of vision. A true visionary would move most of North America 15 degrees of Longitude to the east.

Zelensky Says U.S. Delay Blocking Patriot Missile Production in Europe - Khaama Press President Zelenskyy says US approval delays have blocked Patriot missile production plans in Europe, leaving Ukraine seeking urgent air defense cooperation.

I thought the US stopped sending any weapons to Ukraine for the last year, including interceptors?

And the US was also blocking European plans to produce interceptors and share them with Ukraine.

But obviously at the very least gulf states will be buying interceptors that might've gone to Ukraine.

Mainly hat-based communication I see.

Can it stretch to cover the hole in the roof?

That was absolutely the right choice. Places that did high vaccination and relaxed mask mandates did fine. It was the places that didn't vaccinate that saw unnecessary deaths.

Plus a lot of shittery from the more entitled centrists, Atlantic writers and the like. People who didn't have to leave the house anyhow but were upset other people stayed home. People who had endless credulity for the jagoffs Just Asking Questions about lab leak conspiracy theories.

I don't much care for Pullman's formulation (children encounter some horrific things in their childhood) but it's clear what Disney is saying here is that the existence and dignity of Gay people is a thing children *shouldn't* encounter in their childhood, and fuck that.