Yeet Without Joy

Chester Nimitz, 1943:

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

Jolly kid disguised as a witch gleefully receiving a pack of Marlboro red

Full bars are for quitters
Full packs are for closers

I'm almost done with @chriskempshall.bsky.social's The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire which fits squarely in both 1 and 2

Recommend if you haven't read it

They gotta go through all the COCOMs except INDOPACOM to spite INDOPACOM

Holy shit hahahaha

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2001 AUMF:

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When you build your entire career around a strategy of denial in the First Island Chain and then your bosses pick a totally different island chain.

This has got to be one of the most interesting Polymarkets I’ve seen.🤣

From M Aurelius, Meditations: “ 52. You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.” Captioned: “ Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take”

LOGGING ON

They're calling him the most French man in history

At top, a black and white chart labeled "Normal Distribution," showing a curved line that starts low at the left, curves up and peaks in the middle, and returns to the same low position on the right. At bottom, a black and white chart labeled "Paranormal Distribution," showing the curved line transformed into a typical ghost (a floating white sheet draped over an upright body) with two dark dots for eyes.

Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:

Chancellorsville?

Ist die schlacht auch in Virginia?

Es ist Schlacht in der Wilderness oder nein?

Put your money on Fedayeen Kristol now

lmao we all told you not to vote for him

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

Ah

that's uhh a lot to cover lol

The only reason JD Vance hasn't incited pogroms against his constituents is that the average American has less spirit of civic engagement than your average 19th century Russian peasant.

Is there a specific topic?

Libertarians in shambles while also expanding their encyclopedic knowledge of age of consent laws for LLMs

Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly White South Africans | CNN Politics The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...

This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.

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Many are saying this

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.