Ghost pepper sauce I got from the internet all dried up because it’s been a minute. I added in some water, shook it around. Caused the contents of the entire bottle to pour into my beans and rice. The resulting “hot rice” is actively painful to consume and may be the worst thing I have ever eaten.
I once wanted to write a Tumblr called The Culture of the Far West, from the POV of a European Studies scholar in an alt history in which Song China industrialized and now in the 1600s the modern world is China + Arab world while Europe is a backwater.
oh I used to explain Traditional Western Medicine to Chinese friends straight-facedly.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to oil. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
Can confirm as a SE Asian, the oil price hikes are dominating the news cycles here
In the meantime India and Bangladesh are already rationing natural gas. The rest of SE Asia is just shitting bricks.
I think Iran would be very happy if anti-mine/minelayer operations meant an Arleigh Burke in the strait proper, where it could be ambushed and possibly knocked out by an ASM barrage.
Killing a Burke would be an enormous legitimacy win for the regime.
Not an expert on this stuff but my understanding is mines are cheap and easy to make and most light ships can place small numbers of them slowly, making it difficult to neutralize this capability without actually putting ships in the strait.
Where they would be vulnerable.
The problem, as is often the case, is that I suspect the internal factors driving both sides aren't going to allow them to back down because neither side can be seen, politically, to 'lose.'
Both will demand the other front-load concessions, both will refuse, and then Iran has to throw that punch.
For what it is worth, I read the Iranian action here as signalling. Ineffective signalling, but signalling.
They need rising oil prices to pressure Trump and this might cause that but it is also a a "back off, man" shove - a move intended to promise the 'real' sucker punch if you don't back off.
Although I suppose, in the case of war, I'd call it a 'tragedy of errors' rather than a comedy of one.
That is the most common kind of war, to be honest.
These mofos would be doing a better job planning than the United States military rn
@omrimarian.bsky.social @glowlaw.org things seem to be accelerating.
the Dem party number is easily explained by the fact that bluesky is full of people who will crawl over broken glass to vote for Democrats in November and also hate Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries with every bone in their body
the classic "its the mystery staffer's fault, no I will not be revealing which mystery staffer or punishing them in any way" move
In a past life, I did security work (insider threat analysis, supply chain, etc.) for a number of firms. I was never a pen tester, but I knew some to recommend (and could point out "Hey, this door is secured like shit").
I've said before the only "real" security is someone with a gun and/or dog.
Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success
JUST IN: Democrats have flipped a Trump+9 seat in the New Hampshire House, per reporter Kevin Landrigan.
Republicans outspent Dems by a considerable margin.
This is now the 10th special election flip for Ds in Trump's second term, versus zero for the GOP. sos.tn.gov/elections/20...
In fairness every one of them deserves to wear shitty uncomfortable shoes
LMAO.
Imagine being so desperate as to hope that the world's third most diplomatically incompetent tyrant (after Trump and Putin) is going to Metternich your problems away.
Maybe Chinese pressure eventually gets a deal. It's not unfucking this fast enough to stop a serious energy crisis.
man.
everyone who moved to london during the industrial revolution to sleep draped over a rope in a poorhouse and shit in the street and get their hands torn off by the satanic mills moved there to get away from agricultural labor
In college I was talking about with a professor about a historical mathematical breakthrough and, thinking of physics, said that must have caused a riot
He looked puzzled, then laughed and said, no in math you look at the proof and it’s either right or not
But come to think of it, there are two ways to go insane here, and gastown is one of them …
so yeah let’s stick with mathematicians
Cosign. The developers I know have also mostly been game. I think a lot about that old Theophite post (paraphrasing: my TL is mostly devs who are actually threatened by AI defending it against artists and writers, who mostly aren’t).
sometimes you genuinely have to wonder how America became a hegemon in the first place
I have spent the last decade arguing with Naval officers on social media who have said that they hate, haaaaate playing second fiddle to the Army during the GWOT.
Your time to shine pendejo.
In Persian culture, killing somebody’s entire family with TLAMs is seen as a grave insult
BREAKING: Leaked Pentagon documents reveal highly classified CENTCOM war plans
