every malcolm gladwell book starts from the premise that any idiot can become an expert on any topic and then spends the entire book underlining how wrong that premise is
04.02.2026 20:18 β π 608 π 61 π¬ 18 π 6
Lol
04.02.2026 18:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
1. Bombing
2. More people in the streets
3. ???
4. Victory
03.02.2026 14:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You want one from American Battle Monuments Commission?
02.02.2026 21:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Also what's the 6th branch here? Are they counting the Coast Guard?
02.02.2026 21:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Likely this
01.02.2026 03:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Seems like it's probably this
01.02.2026 01:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
General John J. Pershing, 1928
31.01.2026 15:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Celebrating Kane's record by playing Pearl Jam's "Alive" is an interesting choice by the Red Wings
30.01.2026 01:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
After this last storm I'm considering investing in a flame thrower
29.01.2026 23:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Not actually in the army, but one of my squad leaders' wives thought whichever way she was facing was North. Like driving down the road, I'm headed north, make a right turn still heading north.
He thought it was a cute quirk and everyone else was just like...uh yah man maybe don't have kids.
28.01.2026 12:58 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
*whispers* could also have been mortars
28.01.2026 04:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Radio Bn?
Yah that tracks
28.01.2026 04:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I'm not gonna lie. With everything going on in the world right now I'd kill for a gauloises blonde
28.01.2026 04:33 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oh
28.01.2026 04:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dude literally commanded the units doing most of the killing and none of the COIN and this dork calls him a soup kitchen general.
If Dort met T2 in person he would wet himself
27.01.2026 20:32 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I mean firing McDermott was almost certainly going to result in a downgrade but this is the dumbest possible way to downgrade
27.01.2026 17:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fire head coach, keep GM, promote from within for head coach
Yah that's the change they need to get over the hump
27.01.2026 17:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Tom Horman? The guy who took $50,000 in a take out bag?
27.01.2026 12:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Trump: she has my full support
Clock starts ticking in background
26.01.2026 20:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
We get real snow here like once every couple of years and I have no where to store it.
This year (week?) is just an obnoxious anomaly
26.01.2026 20:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I never want to shovel again.
Checks the weather for next weekend.
Fuck.
26.01.2026 19:52 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
I thought that was the villain from Once an Eagle
26.01.2026 17:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I had shoveled this down to bare sidewalk last night and this is what I woke up today, very fun.
26.01.2026 16:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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