B.J. Hutto

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

The United States lost 58,220 American Soldiers in a 10 year war in Vietnam.

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Despite being a scientist and atheist, girlfriend refuses to visit known purported haunted house. Claims this is “white people shit, asking for trouble”

“The support comes as rural hospital closures have left tens of millions of people with fewer health care options.

The East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, now named after Parton, has operated with an ‘open-door” policy that no child would be denied care …’”

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

did you even read the thing you are quoting to me

and to your point, tom shippey argues _bilbo_ in the hobbit represented a new kind of (reluctant) hero in literature, most of which also applies to frodo

one of the reasons I like this passage a lot is think it captures a kind of small c conservative sense of duty/heroism that's really different from the kind of contemporary understanding of those concepts where it's journey of self-discovery/self-actualization. not, it fucking sucks, but here we are

At least the teacher was confident that our 7YO isn’t the culprit…

It’s not lost on me that this is happening during Ramadan and during fasting hrs.

If this is airstrikes only, who are they supposed to surrender to, and who are the 'forces of liberation'?

Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team

A government-paid, full-time SWAT team composed of four agents and two vehicles escorts Kash Patel's girlfriend, an arrangement apparently unprecedented in the FBI. Wild reporting.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk' Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

The fight is on www.wired.com/story/anthro...

holy shit

Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

Dad’s Favorite Piece Of Media Still Commercial From 2005

Dad’s Favorite Piece Of Media Still Commercial From 2005 https://theonion.com/dads-favorite-piece-of-media-still-commercial-from-2005/

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

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this is one of those things where i think it would be useful for more people to recognize that this is completely unrecognizable compared to republican party orthodoxy for essentially the entire history of the republican party

“The government failed to respect Ms. Flores’s dignity and privacy, exposed her to a risk of doxxing, and generally thumbed its nose at the notion that defendants are innocent until proven guilty. The post also directly violated a court order sealing the case."

Im envisioning the variety of women who will romance me, their various Ethnicities, etc, when the Dark Net Injectables make me 1 inch taller

Claude😂

Happy Friday to you guys

The Owl Mosaic, depicting an owl wearing a toga and surrounded by dead birds with an inscription that says "the birds are bursting with envy, and the owl does not care". Dated to the 3rd century AD, from Thysdrus. El Jem Museum, Tunisia. INVIDIARUAPVANVRAVESNEQVENOCTVACVRAT

this is the quintessential example of what Bruce Schneier and I call a "common knowledge attack" on democracy. It isn't just that the fake comments can masquerade as real ones. It's that flooding the zone makes public commenting _as a whole_ unreliable and readily dismissed, even from real people.

The recent Decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning TARIFFS could allow for Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to be returned to Countries and Companies that have been “ripping off” the United States of America for many years to come, and now, according to this Decision, could actually continue to do so, at an even increased level. I am sure that the Supreme Court did not have this in mind! It doesn’t make sense that Countries and Companies that took advantage of us for decades, receiving Billions and Billions of Dollars that they should not have been allowed to receive, would now be entitled to an undeserved “windfall,” the likes of which the World has never seen before, as a result of this highly disappointing, to say the least, ruling. Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of this case possible??? PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump on the Supreme Court's tariffs ruling: "Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of this case possible???"

every day I am more secure in my decision not to argue with people on the internet anymore

The recipient’s girlfriend: he doesn’t see their color anymore even though he still “He’s a much better lover now. Of course, he was talks about it sometimes. He seems more comfortable and weaker before, but it’s not that. He’s like, I mean he just at ease with these black guys, but he’s not aware of it. And knows my body as well as I do. He wants to cuddle, hold, one more thing I should say: he’s driving me nuts with the and take a lot of time. Before he was a good lover, but not classical music. He doesn’t know the name of one song and like this. It’s just different. He wants to hug all the time never, never listened to it before. Now, he sits for hours and go shopping. My God, he never wanted to shop. And and listens to it. He even whistles classical music songs you know what, he carries a purse now. His purse! He that he could never know. How does he know them? You’d slings it over his shoulder and calls it his bag, but it’s a think he’d like rap music or something because of his purse. He hates it when I say that, but going to the mall black heart.” with him is like going with one of the girls. And one more thing, he loves to go to museums. He would never, absolutely never do that. Now he would go every week. Some-imes he stands for minutes and looks at a painting without talking. He loves landscapes and just stares. SometimeI just leave him there and come back later.”

sometimes i think about the paper (published in Integrative Medicine, 2002) that claims that a male recipient of a heart transplant became more feminine after a heart transplant from a woman

(i'm almost certainly convinced that this is a psycho-social thing driven by gender)

not the point but the ideal GI Joe movie has already been made and its a shame how quickly Marvel dispensed with Hydra as an insidious arch-villain (aside from plenty of good weekly network TV Nazi-punching adventures on the long-since-excised-from-canon Agents of SHIELD) given well, everything