Quickdraw

Was chatting with an acquisitions colleague today and the situation was described as "the Secretary has pulled the pin and tossed... the pin."

Don’t let this get lost in the shuffle.
 
These $1,776 "warrior dividends" weren't bonuses. Trump just stole money out of a fund meant to help our troops find affordable housing.

I've been called an Excel Commando.

"Yes, and": Capitalizing is essential since we're discussing what are effectively proper nouns. Bolding is nice *too*.

Perfect, no notes.

We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.

What is best in life:
-Crush your enemies
-See them driven before you
-Standalone Swords Without Master book

I'm really seeing this up close right now. It's a challenge to map even concepts like "far left" and "far right" cleanly across vastly different cultures. For every variable that at least vaguely rhymes between cultures, there's three that are outright inverted.

Give me Okinawan street fair food absolutely any day. I'll live longer.

Despite the weirdness/annoyance at the time, I'm feeling a pang of almost fondness for the culture that gave rise to the Oki election loudspeaker vans. American politics isn't actually much saner up close, we're just used to it.

Meanwhile, all the parliamentary systems continued to evolve for further centuries to actually address these issues. But we forked our code too early in that process. We're basically running a clumsily-patched version of Windows ME over here.

Absolutely the easiest years. My oldest is up to late-tween now and the challenges look like "exercising agency" and "hormones" and "regularly making annoying coherent arguments."

"I deleted thousands of tweets just so a bunch of Senators could yell at me?!"

Other nominees up there like "oh thank god somebody else gets to be the pinata."

Pair this observation with "Humility is the New 'Smart'" and we're really cooking.

Agreed. I definitely quote it more frequently than A Bug's Life.

The dumber the better. Not a day goes without me cursing the idiots who designed, wired, and built the stupid house I have right now, but at least it's all pre-IoT era stupidity.

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Man I spoke to soon, it's north of 6:1 as I kept scrolling a few more screens.

#OwlSupremacy

My Following is about a 5:2 ratio of owls:football, which feels like I'm doing something right.

There's one REALLY easy way to not get collected on while talking to foreign intelligence.

You just made my kid's day.

Ugggggh, THAT guy. And Band Guy, who should have been lit on fire.

On further reflection, I'm thinking they actually share the MRE spoon, and must have it broken.

I suspect Thune is currently screaming that exact question at him somewhere just off-camera.

Base housing appears to have selected "Two Dudes with MRE Spoons, LLC" as their snow removal contractor.

AI-ass infographic can't even generate a legitimate "§"

DLI in particular is home to the dumbest smart people in the world.

The kind of people who pull near-perfect grades in KOREAN while requesting leave to marry their Eastern European mail-order bride.

Even if the armband didn't specify 1st Radio Bn, this would be an obvious Radio Bn photo.