Amanda Mull

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

If I had to speculate, I’d say that in his case, it’s because this group, insofar as he’s aware of who’s in it, is mostly people who he thinks SHOULD be compelled by him, or who he sincerely wishes were

modern warfare is so uniquely horrifying because it is unbelievably totalitarian in its destructiveness but not really any more effective at achieving political objectives than when you just gave ten thousand guys muskets and told them to walk into the other ten thousand guys

I’m from Georgia so believe me I am acquainted with a Pub Sub lol

He was in no hurry about the crown—if he had been, I’d have gone ahead and gotten it already! He’s a great dentist overall but maybe a touch too chill in this kind of situation. I’ll see him on Thursday but from my convo with him on the phone today he said it sounded likely fixable. Here’s hoping!

My iron levels are great, this is a tooth I originally cracked years ago and never got around to having crowned post-root canal, so it’s no shock that it cracked again (my fault, unfortunately)

The molar that cracked was one that had already had a root canal and that I’d put off having crowned for several years, so it is more my fault than the Nerds’ tbh

That would be most likely to cause a fungal infection or contact dermatitis I would think, and the treatments for those are pretty mild

My dentist (old school, Brooklyn Italian, wonderful) has a little toaster oven in his reception area to offer warm cookies and pastries to patients

At least I went out having fun

The Nerds R&D department helps with the boat payments

Easily

Really satisfying that my dentist’s response to hearing this story today was “oh wow those are very good though”

The guy whose full-time job is renaming and un-renaming the HBO Max app is thrilled by the merger news.

I don’t think that’s what’s happening there, personally

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

That’s real

Yes! Precisely!

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

Honestly worst thing is that I did it on like the second one so now I’ve just got a full bag I can’t eat

(I’m fine, it’s a tooth that had already been root canal’d and it’s surface-level along the previous crack and the filling, so it doesn’t hurt and isn’t even temp sensitive. I will see the dentist this week.)

Idk what the most embarrassing way to crack a tooth is but “chomped too hard on Nerds Gummy Cluster” gotta be up there

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

“Turns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine” - Gavrilo Princip

Couldn’t figure out why there was an “emerging markets transaction” on my credit card and thought maybe it got skimmed or something but turns out it’s because I gave money to a Canadian gofundme? Is Canada an emerging market?????

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."

Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse