Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
Hollywood copaganda told multiple generations that bad guys were constantly “getting away with it” because evil DAs got key evidence thrown out or similar “trickery.”
This really needs a longer thread, but the short answer for why we have those rules? Nothing else made cops follow the law. Nothing.
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"I support desegregation except for busses and lunch counters"
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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You are mistaken, we do not respond to legal requests from anywhere other than the Swiss authorities.
It is unlikely that one could build a business through ignoring the laws of the jurisdiction that it is in. The mail provider you're moving to included.
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her
“we all agreed rape jokes are bad” was about lazy men using rape as a shocking punchline to dehumanize women in like tweets and standup routines
don’t use that same maxim to run around demanding survivors of abuse discuss what happened to them only in somber, sad reverence.
I'm glad Firefly's coming back, as punishment to everyone who ever wondered, for even a moment, whether Firefly should come back. (It shouldn't.)
ASK ABOUT HER PLANS FOR THE AGENCY
ASK HER ABOUT HER FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB
This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem
Bet.
Now don't say you didn't say this when the time comes...
And J D Vance's wife is Indian.
And we've all seen how he talks about her culture and other non-white Americans.
We're talking about a candidate for Senate, and you come in here with this "Sure he's got a Nazi tattoo, but some of his best friends are..." ah argument?
Please.
I mean, yeah. now.
It's taking the fun, interesting parts of a REPL-based live coding session, and having Claude do the creative and interesting part, while you watch.
It's the difference between a refreshing spring cleaning and nagging your teenager to finish cleaning their room.
For some additional context, this was 8 years before desegregation
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
Really makes it obvious that affirming the other side's arguments is stupid as hell here. "Why are you trying to look down these kids' pants and stand between them and their doctors you fucking freaks?" is the answer.
Was it, tho?
Look -- it's okay to admit that growing up we were taught a picture of Israel that wasn't true then, either. We fell for it, we didn't know better. And a lot of the move of American Jews, myself included, on this issue comes from realizing that.
Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.
Danish Defense Minister: Continue.
As terrible as the anti-trans stuff has gotten in the last few years -- and it absolutely has -- the level of casual homophobia in the 1980s and 1990s, even the early 2000s was shockingly worse than people who didn't live through it would imagine looking back from today.
the burden of proof is on the people who just wiped out a grade school.
I'm not telling anyone on the left how to *feel* about it.
I'm not telling anyone to empathize with someone speaking racism; grief does not justify that.
What I *am* asking folks to do is think critically about why the media is surfacing this person's words, and to what end.
Guys, I'm starting to think that the guy who said he didn't know he had a Nazi tattoo might've been lying.
One day you're going to wonder why your synagogues are empty. It will be because you've forced out me and all of the other Jews who aren't fascists.
Was Nazi-tattoo guy – checks notes – in his early twenties and drunk in a war zone in January, when he sat for a lengthy interview with a holocaust denier, and said he was a 'longtime fan'? Is that the excuse again?
