willy nilly

nothing cops love more than pointing at a crime they didn't prevent to lecture you about how necessary they are

here but no further

regretfully coming to accept that gamergate is our dreyfus affair, future historians will categorize our political divisions simply as pro- or anti- sarkeesian

make it make sense

what’s a good first principle for someone just getting into having principles

kid might have to suffer the indignity of paying $11k/yr to go to the 56th ranked college in the world instead of $80k/yr to get the same education at the 19th ranked one

stupid but possibly well intentioned vs stupid and universally evil

it’s why the muslim world called the crusaders (and europeans for a long time afterwards) “franks” even though they came from all across latin europe, the warrior-aristocrat class were all from a broad post-carolingian culture

i miss the woke america of my youth

feeling necessary but not sufficient

wasn’t my idea

theoretically you don’t need to force a sense of espirit du corps militia member or volunteer soldier via harsh military discipline, and so the ability to march in unison isn’t a demonstration of anything the us military values

in america where we don’t have a much of a tradition of conscript armies, instead having our military built on a militia/citizen-soldier tradition, that style of training/fighting has been much less emphasized

you’re probably joking but there’s a deeper truth here - the us army eschews drill bc traditionally it’s been a way for army leaders to demonstrate that their army of conscripted peasants have become disciplined enough to not break and run under fire

yeah i’ve got some fairly intense information hygiene practices but it can only do so much

i’ve been scrolling more and more on here bc you barely see *anything* about current events except maybe third degree meta discourse, its been really stark with the la stuff

in response to him tagging jd vance saying he should deport the menswear guy

yeah i’m definitely on the far left wing of that crowd and mostly just posting about how bad things are both irl and on there, it really feels like a losing battle though

got kicked of twitter for 12 hours just for describing a situation i thought i would find funny 🙄

yeah definitely makes an opposed crossing harder, just see how italy did in the austrian alps. railroads/some motor vehicles? would’ve been a massive help on the supply/transport front though. (and not that it matters but hannibal’s crossing was opposed by various gallic tribes, just not the romans)

those are the alps hannibal famously crossed with his elephants. the tech had obviously improved by the 20th century but they still would’ve presented a massive barrier. add in italy’s incompetence and the overall course of the war and it’s doubtful it would’ve changed much

if your editor is making the big bolded words at the top of your article say something you disagree with without your input you can either quit that job or agree to not be taken seriously, i don’t think you can have both

caffeine naloxone

depends on what kind of questions you ask it

it’s wild how he clearly had this private road to damascus moment where he decided the things he’d spent his whole life arguing for were counterproductive but in public just smoothly pivoted from smugly advocating for one set of ideas to smugly arguing against them wo any acknowledgement of the sort

the correct way to trade the russian revolution was to move to america

apples and trees

yeah for privates there’s harvard yale princeton mit columbia penn stanford duke cornell (and more) then another dozen+ state flagships (uc schools, michigan, washington, wisconsin, etc), pretty much no other country in the world has more than 2 or 3 universities close to that level

prestige is the thing that concentrates an incredibly disproportionate share of the worlds most talented people within its ~150 high end university research institutions. you can easily recreate a school that grants degrees but not one that is on the cutting edge in a dozen+ fields