Nate Ledbetter

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

I mean, that sort of follows, given the subject matter.

a man in a kimono is dancing with another man in a green kimono Alt: a man in a kimono is dancing with another man in a green kimono

Well, you know samurai in sequins are my thing.

They're opening a Kura Sushi here in my town sometime in the (waves hands) and I don't think I've ever been so excited for a restaurant opening. Between this and the Kpot that just opened, I'm set.

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

The fact that life is miserable in the armored brigade combat teams doesn't help. Endless maintenance for vehicles that are falling apart, high optempo deploying to boring locations with no real missions, and an officer corps that acts like CTC rotations are life or death.

"She wins for best female yak!"

"There is nothing cooler than a yak."

I would rather be imprecise about fascism from an academic view than let pass statements that many lay people would interpret as "oh, it's not X? That must mean it's not actually that bad."

Well but he hasn't gone and executed all the Dems YET, so we're not quite to full fascism...gosh everyone should just calm down.

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

Seems she learned a few things by the time she did the Siberia and Mongolia episodes, but also the groups she is visiting in Siberia and Mongolia are less "outsider" nomads than the Rauthe in Nepal. Less conflict with others, so there was a lot more reason for the group to be "who is this woman?"

I don't know, man. That whole episode was unintentional comedy gold. The Siberia episode was less amusing. About to start the Mongolia episode. Will report back.

Never seen Titatinic OR Shawshank Redemption.

Look, if I could figure out how to just cordon off the old Commentariat and only speak to y'all, I def would.

It’s pretty emblematic of today’s US Army, if you didn’t go to jump school, Ranger school, or some kind of SOF course, people question whether you were really “in” the Army at all, thus a whole bunch of officers who could be helpful self select out

Sometimes I really hate y'all. And you deserve it.

Yes, I was really looking to spend my Sunday afternoon looking at Mussolini rather than making a comment about Nichols, you are correct. Glad that you really honed in on what's important.

The point is that the whole "fasci region of Italy or it's not fascism" type argument that Nichols makes is stupid. The point is the government is doing bad things. Quibbling about if it's reached some arbitrary "fascism" threshold is dumb.

Disagree, but somebody else already wants to fight me about this and I really am not interested. Guess we have different ideas of what "fully-formed" means.

Cool.

Power, yes. And took another 3-5 years to fully form a complete fascist government, including having to pass laws and "win" (such as it was) an election. You're putting forth a lot of effort in support of Nichols here on a technical point that really doesn't matter, but hey, have fun.

Keep reading.

and was appointed PM by the king, and then took 5 more years to fully consolidate power. But yes, ok, fully-formed.

According to Mr. Nichols, fascism only exists full-formed; it never is implemented in stages, you see. One day, BOOM, you've got a Mussolini.

I am not interested in winning internet points, I can admit I read something wrong.

You have a different feed than me, as I have seen those people, absolutely. Hence my knee-jerk response, which I've since retracted.

Keep reading--I just posted an apology because I took it out of context.

Still not sure calling me an egghead (not you, someone else) is an effective argument, but hey, we all make mistakes.

Ok fair enough--I took your post in the context of what I am seeing in other threads, my fault.

I am seeing plenty of people arguing that LLMs are sentient, that we should treat them better than we often treat people. I read your comment in that thread. Mea culpa. Unlike an LLM, I can learn.

Oh, well that is a salient point. My head is shaved and rounded, gosh. You got me there.