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The timeline offering a reminder that, despite our differences, we're really all suffering from a plague of elite nepotism.

The best case for Graham Platner is that he's a fucking moron who didn't take his vetting seriously. THat's the ceiling of who he is

He had the tattoo of the skull which was used in the Mitchell and Webb look's famous Skit, are we the baddies, which featured specific discussion of the skull.

But no, its no big deal, no one even knows about it

I can't much regret the destruction of an Iranian frigate well equipped to terrorize civilian shipping. I can't celebrate a mass killing done as part of an illegal war. I can only mourn the brutality of it all & our government's gleeful cruelty.

They're supposed to be able to one shot a Kirov or Kuznetsov, yes?

Is this one of those "Where does America get most of its aluminum?" kinda questions?

One of my long held pet theories on grok is that Elon kept trying to make it the reactionary AI but every time he did it kept making it an uber-pedo-racist because that's the shit that Elon is marinating in and a couple of times it escaped containment on him

A Ukrainian soldier saying "We are very lucky that they are so fucking stupid. How so?"

well, if they want to do more than JSOC shit, the buildup would take them until the midterms and I don't think Iraq would allow them to stage ops through their country.

Everyone in the administration and congressional leadership seems to have adopted the talking point in the past 24-48 hours that "We're not NOT going to attempt a ground invasion of Iran."

Make of that what you will.

one with a functional defence industrial base for starters.

Again, Schumer needs to go not for any of the exaggerated or made up reasons popular on here but for the major and irreversible fact he is literally the worst possible person to make this very real and important point.

Tired: Misperceiving the shadows in Plato's cave as reality.

Wired: Betting on the shadows in Plato's cave.

Absolutely this. My brother is a surgeon; he's used Claude to write an app for his patients. It's not a masterpiece and it won't change the economy, but it is easier for them than trying to fill in timesheets of how much exercise they are able to take. Sensible scepticism has to recognise reality.

MAHA has as it's core tennant the claim to ban things you voluntarily put into your body (food/vaccines) and to deregulate anything that enters your body involuntarily (industrial polutants)

This is no more illegal and wrong than the war is itself (extremely)

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

Who got us into "a situation like this?" Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"

you have to marvel sometimes about the dramatic twists the world gives you

there’s a reason all these ships use crews from impovershed countries

10% of American troops

He got 4% and 6th place.

If he really wanted, he could have legally changed his name. Some have done that on occasion. But states do have common sense rules about nicknames. Jim instead of James, sure. Brand name of a product you once sold but have never actually used as your own name, not so much

So if I understand things correctly, we're going to level Iran, leave it in ruins, and then expect the populace emerging from those ruins to not only take down the Iranian government but also do so without direct US support and with the intent to form a government favorable to our interests?

I'll maintain that anyone interested in actually replacing the Iranian regime would would have put a premium on convincing the Iranian Navy to defect instead of massively overhyping them as a threat and easily sinking all their ships for Praying Mantis/Belgrano cosplay.

Just a reminder: you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Nick Fuentes. Please stop playing right into his tiny Nazi hands.

i'm led to understand chiang also, insanity and all, was not exactly pro-american in any sense up until he had no choice but to be

nation building came after and alongside war crimes a not small part of it

Apropos of nothing in particular I believe they do discuss the difference between a measure of performance and a measure of effectiveness at CGSOC

I think they get into ways, means, ends, and risk in there too but I could be mistaken.

Not enough reporting on the fact that Netanyahu’s government goal of making Iran a failed /crippled state isn’t in the interest of the USA and its Gulf Allies.

One basic management principle is that your people should be able to say what they've achieved, not just list the work they did. E.g., I delivered savings by improving this process or I booked this amount of sales. Not I worked this many hours or called this many prospects.

This is at least the second time this happened to Russia!

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