i invented a better version of fandom called posting about stuff you like

To be fair, "here is the war-winning superweapon we invented to win wars, all of our defense policy for fifty years was predicated on them, under no circumstances can you use one" is probably pretty hard to explain to a machine.

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

The difference between the KPop industry and the Korean People's Army is that the KPA is probably better fed and operates under more humane working conditions.

I'm sorry, but this is kind of crazy. The doctor is helping you because you need help. It is noble to help others. It is not ignoble to need help, but it's not inherently noble to need help. It's OK for people to feel good about helping.

Art by John Blanche for Warhammer 40K

Napoleon's ultimate success can be measured in the fact that his impact on the French population - and that impact was not a good one - was still evident at the start of the Great War.

Still, logistics are boring, right?

"Napoleon achieved his success by ignoring logistics" is a bold take when you consider that such successes include losing his entire army in Egypt due to logistics, losing his entire army in Russia due to logistics, turning the Peninsular War into a nightmare by replacing logistics with theft...

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Guy jede do země s jednou nejlepších kuchyní ever, může používat státní peníze...
A stejně si veze vlastní jídlo jako wtf? 😭
Chlap vytočil vezení si řízků v chladáku k moři na 12.

In your daily installment of "everyone is 12," JD Vance has to take a plane full of dino nuggets with him because his palate is too sophisticated for Italy

an underratedly cyberpunk thing was when that one sysadmin went insane in 2008 and locked the entire city of SF's network down because people weren't listening to his suggestions. my dad couldn't get paid for some stuff for a few days. Gavin Newsom had to meet him in prison to get the city passwords

Was a book expensive in the Middle Ages? Yes, and no.

If Miller isn't fired or very, VERY thoroughly sidelined, he's gonna deliberately try to gin up a no-joke civil war.

He's very unlikely to succeed but he'll try and ppl will fucking die along the way.

Yeah, I think this sometimes gets missed in the overall logic of protest planning. A protest against an authoritarian government is basically daring it to overstep. By protesting peacefully and being tear-gassed anyway, they're setting up the administration to overreact and look terrible.

extremely destructive pathology of academia/activism to go "oh so you've been shocked by something? you're open to considering substantial changes? well if you aren't willing to cosign onto a radical re orienting of all of society get the fuck out of here"

MLK wouldn't bring religion into it
MLK wouldn't bring religion into it
MLK wouldn't bring religion into it
MLK wouldn't bring religion into it
MLK wouldn't bring religion into it
MLK wouldn't bring religion into it

You will never win a war by saying the very thing you are fighting for is an irredeemable blemish on the face of the earth.

holy shit dawg

The Sacrifice of the Danes After September 11, Denmark fought alongside its ally. The families of fallen soldiers have a message for Trump.

“We have done so much for America”: Denmark fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now, as Trump eyes Greenland, the families of fallen soldiers have a message for him, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports:

the levels of corruption, grand and petty, that emerge from this are going to shock the conscience. I would make a very strong bet they're going to have targeted some people specifically to steal their property.

artists are frequently kind of stupid about non-art politics. this wouldn't be a slight on them, they aren't really dumber than anyone else speaking outside of their area, but many people, including artists, think that being good at art grants some kind of global insight. it mostly doesn't.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!

Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

This Pure cinema
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_K...

The potential for Neolithic Lovecraftian horror is underexplored.

People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do.

(And you save a lot of time...)

People watch Avatar because sometimes they want a distraction from their miserable lives and for some reason not everyone enjoys spending their free time being cyberbullied by people with names like “PissGoblin4Palestine” over whether giraffes are bourgeoise.

There, mystery solved.

An array of open-topped greenhouses in the midst of a dense forest

A tunnel through frozen earth filled with lighting and pipes

Found two more real life locations that look like they're from the X-Files, the USDA Marcell Experimental Forest and the US Army Corps of Engineers Fox Permafrost Tunnels

Půjdu dělat pomerančovou marmeládu... a pak teda ještě kandovanou pomerančovou kůru a s ní mandarinky v celku(plus sirup z toho). 👀