Dear romantasy writers: stop trying to prove your military training is so brutal by saying how many people die during it. A country with a strong military does not want recruits dying in training. They want them to live to see the battle. Training deaths are also just really bad for morale.
Graham Platner land acknowledgment in which he calls for “lebensraum for native peoples”
"POSTING TO WIN" is now a permanent feature of my meme library
Words are just sounds divorced from any fucking meaning.
Like an old man chewing something that isn’t there.
we have known about this threat for 20 years. amazing
Eh just drive, it's only 13 hours
Solutions to get oil out of the Persian Gulf, wrong answers only
Agreed. 1 and 2 together form a complete story. But Filoni loves pushing the reset button again and again and again …
Turns out Grok didn't include a lot of stuff in the war plans that it drafted for Hegseth and Rubio.
Old C-Span creatures have no business becoming ambassadors.
The first, foremost, & hardest duty of any real China Hand is & has always been convincing their brethren 'back home' that China is an actual, physical place filled with fully-realized, self-actualizing people, trends, forces, & problems... & is not, in fact, just a funhouse mirror of their own.
Mando season one was basically perfect. But after the high highs come the Glup Shitto lows.
Trump only got into Wharton after his family pulled strings and got him an interview with an official who did a "special favor" to the family. A Wharton prof later said he was "the dumbest goddamn student" he ever had.
So, yes, his admission does say a lot about how smart he is.
"i think he bought the wrong size"
Again, this is a feature of Tomahawk route planning. Tomahawk doesn’t know where it is unless it makes a number of unique terrain matches over an ingress route that must extend for several hundred kilometers. In 2003 routes over Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran were used during strikes on Iraq.
You are in an information silo that is making you say things that are an embarrassment to you and reflect poorly but accurately on this website.
I am gonna double down on this a little: the reaction of many senior academics to fairly banal LLM takes like ‘they’re useful tools’ is extremely unbecoming, & would, if I was your graduate student or junior colleague, actively make me feel like I had to either lie to you or de facto hobble myself
jesus fucking christ is anyone going to do anything to try and stop him
Absolutely devastating numbers for the GOP from yesterday's special election primary in GA. Hispanic voters continue to turn on their party in droves.
Their best performance across the heavily-Latino precincts in #GA14 was a shift of *only* 26 points towards the Dems.
This is dope
It’s really hard to watch any recap/reaction video on YT because the moment you ping a critical one the algorithm sends the rest at you en masse.
Trump has consistently demonstrated that he believes everything is fungible and everyone is greedy. Venezuela surely reinforced that belief, but Iran has far too many competing factions to allow Trump another palace coup. But that won’t dissuade Trump from inflicting his core beliefs on the world.
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?
Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
broke: footbinding
woke: footmaxxing
Uh …
Hmm …
I mean …
Technically?
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
