Divo Durovic

putin's obsession with history created this problem. Russia needs a leader totally detached from history. someone with no awareness of time or space at all. a new Yeltsin

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

It was Merkel who shut down nuclear

Chomsky will die soon, and this photo will be his sad epitaph.

My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.

None.

However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.

Great books! (other than Kinzer 🤮)

Što sad ljubav ima steam?

Astonishing how far being mediocre will get you if you’re reactionary enough

Mood:

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try this, it has some very good ideas
www.amazon.com/dp/0141994169

just go away

“I gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot” sounds like the filthiest euphemism I have ever heard.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Tyler Durden: I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great War, no Great Depression, our Great War is a spiritual war, our Great Depression is our lives, we’ve been all raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very very pissed off. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"fight club" is the best example of the last man fukuyama worries about in his work "The End of History and the Last Man"

hahaha love the paraphrase

Merrick Garland you dumb bitch

Enjoy your fucking 4th of July, America. Spare a thought for a nation of people who believed in you that you betrayed

true, sadly.

Congratulations, Duncan!

I need to start a Quincy Institute version of the New York Times Pitchbot:

"The U.S. Navy just destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers at Midway. But that won't win the war, and it might lead to escalation by Japan."

Slava fucking Ukraini

polska cała na rafała! 🇵🇱

do everyone a favor and don't come over here

Mate Uzinić u intervjuu koji će uzdrmati hrvatski kler: ‘Žalosno je da smo na papu već navalili sa Stepincem’ Riječkog nadbiskupa raduje sinodalni smjer novog pape: ‘Crkva treba dati glas manjinama. Većina ga ionako već ima’

Mate Uzinić u intervjuu koji će uzdrmati hrvatski kler: ‘Žalosno je da smo na papu već navalili sa Stepincem’

Run DMV

Oh damn so this is what it felt like to be a Roman and see the syphilis finally reach your Emperor's brain.

Auto manufacturing employs 4.4 million American workers. Small businesses employ more than 61 million.

I’m shocked to find a context in which this can sound like a criticism, but: Marco Rubio, you’re no Henry Kissinger.