canning DDG(X)—which is a reasonable, low risk investment about finally getting a new hull with growth margins into seervice—for BBG(X) is insane!
DDG(X) is literally "what if we made Zumwalt with SPY-6 on a more conventional hull form." and BBG(X) is "what if we made CG(X) but worse in everyway"
another thing that the navy, and several successive OPNAVs in particular, deserve to get hell for is a total lack of vision after the collapse of LCS/DD(X)/CG(X)/CVN(X) — that concept while flawed was at least a comprehensive vision deeper than "uhhhh i guess more burkes and figure out how to drone"
MENA with five nuclear powers would be indisputably more stable than the version of MENA which exists right now with one nuclear power
The drum that really need to get beaten is that the single biggest blocking point for Iran breaking out was that the supreme leader was sincerely religiously opposed to nuclear weapons, which is why we, very smartly (/s) blew him up
I did a ethics paper on ww2 strategic bombing back in college and the conclusion I came to was “is it ethical to immiserate civilians without appreciable effect on German war production when you could instead put that effort into actually fighting Hitler is not a very complicated ethical question”
Lefties have a tendency to humanize the worst regimes if we are also being bad. That is not a good instinct. Iran's government is evil. But it is their people who suffer and whose suffering we are worsening for no point.
Hey quick question have you ever been to Ceuta?
DC metro!
There were a lot of messianic cults back in the day. Latest one happened in like the 1700s iirc. (That one ended when the “messiah” was forced by the Turks to convert to Islam)
Isn’t that one of those things where the rest of the Allies were fine letting Vichy France keep some godforsaken Island but the free French took it out of principle?
where's my german guy who insisted that congress should pass a motion of no-confidence in the president
SHORT!
Penn and teller’s very serious levitating lightbulb
A picture of a dwarf aiming his bowling throw with unbreakable focus; his bowling ball has a time fuse sticking out of it and the caption in a runic looking font reads "ten inches from the back" which is the statistically best way to aim a cannon shot in Warhammer Fantasy/The Old World. The dwarf is bald with bushy eyebrows and big red beard tucked in his belt, which he wears over a maille hauberk with embroidered decorative trims. Behind him is a row of green pointy eared bowling pins marked with a black and yellow checkered stripes, but it could mean nothing.
You know a joke's good when you have to explain it three times over.
#art #warhammer
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
ah yeah, China, famously not using AI or facial recognition for any kind of surveillance
BREAKING: Leaked Pentagon documents reveal highly classified CENTCOM war plans
kind of not ideal that the world economy is run by a cabal of pedophiles but also the two corporations that control all consumer spending think that if you jerk off you should be unbanked
It's really important for people to internalize that, in the eyes of Washington DC's foreign policy establishment, the biggest sin of the Obama presidency was concluding a deal with Iran that objectively satisfied the demands that Washington DC pretends to believe in.
I do most of my tv watching while painting minis so subs aren’t really an option for me alas
I genuinely believe he will launch a nuke before this is done, it’s the logical culmination of the entire admin’s “we win by being more violent and evil than the other guy, and if that’s not working, escalate both” ethos
There could be a better dub? I really don’t like the old one
It’s horrifying how many people seem to think ”it was better back when husbands were the sole breadwinners and wives stayed home all day with the kids” is a progressive opinion
Club
Which of course the Neanderthals used to steal perfectly good jobs from animals too dumb to use tools
Her
“Every farm that is subsidized, every Romantic idyll that is coddled, every aesthetic sustained by the state signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
She apparently owns farmland that went fallow for several years because she couldn’t find any sharecroppers
Dems in California, Oregon, and Washington have literally nobody but themselves to blame for this.
I hope freezing your neighborhoods in amber was worth the loss of representation and the impending feeling of dread.
DO YOU THINK SUBSISTENCE FARMERS HAVE FF14
The writer of this piece bought a small farm just north of Iowa City with her professor husband & has never run the farm herself. The land wasn't farmed at all from 2017 to 2020 because they couldn't find a tenant.
