Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
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Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Operation Epic Fury [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass. It's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]
most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november
Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC X.com The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question - why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fiøht is in their backvard. If vou are not willine to
I urge more senior US officials to publicly dress down the allies they dragged into a war all of them hate, that’s getting them bombed. Really grind it home: their security is dependent on the whims of a bunch of clueless, pissy old men who don’t give a damn if they get the entire region melted.
If you are a Democrat not defying every single fucking thing the Trump administration is doing, then you are either "the same" or couldn't give enough of a shit either way.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
not necessarily: if you add it at the wrong time or don't let it get hot enough, it can be no help at all. heat is key!
west coast-coded back-to-the-land hippie culture is the end result of a phenomenally successful effort by hardcore libertarian ideologues to package incredibly reactionary beliefs as humane and left wing send skeet
behind the blog: this headline originally said "ye" instead of "thee," but i guess "thee" is more correct in grammatical terms if not in those of the pirate voice
if cool the pan be, a lousy breakfast for thee: defector.com/if-cool-the-...
which, it is fine for a person not to immediately grasp that; McCarthy's writing can be challenging in that way. but Roose is writing authoritatively in the NYT *about writing* and is confidently characterizing a sentence (by one of the great English-language novelists!) that he doesn't understand
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
but "as well" shouldn't be at the end. the sentence isn't using "as well" to mean "also"; it's using it to mean "equally," as in "you might just as sensibly ask men what they think of stone"
lol yeah it's a book that includes a page-length sentence that uses the word "attic" as an adjective, what are we even doing here
libby i am so mad
yes! and it is neither clunky nor grammatically weird! kevin roose just can't fucking read!
yes! there is no fucking error! and it isn't "clunky" either! i'm so glad that there are people out there who are as annoyed by this as i am
lol yeah there certainly are some cooking procedures that should be done on low heat!!!
like it's one thing for him to routinely and intentionally mislead his readership about the nature and capabilities of AI. it's another thing entirely for the work of writing *about writing* to have fallen to a guy who manifestly sucks absolute hippopotamus shit at *reading*
"You preferred human writing. You're either sharply attuned to the qualities that make for great writing, or a lucky guesser. Maybe you also noticed that human writing often includes som clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian,' caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.' A.I. used to make mistakes like these. But today's systems are much more fluid than their predecessors—so fluid, in fact, that finding grammatical errors or nonstandard syntax is often a hint that you're looking at a human's prose, not a machine's."
i genuinely hate this guy
Folks, I have created a very very important poll/test and I would like you to take it so I can share the important results.
(not in the article; the article is some shit about scrubbing kosher salt onto the pan's surface. but no, you just have to get the pan real hot, that's really all there is to it, i cook scrambled eggs in a poorly maintained stainless steel pan like 3x a week and they never stick even a little bit)
lol the trick is "make the pan hot before putting eggs into it"
"you, the writer, thinking that you are incredibly cute" is not actually the key to funny writing, is the thing
WTI crude is up 24% 187 upvotes 64 comments Inevitable-Scheme-38 1h Edited This is what we get for Abraham Lincoln not letting General Sherman absolutely shitface the entire South. This is what we get for letting Southerners vote in the first place. Get ready folks, the best is yet to come! The dumbest people in the US are the ones with all the voting power, yay!!
your average r/stocks poster now has "William T Sherman didn't go far enough" as a baseline, things are going Well for capitalism I see
If only this were true. We never would have had the Iraq war if the public, outside the military caste, felt a direct stake. No hawk wants the draft. It’s an electoral nightmare for warmongers.
i have 2 dogs and 2 kids! i don't give a DAMN
yes. the sun should never go down earlier than 7:30pm Eastern, even if it has to come up at lunchtime
yelling WHAT? SPEAK UP! WHAT? ever louder at the haters as i also continually crank up the volume on Roy Ayers Ubiquity singing “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”
fuck yeah, it’s the happiest day of the year
