You know, I would really like a *substantive* discussion, why in the era of increasing lethality of firepower, the only two courses of action available were either a full scale engagement or staying put, without anything in between that could have complicated disengagement for the other side.
Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.
they're also sucked into an total ideology (the various strands of bay area right wing futurism) that tells them they will transform the universe if only they get rid of the wreckers and hoarders in their way
Photo of a path in a center, a stepped grave monument is on the left. At its base a small card has been dropped, zoomed in on the next photo
Zoom in off last photo, small card dropped in the cemetery. Text reads: We look forward to seeing you.
Not the message I wanted to read in the cemetery
Trump’s chronically, self-harmingly, dangerously, monomaniacal brain. My Swamp Notes with @gideonrachman.bsky.social
Free to read as.ft.com/r/793d87f5-c...
we should make American voters get a tattoo on their arm that says DON'T TRUST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY because otherwise they're basically all that guy from Memento every second election cycle.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas:
“What I think is actually important for everybody to understand is that the US has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don’t like the European Union”.
www.ft.com/content/1b9c...
I can’t wait for the RW American brosphere to find out that Sweden might give up SEKs.
A picture of a couple eating at a dining table next to gas pumps The meme says “When you want to surprise your girlfriend by taking her to the most expensive place in the city “
😁🤣
The Dardanelles are open for transit, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill said. "The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is the Ottomans shooting at the fleet," he said. "It is open for transit should the Ottomans not do that."
tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread
wired: harassing journalists for not making things up
Well fuck.
i am genuinely astonished by how this guy speaks exclusively in cliches
the administration is playing a game in which it says publicly the war is ending to manage markets and domestic politics while it refuses to actually make any concrete steps toward conflict termination. in fact, it is kicking the can down the road
So it's the 31st MEU from Japan but it won't have significant long-range surface-to-surface fires or more modern air defense (all those have gone to the MLRs). You're really not going to be able to do much with a BLT and one more squadron of air.
It’s Armando Iannucci’s world, we’re just living in it.
It’s brutal out there.
Even if you’re of an attritional persuasion, you need to inflict said attrition on your enemy-why bother with the pursuit otherwise. It didn’t have to be an all out assault, but having your enemy in an awkward position and not applying any pressure (other than catching rearguard) was not great.
The solution is simply, we simply need a giant pair of hands to stretch the Strait open.
The Mossad spends huge amounts of time and resources trying to track him down, and then he just forgets to turn off location sharing
Bit surprised how many M48s are still around even in the first rate armies-South Korea still has ~400 in storage for mobilization and had them retired from active duty just last year (but since their northern friends still have T-34s stored…).
Fun facts about the military balance in Europe: Poland has about 900 tanks compared to about 700 possessed by Germany, France and the UK combined, but it’s still beaten by Greece (~1400) and Turkey (~2400)-vast majority of those are M48/M60/Leopard 1s though.
Far Side cartoon showing a liner with a party taking place on board sailing towards some floating mines and a small boat apparently manned by pirates with a machine gun. There is a warship in the distance. It’s dated 12/6/87 and captioned “Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz”
Unexpected bit of pop culture prescience…
Welcome to the groyper universe.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, we have a Pulitzer Prize winner in the editing seat. bsky.app/profile/news...
The same moral universe as Putin’s goons, who employ very similar-if not the same-means of torture.
Faced with a financial scandal that has ensnared some of the biggest names on Wall Street, I made the obvious move: catching a tube to the end of the Northern Line to eat a fry-up in a greasy spoon.
Shoe-leather (and antacids) reporting on Market Financial Solutions here: www.ft.com/content/c522...
