The Infinitely Prolonged

The only thing almost as out of touch as Trump and his billionaire cabinet is liberals looking down their noses at people who don’t spend all day reading about politics or obsessively watching ms now. We are the sickos. They are normal and we have to talk to them to save the world.

Big part of my deal is reminding liberals our media habits are very different from the average non political person. And I don’t mean that in a value judgement way, I watch garbage tv too. But it means people simply aren’t aware of 99.9% of the stuff we think is “everywhere.”

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care

have something resembling a decent life while serving overseas. It keeps morale up, allows us to rotate people to combat situations faster, reduces burnout, and oh yeah KEEPS MORALE UP.

Logistics wins wars. Been true ever since ancient Greece.

We’re going to cycle between technocratic Dems and the reincarnation of hitler for 20 years until something breaks.

Most wars are incredibly stupid unless you think 'it was there and I could take it by killing a bunch of people' is incredibly intelligent stuff

Yep, that unconditional surrender is coming aaaaannnnnnnyyyyyy minute now.

we makin dire straits jokes up in here geriatric millennials say what

Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now — but it’s because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

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Strait of Hormuz is chokepoint for sulphuric acid and critical metal processing - The Oregon Group - Critical Minerals and Energy Intelligence The Middle East accounted for around 24% of ​global sulphur production at 83.87 million metric tons last year; including 50% of seabourne trade of

In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...

I'm going to hate this.

Extraordinary and prolonged March heatwave to break records and decimate mountain snowpack across U.S. Southwest, including much of California - Weather West March 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - "Winter" 2025-2026 warmest on record across most of Western U.S., including SoCal & Sierra Nevada Well, now it's official: Winter (Dec-Feb) 2025-2026 was the warmest on record across the majority of the American West, and a top-3 warmest winter nearly everywhere that it didn't quite cinch the record. That includes nearly all of the Colorado #

Weather West update on a prolonged and very likely record-breaking March heatwave in the western U.S. that will begin Thursday in some areas & actually not reach its peak for another 7-10 days in some spots. This forecast is truly extraordinary for March.

In classic Trump fashion, he's unaware that they could do the same to us.

I suspect the next economic catastrophe might be the AI bubble. Amazon has been glitchy AF even for employees recently, not because of the AWS bombings in West Asia, but because of AI glitches. And they’ve invested so much money I don’t know how they will recoup investment. Plus, I know enough

I'm sure a nation that's still collectively traumatized by being asked to wear face masks for awhile will step up to the plate and be stoic about ten dollar a gallon gas

It cast a long shadow. Arguably it inspired the entire Mad Max universe.

USA now the leading champion, the absolute goat, of own goals.

Just discovered Grammarly was using me as one of its AI “experts.”

he thinks the word really is “mutilization”, it wasn’t a slip of the tongue the other day

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'm not a commodities guy but I don't know how many more events like this the markets will be willing to overlook because Trump occasionally shouts, "nearly done!" at a reporter from his golf cart.

I never even felt it was worth too much effort to push back against Musk's dipshit "data centers in space" bloviating, it is so far out of alignment with reality. You'd literally never get it off the ground.

Tomahawk Cruise Missile The Tomahawk cruise missile is a precision weapon that launches from ships and submarines and can strike targets precisely from 1,000 miles away, even in heavily defended airspace.

That Tomahawk missile that killed all those Iranian schoolgirls? Made in Tucson.

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Got my nails done today and they said they had a brand new collection of cat eye polish. I decided to try it out and all the bottles had AI cat “art” on them. I cannot believe we live in a world where a nail polish bottle has fuck ass AI images on it.

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Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of MWs of data center capacity in Abilene, TX, after Oracle abandoned its expansion plans at the site (The Information)

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So in roughly three days of this war the US spent more on munitions than the combined annual budgets of the national science foundation, national endowment for the arts, and national endowment for the humanities (and the latter two's budgets were spent in about the first few hours of the war).