say what you will about prior all-time worst secdefs McNamara and Rumsfeld, they knew how to use a fucking spreadsheet. Hegseth disdains the necessity. I'm not convinced he can read at even a high school level.
tried to visit my local gyre but it was closed for widening
well, that explains why they rallied behind the Anti-Christ
i feel like "context based personality switching" is a life skill that seems to have declined in the 24/7 Phone Social era.
he was a new york gossip rag punchline and an inevitable dime for tax fraud and that was his destiny. that was the right path. but then, in 2015, someone completed The Ritual
to be fair i think if you showed anyone from before like, 1970, a modern grocery store, they'd be pretty excited.
if you showed marx a modern grocery store he'd need to go to a beach and stare at the ocean for a while
well famously, the line is, trust, don't bother to verify, verification is a waste of time, always just trust, never verify. ABTNV always be trusting, never verifying, like alec baldwin said in glengary glen ross.
it’s now about deciphering weird advertisements from dystopian future megacorporations while wandering a space swamp
it’s good but extremely brutal. I think my survival rate is like 10%
part of it is the evangelical "god forgives/god gave us a dispensation for all of this" set of thought-terminating cliches about morality. a voting chunk of the population that COULD judge all this harshly has chosen to adopt a belief system that frees themselves from judgment.
all chess is 4d, what he's playing is n-dimensional cthulhu chess, where all the moves end up with you being a sailor who gets eaten by a squid monster that just wants to go back to bed
there is an entire bit where he chastises one of The Dudes for not calling his parents when he got off a plane. it's great.
Guys I hate to say this but the war that doesn’t make sense that happened for no reason isn’t going perfectly
i've always interpreted Metropolis as a futurist Chicago. a Smallville kid might think of as "the big city."
Gotham, by contrast, is New York down to its bones.
An underrated thing about pets is how they invent their own religions
there was some bread thrown near a bird feeder my dogs found once and i swear whenever they walk by they stop to pay their respects
it would annoy the shit out of me and kill my trust in a source to catch them trying to mislead me like this. i unfollow people who fall for bait unless they're like, SUPER funny, then they get one mulligan.
but the Fox News people will just think, oh, this lie is for /other/ people. I'm in on it!
genuinely the day the supreme court killed the tariffs, erudite, serious commentators all over the media were just saying "well, Trump will definitely attack Iran now" as if those two are related in some kind of logical way.
we just granted as a given he would need an emotional support war
it's not a conversation you can postpone! the inevitable futility of all human endeavor you can delay until the post-Santa reveal, but they are going to know kids with gay parents, have a gay teacher, etc.
i'm tired of the trope that "the gay talk" is somehow the most difficult and impossible of conversations. it's an easy one compared to pet death, person death, optimus prime death, thermodynamics, school pressure, why the Moon is called the Moon, where is stuffy, etc.
he’d already be impeached
is now a good time to buy a computer because it’ll get worse or a bad time to buy a computer because it’s so bad
people still talking about how Democrats need to do more for the working class of middle America have to contend with the fact that we did exactly that and it did not work
Biden spent all of his political capital on bipartisan infrastructure and manufacturing bills and got nothing in return
"no take, only throw" politics is definitely a good sign of a healthy public awareness of the realities of governance
no cause for concern
no sir
we're gonna be okay
canned food and shotguns as the dowry
lets just do WW3 in Thirty Years War style. why not. we don't have anything else going on, as a civilization.
one thing i keep suddenly remembering is we've been steadily increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere such that the climate equilibrium our entire civilization is built around is changing so quickly we will see all human life disrupted everywhere
so you know that's fun
it's only a kinetic special operation if it comes from the kinesis region of the chud republic, otherwise, it's just a sparkling war
if they go to a park they might see (gasp!) a black person also at the park
