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Corporate IT policies make it difficult to isolate the exact cause of a problem, but Excel has been mostly broken on my company iPad for like two weeks now.

While the Iran War serves as cover, Israel is carpet bombing entire neighborhoods in Beirut, a 5,000 year old city of 2.4 million people.

Israel’s bombing campaigns have already displaced close to a million people in Lebanon.

Trump post on Truth Social: The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but 1really don't believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP 641 ReTruths 2.59k Likes 3/12/26, 8:00 AM

Pains me to say it, but the world should definitely boycott the World Cup. Would be great if U.S. soccer players and institutions took the lead in calling for this.
#BoycottWorldCup

I remember voting in 2018 for permanent DST in California.

It passed easily.

And yet...

Trump’s Iran Con Put Us in the Covid Before Times Again Trump started an unwinnable war. We know what comes next. We just haven’t felt it yet—the same way we hadn’t truly felt COVID in early March 2020.

The biggest way this is like Covid is that Trump has no idea how bad he’s fucking up. And no one he’s listening to will even try to tell him.

I think most people are pretty okay if you own a house. maybe it's when you own all the houses that we start to raise some mild objections

And yet somehow the polo grounds and golf courses in Palm Springs will be emerald green in mid-August.

I believe the request was "More Snow," not "Melt Snow."

WTAF?

Also don't love the the warm feeling I get in the morning when I log in to see whether it happened overnight.

I have a lot of confidence in our Navy, but don't super love the idea of them being tested against land-based missile and drone swarms, while also escorting civilian ships.

Will anything slip through against either the escort or escortee? I dunno.

But if anything does the consequences are dire.

Franco-British naval attack on Dardanelles fails Winston had a great many setbacks in his lifetime. The failure of the attack on the Dardanelles during the Gallipoli Campaign however was one of the most devastating. Though the […]

The world’s most powerful navy is going to force its way through a strategic strait defended by an inferior, but potent, military with massive geographical advantages? Surely nothing like that has ever been tried before. What could possibly go wrong?

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DID YOU KNOW? No laws are enforced tonight between 2 and 3 am.

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

The *only* reason Newsom is occasionally good is that he is constrained by California politics. Remove that constraint and all bets are off.

He has no values. He is smart, he is transactional, and he is power-hungry.

He is so fucking dangerous.

The thing I keep coming back to is Newsom as POTUS *is dangerous*.

If you give him all of Trump's authoritarian tools there is a real possibility he will just finish the project in his own name.

I will vote for harm reduction, but an empowered Newsom vs. a feckless Vance might not be reduction.

That would honestly make me feel a lot better, though not optimistic that will be the case.

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

I would further posit that we should extend the Pervert Glasses nomenclature to *all* Ray-Bans so long as the company continues making Meta's Pervert Glasses.

For real.

I'm not avoiding Target because I don't like their products or price point. I'm avoiding Target because of their politics.

Maybe they have survey data that points in other directions, but everyone I know who's not shopping at Target or shopping there less is doing so very deliberately.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

As I understand things, now we're allowed to ask about the redacted and suppressed Epstein Files, right?

Glad I played Wrath of the Righteous first. Owlcat took a lot of lessons into that one. Still some sloggy bits, sure, but--other than the dungeon crawl DLC--those bits were still mechanically varied and peppered nicely with plot.

Okay officially giving up on Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

Overall was enjoying it but the final act and a half is such a fucking slog. It's not hard; it's just too much of the same annoying battles over-and-over.

Yes, I know how to buff my party, thank you. I don't need to prove that *again*.

My thing with Hegseth is that he wants you to think he was a scary, war-criming, door-kicker when he was actually a Minnesota National Guardsman assigned to the 101st Airborne Division as a replacement in Iraq, then quickly pulled from the line and shuffled off to a Civil Affairs unit mid-tour.

It's so weird (yet utterly predictable).

As a non-Texan progressive looking at the race from a distance the entirety of my opinion was "while neither is perfect, on balance they're both pretty great and it's too bad only one Senate seat is up."

Next up: Republicans launch defensive war against The Sun, whose imminent expansion is a grave threat to all Americans.

Unclear yet if war plans include boots on the ground.

Bridgerton is a series that says, "We're going to tell our versions of familiar stories and we have complete confidence in our writers, our performers, and our crews. You won't care that it's predictable. Quite the contrary: you'll be thrilled to see how wonderfully we execute the predictable."

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A thing I genuinely love about Bridgerton is that it is the world's most predictable show. At about half way into a season's first episode you can reasonably guess about 90% of major plot points and "twists."

But it's not lazy. Nor is it a continuous wink to the audience.

It's confidence.

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