It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Next War: Iran is still in print, even
www.nobleknight.com/P/2148198630...
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Once his dementia really kicked in, my grandfather fixated on how he didn’t have diabetes and my own weight.
But shoes are ok too, I guess.
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
- Well-defined rules of engagement
- Fixed play time
- Handles varying group sizes
- Sometimes needs to be wiped down after you’re done
- Plastic sleeves feature prominently in both
- Aftercare where you break down what happened after a tough round
- No food at the table!
*podium
A: My vibrator wasn’t charged
B: Oh? I’m glad she got off easy. What did they try to pin on her?
A: No, it didn’t get CHARGED
B: Probably Assault and Battery
Baby carrots, surely?
Failed to add context here: This phrase is an ISIS slogan.
This situation does not smell like a hoax or an op. It does smell like teens radicalized online and groomed into wanting to commit a legitimate act of terrorism on behalf of ISIS.
Mixing it up with two periods after each space
One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.
This is the plot of Strip Law
Looking forward to dominating when this eventually comes up in pub trivia.
A package of two bottles in Costco labeled mixsoon | 믹순 Bean Essence v Skin moisturizing improvement* • Blackhead improvement** mixsoon Bean Essence mixsoon Bean Essence 믹순 1 공에센스 RueIngredient Oriented Skincare Brend Essence | 60 ml / 2.02 fL. oz
I don’t know you, @blowdart.me, but I heard you should be informed
I made a crossword
The best tech survives on donations. The worst on attention.
The cloak piping is exquisite. I haven’t had the courage to attempt it yet.
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A product banner for PostHog, some SaaS that didn’t do enough market research before choosing a name.
I wonder if ALF uses them?
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
Obvious COINTELPRO to present the masses with inferior sound quality and musicianship to prevent adoption.
(Edit: Should have made a Link plays the Ocarina in front of the crypt joke before)
Ummmm ackshually it needs to be the Streetlight Manifesto version or he rises as a zombie to fight Khrushchev
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theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are
“Thank you for getting rid of Saddam. The world is a safer place today be—hold on, I’m getting word about something called ISIS.”
I read this while listening to Pulp - Common People
most shockingly of all, the alien craft was reportedly adorned with a sort of bumper sticker that said "Earth Hoes Cant Fuck"
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
