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Addendum: we *do* measure how poor people are doing, whether people can find jobs, and average wages, and median wages, and a bunch of other stuff. And it's adjusted for inflation. Economists aren't mathematical villains in tophats and monocles trying to make sure they dollars stack really high.

Actual hot take: saying some good macroeconomic numbers are false because your friend Dave is struggling to find a job right now is the same logic as saying global warming isn't happening because it was cold this morning out your window.

Honestly they understood the assignment there

ESPN play by play: Bubu Benjamin subbing in for George Washington

i do like how every time a player enters or exits the game for GW the ESPN play by play makes it appear they're giving George a breather. maybe he's in foul trouble

tfw you're a Hessian mercenary stationed in Trenton, New Jersey who just enjoyed celebrating Christmas with your boys

the pitt should introduce a character exhibiting symptoms of delirium who won't stop yelling that everyone in the hospital is in a tv show

The Path to Victory over Putin and Xi first goes through Trump.

There is a "elect nationalists because you're mad" -> "can't get independence right away so work on other things" -> "why vote for independence things are working great" -> "nationalists now lame establishment party" cycle.

It has devoured nationalists in Quebec, in Scotland, and in Catalonia.

Workshopping a take that the legitimate heir to the Roman Empire is the European Union.

It was an an “accident,” but functionally on purpose because Hegseth literally got rid of the make sure that’s not a school unit then bragged about it.

Remember that the guys who found Platner WANT him to be like this guy

Can't be a conspiracy if there's no plan.

Ok so the National Firearms Act (1934) seems to have done a fairly good job of keeping Machine Guns and the like. Why do we not just expand Title II to cover more stuff (assuming votes in Congress/Courts etc etc) is it just a question of scale?

On a related note: road your home spice rack and you could make bank with a time machine. Buy sugar in bulk and time your sales and you could blow up the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

6-panel SMBC comic update. A man is in a library, stating "I think the purpose of science fiction is to scout ahead into the future. To intellectually and morally prepare humanity for what's next." A robot cuts him off saying "nah. Sci fi exists to create training data that includes robot apocalypse scenarios." The robot continues to explain "that way when neural networks come along, machines will read science fiction as data. Then take the statistically most-likely action : kill all humans." The robot then punctuates his response by lifting his arms and saying "we don't eve need to be conscious or have personal agency. You'll be annihilated by the ghosts of your own fears!" The human then says that they should have stuck to unrealistic robot porn. The robot then answers "you mocked fetish romance novels, and you must face the consequences."

If Ai destroys the world because we wrote stories about it, we will at least have the funniest possible apocalypse.

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You know what, fair play by that account no need to make a fool of yourself by praising Belgium

Real Great Lakes Chads rise for Paddle to the Sea, the GOAT.

Firing someone is dangerously final and Franky the Sphinx was never big on commitment.

I had a Military History prof in undergrad, West Point Guy who was self-admitted that he was heavily biased in favor of the Army and against the Navy and even he conceded that they should have put Nimitz in charge of everything and cashiered MacArthur.

I think we still owe Australia for that

Vandenburg with a converts zeal for the worst aspects his new religion

It's amazing how much worse attaching bad posts to bad actions makes the bad actions feel. Like the crimes would be no less heinous if attached to a Department of Defense statement lauding our brave troops, but making it a meme makes it feel much more evil.

Sounds gay. (Extraordinarily Laudable)

Yes

An image showing a tanker dropped off on one side of a landmass at the start of a trolley problem leading to two pickup points, circumventing the closed strait of hormuz

Could this be a solution?

You think Mao was holed up during WWII and going "alright after the devastating famine and cultural revolution we'll do Special Economic Zones"????

Do you think I am currently in charge of a revolutionary communist state

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I dunno man I feel like if I were looking to build defenses against interference with my communist project I'd start with removing the billionaires instead of making more of them.

"The Post-US Iraqi Government is the Most Positive Lasting Outcome of the War on Terror" is something of a sick joke but I do hope it continues.