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There was a time when Russia had an "unlimited" amount of tanks, too.

11.03.2026 05:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ukraine war analysts are eating the US alive on youtube. General theme is "can you believe this s***?" They can talk about shaheds and interceptor economics twice a day for an hour at a time. In the Pentagon they only use X though.

11.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Take it up with the guy who claims to know something about which languages were spoken in the Middle East 2,000 years ago. That guy is not me.

11.03.2026 05:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe Trump is trying to quiet quit the war.

11.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2

A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.

11.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 237 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

If you're excited about the technology for specific applications, you're cool

If you're excited about convincing LLM skeptics to get onboard by telling us we're just as bad as the tech bros, you're a centrist

11.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTwo Trump advisers tell Zeteo that the president was – in the words of one adviser – β€œfully briefed and prepped” by national-security officials and senior staff on the likelihood of Iran’s government throttling oil prices, markets, and…

11.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Mockler: I also find it very ironic that Republicans are so welcoming to any form of bigotry but the moment that bigotry is targeted towards them, they freak the hell out

11.03.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 2600 πŸ” 590 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 22

Though the quotes here (from July 2025) are not about exactly the specific problems below, it was clear from the jump that so much of the money given to DHS and ICE would disappear in waves of incompetence, graft, and corruption.

And so they have.

11.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

CAMERA DOWN, MAN. CAMERA DOWN.

10.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
the new york times post captioned β€œhere are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand

the new york times post captioned β€œhere are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand

gotta be another way to do this

10.03.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 4414 πŸ” 560 πŸ’¬ 112 πŸ“Œ 151

Dens might want to listen to this guy

slate.com/business/202...

11.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Fallout TV series managed to keep a story going outside the vault because outside is the whole deal in that world. But that's a tough thing to do from scratch! It kinda seems like no one gave much thought to what might be going on outside during the writing of Paradise season.

11.03.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Itβ€˜s comments like this that dredge up my musings over the fact that Trump buys his home decor from some factorys making ugly gilded crap and those factories can only exist because there are enough other people buying the same ugly gilded crap.

11.03.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Basically the entire theory of not acting like a liar, bully, monster etc, aside from one's moral committments is that over time, acting like that makes people not want to interact with you or do business with you, etc... Trump's entire life theory is: what if you can get away with it forever?

10.03.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 1652 πŸ” 222 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 12

It’s not like mining will change the amount of traffic through Hormuz, which will go from zero to zero, but it immediately makes the fallout global and irreversible, by ensuring that traffic remains zero for the foreseeable future. Which is why it’s odd it’s getting only moderate press attention

10.03.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 899 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 11

Other places - real, or just elaborate video game backstory?? Accounts differ…

11.03.2026 03:07 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Non-Player Countries

11.03.2026 05:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me? Im not sure of anything. The guy who’s a ”historian of late antique Central and West Asia” (according to his Wikipedia page) mentioned it when he was drawing a parallel between how languages like Turkish and Persian werenβ€˜t subsumed by Arabic when Islam came, and Greek in the Roman Empire.

11.03.2026 05:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The war makes it more urgent for journalists to call out Trump’s derangement | Press Watch The commander-in-chief is unfit for duty.

I've been struggling with how to express my dismay at the war coverage by our top newsrooms, and how it dances around the central fact that Trump is deranged and unfit to command. I finally wrote something. Please read it. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

10.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 1090 πŸ” 429 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 40
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In Tehran, Iranians Struggle to Breathe After U.S.-Israeli Oil Facility Strikes "By the time we finally packed our bags and locked the door, our fingernails were caked in chemical grime, and our lungs were burning just from breathing inside our own living room."

www.dropsitenews.com/p/tehran-ira...

11.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SchrΓΆdinger’s War.

10.03.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 238 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 2
11.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 723 πŸ” 176 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
[V1cam] KΔ«lauea volcano, Hawaii (west HalemaΚ»umaΚ»u crater)
[V1cam] KΔ«lauea volcano, Hawaii (west HalemaΚ»umaΚ»u crater) YouTube video by USGS

wow the west webcam at the Kilauea crater has been having a very bad day

direct by falling rock at 11:12:57 turns everything red for a second
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

11.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

F*^*ing idiots.

11.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Electronic Istanbul - They Might Be Giants (Official Video)
Electronic Istanbul - They Might Be Giants (Official Video) YouTube video by ParticleMen

Electronic Istanbul
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q3a...

11.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

Yeah. About that.

11.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 318 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3
Now in his late 70s, the gregarious, acid-tongued Metrinko spent much of his decades-long Foreign Service career bouncing from one Middle East hotspot to another. Until the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, he’d spent much of the preceding 15 years advising American military officials there. β€œI think I worked with 19 different generals,” Metrinko said, β€œbut at this point I’d be hard-pressed to tell you which one was the stupidest.”

Now in his late 70s, the gregarious, acid-tongued Metrinko spent much of his decades-long Foreign Service career bouncing from one Middle East hotspot to another. Until the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, he’d spent much of the preceding 15 years advising American military officials there. β€œI think I worked with 19 different generals,” Metrinko said, β€œbut at this point I’d be hard-pressed to tell you which one was the stupidest.”

11.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

how is this level of illiteracy possible? surely senior officers in the US military either know from self-education or learn from on-the-job training that ethnic identity, religious affiliation, and language fluency are different?

who thinks every Christian speaks Aramaic like Jesus did?

11.03.2026 03:00 πŸ‘ 419 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 12
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How Islam came to Iran | Gone Medieval

Entertaining tidbit from guest Dr. Khodadad Rezakhan on recent Gone Medieval podcast about Mel Gibson’s β€œPassion of the Christ” correctly using Aramaic for Jesus and the gang but incorrectly using Latin for the Roman officials who would have been speaking Greek in the eastern empire.

11.03.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0