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Platform hopper, unreliable narrator, Porsche 911 enthusiast, twice-banned on Threads, LLM-curious, Slava πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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Which country will have the stones to be the first to step up and boycott FIFA's World Cup in occupied America

13.01.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Didn't, but sure as hell gonna do so now

04.01.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thomas Barnett: Rethinking America's military strategy
Thomas Barnett: Rethinking America's military strategy YouTube video by TED

This is your friendly reminder to revisit Thomas Barnett's 2005 TED Talk about Leviathan Force and Sysadmin Force. It's 2025, and the US military is more Leviathan than ever while Sysadmin is still TBD.

(Meanwhile, I'm sure this Cabinet has concepts of a plan.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3xl...

04.01.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Base don't care

27.12.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

base don't care

16.12.2025 03:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The decay of democracy is chock full of American symptoms, but it is a global affliction. The aliens from 1996's Independence Day would take the planet in a walk if it required us all to join together to defeat tyranny.

23.11.2025 05:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It excuses none of ICE's conduct or anything else about this fascist advance, but I think that's a paintball or riot bag carbine, not an actual assault rifle. Not sure they all pack infantry grade heat at all times

08.10.2025 02:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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Boy, that escalated quickly

04.10.2025 23:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Switch to Hard Mode. I swear it will improve your scores by ~1.5

29.09.2025 03:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Special Service #17

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A playlist for grappling with mortality written in pencil when pen-and-ink were promised.

27.09.2025 03:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Canceling your Disney+ bundle is nice, but I think a full week of general strike is likelier to get public company CEOs' attention.

19.09.2025 23:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

fortunately our corporations are rising to the moment

19.09.2025 09:46 πŸ‘ 271 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 10

Hypocrisy is equally distributed. State power is not.

18.09.2025 02:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
WTC 9/11 | First Plane Hit in North Tower | Jules Naudet Video (Remastered 60fps AI Upscaled)
WTC 9/11 | First Plane Hit in North Tower | Jules Naudet Video (Remastered 60fps AI Upscaled) YouTube video by Jozin

Each 9/11 I try to think back to my experience of that day. This year, however, I can't shake the sight *and sound of the engines being gunned* in Naudet's absurdly improbable video of the first plane hitting the North Tower. It's the last 16 seconds of Before.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=St7n...

11.09.2025 20:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I recently switched to Hard Mode, and it's completely transformed my game. I've notched three 2's and three 3's in 8 tries.

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10.09.2025 05:19 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I am the Robert Christgau of group chats with my family

09.09.2025 04:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let's rethink America's military strategy In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplic...

All you need to know about why the US Military is generally the *worst* possible law enforcement option, foreign or domestic, is in this tidy TED Talk by Thomas Barnett in 2005.

(Leviathan, folks. We're still in Leviathan Mode.)

www.ted.com/talks/thomas...

09.09.2025 01:46 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not answering your question, but wondering if I ever saw an 8" floppy used anywhere. Feels like that format was dominant for about two weeks in 1977 or something

09.09.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly Richard Kind deserves this more than Euphoria deserves Richard Kind

06.09.2025 01:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You into Alien Earth? I'm #teameyeball all the f**kin' way after S1E5

04.09.2025 02:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(nope not even close)

03.09.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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...and yeah, my first time ever on Hard Mode. I am so metal 🀘

03.09.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this the week everyone finally woke the hell up?

30.08.2025 22:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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One Year One Song

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My musical life, one track per year, as paced by our middle child born in 2001. He has exquisite taste in all genres, so I am merely marking time in my own way

30.08.2025 05:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No counterargument

30.08.2025 04:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a soldier wearing a helmet and a shirt that says ' u.s. army ' on the sleeve ALT: a soldier wearing a helmet and a shirt that says ' u.s. army ' on the sleeve

Nah. The fight begins here. Capt. Spiers: "the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to functionβ€”without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it"

30.08.2025 04:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As demonstrated by one of our generation's finest

30.08.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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America by Design A National Design Studio Initiative

americabydesign.gov View source and prepare for glory. I think this was "coded" in a 1996 vintage of NetObjects Fusion.

(See also americabydesign.fail for the appropriate WTF reaction) #design #uspolitics #fail

29.08.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Gotta make quota somehow. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

28.08.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0