Leon English

Does Kalshi have odds on Fetterman switching parties?

"Why don't you like our weird adopted human son, Anna? Is it cause he's smells like ass?"

My kids are really into Frozen right now, and by far my favorite part is where Kristoff's troll family just roasts the hell out of him with a musical number they have ready at the drop of a hat just in case he ever brings a girl home.

Yeah, believe so.

Several American Indian communities and allies are fighting the Enbridge Line 5 permit to pump crude oil under the Straits of Mackinac. Livestream of the appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court beginning NOW, March 11, from 9:30 am EDT. @owdm.bsky.social
michigansupremecourt.viebit.com/embed/live

I don't know why I find this horrifying but I do.

Since we’re naming straits, did you know everyone’s favorite mitten shaped state has its own straits?

The Straits of Mackinac are located in the narrow section of water where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron and separates the upper and lower pensinsulae.

Enjoy this Michigan strait related fact!

Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?

Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

I've never read McCarthy and I've seen the phrasing before as well though I couldn't tell you where. It's not THAT rare in older literature.

I laughed; my bad man, stopped clock etc.

Occasionally I feel the need to publicly hand it to Romney for saying that Russia was our greatest enemy

In the long run anything is possible!

I don't think we're gonna collapse or anything; range of possible outcomes, including good ones in the medium term if we can get some big reforms through. Those are, unfortunately, a huge lift, so.

Yeah I guess I'm wondering about the run up to the initial strikes. Like surely someone must have told them that this would be more complicated than they thought it would be? Or maybe the administration literally didn't have a plan for anything after the first 48 hours?

Are they being sidelined? Have they all been replaced with various varieties of idiots in uniform?

I guess I don't have a great understanding of how the military/civilian leadership interacts but like... ok Hegseth is a drunken idiot and Trump is an ancient idiot, but aren't there generals who are not idiots who have an opportunity to say "hey what if they shoot back at us?"

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

Yeah

Probably worth mentioning they are in a relatively small city where they license plate fees aren't insane.

I do think this is an oft-missed part of the narrative about how China is kicking our ass with the transition to electrics. They are! But they're also spending sooooo much money in subsidies for it (which is probably good, so).

My wife has a not-rich classmate who apparently gets a new electric car every two years because the subsidies are so fucking insane

Like its a new iPhone. Wild.

I will be so fucking mad if Democrats help pass a gas tax relief bill lol

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE YEARN FOR THE STOVE LET US TOUCH IT

(picking up a barrel of oil at the store) well i'll be... those Hormuz boys actually pulled it off

Gotta say if you'd ask me 15 years ago how fast it would take to burn down the USA I'd have guessed more than a year or two

Navy's Avenger Class Mine Hunters Have Left The Middle East For Good The last four Avengers in Bahrain were carried off on a heavy lift vessel at a time of crisis, where mining the Persian Gulf could come into play.

Turns out the Navy pulled some obsolete* non-magnetic-hulled minesweepers out of Bahrain in January because they would be replaced really soon, really. www.twz.com/sea/navys-av...

* supposedly

I know we all go to the 1984 well a lot, but between this and saying we've been at war with Iran for 50 years this shit is really giving off a lot of 1984 vibes

We're not gonna make it

Lawyers citing hallucinated AI cases is bad enough, but judges relying on them is legitimately disturbing.

pro se litigant has fake cases. court uses those fake cases in its order (?!!!) but decides no harm no foul, because the cases came from the pro se litigant and he didn't object or tell the court they were fake.

wonder if we get any cases where the ships get insured but the crews don't feel like being floating target practice on a bunch of very explody fuel