fuck countersignaling. all my homies hate countersignaling.
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fuck countersignaling. all my homies hate countersignaling.
Today’s fun fact: the reason shipping lanes in the Baltic are so damn narrow is that there are anywhere from thirty to one hundred THOUSAND unexploded mines in the waterway from the World Wars, and the lanes are where the bottom has been swept
Two LCS hulls have countermine packages.
The USS Santa Barbara is with the 5th Fleet in Bahrain, and the Canberra seems to be off the coast of India. There are four Avenger MCMs for minesweeping, but they’re all 7th Fleet; the four 5th Fleet MCMs were decommissioned in, uh, September 2025. Oops.
Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error
WHOOMP THERE IT IS
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'Course, the problem with this hypothetical copium net positive outcome is that nuclear deterrance depends upon a baseline level of rationality I would very much rather not have to roll the dice on both Israel and Iran having at this moment in time.
NSAIDs are pretty safe mostly. Take an ibuprofen or a baby aspirin a day. Don’t take so many that they fuck up your liver.
yeah, basically everyone I know at this point has some story or other that rhymes with "I used to do this really annoying thing at work and now I have a little button that I press where it spits out <thing> formatted how I need it"
the most niche, most bespoke tiny little tool, but huge for them
You can go into any small business office in the country and find people doing tasks that could be trivially automated, saving time and eliminating data entry errors. There is nowhere near the optimal amount of "small software" in use right now.
“studies demonstrated they are safe during active CPR.”
dear god do I never want to test that assertion
I have never felt more seen by a game.
We don't deserve dogs. We deserve small swarms of flying beetles that demonstrate singular hive intelligence and whose allegiance can only be maintained through regular offerings of blood
By far my most fervent parasocial enemy is the other guy in my area who also publicly posts his runs on Strava. He gave me kudos on a really slow run once (it was fucking SNOWING), i know he did that on purpose passive agressive, I swear to god I’m gonna murder this asshole one day.
Anatomical left bean is slightly higher than anatomical right bean, as is normal. All is right with the beans.
"She’s hearing from people sick with the virus:
'A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was.'"
What happens when we downplay disease.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Your salted caramel mocha latte is destroying society Edmund Burke would have had thoughts about the consumption of that vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew.
The atomization of society begins with your morning coffee. According to the National Coffee Association, last year 46 percent of Americans had some “specialty” coffee (42 percent, sensibly, still had a regular one) in the past day. Simultaneously, 54 percent of U.S. adults feel isolated and half of them feel bereft of companionship “often or some of the time,” according to the American Psychological Association. As specialty coffee consumption has surged (84 percent since 2011), so has the loneliness epidemic. Just a correlation? Consider what your coffee order reveals. The salted caramel mocha latte, the iced brown sugar soy milk shaken espresso, the white chocolate macadamia cream cold brew are the triumph of hyper-individualization over communal norms. When you order a dirty spiced chai with oat milk, you are not only wasting the time of other customers in line but also are signaling that your personal appetites demand an elaborate, customized response. You are asserting your primacy, unique in the complexity of your desires, and stand apart from your nation’s simple rituals. No wonder you’re alone.
If I had sent "specialty coffee drinks are fueling the breakdown of civil society" to any editor with whom I've worked over the previous decade, they would have gently asked if I'd recently suffered a head injury www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
I know this is true for iodine deficiency.
A fun fact that a historian once told me is that it’s common for the origin story of regional stereotypes to be that people in one area to only have one or two reliable crops to eat, leaving them with common specific deformities brought on by shared nutritional deficiencies.
Everyone who rhapsodizes about agricultural labor should be forced to spend a year as the lowest tier of farm worker. And not on a ‘organic’ , ‘sustainable’, ‘regenerative’ etc farm. One of the big commercial, mass-market operations that actually supply most of the world’s food.
There's a baptist denomination exclusive to coal country whose defining belief is "you can't go to hell after you die because we are already in hell" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primiti...
Oh yeah, this is the other thing, Biden used the SPR - correctly - to smooth out the Ukraine invasion price action and try to break the Saudis (which he largely succeeded at). We had begun refilling this thing with oil at 60, but Trump’s team are idiots, and forgot about it - half full
It'd basically be impossible to live through this and not become a hardcore fundamentalist, right? Like, what are you going to do, say blocking the damn sun with smoke and flame which taint the air you breathe and water you drink is a very non-Great Satan like activity for somebody to do?
Futures chart for crude oil, 5-year span. Feb 27-Mar 8 rises steeply from $67.02 to $116.62 - nearly to the level of the peak $118.887 2022-06-03.
5-year chart really puts it into perspective how *excitin'* things have gotten
Divergent and convergent evolution are so cool
Full Metal Jacket does that well in the actually-in-Vietnam part.
Jesus I'm sorry.