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Educating the future? New Jerseyan in exile. I mostly talk about beer, foreign policy, and on very rare occasions, parenting and gender.

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When I was working on conflict minerals, it was presumed by many that if we just labelled some exports from DRC as "conflict linked", it would dry up the funding streams for militia.

What happened was they diversified.

14.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I once watched a former DRL head roll into a board meeting in a velvet sport coat and a white T-shirt tucked into jeans.

But then again, I've seen John Prendergast show up for events in jeans and a bar t-shirt.

13.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brent Gates

12.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The answer to this is a hubbard squash on the vine

12.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don't forget the "colonized by people that the 15th century Catholic Church felt were too oppressive."

11.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Basically a lot of people, maybe forever, have more or less decided that they don't need to know anything about anything that's more than 100 miles from their own house

11.03.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe they forgot a "we're"

11.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mark Whiten?

11.03.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Gary Larson cartoon, in which a caveman points to a drawing of a Stegosaurus tail and says, β€œNow, this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.”

A Gary Larson cartoon, in which a caveman points to a drawing of a Stegosaurus tail and says, β€œNow, this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.”

But without doubt, the single greatest moment is Morgan Freeman dramatically intoning that the spiked tail of the Stegosaurus is called β€œthe Thagomizer.” It is! And here’s why:

09.03.2026 12:29 πŸ‘ 312 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

This means that AI could be perceived as a threat to management consultants, which is a real "let them fight" moment for me

08.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"You've been able to get a Pakistani Motorized battalion, a Senegalese rifle regiment, a handful of Finns, and an Irish mission commander. Have fun!"

07.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is the second question where do you put them?

"you have 17,000 troops in an area the size of Minnesota. How do you deploy them to provide security for a population almost as large as New York State?

Show your work."

07.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The beagle thing is more troubling, the kid is too young to be developing Acolytes

07.03.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine wanted to go to the top of the rope climber at the park at 2 and a half. We've directed that energy into Ninja gymnastics

07.03.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Instead of subscribes, uses a trick to access the articles without paying and/or screams about pay walls while only reading the headline

07.03.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Gambling on her birthday, adventurous out there in California

06.03.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great show. Don't point out the historical inaccuracies though

06.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bring earplugs, the Anne Bolynn number is louder than Angus Young in 1987

06.03.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Shrinking an organization by attrition is a *type* of strategy

06.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, I'm being insulted by someone who has decided that the best way to engage the world is not by adjusting the cultural norms of Europe to make it more welcoming for migrants, or punishing the neofascists in their own midst, but by commenting on politics from afar, engaged in a game of "wrong rock

06.03.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Pack your bags,' Italy's new leaders tell 500,000 illegal migrants β€” but it'll cost them True to its campaign pledges, Italy's populist government has pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants from the country.

Hold up, I'm getting a news report

www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/p...

06.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy

Hold on, these guys?

www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/art...

06.03.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, Italy, the polity that was allied with Nazi Germany?

Or the Italy that disenfranchised my ancestors?

06.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Hold on, you also have to include the one in five that think anyone south of Florence is basically African

06.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Not even that forgotten. This is the league that is in the self-published comics that Dilton Doily produces in Archie Comics.

05.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hate everything about this timeline

04.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They've totally watch a twelve minute clip on the Battle of Algiers.

Well, by watching, it was on in their freshman poli sci class when they ducked out early to hit up flip night

04.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What if he's trying to break big like Bonnie Blue?

04.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Does this mean we can have a Cadaver Synod with Bud MacFarlane?

03.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll see your Koncak and raise you a Dolph Schayes

03.03.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0