unfortunately DOGE deleted all documents with any references to sexual orientation from the Department of Defense files, deleting decades of strait-related planning and strategy
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
Thank goodness this absolutely wonderful essay is still accessible thanks to the Wayback Machine
web.archive.org/web/20211001...
Every time George Smiley greets a new character in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy they respond with some version of “hello, George! How’s the cucking going?”
The real question for me isn’t the declining birth rates
It’s how we handle the inverted demographic pyramid
🇬🇧 to 🇺🇸 “Waiting at least two years before entering the war is the precedent previously set, right?”
I wouldn’t have sieged the Strait of Hormuz. I would have taken it immediately,
People overrate how destructive nuclear weapons are and underrate how easy it is to kill by creating humanitarian conditions incompatible with human life
The big risk here in terms of "millions of casualties" is us hitting the water infrastructure, and I'd put that at 50%
mixed feelings on it here, but at least it evolved with some degree of regulatory arms race. in America it's very harmful, and what's worse the marks love being scammed and vote against anyone trying to stop them being scammed
sports gambling in the states was the columbian exchange for the 21st century. highly addictive product released on a naive population, with no regulatory system around it to protect consumers.
feel like this is more effective because you think 'okay, it's an American referring to it as "THE NORTH of IRELAND", I see how this is going to go sideways' and ... nope!
(this is like crack to someone who is too young to know any better and in the grip of a charismatic leader)
if all of this is too hard for you to accept, we have some chemicals that can loosen up your mind. unblock the passages keeping you from reaching enlightenment. elon has the highest IQ, he couldn't be wrong. you are the one who has to face the music.
you don't need rest either. the builders are sleeping on the factory floors, seeking alpha and selflessly serving the greater good. you don't need to eat anything other soylent. you don't need possessions -- a laptop and an LLM account is all anyone needs to change the world.
you can just do things. you don't need anyone else's permission. we're creating the world of tomorrow. we're spreading civilization across the stars. we're saving the people of the future. the only thing that matters is the lightcone.
you too can be part of the future. just drop out of school - -who needs that anyway when the machine god will make all knowledge work irrelevant. don't waste your time on books -- blog posts and LLM summaries are all you really need, anyway. find the man who has the most agency and 'velocity'
they're also sucked into an total ideology (the various strands of bay area right wing futurism) that tells them they will transform the universe if only they get rid of the wreckers and hoarders in their way
Lam’s determination to just avoid talking about any real problems is almost impressive. No, people aged 25 to 35 in the underground economy are not putting pressure on the NHS. What a waste of her one and only life.
Here’s to the risk-takers. The killer hounds.
The bleeding wounds. The locked-up pounds.
The Bully XLs. The RSPCA.
The sons of Kimbo. The owner Himbos.
We’re NatWest.
And we love everyone who makes Britain great.
To be fair, I do think if I met a Bully XL we’d hit it off. Probably find out that they were misunderstood.
Grab a pint and have a laugh. All that stuff about biting off the faces of old ladies was just a bit of playful taking the piss.
It's 50 percent "my little Bully XL is such a softie-cutie pie here's a photo of him with my toddler" and 50 percent "Xerxes weighs 90kg and has a bite-force equivalent to the Tsar Bomb" and apparently there's no contradiction in people's minds about this.
It will never not be funny to me that the animal charities saying that breed-specific bans are wrong because the breeds aren't intrinsically dangerous are the same charities that refuse to provide insurance for them because of the risk of payouts.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
And it is not a “cabinet government” because the centre is good at delegation.
It is so by accident because the centre has very little ideological direction, which is another thing many people want in theory but falls apart in practice.
Everywhere I go, I see his face
Wow, they own up to 5 properties in London?
Mental health is *always* treated differently and there is no good reason why
(h/t @peternimmo.bsky.social)
they will be forced to make a choice of either letting up or doubling down
but oil either flows from the strait or it doesn’t. this is a binary outcome
