Sending a Battalion sized force (2000ish Marines) to open the straights seems like the kind of "We're done with Woke and DEI Warfare" that one would expect from the likes of Louis Mountbatten, Whiskey Pete or Tom Clancy.
okay to feel despondent right now. a lunatic is running the country, we are committed to another prolonged conflagration in the middle east, prices are high, your wife says she’s going to yoga at 7:30pm on a thursday, seems weird but i’m sure it’s fine, she immediately showers when she gets home
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
I go back and forth on it but Term Limits, man.
Cover of the young reader book "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure"
Decided to check out that Starfleet Academy series everyone's talking about
You can be completely neutral about mecha and be a trans woman
"There's oil in other places-"
"WHERE ARE THE TANKERS, MANSLEY?"
"A specific Imperial Warlord in THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU..."
You wake up. The year is 1974.
You are Marcia Lucas.
This future must not come to pass.
I'm fascinated by the fact that neither Favreau or Filoni seem to understand that what made Zsinj and Thrawn work is that they were skilled tacticians using inferior forces to fight against the New Republic. In a world without being inferior forces they're just....dull.
My sinuses are so clear right now.
Condiment Corner: This Hot Mustard with Pickled Peppers stuff is changing my sandwich game forever. 10/10
I hate it here so much.
I mean from where I sit I get to see a third of the country wanting to murder me and mine and another third who can't do more than wring their hands about it so it's hard not to feel like my fellow countrymen are awful.
IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot
THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him
THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me
YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care
BECAUSE my position is immutable
I bet it's just Jared Leto again
There is a certain category of online leftists who just desperately want religious fervor and make it everyone else's problem.
Like just go to Seminary already.
You're basically a child if you think that everything can be solved by cheat codes.
Capitalism is bad, weirdo.
Everything is just the socialism of fools in this hell state.
damn he and Platner are gonna get along great
Be an adult, want new stories for God's sake.
Happily banned by then, what was The Big One?
Last I heard Grey Wolf was trying to start a blog or an interview podcast for AH or something? I left the community years ago and I'm much happier for it.
The purging of it all was pretty useful later on.
@khartsun.bsky.social I know it's not smoking gun stuff but I also really don't try to think back to my time in the AH community 5 years ago, much less what it was like back in 2004. But the pinned threads about supporting Grey Wolf were a big part of why I was on other forums for a long time for AH
Also Ian was the sort of edgy douchebag back in the day that he used to share photos of him in a T shirt that read "Slavery gets the job done" with a pyramid on it. So like, not great.
A lot of threads about this got purged later on but there was enough tangential stuff before they started archiving the site that you could see the picture. No clue what's available now.
I will say that message board culture was a lot more trusting then, but it was super fucked up all the same.
Cliffnotes version: 20/25 years ago the user Grey Wolf who is still around got arrested and convicted for trying to sell or trade CSAM. Ian and several notable SF/F authors used to organize fundraisers for him, including to pay for Internet access, because it was all he said, a misunderstanding.
