Peter Boothe

oh thank fuck

None of them can talk coherently about strategy or goals but they are completely in sync in all their macho posturing because that is all they’re really focused on. Everything else is just whatever limply offered fiction is convenient to them at the time.

US watching a movie where a vigilante’s entire family is wiped out: “Oh yeah, time for fucking vengeance, this dude will never stop. Get them!”

US watching Iran pick a Supreme Leader who just had his entire family wiped out: “This guy is plainly going to be reasonable and fold.”

sick feeling in my stomach that they’re actually going to try this with Cuba too even after Iran has turned into an abject disaster and I really, truly do not want to be right about that

Yes. "They're not scared that Mamdani will be a bad major, they're scared he's gonna be a good mayor"

everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true

Dr Sbaitso out there saving lives

Politics really matters. Every bit of it. It's not about posting and it's not about vibes.

We’ve gone from “No new wars” to “Regrettably, a draft may be necessary” in about two weeks and nobody in Congress appears to be able to stop this child-molesting lunatic

From promoting Mein Kampf reading groups led by Ann Coulter’s white nationalist niece one day, to getting face time with the Secretary of State the next. America! We’re still the country where anything is possible!

we are in the process of finding out if “ah! well. nevertheless,” works for us on a global scale or if it is just a personal thing

it’s not looking great folks

When you supply the DoD, you make yourself a target. Under the Pax Americana this was an okay risk, not even really worth noting. Under Trump II it’s a lot iffier.

The president of the United States of America

Software is hardware in liquid phase. The gaseous phase is, as noted elsewhere, either vaporware or vibes.

I have a theory that Sam Altman believes his own hype, and therefore has been following ChatGPT's advice about how to run OpenAI for a few years now....

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

The daily game releases will continue until app usage times improve.

I do really love that wordle was the harbinger that newspapers had it right and we need to rebundle the news with puzzles.

When do we get daily comics back

Quantification is carcinization

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

they want one SO bad

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Evergreen post

As I just mentioned elsewhere, there is a collective action problem here. But once people start realizing there is no longer any voice, only exit, I think the rush for the door will become a stampede.

(Also, the immediate replies are priceless. Link to the article and alt text are in there too.)

Ending world hunger costs less than 1% of military spending Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — well under one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to UN estimates.

With the US military spending $1 billion a day on a pedophile's whims, remember that the UN estimates that it costs about $93 billion to end world hunger.

The *first* 93 days of this decade+ war, could be spent ending world hunger, if anyone in power actually wanted to

news.un.org/en/story/202...

IRAN WAR OPERATIONAL TIMEFRAME, ACCORDING TO WHITE HOUSE/PENTAGON:

Saturday: “days”
Sunday: “a week”
Monday: “four weeks”
Tuesday: “four to five weeks”
Wednesday: “eight weeks”

They have no idea what they are doing or what they have unleashed.

Given Trump II's declared preferences on who it would like to see heading govts in Europe, it's very short-sighted of incumbent European leaders to fall in line or look the other way as the US asserts the right to select the heads of govt in Venezuela, Cuba and Iran.

like obviously part of him wants to build a giant unethical surveillance apparatus in exclusive service to the extraction class, but another part of him is just kind of functionally fucking stupid about how tech and ethics operate and overlap?

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

I asked grok... I asked ChatGPT... I saw Donald Trump say... they're just generating language! There's no *meaning* behind it. It's just a plausible series of tokens.

BREAKING: The UN’s nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, says inspectors have not found evidence of a coordinated Iranian programme to build nuclear weapons despite Israeli and US claims.