I know it’s a distraction but I abhor the way the man speaks.

“I was informed this morning by the joint chiefs of staff that at so and so time in such and such operating theater we lost communication with blahblah asset. All US service members were recovered safely with no loss of life. We are committed to peace, but if this was, as we believe it to be, a violation of the ceasefire agreement, this provocation cannot go unanswered. I am urgently seeking communications with the leadership of the IRGC and am directing our forces in the region to move to a state of enhanced readiness.”

• serious
• sounds like something a Sorkin character would say
• leaves diplomatic buffer in case it turns out something other than an Iranian missile caused the loss of equipment

“Army told me IRAN shot down our very fancy helicopter in operating theater, amazing pilots safe but now im mad. I’m gonna bomb them back >:( >:( >:(”

• unserious
• less room for backtracking
• sounds fucking stupid

That’s the american dream right there.

If I was a religious type I would think God was mad at us for electing this dude

If one shingle breaks yeah you wouldn’t want to huff it, but realistically dilution would mean the tiny amount released is next to harmless. Asbestos is an extreme occupational hazard for people unlucky enough to have worked with it, but for most extant asbestos material the best practice is to leave in place.

Re: other shapes, they have to be tesselations of repeating regular polygons. I would refuse to call the one on the right a grid:

And this one is right out:

Edit: I have been informed that the Escher tesselation pictured is in fact a grid and am now in a foul mood.

Interesting how similar this is at first glance to Kerboscript. Neat!

They say they’re gonna fix it with something called “AI”

But that requires R&D, and that means hiring and paying more engineers! And maintaining multiple production lines! And paying people to work on those! Can’t we just make a law that all Americans have to buy an F-150 by the time they turn 30???

1. Lobby to become the default mode of transportation in the postwar period
2. Get dragged kicking and screaming towards efficiency
3. Successfully lobby to gut regulations and manufacture demand for SUVs and crew cab pickups
4. Stop building cars altogether
5. Help get a fascist elected who kicks off another oil crisis
6. Cry about China eating your lunch

You and I see eye to eye. Let them witness a better world and despair.

Yeah, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. I just wish he’d make more mistakes faster and that midterms came sooner.

Assuming there are midterms, which I hope to god there are. The alternative is very bloody, and while my teenaged self thought he was ready to die in a ditch for his ideals my thirtysomething self would like to have the joy of building a just society rather than the satisfaction of dying for the hope of one.

wouldn’t dems have to, like, win elections to do much more than they’re doing rn with temporary injunctions and whatnot? I’m not saying they WILL do more, I’m skeptical that they CAN.

so how long before people start spreading rumors to encourage stochastic violence? “I heard the governor’s daughter is going out of state to get an abortion in Maryland.”

ah fuck thats exactly what they want isnt it

not to mention the big bright thing in the ceiling. outside sucks!

my kind of autism

I could honestly see it if it’s like, someone who has known you for 20 years and you make a point of always doing your face to the nines. like maybe it’s genuine concern, changes like that can signal having low energy associated with depression or etc etc etc but then I’m an overthinker and I worry too much.

But it’s like work acquaintances will do it to her when she doesnt do full foundation and this and that and the other thing, which is just so goddamn rude.

I think makeup is cool, the standard of having to wear makeup is bullshit. When my girlfriend doesn’t wear makeup people ask if she’s sick. It seems like a lot of work.

e: this app is weird af though

what kills me about Schumer et al is that i was always taught that dual loyalty is an antisemitic trope because it’s founded on essentialism. The idea that someone might hold a loyalty to another country over their own based on their ethnicity is an unjust assumption, and it hurts American Jews (and their communities, and by extension yourself, as a member of their community) because as a group they really just want to get by, same as anyone else. They are our neighbors and our friends, and they want whats good for their homeland just like you and me. Jewish Americans are just Americans who happen to be Jewish.

But it seems like everyone in the ruling class has decided that actually dual loyalty is part of being Jewish, and that actually you’re the antisemitic one for pointing it out, and that furthermore antizionist jews are antisemitic for their unjewish behavior.

this reads like something a TI would post.