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  1. Cavalry on a battlefield with FPV drones is the crowning achievement of Slav warfare.
  2. Me explaining how I became a minority controlling owner of Slutcon.
  3. What kind of fucking background screening are you perverts running over there?
  4. ICE generally does not put a detainer out on people with no immigration i. You will get no argument from me: all the rules were followed. Fairfax County handled this guy legally. Of course, at any point they could have legally handed him over to ICE or maybe charged him with one of the many felonies he was arrested for, or legally not let him out of jail the day after being arrested for felony weapons charges. That is how the law works, there are choices authorities get to make. Abd reasons to make all of them. Fairfax County followed the rules, ans a deportable individual tallied seven felony arrests and two dead bodies in four years. “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
  5. Here are the top ten diplomatic wins of 2025. Coming in at 10 “renaming the institute of peace after Trump.”
  6. This is like when I drew the ultimate tank that could also fly and had unlimited Playboys in fifth grade.
  7. Who knows whats gonna happen. Wonder if he’ll make it back.
  8. I have to acknowledge that this concept: pay thousands of dollars for access to sex workers, only they don’t have to sleep with you but instead might call you creepy and blow you off— is an incredible grift. Really my hat is off to the organizers. Only in Silicon Valley.
  9. Someone once said that every generation believes it invented fucking but only this one believes it invented prostitution.
  10. In related news our new, badly needed frigate is just going to be a Coast Guard cutter painted gray with no vertical launch system. Appropriate for our new ambition of puttering about the Carribean and absolutely WASTING homemade drug boats. Iran-ass Navy. Can’t wait for the hype videos on Twitter.
  11. LOL this is incredible and also the UK naming convention! This must hit so hard for really stupid people!
  12. It really just is a brothel, but woke and disruptive LOL. And it seems ripe for AI optimization. Angel investor concept: Unattractive, awkward men pay for sex and companionship with consenting sex workers in a controlled environment. $9000 for the full package. Fully AI ready.
  13. “It’s called Slutcon. It’s where you pay to touch boobs and reflect on your failings, but woke. The girls have to tolerate you. No, it’s not like opening a cat house or a strip club. It’s disruptive.”
  14. Dunkirk was a great movie.
  15. I think the Heritage American thing is too online and will burn itself out fairly quickly. Even where I’ve heard it, there’s lots of disagreement on what it means. I’ve seen lots of arguments that “Foundational Black Americans” are in, and arguments that they are out (I don’t think “Foundational Black Americans want to be in the “prestigious” club, so there’s that). It seems to be mostly driven by the subset of people who in most previous generations would respond as “American” with no modifier to a census, and when asked about ancestry would rattle off a vague, mostly forgotten admixture of northwest European origins. So there’s a lot of irony and frankly sadness around the movement. A group of people who have long railed against “hyphenated American identity” are now creating their own hyphenated identity. Fairly pathetic shit. On the flip side, the more extreme wing of identitarian culture warriors have argued that “American” as an identity is mostly meaningless beyond strict legal definitions (at best) or bad and exclusionary/hostile at the worst, and that identity is the salient feature of civic existence, are now confronted with the problem of a subset of people who have always felt they are “just American deciding to agree with them that being American is in fact exclusionary. And since there’s not another club for them to join…….
  16. Mortise and tenon or maybe laces stuff.
  17. It is so expensive to do this right for a two hour movie, eight hours is unreal. I also don’t mind it. It’s an oral tradition. It’s adapting it from the Homeric standard format of storytelling to our standard.
  18. Homer spends substantial time telling us how Odysseus built his ship!
  19. At this point you’re doing the lawyer thing and torturing the analogy while also not registering counter-examples (for example, grad and professional school admissions stats based on GPA and test scores). And of course, a name is an individual marker, even if some of those individual markers are often linked to group markers. To torture the analogy further, the golfers all get assigned a handicap based on the average handicap for other members of their gender/ethnic group in the tournament. instead of their own registered handicap. Which to @Bozo_Casanova’s has the explicit impact of greatly favoring the skilled, practiced, and elite players across all groups and tremendously disadvantaging people who really need a handicap.
  20. No, I think by 2014 my analogy is better. I will say that the white guys had been coached all their lives, had families who loved the sport and helped them learn to play, and had given them great equipment and lots of tee times. The others had recently begun playing, didn’t have coaching, etc. The actual structure handicaps in favor of white guys and “skipping holes” had been eliminated by then. That is the difference between “inequality” and “inequity”.
  21. The best analogy I can come up with is that these white guys had been prepping to play golf in a tournament where the straight lowest score determined placing. Then at their tee time, it changed to using handicaps. Handicaps aren’t unfair. It’s a legit way of scoring golf and it means that more people can play and compete. But for that group who had the change drop, it’s totally unreasonable not to expect some pushback.
  22. I think both you and brisket have arrived at the “equity is more desirable.” Where brisket is failing is at acknowledging an uncomfortable but real truth: shifting to “equity” means some individuals have been denied some opportunities that would have been available to them under the “equality” model. And a refusal to admit that truth leads to the lack of empathy. It is much easier to call those people whiners. Just like on the “equality” front it’s easier to frame inequity as a pure function of personal responsibility. They are really both screaming into a mirror. Lots of culture war battles stem from a desire to not acknowledge uncomfortable truths.
  23. I think that the last statement is in fact what’s under debate- what does it mean to “have the same opportunities as everyone else.” And that’s been reflected most starkly in the shift from “equality” to “equity” on the linguistic front. And a substantial constituency rejects that shift. Imagine that tomorrow you woke up in Gaullist-occupied America and the new overlords introduced French-style equality (equality, not equity is enshrined in the French National slogan). Race, ethnicity, origin religion is not recognized by the state, and it’s prohibited for anyone to collect that data or even ask about it. There is a strong case to be made that this represents “the same opportunities for everyone.” There is a strong case that it wouldn’t be fit for purpose given American realities (there is also a strong case that it’s not fit for French realities). But what is absolutely true is that there is not consensus in either France or America on the “equality or equity” more desirable question. And in the U.S. there is an established set of laws and regulations that bias “equality” while the conversation and practice in lots of institutions has trended towards “equity” and that creates inherent tensions because they are not—and unapologetically not—the same thing. So you are kind of begging the question at hand, it isnt settled culturally or legally. I rather think most of the demographic under discussion would gladly sign up for the French version of “same opportunities for everyone.”
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