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  1. Lots of noise in the info space, now making its way to right wing space that Ukraine tried to down Putin’s helicopter on its visit to Kursk. Clearly a play to isolate Kyiv further from Washington.
  2. I get these texts a couple times a week. Just one more thing that could be easily stopped but isn’t because it’s more profitable to let people get scammed. An unappreciated part of the scam industry: how extensive outsourcing of customer service and IT primed the pump. It conditioned Americans to be unfazed when the customer service reps of major American companies were located outside of America and speaking barely comprehensible English. And it taught huge swathes of South Asians exactly how to pose as a legit CSR.
  3. We all have to admit our limits. Just like in the other scenario where I am the best hope for the plane: I hope I can nod at another unassuming yet secretly deadly dad across the aisle before we move as one to effortlessly eliminate the hijackers using a plastic coffee stirrer and a laptop I grabbed from a sexy brunette in a business suit and messy bun as brilliantly improvised weapons. But I’ll do it on my own if I need to meet the occasion.
  4. That’s a lot of text that boils down to “opening fire at Jewish museums in America is ok if you’re righteously angry at Israel.” It took you a while to get there but you did.
  5. One thing unites all men. Deep down we are all certain that if we are on an airliner and the pilots are passed out or dead, we are the best choice to stay calm and collected and land that sucker with a little help from the tower. The really hard part is going to be keeping the pretty stewardess calm.
  6. I’m workshopping a new theory that autism is caused by getting too interested in trains.
  7. Well and also navigable inland waterways so that we can easily connect the vastness of our interior to the markets of the world. I am pretty sure they’re up for DOGEing though. Who needs them when we are becoming an interplanetary species.
  8. Across time and distance, in the history of motoring, a simple and elegant solution has solved the “emergency egress” problem: An internal door handle that gets pulled and unlatches the door so a person can egress. And while billionaires and millionaires have long been obsessed with ever more stupid door-hinging mechanisms, no one ever said “these interior doors handles fucking suck! I want something that requires me to read a manual and climb across seats!” Until Elon. And that’s why he’s a genius.
  9. I mean yeah. Doing grotesque press conferences with “Angel Mamas” and telling everyone that because an undocumented immigrant murdered a cute co-ed, we should all just go along with stuffing a few gay hairdressers that never murdered anyone in a Central American penal colony forever is a pretty apt analogy to this reasoning.
  10. If I can’t find my HouseBeast KeyFob I have to crawl out of an upstairs window. But my neighbors are stuck with stupid and lame doorknobs inside and out, while I’ve ditched them for clean and futurist no-doorknob Cyberdoors.
  11. Why were we experimenting with woke gender ideology on flies in the first place?
  12. Sometimes I like to think about 10th century peasants stripping ancient palaces and public spaces for marble across the former Roman Empire. Surrounded by stunning feats of human achievement made possible by systems they never saw, could not understand, could not recreate, but could slowly dismantle piece by piece.
  13. You’re right, it’s not very profound or even comprehensible. What rhetorical device does dead children and parental vengeance serve in a thread about a murder where no one involved has dead children of any nationality? And why should Americans have to just expect that clearly disturbed people who are overly excited by geopolitical developments and what they read online will shoot people they have never met at a museum? This type of behavior is (rightfully) ordinarily called stochastic terror.
  14. Something to unite the far-left and far- right: Apparently the killer got kicked off of Twitter because he kept telling Will Stancil to kill himself via DM.
  15. I’m completely lost— between Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, Yaron Lischinsky of Jerusalem by way of Germany, and Sara Miligrim of Kansas— who are the parents of deceased children and who is getting the vengeance because their kids got murdered?
  16. I am pleased to report that I made the same pot roast grilled cheese sandwich with Dijon mustard and horseradish but this time also a side of au jus to dip it in.
  17. Seems pretty legit man. https://forward.com/news/722632/yaron-lischinsky-dc-shooting-messianic-jew/ Two different groups at play: People with no Jewish background who inject cosplay Judaic rituals into their faith. And Jewish background people who graft Christian beliefs onto Jewish ritual. The state of Israel will accept right of return for the latter based on lineage, although there is a lot of suspicion and have been court cases. For the former, they are not accepted as Jewish at all.
  18. According to some stuff flying around the internet, they were both “Messianic” so this photo would be pretty apropos. Also point of order, all articles I see frame them as embassy staff. I haven’t seen confirmation that they were diplomats and they could have been attached in another capacity like local staff. (Neither has any bearing on the hideous violence, but is more interesting than “when the thread started” discourse).
  19. Pot roast grilled cheese. Pot roast, pot roast onions, pepper jack, white American cheese, pepper jack, mustard, horseradish.
  20. Un has gotten some technical support from Putin and some other quid pro quo but my point on training the Norks stands. The Ukrainians are doing something we have not done in decades, fighting a high-intensity war against a major power. If we ever end up needing to do it, we will be coming to them for help and we already are learning from them. The important fighting in a major war like this is going to be done by regular troops and not special forces. On the integration piece, there have been issues due to language mostly, and the Russians do not have free rein to use them as desired. There are some firm left and right limits established on what (and where) they are available for. The current time you have on the battlefield before a drone finds you is now measured in single minutes in most cases. This is a real limiting factor in putting significant mass together and launching any sort of maneuver. The widespread adoption of non-jamming fiber optic drones has had dramatic impacts and is one more trend that is creating the current stalemate. The message Russia is sending with drone attacks is that it can sustain their attacks for longer than Ukraine can replenish air defenses. Russia does not “value” its soldiers but they are more than capable of understanding that they have manpower issues and have adapted. You cannot take and hold territory with a Shahed, and they really have limited deterrent value. There’s far less reason to conserve them than Russian troops. They are of little value if they aren’t being used.
  21. The interceptors Ukraine uses to shoot them down are far more valuable in absolute and relative terms than the drones. Many of the missile attacks, especially in civilian centers, are about signaling and not military value, which you can’t use soldiers to do. On the Norks, the Russians do not have an endless supply. Un is getting something out of this, namely the invaluable experience of real combat for some of his most capable units and a first hand look at Western-standard tactics and equipment. It’s not that he objectively values his soldiers lives; but he does want many of them back. It’s a far muddier picture than just meat for the grinder with them. And some of them are turning out to be pretty good soldiers.
  22. They can afford to stop. It’s very much true that the defense base and spending is propping up a flagging manufacturing segment. But, the plan on the books already is to reconstitute their military to be able to seriously threaten a NATO neighbor within five years. They are in a miserable position with labor shortages and returning men to the economy is badly needed (even that won’t reduce dependency on Central Asian migrant flows). And they have a host of nations itching to more openly and greedily return to Russian petrochemicals the minute they can do so without fear of sanctions. Russia doesn’t need the war to adopt a defense production/war footing economy. They can do that without the war, and they will. They are not at all sensitive to consumer preferences, there’s not going to be any pressure on the apparatus to shift focus. The (admittedly capable) technocrats who manage the economy and finances would very much prefer to get away from the current model, and are working miracles as is.
  23. They will pick someone dumb and worse. This is Alabama, the only bar the GOP has to clear is “not a mall food court sex pest.”
  24. This is exactly that. The Golden Dome is grift like everything else. The techbros saw us spending billions on overpriced and behind schedule hardware we badly need and dared to disrupt by asking: “why not billions for overpriced and behind schedule vaporware that we don’t need at all?” Much higher return to founders.
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