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  1. He’s playing hurt. You can tell he’s in quite a bit of pain and limited rotation ability. He’s also behind a line that’s not really good and is missing starters. The Heisman hype for him was never real, but he’s not this bad of a QB.
  2. They’ve built semi-submersibles that will do transatlantic and even South America to Solomon Islands.
  3. Also can be dropped at sea with a beacon and then picked up by a commercial vessel or yacht. Which then might try to go into port or try to get into territorial waters and the then drop again so small vessels that won’t go through customs can do a quick run to pick up. It’s a dynamic, it’s cheaper logistically to do one large shipment but less chance of interdiction to diversify routes. Don’t get the situation wrong, these strikes are illegal and morally wrong but the boats (and for sure the semi-submersible that had survivors) are carrying drugs.
  4. Kind of proving my point with Giuliani. He didn’t spring fully formed into City Hall; his election was a reaction. Colvin’s paper bag is the exact opposite of ā€œzero tolerance.ā€ Low level things like peddling counterfeit shit, prostitution, small-time drug dealing, etc are tolerable when kept discreet and it’s not in people’s faces. You’ve got to leave a direction where people can turn their heads and look the other way. When they don’t have that, you get a Giuliani or worse.
  5. It’s honestly a political masterclass. At any time in the past decades there could have been a quiet move to disrupt them while they were setting up and then proceed to removal. And a quick press release: ā€œFederal law enforcement disrupted a counterfeit goods market and detained X individuals. In the process, X number of unauthorized immigrants with unrelated warrants and criminal convictions were detained and are in removal proceedings.ā€ No one would have given a shit. Easy, done. On the whole, better for everyone. These raids are performative. Trump’s getting people to play their role: the progressive who says that having illegal markets staffed by people with criminal convictions is fine. Better, actually, than not having them there. That’s the choice Trump and MAGA want people to make. Even Bernie recently made this point.
  6. The Canal Street stuff is such a microcosm for where we are and how we got here. The DHS thread and these raids are performative cruelty and degrading. However: it is undeniable that there was a bustling illegal counterfeit market run by unauthorized immigrants that just existed in the open in the middle of town. It’s absolutely implausible to argue that its existence benefited anyone save counterfeit bag manufacturers and unauthorized immigrants and aside from the public annoyance likely incurred other costs as well beyond just the occupation of a common public space for illegal activities. I’m reminded here of Bunny Colvin in The Wire giving his brown paper bag speech. About how critical the nod to the social contract. And what I can say is that jn a lot of areas— immigration enforcement, urban disorder, petty crime, etc.— we went through a stretch where no one was using a paper bag and nodding at the social contract. If you’re on the left it’s time to acknowledge that most people are in favor of securing borders, most people don’t want to see open illegal activity on city streets, most people are aggravated by petty criminality and shit like fare jumping, most people just want to adhere to the social contract. It’s super politically dangerous when the authorities or institutions claim that these things can’t be managed (because they plainly can do so) and even more politically dangerous to imply that trying to manage them is inhumane. Because then you surrender the issue to people who are willing to solve the problems by being inhumane. And you’re gonna lose that one: force people to either vote like a good person or vote for street cleanup and border enforcement. This is how these problems metastasize— it’s trying to push a rock uphill against human nature and it all kind of exploded in with the added stress of COVID.
  7. I think that it’s pretty important as a culture to offer some sort of framework for people who held bad and even abhorrent views to change their minds and rejoin what used to be called ā€œpolite society.ā€ At the same time, I think there’s a push and pull and you have to work within the framework and engage honestly. I kind of reject the idea that asking hard questions about his SS tattoo is some sort of betrayal. He’s running for office and first you have to win a primary. His opponents are supposed to ask about things like Nazi tattoos and they are supposed to criticize him. I’m getting flashback to the Bernie bros who had this weirdly righteous anger at the D candidates who had the audacity to run against him and get more votes. ā€œI can maybe overlook the giant Nazi tattoo but it’s hard for me to get past that he’s a GWOT vetā€ is a wild and frankly jarring take. A stark reminder that there remains a yawning gulf between the leftist flank and the normal people you need to win elections.
  8. At first I thought this was another boring grumpy animal in a sailor hat. But in a snow hat—- you son of a bitch! I’m back in!
  9. My best guess is there’s a shortfall in some multiyear account that they are raiding and crafted this as a fig lead for congressional GOP and to make him look beneficent to the enlisted ranks.
  10. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-says-private-donor-gave-215523828.html
  11. Can confidently say: this is the most fucked up and dangerous thing that has happened yet.
  12. I don’t know if the jury is out on the Internet. I think it has made America worse in a lot of ways: I think it’s played a big role in declining real standards of living for the average American, increased social polarization, increased social isolation, and more. I don’t think the marginal conveniences it brings to my day to day outweigh that. I think our society was objectively healthier in the late 1990s before broad consumer adoption. Maybe the Insta thots do make it worth it.
  13. I can’t believe I’m about to do this. It’s not ā€œreally fucking goodā€ but it (was) better than most other regional/national chains or buffets. This is all tempered by the fact I haven’t been in one for maybe 20 years so ymmv. Peter Piper used actual pizza ovens with rotating pizza stones that the pizzas sat on. Most chains use conveyer style ovens, the pizza goes through either in a pan or directly on the belt. Either way: the surface area and direct heat in a real oven will crisp and blister the crust while conveyer pizza is going to be sort of limp and sometimes soggy like she always complains about. A quick google shows that at least some Piper locations use the real ovens. And they will absolutely give a nicer, crispier crust with more similarities to a NY pie, although the rest of the dough is a bit different. I also seem to recall their sauce being tangier and less sweet than Pizza Hut or Dominoes or the like which I prefer. For toppings and cheese: who are we kidding it’s all the same shit. None of the places in this price point are using artisanal meat or fresh mozzarella or imported San Marzano tomatoes theu simmer in house. At the buffet or carry out price point it was a notch above unless you have a local joint that does slices and uses a real oven. But you have to subject yourself to the arcade noise.
  14. Not a single semi-credible outlet signed TripleSecDef’s loyalty oath and now MyPillow TV is our Pentagon press corps.
  15. The sanctions on the oil majors are really big. They aren’t going to completely suffocate Rosneft and Lukoil (the two largest Russian oil companies) but they will make buying Russian oil harder and more expensive; and Russia will have to eat that cost because India and China won’t. More importantly it’s a signal that we have lost patience and a cue for the more aggressive Europeans to move out on other options— Russian sovereign assets scheme? It tells the Hungarians and the Slovaks that they can’t cover their bullshit with MAGA. Don’t get twisted, this is the most significant U.S. move taken against Russia in the sanctions space. The messaging of ā€œceasefire nowā€ is good, as good as it can get. It’s the formulation the Russians have really been resisting. And it bears repeating: this could have been done earlier. Biden could have done it. Nonsensical to wait this long. Bessent is quietly a really strong Ukraine ally navigating a minefield around this. In this case- credit to him.
  16. Gar have different behavior. They tend to float along at the surface or hang out around or near deeper water or under vegetation. They don’t like to hide under logs and riverbank burrows like catfish. I don’t think there’s ever been a case of a gar biting a human that wasn’t trying to handle it somehow.
  17. I got 45 on the quiz. But while I have hung out with people who smoke cigarettes, they’re all European and I think that would knock off like 10 points or so if it was weighted.
  18. Conceded, it is in fact dork shit and not nerd shit. Even worse, this is insect person mentality. Has there ever been a worse rebrand than the Bay Area from counter-culture capital to striver bug-man capital. The one symbolized free coolness you aspired to attain; the second soul-crushing lameness you cannot escape.
  19. We need to make being a nerd uncool again.
  20. Oh, so it’s the ā€œWhiteā€ Mountain club you say?
  21. Per public reporting Paul Ingrassia is 30 years old. While being a Nazi is bad enough, we must also confront the possibility that this is a distraction from his actual identity as the 500 year old undead Transylvanian minor nobleman Orlok, the Nosferatu.
  22. I’m more pointing at the fact that mainstream center-leftism (of the ā€œin this house we believeā€ variety) did indeed achieve almost total institutional domination of the security sector aside from maybe the enlisted ranks and actual uniform wearing LEO. Donald Trump wasn’t directionally wrong in targeting them for an ideological purge, but they still catch strays from the left flank. The CIA does really fucking hate Israel but that’s coming from a different place than either the Nazis or the BDS man on the streets.
  23. Point of order, giant Nazi tattoos on potential recruits have long been more of a giant problem than an asset for the CIA.
  24. ā€œSir, you seem very agitated by my aesthetics. Have you actually read all of my Reddit posts?ā€
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