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  1. The dragons in GoT drive me nuts because the warfare is just “medieval (kind of) but with dragons! In fact they could/should completely change what Daenerys’ armies do. - It took almost no time at all for aerial warfare implementers to realize that they should bomb targets at night. You achieve surprise and you make it incredibly difficult to shoot at you, and the damage is harder to mitigate. In a medieval type environment? No spotlights, no AA beyond bolts that are heavy, require perfect aim, and cannot shoot rapidly. All this daylight air raid stuff is bullshit; Americans did it in WWII to try and achieve precision and that’s irrelevant in this context. - Related, having a long-range strike when your enemy has none and no real defenses changes the game for campaigning. Daenerys uses them like CAS while her army engages on the ground. But dragons are strategic and not tactical. Any army trying to muster and then move at the speed of foot and ox cart is entirely vulnerable to dragon fire. Especially— again— at night when they are in camp. Daenerys needs scouts to find the enemy army and then, when it’s dark, burn them all alive in camp. Her foes here would be reduced to insurgent warfare because assembling any meaningful force in the field would just make them a target. And in fact, this happens when one side of a war has complete air superiority (Afghanistan, Iraq).
  2. Oh fuck yes, straight into my veins. I’m actually encouraged. Things that devolve into full on lunacy cannot hold.
  3. I love these people. I wish they could teach me to be this crazy.
  4. Not really plot holes, just a lack of explanation for the movie going audience. The Bible Lau’s out the rules for how to treat the ark. It can only be carried on the wooden poles, it must not be touched, and it must be covered and not looked at or into. In the Old Testament various people are killed by God via the ark for breaking them. Indy as an archaeologist deeply into antiquities would surely know this. I prefer the “no explanation” version as it’s in keeping with Indy’s respect and knowledge versus the Nazis who are only interested in how to weaponize the ark. WWII submarines were diesel electric and ran on the surface most of the time. More efficient, faster, and more comfortable. It’s 1936 in peacetime. A sub in transit would be at least at snorkel depth unless they did a drill or something. But this one had places to go.
  5. I just think they’re trying to do different things. The Godfather is using the crime setting to really explore themes around family, lower, fate, etc. Like a lot of Scorsese’s best, Goodfellas is about showing you who characters are through actions and not a story. And in this case, they reel you in and charm you and by the end you should feel bad for sympathizing with any of them. Everything they do and say, including the codes they use to justify what they do for themselves, is ultimately just bullshit that hurts them and everyone around them.
  6. Godfather 1 + 2 together stand alone as a saga but Goodfellas is in the same tier of either as a stand-alone. Departed isn’t there with them, or other Scorsese greatness like Raging Bull. I also forgot how selling ultra-high tech microprocessors to the Chinese is the Macguffin for this movie. Yeah, that’s for sure another way for the FBI to end whatever deal they have with you LOL.
  7. There’s a deleted scene that explains why the other potential rat/maybe a cop didn’t out Costigan. Also, the whole thing is showing how gangsters are dumb and paranoid. Costello has moles upon moles and is also an FBI informant. It’s even possible he knows who Costigan is but has decided it’s better to keep an eye on him. The bigger plothole is a high-ranking state trooper overseeing organized crime gets thrown off a building in broad daylight and the FBI doesn’t haul in their local kingpin informant and change the terms of the deal. Even in the height of post 9/11 terrorist hunting, that shit isn’t going to to fly for the FBI, especially if Costello has really only been feeding them bullshit.
  8. And maybe Nordic pagans. Frankly I need this administration to make a call on the whole Valhalla issue.
  9. Dems need to run on just the stupidest shit they can: - Five dollar footlongs - Right to Jack: No more ID for PornHub - Ending the War on Milkers: Put topless scenes back in PG-13 movies - Healthy Cigarettes - Mandatory school prayer Then after you’re elected you just say “we’re working hard on the sandwiches, it’s tougher than we thought. But you’re going to be seeing cheaper meatballs very soon and also we did single payer healthcare. I hear Sydney Sweeney takes her top off in the new Transformers.”
  10. My issue with the Bananas is simply the proposition that a summer evening at a ballgame needed to be optimized.
  11. I promise you that you’re not ready for how insane the website is for the Trump Card. This links directly from Commerce’s landing page.
  12. The “radical left/Democrat shutdown” messages are proliferating. Last I checked War/DHS had the old fashioned language about a lapse in appropriations. Honestly surprised.
  13. Stabbing and (per some reports, car ramming and failed bomb) attack on a synagogue in Manchester during Yom Kippur services. Three dead including the suspect. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/02/world/manchester-synagogue-stabbing-uk
  14. Hater’s Guide to William Sonoma Holiday Catalog is awesome.
  15. I lost my shit when Hegseth was trying to do shitty wordplay about being the M in DIME but he fucked it up because he is so used to just talking about DEIA.
  16. I speak Inka: COIN: Counter-insurgencey. ANA: Afghanistan National Army ANP: Afghanistan National Police
  17. I’m really enjoying this recent thing where SCOTUS makes a semi-decision that it can still take back and gives no explanation, and then passive-aggressively hints to all the other judges that they shouldn’t HAVE to explain themselves if they’d all just pay attention sometimes. They’re working really hard here! Thinking here that my wife is well-positioned to snag the next vacancy.
  18. Several of those spots in the pros he wasn’t retained (typical) when the HC got canned. It is a brutal career when you’re trying to break in.
  19. Understanding the universe by having LLMs train each other to be racist.
  20. Creative rephrasing of “money doesn’t smell.” He’a changing his bank account for the better.
  21. Well but DJT is leaving the parks open. They’ll illegally spend funds if it means making this unnoticable to their voters and they’ll kill essential services to hurt Dems. I think the argument over health subsidies is weedy and less important long term than the pocket recission shit. “The Constitution gives us the power of the purse. It’s closed until the Admin understands that” is clear and understandable. There is no point appropriating funds as long as Russ Vought has a veto over where they are spent.
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