A basic level of humility would have leaders ask "the US could have done this any time in the last few decades, but multiple presidents chose not to. Why?" Unfortunately our leader is white Idi Amin and his key advisor, Bald Hitler

Securing wild lands strategically like this is one of the most important things we can do about the twin problems of climate change and mass extinction

I didn't know this. I guess it's not surprising

Well, I'm sure the US Navy has mine countermeasures as a core competency, in which—hold on, I'm being handed a piece of paper

Rly hoping there's some #WITAOD tidbit in these depositions that hasn't come out. timestamp link: "They were closer to Elon, and, Elon was defacto [pauses, makes a face] the relationship with Trump. And so, prioroties coming from whoever's closest with Elon" he almost slipped! Elon defacto WHAT??

They shouldn't let me have ebay

What chapter of Clausewitz is this?

Me reading to the declaration of independence

Trump brought in guys like Musk and Vought and had them destroy HIS OWN state capacity. These are not people who understand the world

Lmaoooo I hope every maga zoomer dipshit who memed about Harris starting wwiii gets obliterated by a ballistic missile (I do not actually hope this but I hope they are scared)

happy international women's day

God I work with the most 20 year old guys in the world (3 days into the war) "what they need to do is hit the Shahed factory" damn bro they should make you centcom commander

Lotta little piggies this morning 🕊 (White wing doves)

There's some comments disagreeing with this but its just objectively true. Again and again, when you map out tax revenues by land area, you get something like Indianapolis below, (from Urban3)

History tells us that US-led regime change efforts abroad almost never bring positive results. Here are seven US regime-change wars — and how disastrously they turned out. Read here: zeteo.com/p/seven-us-r...

Two maga guys kicking each other's ass over whether its woke to keep daylights savings or cancel it

It's very unfair that other animals can get headaches. That should be a price paid by humans alone

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

smh what are they teaching kids these days? 😕 #re9

Every 80s or 90s movie featuring an office worker, miserably stuck in a cubicle. I would kill for a cubicle.

Baturday Bat World Sanctuary

This is some "yeah I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch"

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

hmmmmm

Land use is such a big deal. Per @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, protecting tropical forests would help us avoid 1.6 to 2.3 billion tons of CO2-eq emissions each year, which is more than all US cars produce annually

How Much Businesses In Europe Are Taxed On $100k of Profit (US is 21% on average by comparison) Source: businessfinancing.co.uk/map...

My school bus driver growing up was this stout little old man who I liked quite a lot. When the kids annoyed him too much he would say stuff like "I will drive this bus straight to hell!"

Kubrick apparently said something to the effect "if it can be imagined, it can be filmed" and I dont actually think thats true except with animation

Good thread, worth scrolling up and reading the whole thing. I suppose none of us should be surprised that the people who blew up their own state capacity think they can just bomb Iran and tell them to have better people start running the government

If Biden said this, at least 3 republican senators would have gone to the white house with a gun

Hegseth genuinely believes we would have "won" OIF/OEF if we just did more war crimes.

I should try elden ring again I got stuck with early bosses and just wasn't feeling it

Grok: That is a remarkably insightful question! You seem rather mature for your age.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

"Squirter" is a GWOT term for people running away from a target after a strike or raid. Hegseth's alcohol-addled mind is getting wires crossed in the most offensive way possible

if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that

Keep hearing commentators/Hegseth saying a version of "this is not Iraq, we are not doing nation-building, it's a decapitation, the people will handle it." That's what Iraq 2003 was supposed to be! Nation-building, de-Baathification, disbanding of Iraqi army, it all came *after* things went wrong.

Seems like the Trump administration’s staggering idiocy just got six U.S. service members killed - who never got advance warning from their own leaders to take cover. www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

They said it's maybe the most common cream anyone ever heard of

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” But a new government has backtracked.

Related, I knew an air force E7 who couldn't understand why it was a big deal for senators/reps to trade stocks. "If you know your investment is about to tank, how could you NOT adjust your portfolio"

Looks like it put out penetrator aids 3 times, like flares? Do m/irbms do that?

I wonder if I'll live to see the right wing act in good faith and not just say whatever they think will benefit them at that exact moment

Lmao okay fair enough

Seems like a good moment to re-up my primer on the endless empty promises that strategic airpower can win wars entirely from the air: acoup.blog/2022/10/21/c...

Pretty good video that was auto recommended to me