For once I can’t complain about a tech company not understanding Lord of the Rings. Palantir, Andruil. But this one… they nailed it.

Weird. He never went to basic training.

Its insane this dude was the director of intelligence for CENTCOM, director of intelligence of the Joint Staff, director of intelligence for ISAF, and director of the DIA (under Obama)

The reason he got there was patronage. The minute that patronage from McCrystal was gone, he was fired for incompetence.

huh I’m no weapons expert, but I don’t think that’s the way these are supposed to work.

Every time SCOTUS hands down some new outrage I either go back and play through Suzerain again to do the constitutional reform fight again or play The Political Process and try to find a way to pass any judicial ethics legislation.

This is compounded by medals being a giant mess and few people knowing or caring. The MoH is a great example, where today you need to steal the fire of the gods to get one, but in 1914 it was seen as a participation trophy by battalion commanders who took part in Veracruz.

"Your force design fails to take into account childlike wonder" is so fucking stupid I'm astounded this is the first time it's come up.

The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word? "I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"

Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

Make A Bond Movie Casual: Mr. No

So Nigeria has significant strike capabilities themselves. Their Air Force is robust and they have a solid up to date drone fleet. There is nothing we can bring to bear *from the Gulf of Guinea* that would have more effect than what they’ve been doing for the last fifteen years.

god fucking dammit

This contains links to previous years' lists, and I'm starting to suspect these include at least some of the same people and that this stuff accounts for most of the visits the three spirits have to make.

I'm ambivalent about this Club-K type stuff. It's a legal nightmare masquerading as a clever concealment ploy. The only reason I'm not 100% against it is it turns the nightmare of VLS reload of critical munitions into simple intermodal cargo handling.

lmfao "Soboto" AFRICOM posting from Germany about airstrikes in Africa while misspelling the name of the place they bombed is *chef's kiss*

This is the kind of historical case you want to include in training to get your civil affairs guys to stop briefing IDP numbers past the hundreds digit and to get senior leaders to stop asking for numbers that exact.

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

In our defense, we don't do vertical construction, so this was really a job for the Seabees, RED HORSE, or Prime BEEF. But if you have gingerbread obstacles in your way, we're your guys.

Cat claims tree fell during questioning.

Good, I think they should build a dozen. Always reassuring to see evidence our rivals are as confused and stupid as we are.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Also, not saying this ship isn't asinine or that our ship naming protocols make any kind of sense, but wouldn't the first Trump-class be the USS Trump? You've got to wonder what happened there, because this shithead isn't shy about naming things after himself, it's been a joke since the 80s.

This is a very specific art style instantly recognizable by its depiction of every weapon firing at once.

I find it difficult to properly communicate to people outside national security just how hard you have to work to be less competent than the US Navy when it comes to ship design and procurement.

I want to believe this is just going to be a guided missile cruiser since ship classifications are about as consistent as cigar sizes, but part of me is waiting for this to be an actual battleship with heavy guns because Trump knows nothing about battleships. www.duffelblog.com/battleship-h...

taking a deep dive into the Steam "anti-woke" list prepare to laugh

I would watch a show with teams of chefs competing to make food that would be popular in their cultures but seen as nauseating anywhere else in the world. I don't think the Midwest could beat the South, let alone Japan or the UK, but I'd be willing to watch them try.

I have no idea what the squirrels are posting about Dort on social media, but it's clearly getting to him.

Whoa! Shades of SPACEBALLS.

The most accurate headline of 2025.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

A group chat Vance was actually in btw, as an adult male pushing 40

I had to use a monitor set up at an angle where the setting sun was hitting it through a window, and I held my fingers up to the horizon to get a rough idea of how many minutes before sundown. Long story short, now I want all the "we need analog skills for future war" military leaders to praise me.

This will blow up in their face because 1. There have already been years of documentation of the failed theater kid to far right pipeline, and 2. The guys they're trying to sell this dog whistle to don't need one and will wonder how they know enough about gay culture to come up with this one.

I think this term's origin was Paul Scharre writing in Four Battlegrounds about Marines spoofing an AI by hiding under a box while giggling, and I think what first got it circulating was @shashj.bsky.social posting an excerpt on Twitter. www.pcmag.com/news/us-mari...

This is terrible, Ransone was similar to Evan Wright in that he wasn't an honorary Marine but a lot of Marines saw him as one.

"11th-great grandfather came on the Mayflower" Their 11th-great grandfather:

"All organized sports ever are deeply fascist."

I think this could also get me over my objections to bullfights.

"Damn, GPS is knocked out. Well, I'll just use the Big Dipper to find Polaris." "Those are burning satellites." "Ah, well I'll just use the Little Dipper then." "Those are also burning satellites." "Damn, check the navigation pub." "At least all the burning satellites make it easy to read at night."

Trump Announces New ‘Dodger Dividend’ For Anyone Who Avoided Military Service https://theonion.com/trump-announces-new-dodger-dividend-for-anyone-who-avoided-military-service/

I know we're preoccupied with an imminent war, NPS trying to put Trump's face on Mount Rushmore, and the Trump Ring trying to change the routing numbers for the defense budget to their own accounts, but I didn't want this news getting lost because now female Marines can also pretend to be Dracula.

Everyone instantly came up with the same Hunger Games joke, and I want to make a Rapa Nui joke but nobody has seen it.

If you take a gig playing in Jabba the Hutt's palace, nobody cares if you go down with his sail barge, because nobody has any doubt in their mind about what you saw there.

lol, lmao, lol, lmao