I did my first crew fill run last night and it went terribly, needed to be revived FIVE TIMES, contributed basically nothing, but finished the contract I came for and made it out. I love this game.

Lately I've been taking the e-bike to work even when I don't have kiddo hauling duty because I don't have to carry a change of shoes (other bike is clipless) or a full change of clothes--I can just throw on rain pants and jacket over the pants I'll wear at work. Super convenient.

Go back to the Shadow!

WHAT IS JARED KUSHNER'S SECURITY CLEARANCE AND WHY IS HE DECLARING WAR IN IRAN IF HE IS NOT EVEN IN THE GOVERNMENT

I got Marathon and I'm in that honeymoon stage where I'm utter ass but don't really expect any better or have a frame of reference for Not Ass. I've never played an extraction shooter before & my top games by hours on Steam features nothing published after 2022 so I think I'm doing great.

Anyone else have a four year old that can go full gas for fourteen hours without napping or am I alone in this affliction

Aliens. I get it in some respects and a lot of people who's taste I admire like it. But to me it's a schlocky dumbing down of a perfect movie, and runs roughshod over the small careful details that I love about Alien.

I don't believe for one second that this man has cooked a meal for multiple people by himself, ever in his life.

Macbeth

Centrists will look you in the eyes and tell you its the Democrats that are too obsessed with gender

My rough history of the modern era is that the one two punch of Bush v. Gore and 9/11 broke US democracy and then COVID pushed us through the looking glass yet again and we're gonna be living in that fallout probably until I die. The main legacy of the Obama era was not ending the Long 9/11.

So it is regime change? It's not nukes? It's not preemptively defending against an Iranian retaliation against an attack by Israel?

Brilliant gambit, sir. The Court will definitely appreciate being jerked around like this.

When your military operation is limited in scope

Whether it's because they ran out of guys or the national security risks presented by Perkins Coie simply faded away (i.e., the Big Man forgot/stopped caring), this merits a hearty "LOL" and a "rekt"

I am reading Death of the Wehrmacht based on this recommendation and I have to say it's interesting reading about a military that came up with one weird trick to fight wars and that's all they knew how to do and it worked really well from 1939-1941 so they kept pushing it until suddenly it didn't

Today in "unfortunately you're still a jerk," a Tesla, but festooned with liberal slogan bumper stickers, but illegally street parked directly in front of a fire hydrant on a residential street.

I think the inside of my nostrils got sunburned

Look, as a northwesterner I have a natural affinity for "Maine"--living on the edge of the map, evergreen trees, bordering Canada, outdoorsy culture, lots in common. But I simply reject Maine being the epicenter of political discourse. You can't make me care about Maine's congressional delegation!

He's not genuinely The President in the way that every last president has been, he's the Brand for the regime, which is managed by several people, many of whom were never formally appointed or Senate confirmed, in opaque ways.

All this means is that a hearing previously scheduled to ask Netflix about Netflix acquiring Warner Bros got canceled, because Netflix is no longer acquiring Warner Bros

An exercise I think would be super interesting for like a bored econ PhD student to do would be to synthesize all the public statements Trump has made about tariffs and then constructing from those statements alone lay out in detail the financial system and legal framework he has described.

Yale Law, never beating the accusations. Honestly, this is what happens when you let your student write his fake memoir as a law school course rather than, you know, actual law classes.

This represents my problem with "affordability" as a political message. It implies that there is an achievable goal--things are affordable now. You need an objective benchmark to measure that. But they don't offer one. Instead it's all telling about nominal prices being "too high"

I'm going to scream if I hear affordability one more time

Trump after honoring a World War 2 veteran: "I've always wanted the Congressional Medal of Honor but I was informed I'm not allowed to give it to myself"

ITS CORROSIVE TO THE SOUL to have to listen to this to have this absolute PIECE of SHIT, the world's worst least virtuous person representing your country and flooding the airwaves

Don't really care for using the MoH as a partisan prop ngl

We're getting rid of private health insurance hell yeah

So they just straight up are not inviting the Seahawks to the White House, huh?

After 8 long years will this trad dad finally consistently climb V4 indoors? Watch this space.

foie gras is good and geese are asking for it

Donald Trump illegally stole your money. He should give it back to you. Instead Trump is scheming up new ways to force Americans to pay even more.

Among the funniest outcomes would be a GOP full court press to expand and pack SCOTUS to enable Trump's tariffs. Conservatives have everything they could have ever wanted and more from the current Court and they'll risk blowing it all up to let President's unilaterally raise taxes and depress trade.

International comparative advantage and gains from trade are back baby

And it combines my two latest hyperfixations WW2 operational logistics and meteorology

This is what it looks like if you open a package of breakfast sausage links and leave them in the fridge for a week and the sides of the links that are more exposed to the open side of plastic wrap start to dry out a little

New baby L pod orca! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Look, I don't think government service should be a vow of poverty because then you'll only end up with the independently wealthy staffing government. So I'm fine with this, you just have to extend it to the entire civil service.

A new terrible thing I'm experiencing is that my 4yo listens to Star Wars audiobooks at daycare sometimes but they're all sequel trilogy stuff so he's fascinated star wars but, to him, Star Wrs is Rey, Finn and Kylo Ren (and BB-8). So, eventually, I feel like I'm gonna have to show him these.

IDNRtIYTWAGtW

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win ("IDNRtIYTWAGtW")

Real talk, kids these days do NOT understand Richard Scarry's Busytown books (1960s) because the concept of a dense urban core that nurses and workers and firefighters and food vendors can afford to live in is increasingly foreign

Really scary avalanche incident in Tahoe area--I hope SAR and all those involved get home safe. Really gnarly situation for a search with an ongoing storm and high avy risk. mynews4.com/news/local/a...

Happy new year

Everyone knows about "for sale: baby shoes. Never worn." But spouse and I just spent a good while steeling ourselves to toss out 5 pairs of completely busted toddler shoes that we'd been hanging onto for sentimental reasons.

Homemade jiaozi really do hit different, doubly so when you make your own wrappers. Devastating discovery. Gonna be a big rolling out dough winter for me.

Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech guy "I think it should be easy to vote and hard to kill people with impunity"

They should make all text and voice chat opt in. My experience is degraded by 99% of chat interactions. Endorsements already take the place of a perfunctory postgame "gg." "gg tank diff" "need heals switch off mercy" "DPS can't hit a barn" We're all in low silver together, none of this is useful