Masterful gambit, sir

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

It has been three weeks and while I know that’s not the sort of thing that immediately changes things, I’m still getting a touch aggravated that my fancy new letters haven’t miraculously improved my pay by 20%

🧠: having a pretty good few days Me: yep! Big weekend too! 🧠: cool, cool. Hey you know how you’re not good at anything? Me: wh— 🧠: like, everything you’ve ever tried to achieve has ended in failure, and all your dreams will turn to ash one by one? Me: wtf dude 🧠: have a good weekend! 🙂

I think I’m about to watch a kid permanently injure himself by trying to curl two thirds of his body weight

My kids got me a knockoff Lego Bradley for Christmas I finally got around to building and it’s really cool except the pieces for the tracks aren’t very well made so now I get to play “Sergeant, We Threw Track Again” every time I breathe too hard in its direction, so yeah it’s pretty realistic

"I need all NCOs down here right now."

War Machine (2026) is a very dumb, very enjoyable scifi action movie that somehow managed to get a lot of the little details right in ways I didn’t expect

So, the latest in my ongoing mental health nightmare: I’m…surviving. I dunno. I feel like I’ve hit the limits of what I can influence and control and change in my life and it’s not working.

This is earnest and not an April Fools: Manned space travel is a bit like $2 billion football stadiums -- a debatable use of money, but rich countries should have some hobbies and do cool stuff just because.

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I’m not gonna lie, if I was a professional writer every once in a while I’d fire up an AI just to belittle it and brag about metabolizing carbohydrates for energy

very specifically if you are tempted to pretend It Happened as an april fool's joke please go ahead and preemptively delete the post right now

I tried to read Mickey 7. The main character, Mickey, is a clone on a space colony whose job is to be Expendable, which means he does all the most dangerous and suicidal work because if he dies the just grow a new body and download his consciousness into it So far so good

This is an all-time own goal. Just phenomenally stupid in every way, it’s amazing. Entire academic disciplines will dine out for years on analyzing this. It’s gonna go down in history books with Hawley-Smoot

The year is 2030. The armies of democracy are on the march. Bolstered by renewed European defense manufacturing and a surge of volunteers fresh off their victory in the Second American Revolution, the autocrats of the world tremble in fear before the unstoppable might of liberal democracy

Full on brawl in the FDNY vs. NYPD hockey game

the us civil war was the closest thing to a genuine wh40k esque “burn the heretic” thing in american history

The legality and morality of the Iran Debacle aside, it’ll be useful in the future as a case study in how being technically and tactically superior to your adversary doesn’t matter even a little if you’re not marrying operations to strategy or clear political goals

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

Also again, this oopsie is exactly why people should care about international relations, professionalism in FP, and why the American people should care about our role in the world. It is not an argument for isolationism but the opposite: bad things happen when we ignore load bearing walls.

Applied to a job just now at a company I've been bouncing against for a couple years and like. This is just cruel

I’ve had several people compliment me on being strong or resilient lately if you want an idea of how things are going 😅😬

U.S. foreign policy has been captured by dorks obsessed with the movie 300 and the only way to fix it is to put in power dorks obsessed with the movie Master and Commander.

For no particular reason here’s one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema youtu.be/Cun-LZvOTdw?...

My one big objection to pacifism is that the number of genocides stopped by a third party driving tanks through them is...not zero.

or buy someone else's book instead

AAAAUUUUUGH DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE PRIMARY TRIUMPH OF INDUSTRIALIZATION WAS???? MAKING IT SO FAMINES DIDNT HAVE TO HAPPEN TWICE A GENERATION YOU HAVE *WAY FEWER PEOPLE* PRODUCING *SO MUCH MORE FOOD* IT ENABLED US TO DO THINGS BESIDES SURVIVE FUCK

Minor brag, I managed to knock over two minutes off of my 5km time so now I’m hovering somewhere within the realm of “mildly athletic”

The new goal of operation mash my d— in the door is to stop mashing my d— in the door. And I promise you this: I will never stop mashing my d— in the door until we achieve this goal.

Am I daft? Because I seem to recall the Strait of Hormuz was already freely navigable before this all kicked off

Minor gripe: I like going to drill most of the time, especially when I get to do fun stuff, but it’s a second job and it’s still *work* so even if I had a good time this weekend I didn’t actually get a break

I worked in a general medical practice for a couple of years that had just been established. They had some rooms available for expansion but turned a chiropractor down flat. Not a recognised medical profession.

One of the major problems we face is that people don't understand the things/processes/structures that allow them to live lives of plenty that would have been unimaginable in the past, and as such think we can just abolish them for basically aesthetic reasons

It’s a lovely day at the armory and you are a horrible Staff Sergeant

Every once in a while I go and pick a word or phrase and do a from:me search for it and repost the good stuff, if you’re wondering what’s going on this evening

Listen. I am probably one of the dumbest assholes to ever wear a uniform, but I got a lot of traction out of a simple “fuck you, put it in writing with your name on it” when some non-select O-3 high off his own farts tried to get me to do something stupid/illegal/ethically ambiguous

It’s a weird feeling after my last civ job to have a boss with an unlimited well of Give A Fuck for his people

So there I was, killing time and browsing USAJOBS because I am a glutton for punishment when I 100% should be doing something else, when my commander walks in and peeks over my shoulder. “Hm, GS-9? I think you’re selling yourself short, you should start looking at GS-11 positions.”

I feel like if your ideas were already defeated in an actual war that ended in a no-shit unconditional surrender then they don’t deserve to be brought into the marketplace of ideas. Your ideas are so shit entire nations ceased to exist because of it. It’s over. It’s done. Get better ideas.

Lmfao fuck

omg they made the Phanatic bisexual

Today’s hot take: if you insist on your salaried employees working after hours/staying late to finish tasks then you have to accept that when they don’t have tasks they’re going to be fucking off on the clock

It’ll be very funny if the FIFA peace prize recipient kills soccer in the US

Idea for a podcast: The Western Cannon, a read along podcast of military theory and philosophy

The latest in the World’s Dumbest Journey of Self-Discovery: Been trying to understand the ideas of radical acceptance, self-forgiveness, “feeling your feelings,” etc and I’m gonna be honest it’s uhh not going great

It’s funny in a The Killing Joke kinda way that enough people are utterly gormless enough they pulled the lever for this guy despite knowing better and having seen it the first time around