The most terrifying words in American English should be “these actions are in violation of the Constitutionally prescribed rights and duties of the federal House of Representatives”

Sixth attack or attempted attack on a ship today, by my count.

Everything I know about oil infrastructure comes from RED STORM RISING, so from my perspective, it's been surprisingly resilient to attacks thus far.

The typical member of the Founding generation of the United States drank an amount of alcohol we'd rightly send you to a psychiatrist for.

our brave us soldiers are putting on their best dress uniforms to salute a dying pedophile every day

wait, we had to ask *THE BRITISH* to evac US personnel? holy christ these people are incompetent abcnews.com/Internationa...

If this goes on long enough and the pain is high enough they actually might consider it.

I think people are overrating the odds the ayatollah is a purely rational utility maximizer and underrating the odds the guy is rather upset about his father, wife, and daughter being incinerated and wants his pound of flesh.

President Donald Trump, the Oracles tell me that "If you attack the Persians, you will destroy a great empire"

A rent-a-hitman might actually be able to kill someone important now and get away with it, though. Kash Patel has gotten pantsed by obviously mentally ill assassins multiple times now.

Under the modern party system, the only crisis which materially and visibly made life worse for large swathes of the electorate - COVID - was also an act of God. Even the recession only saw unemployment peak at 10%. “Stupid 1979” is something else entirely.

A sufficiently severe and unrelenting market crisis can probably force Trump into a humiliating reversal. The problem is that (a) that market crisis can take on a self-reinforcing life of its own and (b) if that crisis doesn't arrive early and all at once, all the bandaid solutions will be used up.

Yeah well my strategic oil reserves are measured in weeks

Drain the straight, drive it out.

it is very hard to get smart people to start wars

It's easier to believe in the end of American democracy than it is to believe in the end of the Sixth Party System

Man, we're gonna *lose* lose this war, aren't we? My opening assumption was a strategic defeat but tactical stalemate that Donald would spin into a win in domestic politics because we killed a lot more of them than they did of us, but this is gonna be like if Vietnam and the oil crisis had a baby.

in what world is your tldr 51 points long

I dispute the historicity of "L Ron Hubbard" on the basis of thr fact that the "novels" he is alleged to have authored are so objectively terrible that the only explanation is that they were later churned out by AI.

"Joseph Smith" is not a real person, but a composite historical figure that serves to personalize the collective effort of founding the Latter-Day Saints. His name was picked in part as it was so common that actual people could be easily found to legitimize the myth.

same station is now $3.59

This is absolutely going to end with a PLAN deployment to the Gulf.

what in the world

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Video from a Chinese cargo ship which shows an Iranian Shahed-136 striking an oil tank at the Port of Salalh in Oman.

Also pro tip don't do a punitive expedition with no follow through showing the enemy just how shit their most critical defense barrier is

You might not agree with the ADL, but they've done a great job ending anti-semitism recently

This is exactly it. And I would emphasize one other thing: we, society, *will* figure out a better way to incorporate these tools into workflows. It's absolutely chaotic right now, with a ton of misuse. We're in a transition phase and we will figure it out. Right now is the most chaotic it will be.

"there's barely even any mines, jesus, stop being such a whimp" is maybe not what will really get the traffic going to be honest

NAVCENT just needs to hit that Panamanian flagged container ship with a "Han mahbooki" and they'll make the run

It’s cool how it can rain when it’s snowing and it’s somehow worse than just regular snow.

Does he have a cellmate

CONSOOM TAKE OUT DEBT BOOK THE TRIP, BAG THE FITS COONNNNNSOOOOMMMM

with how stupid this war is, can you imagine the world if HR McMaster managed to inflict that idiotic bloody nose strike he wanted to do back in 2017?

The death of material politics has been greatly exaggerated

Thing about war is that the losing side actually decides when it's over, not the winning one

searching through log files in disbelief. @grep is this true?

Woah

i'm sorry, SLUMBERGER bailed out? oh man

There is very little reason for Iran to step off the gas immediately knowing full well the Israelis will just decap/kneecap any attempts to regenerate their IADS or MRBM/TBM force

Yeah all of those sound like things the Trump admin will accede to rather than just bombing to win more

you cannot make this shit up

For anyone in the US thinking "well, that's Asia", let me run down a few things: This demand will raise prices for natural gas anywhere it can be exported, and that includes the US. That means consumers will pay more for electricity, and potentially heat and hot water. (1/2)

he’s tougher than he looks, I’ll give him that. it is weird he keeps swimming up to them though.

Very funny that Jordanian police are tweeting about Doki Doki Literature Club while coordination is being reestablished between Hezbollah and Iran

wild wild WILD this shit is crazy