i mean, borges

The reason the prediction markets are moving so much on the Platner news is because they think there's more there

I'm not sure how teflon Talarico is yet. This depends a lot on the character of the enthusiasm for the candidate. We'll have to see if he survives something like "he has an attractive gf and they seem cute together"

Drone-based mining operations aren't totally novel, but this seems like a stepchange in volume

That deflagration to detonation transition is absolutely beautiful. Really unfortunate for Blue

IRGC-affiliated Tasnim: Reports of Iranian missiles fired from the southern region of the country, said to be warning shots toward enemy military vessels.

massive immigration raid this morning, cool

datacenters use trivial amounts of water but huge amounts of electricity, and closed-loop systems -- because they have to use air chilllers -- use much more electricity, so Meta is essentially committing to waste huge amounts of power and generate carbon because people are hysterical

Kuwait says they are currently dealing with a missile and drone attack. https://t.co/DlqfNmTZpX

This is reportedly an alert that locals in Kuwait received:

Per CNN this was referred to the us attorney’s office in Chicago. That is the same office currently being turned upside down by prosecutorial misconduct in the the Broadview 6 case. I’m sure judges in the Northern District of Illinois would look kindly on this kind of adventurism right now

Any attorney that signs their name to this should be disbarred, any federal employee who works on this should be terminated, arguably every single one should be sent to Gitmo.

I am noticing that when push comes to shove even the people who tell me there is a double standard on the left about Ukraine and Palestine are willing to throw Ukraine under the bus to stay pro-Israel

Is there a name in the aerospace literature for this type of airframe used in interceptor drones? They're tail-sitters, but I'm looking specifically for no control surfaces, little time spent in hover, specialized for high speed forward flight, and relatively small

Including the focus on a very real history of genocide and dispossession that they believe justifies anything they do now in response.

a lot falls into place when you recognize that dogmatic Zionists are the same type of guy as Serbian nationalists who angrily deny that the Srebrenica massacre happened and they had it coming anyway www.liberalcurrents.com/israel-is-a-...

What are we a bunch of CAUCASIANS?!?!???

I've already seen the Jared Polis pic used as a pfp ironically lol

probably would not make my central attack line visually debunkable by my opponent eating iconic Texas foods in an election which is going to take up 150% of available commercial ad time, were it me

The UK needs to install more reversible heat pumps so I don't need to hear their bad AC takes whenever it gets hot

Kadyrov-coded

Downblending on Iranian soil is about a million times more workable than giving it up. I assume he means the IAEA? The US AEC hasn't been a thing since the 70s, but that's still what Pakistan calls its nuclear agency

Strikes were against missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to place mines, CENTCOM Spox Tim Hawkins said.-Fox News

I do wonder how seriously western planners are taking this. There's a lot of manufacturing friction currently in packaging sensitive electronics in aluminum, distributing batteries, using fiber optics for all data lines etc, but all of that will be on AliExpress within a year once HPM is common

just really understated how much Israel believes that they are invulnerable to changes in American support no matter how much they actively attempt to fuck us over

It is very funny that amidst a comprehensive loss on the part of the United States, the president and his most slavish devotee in the Senate (Lindsey Graham) are fantasizing about a dozen Arab states and Iran itself agreeing to recognize Israel in exchange for nothing.

I think the biggest shifts in this round of "will they/won't they" wrt an Iran deal is that regional allies other than Israel are all pretty much on the same page now and willing to push a coordinated message, and that the US was willing to table nuclear questions temporarily

It's funny that a lot of older people refer to "experimenting in college" as an institution because they never found a great way to have gay hookups after college

Lmao

Have you considered simply acting like someone worthy of human love and affection?

Interesting timing

Robert Prediction: the unpopularity of Joe Rogan and all that he represents will be as meaningful a factor in the 2028 election as his popularity was in 2024

Slow Horses is very, very good

I mean production has been seriously damaged. It might take a few years for them to get back up to previous production numbers, but they obviously have a sufficient number of missiles atm

Trying to introduce someone to a folk singer

One of the downstream consequences of the US two party system is that if you're an incumbent politician in a solidly blue or red state, your primary threat is going to be within your party rather than outside of it which warps your threat assessment

The girls are fighting!

Man shot by the Secret Service after opening fire near the White House. Bystander also shot - FOXNews

This Oreshnik was a cluster munition warhead! Each strand ranging in 4-6 submunitions.

It is incredibly funny to watch the FDD crashout over this after they invested so much into convincing Trump to go to war for Bibi.

A Secret Service official told CNN that the agency was investigating reports of shots fired at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, which is just outside the White House complex. https://t.co/xz1iSfd74y

tbf he kinda nailed it

A Russian Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile has struck Kyiv. https://t.co/XpYJ18wcwZ

This sounded like dozens of gunshots.

Gunshots heard outside the White House, approximately 20 to 30 shots fired. Secret Service ordered press gathered on the North Lawn to run inside the briefing room, per NBC.

The most pathetic group of people on the planet are those who got virtually everything they could ever want from two American presidents in a row, from different parties, and they're still mad because they have bumped up against the limits of American patronage.