One thing that people lower-down-a-status-hierarchy absolutely do notice is if another person is only friendly to them in a context wherein by being seen to be as such they gain greater access to or kudos with someone higher-up-the-status-hierarchy. They notice this and talk about it.

> One ninth of potential draftees [in WWII] were rejected due to apparently nutrition-related diseases

A big part of both historical documents Captain America: The First Avenger and With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa feature a prominent plot point of the main character being SO FUCKING UNDERWEIGHT THAT THEY WON'T LET HIM ENLIST

They have no idea how well-fed we are compared to back then:

We iodized salt because WWI soldiers were so malnourished lmfao

I don't think the man lusting for blood and who ordered a kidnapping of a head of state needed much, if any pushing. Why the fuck is this podcast of all people trying to absolve Trump of one of his worst crimes to date?

I repeat: no one had to push Crusader Pete into this Holy War

I'm sorry the MARTY SUPREME vampire ending story might have been real!? It wasn't a fucking shitpost!?

Tolstoy has an essay about how we like to imagine that such ‘rough men’ are indeed protecting us from outside threats because we don’t want to admit that they are just defending property

Oh god I forgot Ollie North was a Fox talking head

So many Kākāpō, and yet they do nothing about the escalating crisis in the Persian Gulf? Shameful. Their silence is deafening.

I like how the fact that Turkey is in NATO is basically just irrelevant to the op-ed class

they literally have a guy who does a daily presser about how awesome it is to do war crimes

the whole thing is a crime, but those railings are an especially acute crime against the vibe of the entire structure from an architectural standpoint

There's a version of me who's a well off, bilingual, piano playing accountant and fuck I want to be him so bad.

If you don't know the answer to a question but don't want to seem ignorant, think about what you'd say if you were a mysterious wizard. Use phrases like "All will be revealed in due time," "That is a question you must answer for yourself," or "You are not yet ready for the burden of this knowledge."

..."Dear Maria, Count Me In" by All Time Low? ...Well, most of the other bands are obscure genres of metal or just classical performance groups, so I guess it's the best of a bad lot.

It has come to my attention that because Maryland's former state song was a Confederate anthem, and because Maryland's state legislature is apparently lazy, Maryland is currently without a state anthem. In my infinite wisdom, I hereby declare that the new anthem will be.. *spins wheel of MD bands*

We're doing the 1973 Oil Shock, but *voluntarily*, because it not occur to Dear Leader that starting a big-ass war in the Middle East would affect energy prices.

For some reason the other big fact that's stuck with me about space stuff is that a property of solid rocket fuel is that once you start it you can't turn it off, so uuummmm.... you know. Make sure you want to light it then.

Gonna share some pics while I'm here :D

I genuinely think this is one of those things where people were taking the piss. I have about as low an opinion of the American people as it is possible to have, but even I think they know Iran is *on land* because Persians aren’t fucking mermaids.

ah people have died in space!

Pokéattle

You can see now that he’s realized he’s royally fucked things up and doesn’t now how to fix it. Unfortunately he killed a few thousand people in the process

I was a fossils and dinosaurs kid, I get it. Geology and space have the same scale, one with dimension and the other with time. Gives you a perspective of your place in the grand scheme.

I love the movie Sunshine for how it shows the multiplier effect space has on little mistakes turning catastrophic.

flip side of this is that also nobody has (yet) died in space (to my knowledge).

Damn y'all like hearing about the possibility of space sex, huh?

i know this is the least important headline right now but come the fuck on

im not sure how its possible but every new rendering from the administration of the ballroom is bigger and uglier than the last. the latest one looks like the stapled a goddamn amazon fulfillment center onto the white house.

The official Bribes and Decadence Reception Area being larger than the actual executive residence feels meaningfully symbolic.

Unfortunately I think there's a pretty good chance that the first verifiable occurrence of sex in space will be a weird natalist publicity stunt sponsored by Elon Musk.

I knew those years of Space Camp would pay off eventually.

tbh I would put the odds at "still zero" pretty high, because even setting aside the difficulty of zero g, space has effects on the human body that make sex harder and less appealing. Plus you're being monitored at like all times and your day is heavily scheduled.

yeah, my first guess would be the guys working for the dude bragging on TV about how his boys don't have to worry about any limp dick rules of engagement restrictions anymore too.

Best case scenario seems to be "the status quo, but less stable and with a higher baseline level of ambient violence", which seems like it was totally worth killing a few thousand people and spending a few billion dollars to achieve.

There’s also like five bottles of a wine that they took up to the ISS and aged in space, which would probably be my degenerate rich person purchase.

I have no idea what is going on in this war because on OOH, I think there's a lot of wishful thinking about *this* being the time Donald Trump faces meaningful consequences for his actions while Iran appears to have underperformed so far, but OTOH, there do seem to be signs of panic in Washington.

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

it’s just the absolute best. sometimes things are held up as perfect because they are perfect.

Good news Browns fans

So there are a few ships making the Hormuz run, but in tiny numbers and not big ones. By contrast, you can see the huge cloud of ships waiting outside the strait on either side. Until there are more ships moving in the strait than sitting outside, the USA/Israel is not winning.

Mr. Quixote runs a youtube channel that started as a current affairs channel but has embraced the madness of vtube shenanigan livestreaming

I genuinely don’t know if there is a single person alive as fucking tiresome as Singal.

Jesse's whole shtick for a while now has been "gender-affirming care for minors is a sick, monstrous scam perpetuated by incompetent hacks who are torturing innocent children because of woke ideology, and how very dare you assume I oppose that, I'm suing you for defamation". It gets tiring.

This is just The Sims.

I like how when TNG did the "Starfleet officer hides in holodeck" story, you're like "haha, what a dweeb" and when DS9 does it, you're like "oh my god, this is the saddest story ever"