Now, from a design standpoint I will absolutely go to bat for late-medieval clothing. It's absurdly practical, modular, mobile and adaptable to different climate conditions. You feel like you could live your whole life in just one set of clothes. Unfortunately, well... You probably had to!

Truly the paradox of capitalism is that the leadership of every publicly traded corporation wants to be appointed head of GosPlan

Trump going to China, kissing up to Xi, asking for help with Iran, and not getting it is another sign of America's decline. But that doesn't mean China is about to take over. What's replacing US global leadership is... Nothing. Which is very dangerous. Read my latest, in @liberalcurrents.com:

This is also how Eurovision works

So I agree with this post 100%, but also the "who must go?"memes became extremely funny around December 2024

The woke menace has kept us from GLORY for too long!

"In a quite literal sense, Trump is snatching food out of the mouths of hungry American children, in order to pay for bombs that are dropped on Iranian children, and the effect is to make the price of gas and diesel, and therefore food, shoot upward." prospect.org/2026/05/15/a...

Frankly, I think it should be encouraged for would-be mass shooters to use 18th century firearms. Perhaps mandatory.

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RFK Junior declined to answer any follow up questions, but was later overheard approaching a junior member of the white house staff and offering to "double [his] sperm count"

The biggest problem with the Ewoks is that they make the storm troopers - up til now mostly a significant threat - look like clowns. Never mind realism; it doesn't work narratively. If for some reason you absolutely had to keep the Ewoks in ROTJ, I think there was a much better way to portray them.

I don't think this is right. If you can track down some of the scenes from George Lucas's original cut of SW77, it's bad in a lot of the exact same ways TPM is bad. The difference is that in 1977, Lucas was just a guy. He had to get all his ideas past a team of people and was better for it.

TBH I really hope that all this foolishness results in greater international support for the ICC because the Israelis really love to get on TV and say "You fool, we are not committing ☠️genocide☠️ we're just committing a crime that is much easier to charge state actors for than genocide!"

A clear pretext to return to tradition (amphetamine-laced chocolate)

It was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to make cucking a competitive sport, I guess

Cosmically unfair that the people who opposed nuclear power for nonsense reasons back when it would‘ve massively reduced decades of carbon emissions now get to *correctly* say it’s too late to start building it.

Whenever I look at accounts from the Ukrainian side, they're like "the Russians keep bombing us with drones and we don't have the munitions to shoot them all down" Which seems bad until you look at the Russian side, where they're shooting down their own drones to scam their superiors.

In a 14th century monastery -Brother John, do you believe in God? -Harold, we are monks. Of course I believe in God. -And you believe that bible you are copying is the literal world of God? -Again, yes -So what are you drawing in the margins? -Oh, it's naked woman riding what I call a "penis dragon"

Something I think is underrated about the American economist Henry George is that, as a man with two first names whose followers display the colours green and yellow, he is a very efficient supplier of budgie names. In other news,

With all this talk of 8647 and weird number stuff, there's one thing that must not be forgotten: 47🟦42

On reflection, I think this is probably the main reason women had lower survival rates than men in late-19th to early-20th century shipwrecks, but became more even post-WWI. Women back then were more likely to be traveling with children, and would die trying to save them. A depressing thought.

I'm loving the image of Japanese diplomats laughing all the way to the bank for agreeing not to build ships that Japan couldn't have built anyway, only for the IJN to stomp over all "First of all, how DARE you!?"

It's fashionable to go on a podcast and say you're politically homeless, but this is nearly always bullshit. The only person who could legitimately claim to be politically homeless is Leo DiCaprio, because the left thinks he likes them too young and the right thinks he likes them too old.

It occurred to me while watching Taskmaster Australia that if there was a Taskmaster Canada, it would mostly come down to a fight between Newfoundland and Quebec. I now *really* want this to be a thing, incidentally.

When confronted by interlocutors like this, it can be tempting to condemn them on moral grounds. This temptation should be resisted because it assumes they are describing something real. They're actually talking nonsense and will not be able to name a single valid supporting example.

Guns are wasted on Americans

Absolutely brutal read, but very good information.

There is a WILD ONE out of the 8th Cir. today about a man who stole another man's identity 30 years ago, lived all those years under the other man's identity including getting married and having a kid, who then got the other man prosecuted for identity theft. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/04...

This scans as an attempt by the UCP to speedrun the Québec separatism neverrendum, but significantly dumber and less sincere.

I keep thinking of this story about an IDF raid in Lebanon in early March. Israeli special forces attempted to sneak into a Lebanese town to retrieve the body of an Israeli pilot who had been killed in one of Israel's six previous invasions of Lebanon. They were discovered and fought their way out.

I think the US benefits both itself and the international order by fighting basically two kinds of wars: 1) A Gulf War scenario where some local dictator gets too big for his boots and decides to openly violate the UN Charter in a way that exposes him to a UNSC-approved intervention

I saw someone express suspicion as to whether this manual was real because publication numbers preceded by 800 relate to materials for senior enlisted or something. I'm glad he pointed it out because otherwise I wouldn't have found "MCI 80085D" suspicious at all.

I had occasion to revisit this recently and the worst part of it is the UCP's attitude, I think. The Smith government forced every city in Alberta to run elections in a more expensive, less efficient way, made the cities eat the cost, then blamed the cities for the results.

Whenever Sun Tzu comes up, it's fun to ask some critical questions about who he was writing for and how much of his advice remains relevant. Some of his basic advice is timeless. Chapter 2, for example, opens with a lengthy warning about the economic and political consequences of protracted war.

Never thought our boy had it in him tbh

I have heard some people point out that when Americans aren't busy shooting each other at higher rates than most old world countries and running each other over at higher rates than old world countries, they also find time to stab and rob each other at higher rates than old world countries.

Me trying to persuade my boss I'm loyal: "so, you remember that play where a guy kills his boss?"

It's not as impressive as what happened in Hungary but: C A R N E Y M A J O R I T Y G O V E R N M E N T G O U V E R N E M E N T M A J O R I T A I R E D E C A R N E Y www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Cycling in the rain is never exactly fun, though it gets much more comfortable with proper rain gear, an ebike, etc. But walking in with a bike helmet on when it's pouring rain is an absolute banger implicit excuse for being a few minutes late to just about anything.

Send him to Moscow.

2010: massive Orbán win 2014: massive Orban win 2018: massive Orban win 2022: massive Orban win 2024: Goodwin visits, starts promoting Orban regime 2026:

Small additional counterpoint: I have definitely been guilty of picking thread for my hand-sewing projects that makes even small mistakes very conspicuous because I want people to be able to see that I did it myself.

I have at times been embarrassingly proud of myself for hand-sewing a shirt or hand-hemming a pair of pants. If you lived prior to the industrial revolution, that would have been the easy part, coming only after hundreds/thousands of hours of spinning flax into thread then weaving thread into cloth

We're watching a bunch of guys convinced that everyone who had their jobs before them were just stupid slowly discovering - without learning a damn thing - that there were in fact very good reasons why no one did the 'obvious' thing before them. This is why.

Knesset official: Here is a Mossad intelligence officer to brief us on the new Iranian government. Mossad:

This is not true. Some violations of IHL result in a loss of protection, but explicitly reciprocating enemy war crimes is also a war crime. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...