If they didn't want you to file taxes on April 15th they would just make the deadline earlier

It's very much parallel to the way that if you read enough of what Sun Tzu scholars have to say, you become increasingly aware that it's The Art of War in Ancient China's Spring and Autumn Period in 500 BCE.

Nobody has ever destroyed their own escalation credibility so thoroughly.

This was the presser opening: "Formerly, press conferences worked in a way that the propaganda media asked questions that were written for them by govt... We will now give the floor to those Hungarian outlets who are still independent."

it'll be back in three days

"this is a simulation" "this is a sitcom" wrong. this is model UN

this is exactly why I get so annoyed by people who say “oh I live in a blue state, it doesn’t matter who I vote for so I’ll protest vote for the Green Party” when you’re up against fascists, you need as big of a margin as possible

Clues By Sam is turning into my new Wordle.

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Note also that one of the major factors in this crushing defeat of authoritarianism was all of the leftist splinter parties deciding not to run candidates, and instead uniting around the most popular alternative to Orban.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

competitive authoritarianism is bad but it is absolutely still beatable if you show up in large enough numbers november is step one for us

Hungary under Orban has been a corrupting, obstructionist influence within the EU for years. This is truly incredible news for liberals globally, not just in Hungary.

in that recent NYT piece about the runup to the war, trump told a dubious tucker carlson “it’s going to be ok” and when tucker asked how he knew, he said “because it always is.” this may truly be the first time in his life that wishful thinking isn’t working. and he has no plan b.

doing a blockade after showing that you don't have dawg in you, and the other guys are winning the economic suicide marathon, however, is a lot sketchier

We love our great and very talented Sporus, don’t we folks? I talk to the best generals, and they ask, Donald, why don’t you castrate and marry this beautiful Youth? But they wouldn’t let me get away with that! What do we say, should we do castrate and marry with regards Sporus?

Surely the dramatic post-COVID increase in home prices to income qualifies?

You only need to play two games of Diplomacy with at least one of the same players to learn there's no such thing as a diplomatic reset.

A union’s job is to better the working conditions and compensation of their members. They don’t care — and shouldn’t care — if that benefits society as a whole. It’s not wrong of them to only care about their goal and it’s not problematic to acknowledge it.

Technically speaking we don't know anything about the carrying capacity of the galaxy vs. the number of its inhabitants. We're inferring (probably correctly, but not certainly) from limited circumstantial evidence that Thanos is overreacting to material conditions.

GHALIBAF: "So I'm not really sure what our objectives are here because our leader is in a coma and maybe has brain damage so it's all just scheming viziers, y'know?" VANCE: "You're not gonna believe this."

Muting "Platner" for 30 days. Guys, I get it. He has a Nazi tattoo and damn well knew it for years. He prioritized keeping it over staying in the military. He's bad. He's also on track to crush his Dem primary and the continuous shriek of moral outrage is both useless and giving me tinnitus.

The difference is scale. Primetime CBS News is 2.4 million viewers. Primetime Fox News is 2.6 million viewers. Joe Rogan is 26 million viewers. Big Rob and the Fart Guy weren't beating mainstream news numbers, much less on a factorial scale.

I finally clicked on one of those YouTube tower defense advertisements, knowing it was probably a scam but overwhelmed by curiosity at what looked like fun gameplay. It immediately downloaded an executable without permission. Stay winning, scam artists.

Pretty easy to blow up the entrance to a missile city, much harder to actually collapse the whole complex and destroy everything inside it

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

A clever political operative would already be scouting camera angles to get VLCCs sailing away with America’s oil while pump prices keep going up.

ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL "We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!" MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972

Yup. This is a month or so of triangulating based on a starting reading dead center, followed by another month or two of fine adjustments inside a small area while frantically digging.

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

Communication challenges are a normal part of re-entry due to the buildup of plasma around the capsule and astronauts forgetting they were on mute.

He might be the best politician of our generation.

"The HungryPanda app will be held accountable. The red panda will be held adorable."

My sister who my parents love more

not one but two S-tier logos

we gotta talk about nasa’s impeccable graphic design game

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

Hey guys, just another quick update on the huge apples the Japanese market always has: I’m eating one

You almost certainly need both. Again, we're not looking at hurtling back to the 1600s (or even the 1950s). Birth rates were at replacement in the long-forgotten elder days of 2006. It's not like the Sexual Revolution or feminism came and went since then!

Impeachment is a dead letter, there are not 67 votes to convict in the Senate, and any attempt to put Trump in the dock is just going to rally squishes back to his side. The absolute best thing Dems can do right now is let Trump and the Republicans keep fucking up and say, "See? Look at this shit."

Concur, and it's worth stating unequivocally that to whatever extent the decline in birth rate under replacement level is due to pregnancies between 15-17 nearly vanishing, we just need to accept the decline for now and focus on making birth easier in every way for women 25+.

It's not 100% clear to me that the war is over yet. I suppose Trump could resume bombing. But if the war is over, IMHO Iran is a big winner. Tolling shipping through the Strait is going to double their government revenue. With that kind of dough, they can rebuild rapidly.

This is sometimes called "surrender".

Me trying to think of midnight engagement bait: Horses are the official animal of colonizers and directly led to the rise of fascism. Drawing horses is like spiritually voting republican.

This is true, but also once you start noticing it you realize that 90% of actors are category 2.

It hadn't occurred to me that we had accidentally created a mass-scale potential market for lithium-sulfur cells TL/DR: it's a promising li-ion replacement contender with a super-high max energy density but poor cycle life unless you do things that heavily reduce the energy density and make it...

Joe Rogan is the embodiment of the effective median voter, and we should be pleased from a bellwether perspective that after aligning with Republican politics for the first time in his life after COVID, he's now drifting back to the center. Will he ever express remorse? Doubtful.