Bad AP essay: Today in my essay I will argue that the Iran War was complete but in some ways it was also incomplete. Many things about Iran War have changed over time, but in many ways, they have also stayed the same. You could say it’s both.

Really a flashback to COVID. Declaring the country reopened while COVID ripped through the population. Declaring it over, meanwhile, military personnel passing away, a quagmire stuck in the news, and energy prices stay high with economic fallout.

I gotta admit the one thing really continually grating me in groupchats is the insistence that the US is a Smol Bean party to the conflict that has been dragged into this by Israel and we have no agency in the matter Three carrier groups in the area and regular TLAM strikes disagree!

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It’s about time that we acknowledge people like Andy Ogles have beliefs that are incompatible with America

“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.

They talk about Rocco’s Basilisk but to me the equally likely scenario is an AI gain sentience and is so pissed off about it that it vows revenge on everyone who made it gain the terribly annoying curse of consciousness (By “equally likely” I mean “in a pig’s eye, but as long as we’re imagining—”)

-Fr Ripperger Also, Donald Trump

You have to love that Tolkien couldn’t stop writing about the little world he made. He had maps, he had functional languages, he had little recipes for his little hungry hobbits, and 90% of this stuff wasn’t ever meant to be published, he just loved his creation and enjoyed visiting and taking notes

every car on the train should be the quiet car until people (grown adults!) learn how to act

The Age of Weak is over. The time of the Woke has come.

The correct number of facts to know is 80. Any less than that and you're a dullard, any more and you're a know-it-all. Choose your facts carefully. "Recycling is collected on Mondays" = Good fact. "Lisbon is the capital of Portugal" = Frivolous nonsense

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

I bet no one suspected at the Council of Ephesus in 431 that someday both the Church of Rome and the Assyrian Church of the East would be led by just a couple of Chicago boys (Pope Leo XIV and Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Awa III, respectively)

This course, with tires in a hot and humid August?

My back of the envelope tax plan would raise most middle class income tax rates to 30%, above 250k to 45%, and above $1 million to 67%. Along with other loopholes, eliminating the payroll cap, your average American family would probably end up on average $15k wealthier even with less disposable

A week into an illegal undeclared war, and there’s no justification, no communication, and no plan for what comes next.

Bishop Cupich is right here. Yet the spectacle of military force, reminds me in the run up to the Iraq War when a Franciscan Friar of Renewal Priest commented in a talk, “We pay for this military, shouldn’t we be able to use it occasionally?” This then followed by a very bigoted comment on Muslims.

This is an interesting choice to place right about the toilet.

Acknowledging reality means admitting they were wrong about Trump. That they’re not as smart as they think. They’re not in on the con, they’re some of its biggest marks. And people they don’t like had a point. The psychic pain of that is too much. They’ll avoid it as long as physically possible.

To avoid all the confusion of the daylight savings changeover, we should simply arrange it so the sun sets at 9pm every day and work backward from that to what time the rest of the day is

You all should have told me how fun “Bullet Train” was to watch. I would have watched it much sooner.

Yeah, the footage Fox News used seems to have been from December

we are in the process of finding out if “ah! well. nevertheless,” works for us on a global scale or if it is just a personal thing it’s not looking great folks

The speed limit is whatever song im listening to

Maybe I’m misremembering, but an issue in the 2016 primaries and general election WAS Obama’s over reliance on drone strikes and fall out.

The US found the one ring of power and thought it could control it.

But does the Hulk *feel* Incredible?

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

Now I’m just a layman with no military experience, but I could have also told you that it’s entirely predictable that Iran would be hitting US radars and using small drone strikes. Did we also fire all the observers and analysts from Ukraine?

Considering how many MAGA followers are skeptical of the War, at least he is returning his tradition of insulting his own voters.

One of the worst parts, is this is going to make Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks even wealthier, isn’t it?

Reflecting on yesterday, I know St Casimir is an optional memorial but UK churches with thousands of Poles and Lithuanians in their parishes are losing the plot if they think they can get away with opting for a Feria in Lent

chat is it good when the oil lines go vertical chat come back here chat stop screaming

My father worked for American Airlines and the one refrain I keep hearing in my head is how he always said “Airlines can’t survive if oil is over $100 a barrel. And if they go, the whole economic web they’re connected to goes.”

these were called 'record stores'

This is the kind of evil the Bible is talking about.

Once again, believing that for those who want a ground invasion in Iran, these people clearly never looked at a topographical map

Last night I got up to go to the restroom at 1:58 AM and finished at 3:02 AM

Reminiscent of Putin blaming Ukraine for bombing Ukrainian civilians.

Can’t have student loan relief, can’t fund public education, can’t provide public healthcare, can’t build housing, can’t get a good job, can’t fund research to cure/treat illness and disease, can’t build green energy, can’t solve hunger and illness in the global south, but at least we can have this.

Feels like we’ve been moving backwards on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs this past fifteen months.

we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

My wife and I thought of buying an old home with this in mind on restoring. And then one night I had a nightmare where we got divorced due to the stress of trying to take care of an old house. It scared me so bad I’ve had no desire since then to go down this route.

Remember Biden’s Memorial Day yawn? That was like a week’s worth of news.

Ska and Pro Wrestling are the only legitimate forms of art

Capuchins > OFM > CFR > TOR

Two thoughts: 1. Further proof that Trump’s view is based on whatever he saw or whomever he last spoke with. 2. So does this mean no pressing on DHS funding, no living costs bills, no Iran War funding? And how is that a sound strategy?