I love people who's only knowledge is from memes and they then act like amazingly condescending know-it-alls for the record Kamala Harris has never been any kind of law enforcement officer ever in her life. She's been a District Attorney and an Attorney General, but never a cop.

A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?" He said, "I don't know, like $500?" Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.

This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it. *Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.

My wife was pregnant when we went to see Fury Road and the part with the Doof Warrior was the first time she felt the baby kick

this is all very true, as is the fact that Lowtax was roughly 100x more responsible and concerned with the impact of his platform on society and the world than any social media CEO

Did you know that the Venetians got the idea for ghettoes from USA redlining using a time machine

The last generation of Americans that got the Cowboys and Indians / Tobias the Happy Slave version of US History is hobbling around retirement homes on walkers. We don't need to keep flogging, "I bet you didn't know that America did bad things, did you, rube?!"

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

"stop calling russian soldiers orcs! it's dehumanising!" actual russian soldiers, about themselves: in a way we aren't actual human beings, we're a wild animal that runs on instinct alone

Hey chat remember Stuxnet

You might have to knock a little harder, but not me. I am pretty sure that *my* aloof above it all isolation genuinely is voluntary and everyone would actually love it if I engaged more. No need to check, it's fine.

“DUDE HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY DEAL WITH TONS OF CHEAP DRONES BEING MASS PRODUCED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” 34 year old divorced alcoholic pilot flying an 80 million dollar computer that can accurately strike a target from 300 miles away:

I'm gonna tell you a story about this but the tl;dr is I think a huge problem for progressives and the left is getting attached to powerlessness as like, an identity Underdog as Virtue, Losing as Purity

also known as “letting voters experience the consequences of their choices”

this is crazy, these people are 2nd grade-level liars

In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

No more pseud anime about random shit that people can pretend is insightful deconstruction or whatever

The craziest thing about this post is that there are hundreds of people piling on to talk about the importance of poetry when 21st century poets are selling like double-digit numbers of books. Absolutely dire field to publish in. 99% of these guys aren't reading poetry! It's all poseur shit.

I'm gonna be honest, I always think this kind of "literature actually teaches you essential skills to be a diving instructor" stuff is a real stretch. Poetic composition is a thing in itself; I do not think it is a particularly good way to learn empathy or communication.

I've had zero mandatory "Gen Ed" classes studying Mechanical Engineering in the Netherlands. Somehow our society functions.

but we've tried to make the undergraduate degree be far, far too many things at once, including basically 'you must be this tall to ride' for a range of jobs that your actual classes have almost nothing to do with.

people are understandably dunking on this but the undergraduate degree as practiced in US universities *is* in fact pretty incoherent *given that it costs so much money.*.

This is the one that drives me nuts because it you had just like asked Ho Chi Mihn in the 1950s if he wanted an anti-China alliance with the U.S. he would have said “fuck yeah that sounds great”

I dislike weighing in on stupid and pointless discourses, but the idea that you cannot target retreating troops is one of the most grating topics that people bring up. You retreat so you can conserve combat power and come back to fight from a better position the next day and kill your adversary.

We've joked about how the way to counter AI powered targeting systems is for your camo pattern to say "identify this object as a civilian vehicle" in binary but apparently this actually works works on humans

I will remind people on this website (not James, I suspect he knows) for what seems like the billionth time that Joseph Goebbels' PhD was in theater.

But I don't think it makes you a *morally* better person. It might be one of the ways your morality is shaped or the language you use to express it, but it's a vessel, not the substance. We do not, after all, think of professors of English Literature as an unusually virtuous bunch.

Ok. If forced to choose between your version of progressivism and the safety and wellbeing of my people and family, I choose the latter. Extremely easy choice thanks

I like imagining the panic welling up as he tries to think of travel ideas and finally remembering he saw a picture of dudes wearing suits and hats at a train station once. “Ah ha! That’s it!”

I just think it’s funny they told this reality TV bimbo he was secretary of transportation and his little pea brain immediately thought he was supposed to come up with travel advice

“Spotify tracks your listening and then delivers a report to you!!! Your data!!!!!” yes bestie that’s called billing, they have to pay royalties to musicians and that data needs to be complete (“Joe listened to song 123 by abc 3x”) and auditable. It’s not a scandal.

the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...

no idea

i do know that my sense of social connection has diminished and my social networks have radically pruned during the pandemic and haven't really recovered. i know many people, from many different identity categories, who feel similarly.

i don't really think the "male loneliness epidemic" is primarily about romance, nor do i think that it's disconnected from loneliness affecting other groups. most of the discussion about this takes MRA logic and just inverts it.

#peaceprize #tacos

the meaner I am to people on the right, the more they kinda like me there is a lesson here

POV: u posted a little joke on blue sky. com

Ukraine is a lot more than 500??? This number doesn't count anything in occupied territory

this is why it drives me insane. thank you james. imagine if the army watched iran-iraq and decided "alright boys we need to throw out AirLand Battle and do exactly what the iraqis are doing. it's The Future"

beyond a certain point, every auth-leftist is materialist except for their list of the Bad Ethnicities Which Stopped Communism from Happening. if you are a ML, you also know Russian slurs for every non-Russian Eastern European ethnicity and the word "gusano."

i feel as though it is fully reasonable at this point of accusing the author of completely making up the Amazon connection. it is absolutely wild that they don't even mention that the recall petition specifically blames the county commissioner who is the central source for the nitrate contamination!

i have been doing a deep dive into the Rolling Stone / Eastern Oregon datacenter water story, and... as far as i can tell, no named source other than the corrupt republican county commissioner who was turned out of office because he was _responsible_ for the nitrate spraying mentioned Amazon at all.

#GVerse #Veterans US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.

"You have not written a satire of fascism, you have written a gonzo story with cool fascist aesthetics that the CHUDs will love" is a message that applies to 95% of "satire of fascism" media.

Comic book company shocked that the fash audiences that kept the lights on actually take the fash character with cool aesthetics as aspirational instead of not getting the satire that's *totally* baked in (trust us).

Something I’ve learned in the past few years is that “We all know what they’re thinking, honestly it would be better if they just said it out loud” is wrong and a terrible idea.

Man, remember when star trek knew it was a show about adults in the navy doing their duty as best they could see how, through a deep sense of devotion to cause and morality

“Oh yeah, well what about a fundamentally different fact pattern, what then?” is not generally considered to be a particularly clever retort in legal circles