I can definitely see why the LOTR would create this impression, but a solid counterpoint is that Arwen and Aragorn were told "you can't bang until two great kingdoms have been resurrected from the ruins" and promptly got to work.

Earth, Wind, and Induction Heating.

This is likely a significant undercount. I've been using officer ratios from leaked Russian unit by unit KIA data, combined with databases of known officer fatalities, to project Russian fatalities, and through 2024 alone my range is 210-270,000, with 2024 at 115-150,000. 2025 is on pace with 2024.

Given that every zombie story is written by hacks incapable of writing anything other than "humans are the real monsters" this would actually probably make him the best president to have in a zombie apocalypse.

You can really tell the ratio of theater kids to sports players in activism because they are *still* on the idea that the only reason sports became sex segregated was to protect men from embarrassment.

It remains very strange that I saw an obscure game by a core of CRPG enthusiasts that really only got early traction on RPG Codex somehow end up as a major NYT expose.

All in all, Newsom probably is an upgrade compared to JFK or Ryan Lizza.

Inoculating any future daughters against horsegirl-ism by infantry-pilling them from birth.

Harry Reid once tried to strangle someone trying to give him a bribe even *knowing he was the bait in an FBI sting* His core principle was loyalty to the party so his response to this would be to beat Jentleson's cowardly ass

The faint sound you heard across DC is basically every federal manager and employment lawyer screaming in madness.

@drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social What's fun about the pre-1700's price stability and Eurasian dependence on silver currency is that the price of an infantryman is remarkably stable over time.

Sichuanese is perhaps the greatest cuisine in the world.

IMO it's the inverse. An amorphous killer can be shaped into whatever they need him to be. If it's a groyper, which I'm close to be willing to put a month's rent on, suddenly the window of opportunity closes and it's an internal civil war instead.

One of the things that drove in the banal horror of civil conflict to me was reviewing the testimony of a Bosnian Serb policeman who was serving rotating terms on the front. At home he was investigating and prosecuting ethnically motivated murders and then he'd put on the uniform *around Srebenica.*

This person has openly confessed to violating 18 U.S.C. S 2441(d)(1)(D) and a Democratic admin has to make a call on prosecuting him and the other American human safari tourists discussed in this article.

I'd argue that this is basically Flash Dance...What a Feeling and it ended up actually being the primary vehicle for the film's success.

The nice thing about a lot of unions publicly aligning themselves around Trump is that we can finally give the Thatcher Experience (tm) to the more anti-social ones.

like, I think it's kinda important to point out that European leaders go out of their way to vocally criticize virtually every major leader within the Trump administration *except* for RFK, and the reason they're quiet about him is because all their health regulators are *just as fuckin crazy*.

Introduce this via statute every single year in Congress until it passes. Make it a centerpiece of attack ads against every GOP congressperson who votes against it.

This is a garbage take, but also the whole discourse surrounding this disaster of a thread is a solid reminder that we'd be a lot better off as a society had we just maintained the Kinsey scale as a primary frame of reference.

"We can't expect God to do all the work." Has to be the party memo over the next 2-3 primary cycles.

Maybe we'd be less lifeless if we had hired DeEnglishman instead of DeBoer.

The best part about all of this is that I know @ingloriousj.swifties.social is back and just waiting in the shadows to drop posts she's spent all summer drafting.

...Gus Malzahn with a very athletic QB giving us fits because we are constantly taking penalties because of poor discipline on the road. When I wished to go back before Trump this isn't what I meant.

17 plays. 75 yards. 8:50 minutes. Nature is healing. Joyless murderball is back.

Win or lose, the most important thing is that Milroe can't hurt us anymore.

The primary problem facing sci-fi as a genre is that the future is rapidly shrinking. Sci-fi as a genre vs. mainstream lit with sci fi characteristics is firmly about imagined futures. But it's really set in in the past 20 years that humanity likely is never going to leave the solar system.

...Not to get into a huge brawl here but this is an accurate post but not due to the assumed original answer. Grant was a fairly good general, but Lee significantly outperformed him relative to resources available.

It is very funny that Grant's "I'm tired of hearing what Lee's going to do. Some of you think that the he's always about so somersault onto both of our flanks" spiel is said basically 5 minutes after yet another time that the ANV had somersaulted onto the AOP's flanks.

To be clear here: it's been fairly well reported that the series has been stalled for a while because the creative differences are between Kaepernick and Lee.

I think a pause in doctoral education in fields that massively overproduce PhDs relative to PhD hiring makes a lot of sense

An executive for The Masked Singer snorts an entire rail in one go and prepares to make the pitch of his life

In the particular case of certain elite universities, having your campus hijacked by often explicit pro-Hamas protestors and being unable to do anything about it due to a variety of institutional cultural issues freaked out senior leadership and donors.

The gun + horse combo supercharged Native American hunting to the point that they were putting buffalo populations into a terminal decline even before the mass slaughter campaigns by settlers.

An underrated aspect of the American Civil War is that it was mostly lead by a bunch of really catty drama queens.

What makes this even worse is that they will first be forced to seek relief from the blue falcons of the AFBCMR.

Hey congrats to everyone who took the soft anti-vaccine stance of “mRNA vaccines aren’t 100% effective and aren’t useful against future variants so the mRNA vaccines aren’t good, we need to mask forever”, your stance has been noted by RFK Jr. to kill mRNA technology in America.

Social media would be significantly healthier if more children in the 1990s had been told they are hacks polluting the world with slop.

The Jurassic World series poses some interesting questions. Such as: "can a British child be human?" (No.)

Helping to make radical leaps in vaccine technology is the real punk rock.

BREAKING: The D.C. Bar's board of professional responsibility recommends that Trump ally Jeff CLARK be *disbarred* s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

One of the biggest flaws in the "Union was destined to win due to manpower and industry" argument is that by far the most limited resource in the ACW was officers capable of handling something more than a regiment.

As I've stated before, a lot of the rules of the US system, for a lack of a better word, were founded on the assumption that people had a certain pride and sense of honor and would assert themselves when challenged. Our elite genuinely is spineless and decadent.

You know what this means? Full US Women’s Rugby Free Bird!

See, if they reported on all of this before the election, there was a risk that Biden wouldn't lose and all it would generate is some extra revenue during the election year. And there's a hell of a lot of people counting on the Trump I news revenue coming back.

Seems like A24 released the latest iteration of Ari Aster's one movie.

Punk is bad and 100% LARP.

There's a bombshell story about New York City elites running a sex trafficking ring patronized by the president from New York City and other New York City elites but the New York City elites that run the New York Times say there's no story there so hey, it's all settled, ha ha, hey what's over there

Doing a twist on this in that you should leave a comment with a topic and I will then provide an opinion on it.