Tfw your credit card company cares more about you than your government.

If the impact of the Hormuz shutdown is going to be felt exclusively by the Chinese, why don't they insure cargos and send escorts to get their oil. Third rate power.

Mark Zuckerberg hit on my girlfriend.

Hang on: do people think that cooks, deckhands and engineers on naval vessels are non-uniformed personnel that cannot be targeted?

"I feel like nothing has happened in a while." "I'm sorry, are you complaining that the Iranians haven't bombed us today."

We are about to see the complete normalization of antisemitism in American politics.

Wife: "Hey this look at this @flightradar24.com site, you can monitor airplanes coming in and out of Doha airport." How do I gently fan these embers of Monitoring The Situation in her heart?

Other Happenings revealed the problem, but looking at some of your responses to people like me being unhappy about being targeted by [waves at all this] has crystallized my opinion that a good chunk of you are, in fact, cretins.

This is KO risk for the GCC: these countries are entirely dependent on power and desalinated water. Iran going after these things is an existential threat, Qatar and other targeted countries have NO CHOICE but to ally with the US and respond in force.

So you want to do regime change in Iran.

I do not enjoy being under Iranian missile fire but the fundamental reality remains that the barrages are a direct result of the kayfabe president starting a fight with no plan for the future other than boosting tv ratings.

I gotta say, the folks over at Facebook advertising have a wicked sense of humor lol. (I am currently in Doha, which is being bombed by Iran)

Yeah, this is a handout to Russia.

Here we fucking go again.

Imagine having a choice between kicking off a war with Iran and choosing to mediate a government IT contract dispute… and choosing the contract dispute.

It occurs to me that a 2026 equivalent of Grease would be set in 1999.

I keep seeing people asking this question when I have clearly and repeatedly provided the answer.

Parading the deposed leaders of defeated foes was an essential component of Roman triumphs.

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

Animefication > MAGAfication.

Ed Zitron must be absolutely seething that “guy who wrote a blog post so good it wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars of growth stock market cap in a day” is in fact a real job you can do but it turns out it’s not him.

I simply cannot wait to see what kind of equity stake the government will take in the AI majors when someone at the Fed realizes they are why we have to subsidize 10% unemployment.

Q: What do you call a dog that can do magic? A: A Labracadabradoodle.

The legal structures for common arms acquisition and staffing already exist btw.

Ah, I see many of you have never encountered body dysphoria x Russian performing arts discourse.

The highest return activity you can take part in with your daughter is to sneak off to get ice cream with her without telling anyone else.

One of the only thing that differentiates our armed forces from low quality conscript armies in Russia and elsewhere is our dependence on the excellence of our NCO corps. I cannot imagine a comprehensive way to destroy our lethality than to implement this kind of HR Hunger Games.

10 yo: Why are they giving us the safety talk at the end of the swimming module instead of at the beginning?

Hi could someone write this piece.

It was pretty obvious DURING THE 90s that we were living in a golden era. Of course we're nostalgic about it!

The thing about Will Stancil is that he somehow manages to translate online hating into real world hating and that kind of commitment to hating is just incredibly rare.

so, some personal news

Apparently there has been a crash project to get a Doha-Caracas route going at Qatar Airways. The contours of the Trump plan in Venezuela are becoming clearer.

A general strike in Minnesota is pointless. Every blue state should aim to shut down with increasing frequency until the Feds back off.

Maybe Xi continuously purging his military is him desperately trying to signal that he doesn’t want a conflict with the west.

The orange bitch in the fancy house owes me money.

A new and unwelcome development is that I am on my daughter’s shopping council alongside her best friend and am being asked to opine on whether this shirt is cute.

I came Bali to Eat Pray Love Bali:

You can’t just put stuff like this on the timeline yo.

“God this coffee is awful.” “Now you see why so many baristas have graduate degrees.”

The kids went to the beach and did crab hunger games. We will be hitting the therapy when we get home.

Jane Austen predicted modern age gap discourse in Sense and Sensibility.

Tis the season so: Die Hard 2 is structurally superior to Die Hard. Discuss.

The important thing to remember is that even pro-democracy Russian dissidents are ultimately imperialists. Detente with Russia is ultimately impossible because they simply have no other frame of reference.

My objection to the social media dump for travelers to the US isn’t about the fact that it exists, it is that the government is too lazy to use the backdoors it very clearly has to automate the process.

A tanker a day keeps the Russians at bay.

When your kid asks how they make beer, just tell them that they put root beer in a square cup.

I'm about as milquetoast a lefty as you could ask: touch my steak and watch me reflexively vote for whoever is running against you.

Hold on: Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim?