They imagine themselves as One Battle After Another characters, but only in the sexy heist scenes.

Also important over the next 5, 10, 20 years time as these vets (and their families) need ongoing medical and mental health care and support. A bit hard to get if your file has been disappeared 😒

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER ASIA
We are about rewriting climatic history:
Dozens of thousands of records will be smashed allover Asia in nearly every country from Middle East to Japan

Let's expect 46C+ in India and Pakistan,43C+ in Nepal,Myanmar,Thailand,even >40C in Central Asia

When you look at a bit and think… that could be mushroom. Or some kind of leathery offal. Or some kind of seaweed…

About 30% of any given population has terrible, stupid opinions. A third of people suck.

These monsters from the Valley act as if their own perspective is the organising principle of reality. They flatten the world until it reflects their own image back at them, and they call it order. They recast dominance as necessity, exclusion as clarity, cruelty as truth-telling. What they are building is not just a politics, but a way of being in which other lives appear as obstacles, or worse, as background.

On Palantir’s manifesto, their AI fantasies, and how Silicon Valley billionaires think they are the new Guardians of the Universe.
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TBH I think the shrinking of entry level and grad positions says more about mid-level operators and their lack of patience to teach and mentor juniors. People learning the ropes can be annoying and these 40+ year olds would prefer to chuck it in Claude than work with uni grads.

BYD announces extra 30,000 EVs and hybrids for Australia to support essential workers Just a day after delivering it's 100,000th car in Australia, Chinese car giant BYD has announces plans to bring an extra 30,000 vehicles to Australia in coming months.

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These stunts just highlight that when some military hardware company creates a robotic soldier it will be able to catch us as we try and escape from their concentration camps. This sector needs to be heavily regulated.

Nah

All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.

They have clearly never met, or interacted in any meaningful way, with Catholic nuns - the OG Social Justice Warriors™️

In the 1930s Germany was about 2/3 Protestant and 1/3 Catholic

I’d say the one person who has sole discretion on launching nuclear weapons also having dementia is a significant ‘exigent public safety hazard’! It is an unacceptable risk - and not just for your own country.

“In a fascinating twist, the other half get laid”

Wow. “There has been a cultural shift, with some young men becoming more conservative and seeking compliant partners. A study by Ipsos, a think-tank, surveying 30 countries, found half of Gen Z men believe women’s rights have gone far enough; 1/3 think wives should always obey their husbands.”

Funny how it’s always about a third of people surveyed who have the dumbest and worst opinions. Add to that 50% of GenZ men thinking women’s rights have gone far enough? No wonder there’s been a precipitous decline in the birth rate. What woman would want to have a baby with this bunch of losers?

The continued escalation in pursuit of the perfect 'decapitation strike' is both evident and alarming

2003: US captures Saddam Hussein alive, like absolute rubes
2011: US sends some guys to shoot Bin Laden
2020: US, chasing the Bin Laden high, drone strikes several military cars to kill Soleimani
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I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Nobody:

Literally no one ever:

MGP:

Rev. Pete at the Pentagon

"He drinks a whiskey drink
He drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink
He drinks a cider drink"
-- Chumbawamba 19:97

cool. cool cool cool cool

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Been an editor and audience person in digital newsrooms for 13 years, and the biggest mistake the news industry made was outsourcing the delivery of its product to four social media companies and one search engine instead of treating them all like journalism-hating competition.

People who wear coats like capes aren’t very bright

Screenshot from the New York Times showing the image Donald Trump shared on Truth Social with the caption: A screenshot of a post on President Trump’s Truth Social account. The image in the post, likely created with artificial intelligence, shows the president as a Jesus-like figure apparently healing a man. Credit...via Truth Social

It's the "likely created with artificial intelligence" part that kills me. Sure there's a possibility that the President commissioned an artist who worked around the clock over the weekend with oil paints and got the final canvas to his people for them to photograph it just in time for his poast.

Death (JD Vance), on holiday in Europe, takes a weary soul (Pope Frankie Baby) to the afterlife

Meet Joe Black (1998)

a woman in a pink dress is making a funny face . Alt: a woman in a pink dress chewing gum like she just dropped three lines of speed

Wall Street Bros waiting for Daddy Trump to come to the rescue again.

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

Wait did Hungary just elect Macklemore?

Well for starters you wouldn’t send this idiot as your chief negotiator if you were serious