First: hilarious.
Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.
It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.
Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"
Evergreen
I think it is bad we are planning for the dumbest possible amphibious invasion when we have sent most of the CG units we would need to protect ports (and approve ships) to enable this sort of operation due to our limited sea lift to the southern boarder to do fuck all.
Happy MacArthur Relief Week to all who celebrate.
Blockade-ception
I see no problems (multi-decade ground quagmires) here. H/T r/noncredibledefense
That's is a hill worth dying on.
The Herodotus Trap, if you will.
"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.
2. Troops are people, not props.
This is a big one.
Don’t use dead troops to prove your point. The impact on service members is ok. Breaking news about specific casualties, nope.
“They didn’t sign up for this” - yes they did. They go where told by elected leaders. Focus on the electeds.
learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit
We started a major war whose goal after a month is now to fix something that was only a problem caused by starting the war
North Oaks, Minnesota is home to united healthcare executives and various CEOs. It's also the only city in the US that is not on Google Street View. A documentary filmmaker set out to change that. pretty interesting look at who gets privacy in America and how
www.404media.co/mapping-goog...
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
Combat experience can teach you about yourself. It does not teach you about foreign policy, strategy, war, politics or governance
In honor of @bradduplessis.bsky.social fighting the good fight
You couldn’t go five minutes without hearing the word “littoral“ for the last dozen years or more, and now things are actually kicking off in the littoralest littoral in the world and the USN is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've got my issues with Tom Rick's but the central thesis of The Generals - that we used to fire GOFOs all the time and it wasn't a career killer - is dead on. We don't tolerate failure, and thus we never learn from our mistakes
Oh no
Oh no no no
Fucking same.
Not saying this is good, but noticing an inconsistency here- in '24 the 26th MEU was extended TWICE to hang out in the region "just in case" during the Isreal-Hamas/Houthi fighting. Which is the point of a MEU. But two weeks into a shooting conflict and going "oh wait, let's stage" is something else
I just remember reading one of the Pacific theater classics- can't remember if it was With the Old Breed or Helmet for My Pillow, but the author described the "biggest man in the company, corn-fed, a whole whopping 5'11 tall and 180 lbs"
I was that, and was very much the scrawny dude
Updating my "I'm dead" instructions binder to include
"Anyone at my funeral who uses AI *anything* has to join me in the box and then get buried, too"
My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of assertions that the deceased was "not just X—he was Y" coupled with a lack of concrete anecdotes, and more appearances of the word collaborate than you would expect from a rec-league hockey teammate. It was both too good, in terms of being grammatically correct, and not good enough, in terms of being particular. My friend had no definitive proof that he was listening to AI, but his position—and I agree with him—is that when you know, you know. His sense was that he had just heard a computer save a man from thinking about his dead friend.
You can’t offload emotional labor. Believe me, I’ve tried
Looks like they suddenly developed a taste for boot leather.
It's such a tough business model. I've seen so many fail. The ones that do good have a strong benefactor/volunteer support structure (Tampa Hackerspace is THE SHIT)
but because so many for-profit spaces like this fail, I firmly believe they need to be part of infrastructure like libraries.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Linear Controls
Autonomous Mobile Robots
Guidance and Navigation Control Systems
Computer Image Processing
Leadership's Role in Innovation
And I asked if they could review their camera footage.
The owner was VERY freaked out by that I said and she replied "OMG, antifa is here outside my store???"
I know I made a face because she IMMEDIATELY asked "oh, I said something wrong?"
Ma'am, THIS IS GROUP IS LITERALLY THE "FA" OF ANTIFA
Pulling them down and documenting them. Over 100 so far.
One was outside a local business and I noticed they had a security camera facing the light pole the sticker was on.
I went inside and explained to the owner what I was doing, that I'd found a fascist nazi org's sticker outside their shop,
