It's the guys who don't find children adorable that are suspicious.

"the 1 seed should get to pick their opponent" takes are boring.

Instead, let the lower seeded teams pick their opponents. Would make for better drama. 5 and 6 can pick any opponents 2-4. 7 gets to pick of what's left.

WWII Admiral: send in the strategic ice cream force

WWIII Admiral: I outsourced rations to the former local university dining commons

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

An anti-pope based in Texas is the only result from this broadly terrible decade in politics that would make me laugh.

I was not on twitter at the time, but would have joined.

You just know Nasrallah and Soleimani are cooking the shit out of Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld rn.

we put the worst bastards in the driver's seat, ratified the worldview and priors of said worst bastards, and have potentially given them 10% of their GDP in hard currency... cool cool cool

Since congress never declared this war, I don't see how they can possibly claim authority over its end.

Iranian drones are blowing up in Ukrainian cities every night. They have been for years.

just to clarify, there's no excuses here

it doesn't matter how much Israel oversold this thing because the whole point is that nobody's been stupid enough to do it

and a significant amount of that blame should fall on our own Iran hawks making the exact same stupid sales pitch for decades

So they found a solution to their too-many-guards problem

It would be unfortunate to toss the baby with the bathwater, but prediction markets need pretty rigorous regulation, both in what kinds of bets they can offer and in what kind of trades are allowed. Just like securities.

Classic escalation trap. The price of backing down is high enough that they now have to act in ways they didn't want to have to. Reasonably predictable, too. You just needed a sense of strategy more nuanced than "sparky sparky boom boom."

My bracket strategy of "UConn overperforms in the tournament" continues to yield benefits.

I am shocked, SHOCKED to find gambling in this establishment.

So they want status quo ante. What a cluster...

I remember when "digital humanities" was the hot new thing, and here it is on a chop list with many of the usual victims. I wonder how long this "creator economy" center will last? Claude is already better than most "creators."

The divide of modern politics is between these people and the professional administrative class, who run—and whose livelihoods depend on the operation of—these complex systems of modernity.

What if in 20 years an actor named LeBron B. James comes along and people spend weeks arguing about whether him or Michael B. Jordan made better films

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

wait guys i solved it

we put a tax on proposing tax cuts

everyone who moved to london during the industrial revolution to sleep draped over a rope in a poorhouse and shit in the street and get their hands torn off by the satanic mills moved there to get away from agricultural labor

Came across a functioning coder today asking if a kilogram was 1000 or 1024 grams.

Yes they did ask, yes they verified, yes they accepted 1000grams.

I swear ten thousand (10,000) years in the future some engineer will "oops, black hole!" cos they began in comp sci and learned kilo=1024 first.

Don't forget the Cajun population

My "the United States possesses huge amounts of ammunition" shirt is raising lots of questions already answered by my shirt.

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

This has worked so well before, genius move.