Any editor would laugh an author out of the room were it fiction.

My impression from open source is that Ghalibaf is trying to do just that.

One thing that's missing from our discourse on the Iran negotiations is that the current economic situation within Iran is incredibly dire. There's possibly worse economic damage than compared to the Iran Iraq War and their economy started in terrible shape.

Recite Oswald Mosley speech from memory — Encyclopedia check, godly, +6 if you have Revacholian Nationhood

Tai Chi moves — Savoir Faire check, challenging

Leave immediately without saying goodbye — dialogue option unlocked by passive Authority check, medium

In his “most notorious [job] interview,” Karp met Louis Mosley, an Oxford graduate whose grandfather Oswald Mosley was the British fascist leader during World War II and once named “worst Briton of the twentieth century.” As soon as Mosley sat down, Karp began reciting from memory, for several minutes, one of Oswald’s 1939 speeches demanding Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. When finished, Karp executed tai chi moves and walked out without saying goodbye. Mosley sat stunned, convinced his family’s past had torpedoed him. Instead, he was hired and now runs Palantir’s UK business.

Crazy? Would a crazy guy do this?!?

To my three mutuals who follow the person in the screencap (not MalaVolpe in the textquote, who's great): I know none of you thinks Shani Louk deserved to be raped to death.

Skibidi Rizz™️ is a hyper-converged, AI-native, quantum-secure, zero-trust, edge-to-cloud, multi-domain battlespace singularity that transcends by ingesting, fusing, and operationalizing all sensor-to-shooter data into a self-healing, latency-agnostic, continuously learning decision supermesh.

All the apps in like 10 years will be named "Voldemort" and "Avada Kedavra" because we live in a nightmare.

“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”

It's hot fishmarket garbage, but it is also head and shoulders above the other software we have.

One of the deeper ironies of all the braying about PME and the Navy is that the Navy doesn't prioritize sending their top flight officers to PME. The Marine Corps does, but our PME is worse.

Officer education, for one.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Cultural chauvinism isn't the opposite of moral relativism - and it presages some really dark stuff.

Worth noting that Chipotle had a string of high-profile E. coli outbreaks from 2015-2017, and their pricing from around this time was part of a larger, aggressive campaign to preserve their customer base

It's fabulous - unfortunately the stall in Kyoto where I ordered mine for years appears to have gone out of business during COVID.

molly shah staying here would have been bad for the site's long-term prospects

God’s country.

I don't know either, but B-21 and F-47 seem way better managed than anything we have going.

Gen Brown talked about modeling USAF acquisitions on F-1: build the aircraft to fly for the season. 75% of the cost of the F-22 and F-35 occur in the second half of their service life.

The Air Force figured it out - like they really cracked the code on fixing everything. I really hope we find someone to run the DoN who can do the same.

And Navy acquisitions are so horrible it is beyond belief. OPNAV is perhaps the most dysfunctional organization you could build.

But the real villains are Congress and the fact that the Joint Force is just code for the Army people the Army doesn't want.

I think one of the best structure analytic techniques is the premortem and the book you would write about us losing the next naval war would be so easy to write right now.

Like an entire section on Fat Leonard and another on LCS.

we are bringing back the greatest hits of Defense Twitter-That-Was: subtweeting all the US Navy discourse

here's an obviously risible claim

but really wasn't it true in a real sense

decided to finally block a guy earlier and i thought this was useful context as he declares various Democratic Party leaders Enemies of the Glorious Revolution because supposedly they don't say "working class"

a man in a suit and glasses stands in front of a sign that says ' the ' ALT: a man in a suit and glasses stands in front of a sign that says ' the '

countering an obviously false take versus the pain of defending Navy acquisitions in any way:

Again, no one is saying the Navy doesn’t have procurement issues. But saying it is uniquely problematic is only possible if you don’t know about or are too young to remember FCS.

bingo.

Suppression of Eire's Anglo Dialect?

I see what this post is trying to get at, but it’s wrong. The entire dot-com bubble was created because of unfounded hype. And Steve Jobs continued developing the art of hype creation with the iPhone reveal events. He was just better at it than Sam Altman