If I was a Member of the United States House of Representatives, I would simply not try to fuck my interns.

It’s very moving. 100+ pages in and it’s still just about the personal histories of various scientists.

You, years later: Hope what I said didn’t come out wrong. Oh god what if they thought I mea

United States Representative to employee: suck me off real quick?

Reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb and it’s the first time I’ve heard the metaphor that world war 1 was a machine which’s product was corpses. Couldn’t tell if that was an original line or a reference, but found it arresting.

All my love to the homies who recommended this one. It’s intensely moving.

The best bagel in nyc is the sesame seed at Apollo Bagels by One WTC.

Ty!

A lot of people recommended When Titans Clashed by Glantz & House for my Eastern Front rabbit hole, and I’m now almost halfway done and tbh I don’t really like it. I’m gonna finish, but it’s superrrrr dry. Maybe it’s just the audiobook narrator or something.

Help me build a commander/brawl deck for this guy

I read death, haven’t read the other two in the trilogy. Very good. His lectures are even better imo.

Any other bangers?

No, but will add to the list

I will probably read more of him in the future. The one about Moscow looks cool.

They straight up didn’t believe the Panzer IV was their heaviest tank. Meanwhile Hitler had very intentionally made sure the Soviets were shown *everything* they had, because they were under the impression they were bragging.

Hilarious anecdote in the book I just finished about a Soviet military delegation who was invited to by the Germans in 1938 to a demonstration of their tanks, and were so convinced the Germans were lying to them about not having any heavy tanks, they were *offended.*

Now reading:

When I told my family this game was “basically just Risk,” I guess I was lying.

I think you’re right, but in my defense, everyone but Stalin looks a little like RFK on there.

That’s my boy Frederick Paulus, the stubborn commander of the German 6th Army.

Specifically, the big encircling operations around Smolensk and Vitebsk. We see the big numbers - 350,000 prisoners, 600,000 prisoners, etc - as victory, when in reality the Soviets achieved their goals and the Germans did not. Also spends a lot of time on how all the generals hated each other.

Stahel in particular is fabulous. Unlike a lot of the books ive read, he actually takes a view on things. The book argues that Barbarossa failed in the first four weeks, and that some of Germany’s worst defeats of the war were battles a lot of others see as great German victories

A couple more books to put on the list:

The Hitler Years - Disaster: 1940-1945, Frank McDonough

Operation Barbarossa and Hitler’s Defeat in the East, David Stahel.

My family is always saying they wish I would participate in family activities more when we visit Minneapolis and then I bring a game for us all to play and suddenly it’s “ohhh, ahh, I don’t know”

DOGE Damage Drags on in DC, Where Inequality is Widening as a Result Harrison Beacher feels a little worried for some of his clients. The...

“For some it is actually scary."

Federal workers impacted by DOGE cuts are selling their houses to get money, dropping out of pending home sales because of job loss, and depressing the DC housing market.

Rich people in the burbs, on the other hand, are buying million $$ homes in cash

Current book:

All is well.

They say kids mirror their parents’ relationship in their own. I hope it’s true for us. I hope Ru learns a lot from watching us.

I hope when she is my age, she has someone who loves her the way I love her mom.

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Lol I love that tweet so much

Fuel and ammunition was a much greater concerned, as far as supplies were concerned. Hitler did forbid discussion of winter defensive positions, which is part of where this idea comes from, but it was really only for high command, the general staff knew it was a big issue.