Imagine the minions in the Winter War. Soviet troops want to stay inconspicuous in the snow so Finnish snipers can't see them, but helpful yellow denim-clad creatures keep finding them, offering them food. "KAYLAY TEM BANANAS!"
Simo Häyhä's main concern is whether he brought along enough bullets.
The minions may have been happy to work for Stalin, but he didn't want anything to do with them. As he once told Molotov: "Why hire someone you can't execute later?"
If only they knew how angry we truly are
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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I believe the full quote is "to paraphrase Cormac McCarthy, you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from, if you are being dumb on purpose"
NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran.
Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.
My working-in-Aged-Care-wife (disgusted face): "Can a robot wipe a bum?"
Cheap, slightly fugly, flimsy-looking (but surprisingly strong) mass produced plastic seats? We all know them. Some of the best parties I've been involved sitting in them around some sharehouse backyard fire, half-worried that it would melt the chairs.
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My favorite thought experiment: Had JImi Hendrix not died in 1971, he would have certainly recorded a disco album in 1978, and it would have suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
As I always say: never go full tankie.
"Tug at the heartstrings, John? He's a war criminal, not Kylie getting married on Neighbours."
I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...
If you're into Kurzgesagt, the latest episode is on Teller, nukes as a (polluting) construction tool, and why Project Plowshare was wrapped up in 1977.
It sounds like Teller was hawking the idea to the provincials because even the US had given up on the idea.
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Pauline's gonna bring a prosthetic leg into parliament and drink out of it in protest
Netanyahu's legacy: simultaneous wars to avoid a messy vote of no-confidence.
I'm the sort of person who asks "Why didn't they?" You'd expect some bright spark in DFAT would be saying "Get on the blower with Prabowo, stat!"
It's something I'd expect of Keating.
There's also good conservative writers like Rudyard Kipling.
(Orwell uses "disgusting" and "sadism" to describe him, but prefers "pre-fascism" rather than the "F" word. I think his analysis holds up.)
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Riyadh would be the worst city I've ever visited. No parks, and buildings was either grubby white or grubby orange. Entertainment was seeing "Grease" for the nth time at the company club, because the only thing they keep showing on TV are crowds around the Kaaba. In black and white.
Didn't know Canada also did micronations. Now I do.
(At least the founders took themselves less seriously than Hutt River Province.)
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Hot Take: I want to be viewed as outdated by future standards. I want things to progress so well for everyone that many of my perspectives or actions don’t age well. I view it as a sign of growth. I don’t want society to be stagnant. I am fully okay with future generations thinking I’m cringe
The Batman: Part 2: God bless Chocolate City (and its vanilla white suburbs)
If "[Babbage's] influential theories on how “enterprising capitalists” could best subjugate workers are well documented in conventional labor scholarship", then "Why didn't the author quote Babbage on the subject"?
(The essay has lots of assertions about the man, but few quotes to show them.)
I like the idea, but are there any responsible adults under Trump 2.0 that would be willing and able to listen?
47 years of being a leech on the public purse. It's like celebrating 47 years of being a guinea worm or a giardia parasite.
It's Temu Oswald Mosley.
Yes, it could be better, but I was going for the quick laughs, not Byron. How would you rewrite it?
Spiderkash, Spiderkash
Down to fuck and pash
Will he get his end on?
No! Account hacked and gone.
Look out!
Iran comes for Spiderkash!
And I am so, so, so angry at the stupid culture wars and deliberate blocks put in place to the nation being able to have energy sovereignty. That any chance we had of transitioning the energy economy was derailed decades ago by fu*kers simping for fossil fuel. Energy security IS national security
I don't know. I just want East Brisbane State School to remain intact. I know people whose kids study there.
