Elon Musk spent billions of dollars to push white supremacy and has a compound where he’s keeping the children he’s trying to breed into little supermen and he’s never described as a fanatic for white supremacy.

I know I put him up for Doctor Who, but I think Luis Guzmán would also be a great Columbo.

Inspector Gadget is referenced but never seen in the 11th Columbo episode "Columbo's Wife", as a particularly charismatic regenerating detective whom Columbo greatly admires. Sadly, he's been murdered by an escaped mental patient, whom 11th Columbo subsequently arrests for the crime.

Read the commentary thread. IYKYK.

I'm not a big Danny Kay fan but Danny & then Sid as 2 & 3 was just perfect. Especially nice selection of headshot for Sid!

Yeah, I remember at some point she flat out bragged that her whole early-career academic focus was calculated to put her in positions no other women were taking, so she would get noticed more. Didn't even pretend to care whether any of it was true.

Did she boost the Elegy, though?

My dude you just went on a 6-post Gish-gallop to defend Elon & SpaceX, how many posts is it gonna be this time? It's 95% of what you do on this site, judging by your feed.
Meanwhile I'm gonna go back to ignoring you & get some work done.

One implication of this is that Hegseth seemed to not comprehend that many if not most members of the 75th Ranger Regiment would have had to go through Ranger School within the past 8 years.

The guy is just spectacularly dim & that's terrifying.

I gotta suspect brains, endurance & temperament are the big things about being a Ranger, & I've not personally observed those to be gender-mapped.

She did personally call him out as an abusive POS, particularly to women, & it ended up going public. But that's relatively recent. Just as a matter of personal history he's been horrible with women as far back as anyone knows anything about it.

WIRED (@wired.com) has gone ahead with publishing an extraordinarily inaccurate article about GrapheneOS. It presents a highly inaccurate history of the GrapheneOS project heavily based on fabrications from James Donaldson. WIRED failed to incorporate most of our responses to his inaccurate claims.

(& I wonder what are the boundaries of "aspic"-ness? Right now I'm imagining a black bean aspic I'd enjoy, but I'm not sure it would still qualify as aspic.)

I've never had a tomato aspic I liked, but TBF I have only tasted probably 3? I'm curious, what was it about it that you liked? How was it composed?

"why not me?" is kind of the core motivating ideology of a lot of politicians.

I knew a little about Hegseth's service history but it was not previously clear to me he'd THAT OPENLY gone THAT FAR while still in uniform. Now that I think of it I can't see how I missed it - he was a VERY PUBLIC radical Trumpist while still serving.

(tl;dr: it's not random.)

Admissions and deaths by classification - US Army, 1942-45. Disease...14,969,028 Battle casualties...592,170 Nonbattle injury...1,995,398

I know it's already getting beaten to death this morning but the Army casualty figures from WWII are still stunning. 85% of hospital admissions were from disease, not injury. Imagine wanting to put flu back in the barracks.

Sadness is not only an endpoint. It can be a turning point. When allowed to move through us, it often softens the hardened places where we have been gripping too tightly. It can slow us down enough to notice what we are missing, what we have outgrown.

For anyone wondering how or why Army Counterintelligence identified then-Captain Hegseth as an "insider threat" in 2019, which led to his leaving the DC National Guard, now you know.

Holy crap what a Gish-Gallop!

Everything. Is. Fine.

Clearly everything IS fine - sitting there with a lovely mug of Flaming Moe.

Well now that's sure one metric shitload of unwarranted assumptions!🤣

& AFAIK they haven't done any meaningful work on the 'orbital refueling' part - though maybe that's not needed until later? (Learning more about what SpaceX is up to mostly makes me sad.)

Eh. Maybe? They don't need to. I get that they drove a truckload of money up to Chris's house but he really doesn't want to play there for long term anymore & anyway 'papa Steve' is easy to explain away with multiversal shenanigans.
(That said, yeah, they don't NEED to do ANY of this bullshit.)

Yeah that thing is like, what, 3 hours long? & you want me to PAY to sit through it for, what, an extra 30s of 'footage'?
LOL nope.

Pretty much all the significant claims here flow from constructing "mail" & "female" behaviors as "instinctual." Everything she's attributing to instinct here can be better explained by cultural conditioning, since the latter gives us a framework for understanding all the times her claims are wrong.

How do baristas afford such good tattoos?

One of the other characters, when Kilmer's character moans about the betrayal of turning his laser into a weapon: "You built a 50 Gigawatt* laser. What did you *think* they were gonna do with it?"
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*units made up, I totally don't remember how many megawatts.