Close up image of a red disposable cup resting on a park table. The cup is from Raising Cane's, a fried chicken fingers "restaurant" chain
Best thing about traveling to my not particularly local dealership for service.
So, really hoping that this is good, but even if it isn't, I am 100% here for Foghorn Leghorn as a threatening "industrialist".
It is absolutely a perfect real-worldisation of what he always has been.
That young woman is rather brave standing that close to him given the confidence and skill with which he is demonstrating his mastery of the blade.
I say, this is a jolly good witticism.
And Eric Berger offers a more positive gloss on the topic.
It'll be great if there is actually something workable in time.
NASA and its contractors have literally been working on new lunar surface suits for literal decades, and yet there is functionally nothing to show for all of that work.
Oh come the fuck on.
This is utterly ridiculous. All of the effort and expense to develop, test, and launch new rockets, capsules and landers invalidated by the inability to make a suit capable of use on the Lunar surface.
Also, combining ISS & Lunar requirements probably wasn't a good idea.
Isn't that one of the early clone wars episodes where he pretends to be a Jedi?
Finland seemed like a place worth shilling as well.
"Finland is a beautiful, welcoming, affordable and underappreciated destination at any time of year, no matter whether your interests are urban or wilderness, modern or historic."
😉💸
Interesting report. So is the low mission-capable rate due to underfunding of operations and maintenance or some other factor specific to the UK case?
Plus radios were becoming more and more common which added another incentive to sink w/o asking questions and move on.
After all, who wants to bob about going nowhere confirming a suspect ship is carrying contraband to a blockaded port when an angry anti-submarine patrol might be on their way?
This is indeed a fantastic visualization.
Though I wish they wouldn't use red/green to differentiate the two competitors.
Colour-blindness is a thing.
At least RAND got this right - from my VNSA researcher standpoint.
"State-based threats remain underappreciated even as non-state-actor catastrophic risks are overemphasized."
Presumably there is a classification aspect at play here.
Its remarkable the extent to which diseases like plague & smallpox live on in the Western public mind, but TB has just kind of melted away.
If you live or work in the right communities then TB remains a present concern, but I'd say for 90%+ of the population TB is completely forgotten.
Its past time that folks talking up AI & CBRN started rigorously separating their discussions of C, B, R, & N. And offense vs. defense.
And that's before we touch non-state actors and AI/CBRN.
Uplift by AI tools & applications is unlikely to be remotely consistent across these technology spaces.
Presuming they suffer a severe electoral defeat in 2026 and hopefully 2028 they will potentially learn to stop saying this shit.
But something to remember for the future is that just because they don't say it that doesn't mean that this belief set isn't foundational to everything they say or do.
It a small thing, but in this day and age, how hard would it be to have a bunch of stock commands in EVERY language loaded up on a SSD/HDD hooked up to a voice synthesizer for use when communicating with foreign vessels, etc.?
And frankly Platner's "well-organized base
" should be massively off-putting as well given he has exactly zero history as a political figure in this or any other state.
But as you say, "influence campaign".
But whose campaign?
An amusing feature of American reviews of the "small subcompact SUV" segment is how many words they use that can be summed up as
"It's a hatchback."
I'm astounded that people doing fancy hyper-ornate analyses of The Matrix often still accept the notion that humans are being used as batteries.
But the animatrix clearly indicates that humanity is imprisoned.
"Battery" is a myth that helps Morpheus & Zion get through the day.
Oop.
My memory of old US political things reaches back farther than I realized.
Bush the First.
That reminds me of the national scandal under Bush II when he made some offhand remark about not particularly preferring, IIRC, Broccoli.
Not pursued with the dubious rigor of the Obama "scandals" but I think he was dragged enough that a public climb down was required.
We are not a serious people.
So, was Friday afternoon on the US East coast once more the venue for some old fashioned market manipulation?
The Strait is fully open (oops not really).
With a level of determination and persistence that we haven't seen since old favorites like "is Biden senile."
Hmmm. Can't? Or won't?
Grump Grump Grump Peter Jackson and Amazon.
Elves explicitly do not have pointed ears.
And Hobbits are humans, so no pointed ears there either.
Yes. I'm on my bullshit again.
Also, the level of insecurity American officials have, in their own capital no less, never ceases to astound me.
The one I love is when you aren't allowed to record time devoted to completing reports about working on a project & recording the time worked on a project, as project time.
Because its administrative, rather than research time.
It's perfect.
Also, 5pm on his mind.
Neither enough shells OR shell throwing things.
Even before you allow for wear and tear and attrition losses.