Proving that Trump is losing the war because of his own stupidity, and not because Iran has an actually competent government.

Reading comprehension? You?

Apparently not!

Nor is it honorable to not be a bunch of marauders, either.

Giving a middling commander an army with a less than 10% attrition rate due to disease, and watching him absolutely stomp everyone else.

Any army before 1900 that had our current rate of sickness and disease would absolutely annihilate their opponents, even if completely restricted to the technology available at the time.

Too callous and bloodthirsty for Winston Churchill.

Goddamn.

I mostly didn't! There were people who are far more familiar with financial crimes that had it well handled. Making it a big part of my conversation would add little.

Out of all the people dumping on Molly Shah for being a scam artist, I've got to rank as one of the least influential.

But I still appreciate the compliment.

Imagine being an adult lawyer and thinking the Bar was going to discipline people

The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.

Jesus, that's one of the most unhealthy under 80s I've seen outside of people actually dying.

I agree. I understand disliking the world ahead, but the people pretending they can return to a better past aren’t fit to lead a leftist or a liberal movement. We have a word for those captured by nostalgia: Conservatives

Yeah, and those people have to go.

When a system is crumbling away, fear of the unknown is the worst flaw any leader can have.

Amazing how shitty actors will act shitty wherever we give them space to do it.

Getting mad at the hammer for someone getting bludgeoned to death.

Blaming the existence of technology for the problem, rather than the structures in place that use it to abuse the population is some hardcore reactionary shit.

At least liberals only delude themselves into thinking the personnel, who are living, thinking beings, are the only problem.

We know how to built the infrastructure, and we know how to design the programs. The ram has touched the wall. It's far more dangerous to flee than to try and break through the gates.

So we either learn how to harness it, or get left behind, like the USA is already having happen with EVs.

Inundated with people insisting that corporate and governmental corruption and malice when using AI is due to the effects of the tech, and not the corruption and malice inherent in capitalist structures.

"Oh yeah, well I didn't get AI scams before AI!"

True, but you got a shitload of others.

"Bilgewater" by Brown Bird is really good for this one.

I could do dozens of them, because every artist I like has a very distinctive style, and there's at least song that is the perfect matchup of lyrics, tone, and style for them.

The song and artist, intertwined together to raise each other up.

We need to burn the political capital to make structural changes and not just squeak out a win by pandering to centrists with goldfish memories in 32 to protect our incumbents

Yeah, and I haven't even been able to throw them into many combats yet.

Just a few disembodied hand zombies that tried to murder one of them in his sleep.

Yup.

As with pretty much every British action in the Middle East (not North Africa), it got ignored either because it's not a sexy theater, or because the British are less than proud of everything they did.

The Indian Army really gets zero credit for their efforts, at least in popular history.

No other force holds out for months at Kut.

If Kut just collapses in weeks, there's a non-zero chance Maude's army gets throw back to Basra, or even driven out of Mesopotamia entirely, which would have turned into a terrible strategic loss, rather than merely an awful operational one.

The Indian Army covered the vast majority of British forces in Iraq, Persia, and Egypt until 1918. The complete lack of proper support they received, especially in Iraq, led to not being able to follow up on victories, and the disaster at Kut.

But they were the best troops anyone had in theater.

The first Gabriel Knight game would have been excellent as a novel or movie, plus you got to hear Tim Curry doing a Cajun accent.

The ending of GK1 remains one of the best of any adventure games, somehow making a reference to monkey in the middle into a touching act of self-sacrifice.

The fact that my players are pushing for doubling the rate of game nights for my Deadlands game is a pretty good sign of how it's going.