I disagree here, the problem is not the dinner, it is Trump.

The WH Correspondents Dinner, as actually practiced, is a sort of humiliation-of-the-powerful ritual common and valuable in republics since antiquity.

That Trump is incapable of doing this is yet another signal of his unfitness to lead.

At this point I want the court packed out of spite

AIUI, the British at Yorktown were suffering from smallpox, which undoubtedly made it harder for them to defend their position, aside from the rest of the degree to which they got mousetrapped there.

They're *still* mad about public health interventions for COVID. I don't think it's any more complicated than that.

or any other time, at least as he said 7 years ago...

I'm going to write a dark academia book about a fantasy art school and all the students will be sweating about the mysterious final challenge that 80% of even the best students fail and it's going to turn out to be "draw a horse without a reference"

I went to Boerne, TX to watch one of the US solar eclipses, and I was very confused by why the name is said the way it is, until I saw some mentions of German local history and realized that it probably should be read as "Börne".

one of my favorite Gloranthan things is I Fought We Won, and it is not coincidental that I got really into Glorantha during covid.

dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden

swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively

there's a moral here, of a sort

What they did to Harris County there looks even more ridiculous, at least to me.
But yeah, you can tell that they did something weird to the cities because literally everything else is divided on county lines.

On the one hand, walking right past the baggage check on the way in and right past the carousel on the way out rules

On the other hand, walking up to the gate with nothing in your hands, just a guy getting on a plane, also rules

Conservatives have a perception of men completely more demented and sexist than any strawman feminist grifters could ever think off

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I love the part where it suddenly changes languages, probably because some token concluded it should stay in the same language after the subject of the sentence.
(This reminds me of recruiting messages I've gotten which suddenly switch from praising experience to regurgitating the JD as my skills.)

Thanks for correcting me! I clearly misunderstood the difference between "we don't think we can win" and "if you get here."

I suspect part of the reason it's so aggressive is actually *because* they have some, but not a lot, although the other part might be the USA umbrella existing.

The official French deterrence strategy, as I understand from a youtube powerpoint presentation, at least, is that if they don't think they can beat the incoming army, first they nuke the army, and then they start nuking cities if another comes.

So, basically what you said in the parenthetical.

The question is, do they just roll out Maus at that point, or do they get one of the fanciful land battleship ideas from the interwar period?

Glibly, and borrowing from the most incisive blog comment this century, it's because GWB wanted to be protected by international law but not bound by it.
(Yes, this was passed by congress, and yes, these things usually fall farther down the chain of command, here, but the fear clearly was...)

This is a remarkable and important step.

Ukraine, a country under full scale invasion for 4+ years, is signing deals to co-develop/produce weapons with other countries.

Saudi, UAE and Qatar are not only confident of but also banking on Ukraine being a functional nation state over the next decade.

DCS world, for aerial combat footage. (It's detailed enough that I think some people use VR rigs for it. I've also seen pictures of some astonishingly thorough flight simulators people have cobbled together out of thousands of dollars of parts.)

Well... the only actual TV he's interested in watching is Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which literally rubs its nose on the fourth wall at the end of every half-episode, too.
(But I am serious in thinking that FaceTime or Zoom being not "the browser" at might signal a little that it's different.)

Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others?
Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?

In our case, it probably doesn't help that we're using GVC (whatever it's called, I used the business version, so that's what it is to me) and therefore it's mildly indistinguishable from a browser video.

See, but that's the wrong answer, because it changes what I do, which is inconvenient for me, personally.
Instead, what should happen is that you lot magically stop making bumper-to-bumper traffic for me to drive in, but also without doing anything different.

(sarcasm, of course)

I personally think that having a labor secretary that wants to kill unions is much worse than that time Biden helped rail workers get what they wanted without not getting paid and pissing off the public but what do I know

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

One of the weird things for me is that I'm *comfortable* doing introverted things, but it's extremely bad for my mental health, and especially my executive functioning. I lost my job a year and a half ago, and I have slowly dwindled to thinking it's a huge success if I do a few minor house tasks.

I have a 3-year-old, which is younger than actual school, but it's been interesting to see how he's actually kind of baffled by the *idea* of video conferences and isn't quite sure that they're different from, y'know, any other video on a computer. (Usually when mom goes on a business trip.)

Sort of like the received wisdom when I was in college of "Don't do big project classes with someone you want to live with the rest of the time," I can only imagine that, no, it is not nice to literally live with your teachers. (above and beyond the other isolation that's possible)

Bluesky is not big on the “jus ad bellum/jus in bello” distinction, and will in fact get very angry if you acknowledge that the distinction exists. I saw it the other way around with the Gaza war.