The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles
the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth
I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas"
It’s actually hard to conceive someone being this out-of-touch with normal life.
Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.
Large parts of the business of keeping the US military fed were privatised to civilian contractors.
And then last year DOGE started making cuts in those civilian contractors.
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It seems there are more reports on the same ship, like this one
I don’t think anyone is going to be motivated to do that, really…
a large part of the Art of War is Sun Tzu pinching the bridge of his nose and explaining slowly "look. when you have an army. you have to make sure they have food"
c'mon guys we've had "an army marches on its stomach" for hundreds of years, did you already fuck up the greatest logistics machine in the world so bad they can't keep sailors fed
its a theory the same way that gravity is a theory
Error - Failed to save draft: “bsky was mostly stable until they rolled out the drafts feature”
I was literally in a Naval museum last week and they had three rooms dedicated to talking about how important it was to keep the food "well stocked and well seasoned" to ensure morale didn't dip, and this was for a deployment in WW2.
Just saying, don't write a mutiny off your 2026 bingo card.
This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.
I tried six times to get this post up so you better like it
I need you to understand that any method for 'verifying' age, as opposed to self-reporting age, is going to- by necessity- be both a major risk to personal security and also a significant violation of privacy.
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lol
sorry guys, my cat sat on the F5 key all day while I had my browser window open, my bad
Exactly one year ago today:
Seems bad.
This isn't just any ship, this is the F@#)#@(* Tripoli: It is effectively the flagship class for the Marine Corps.
Tzu* my phone hates me.
I think that was the official plan until exactly when we did it, yeah.
Failing some Sun Tsu level shit on this one.
Tumblr post about Sun Tzu’s Art of War “DO NOT FORGET TO FEED YOUR TROOPS”
As the prophecy foretold
it's crazy to me that there were still "logistics are soy and gay" guys hanging around even before we put them in charge of everything
Been a while since we had one…
How did they think that was a particularly relevant piece of context?
rightwingers minds are amazing
Alexa is there any history for what happens when a government stops feeding their military