Wait, we are (or were) capable of deploying a burger king to a base in Iraq, but they made them eat MREs twice a day while in the nation's capital?

I burned them with a flamethrower in my playthrough. Can't be too careful.

There was a lot of initial confusion on that point, but, last I read, they are not subject to the 10%.

... But by this point it is really clear that behaviour I consider to be petulant, irrational, whiny, self-pitying, and contemptible are by them viewed to be expressions of peak masculinity. I genuinely can't tell what is happening here, I am really not sure where the disconnect has arisen or why.

No greater hypocrisy than yelling all day about how meritocracy has been killed by diversity programs in job hiring, then putting profoundly unqualified people in legitimately important positions

This is defeatist bullshit. There have been wannabe dictators in the US and other liberal democracies before. They've been squashed by the rule of law before, and they can be now.

I mean, yes, I would prefer if this administration followed norms.

It is not true that Trump won 77 million votes to do chapter and verse all this lunatic stuff he's doing—given how many of his voters *refused to believe he would actually do any of the crazy stuff he was saying he would do*, because it sounded so crazy! Must be lib exaggeration, they supposed!

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

NYT headline about Trump pausing PEPFAR disbursements

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means.

A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

Everyone who played Tradle is at a huge advantage for figuring out how bad things are gonna get.

Trump is raising the price of your coffee.

RFK Jr.’s allies have a plan to upend childhood vaccination Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr. advisers are sparring over how far he should go on vaccines as health secretary.

The political allies that RFK Jr really trusts “are people that obviously are trying to execute a plan to totally take away vaccines”

In other words: if you confirm RFK Jr to lead HHS, it means you’re comfortable seeing kids die from vaccine-preventable diseases

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Rubio enforces Trump’s pause on foreign aid to Taiwan.

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.

I was always an Io guy cuz volcanoes are neat, but you make compelling points.

Wtf why

How to Stop Trump in One Stupid Chart Make line go from low to high.

"We’re not trying to argue people into buying sunscreen during a blizzard. People don’t like the guy. They’re used to not liking the guy. So here’s an idea: Go out and tell them about the bad shit Trump is doing, right now."

Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

The architects of the DEI purge -- Rufo and Hanania in particular -- are straight-up white nationalists who are engaged in a systemic project to dismantle as much of the Civil Rights Act as possible without having to explicitly admit what they're doing.

And as far as I'm concerned, that strategic question is secondary to the point that it's just wrong and newsworthy on its own merits. It's still not normal and shouldn't be treated as such.

I agree that pointing out the Musk salute is not the One Secret Trick that will disqualify him, but I have to assume stunts like that are at least off-putting to the median voter, and continued coverage can make a difference.

What a terrible game for Andrews.

It's fun trying to guess whether people's vague shocked posts on here are about tiktok or the Lions' bewildering errors.

this is an amazing headline in the @wsj.com

i want to dwell for a minute on this term 'luxury apartments'

www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

I know its a well worn trope, but imagine if Dems did this to Kentucky after the massive floods they experienced.

And as an added point, keep in mind that analyses on "big data" have different challenges than data we typically see at the academic scale. I recommend practicing things like SQL/pyspark. I've spent a whole lot less time in R Studio since I left academia.

Pacific Palisades is part of LA City isn't it?

Whoops