Palantir: National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. Translation: We’re going to bring back the draft. Our vision of permanent war only works if we courageously volunteer people 40 years younger than us to die for oil.

Palantir: Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. Translation: Which cultures? Oh, you know the ones.

We translated each part of Palantir's 22-point manifesto because public service is our passion
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Best way to lose at Calvinball is to stick to the rules.

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

One needs to draw a line somewhere

I've always struggled to express it in a way that makes sense but here goes... it's not like there wasn't European colonialism south of the Rio Grande, and these people consider themselves to be inheritors of the same societal and political rank as US eurocolonials, Spanish language notwithstanding

Genuinely think someone on the left should do this. And then have the fake girl turn on Trump.

Scientists turn scrap car aluminum into high-performance metal for new vehicles Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a new aluminum alloy called RidgeAlloy that can turn contaminated car-body scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. Normally, impurities…

Aluminium used to build cars can now be reused to build cars. A new alloy called RidgeAlloy turns contaminated scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. This solves the problem where recycled aluminium from mixed or dirty auto scrap was too weak for structural use buff.ly/tmDSuWf
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Physical Description Axis: 6 Diameter (in mm): 18 Weight (in g): 2.73 Series: RIC.7 Typological Description Object Type: Coin Date Range: 332–333 Denomination: AE2 Denomination: AE3 Material: Bronze Authority Authority: Constantine I Dynasty: Constantinian Dynasty State: Roman Empire Geographic Place of Production: Trier Reverse Symbol: -/-//TR•P References Reference: RIC VII Treveri 542 Administrative History Identifier: 1954.203.89 Department: Roman Collection: American Numismatic Society Provenance Acquisition: Lot 1954.203 (purchases: Ives, Mrs. Herbert Eugene), October 1 1954 Subjects Category: Roman--Imperial--Laterempire Rights CopyrightHolder: American Numismatic Society License: Public Domain Mark (images) Rights: No Copyright - United States Map In

A happy 2779th birthday to the city of Rome. You really don’t look a day over 2000. 🐺 numismatics.org/collection/1...

choke on an ice cube alone in your mansion you frosted miniwheat howdy doody dickhead

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

You absolute clowns.

Turning over control of our military to a dementia addled grifter and a FOX News correspondent with a drinking problem and a crusades fetish has somehow gone terribly wrong.

At least in Terminator 2, T-1000 looked menacing when it was running after the car. This robot looks like it desperately needs to take a shit while waddling to the nearest bathroom.

It’s going to really embarrassing when humans are exterminated by the shit-waddle hunter killers.

You dumb dicks are embarrassing

Two for one! Ignorant of both predator/prey ecology and basic English.

Clearly that picture was taken by a different corpulent seal that was standing over the one pictured.

I am struggling to imagine how this transition would play out. But I'd bet on a good amount of chaos.

That horse left the barn a while ago.

Makes him sound like a real couch fucker.

Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings came out in my year is how damn old I am.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran.

Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.

Oh no, ack!

Uber ballot initiative sparks showdown with lawyers, doctors Lawyers and doctors oppose Uber’s proposed ballot initiative, which would cap contingency fees and limit recoveries for medical costs from car crashes.

CALIFORNIA: Those scare ads for legislation limiting medical settlements that quote the LA Times are paid for by Uber because they want to limit how much they can be sued for when they hit you with their cars. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

Jung HOOTBLAN?

What if I told you it was actually the easiest situation anybody has ever been in?

"our craven betrayal of them notwithstanding"

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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STFU & STFD