Dave
Mercy rules etc seem very un-American to me as an outsider. They are very much an alien concept in sports here. You’d give your bench a go etc but you don’t stop trying.
If any college programs are looking for a coach that doesn’t take his foot off the gas, a high school coach in Oregon was just fired for going for an onside kick up 57-0 in the first half. Their opponents quit the game at halftime. 💀
The US now has a marginally harsher attitude to the ICC than under Obama. Same as they do marginally more extra judicial killing. Same as they imprison more people without trial than under Obama but it’s not new. It’s all on a spectrum and I don’t kid myself about that.
The USG crusade to destroy the ICC seems primarily motivated by a desire to shield Israeli officials like Netanyahu and Gallant from accountability. Worth recalling that those two face charges related to using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza.
The other bizarre thing I’ve seen a lot on here today is that people who don’t like AI are deeply concerned about the ROI of VC investments. I usually quite enjoy people losing money on things I don’t like (e.g. Crypto)
Thinking AI will just go away is like thinking the internet was a temporary fad in 2001
Not trying to take a dig at Don but do people have amnesia about America pre Trump. For my entire adult life they’ve been entrapping various people by suggesting bomb plots or whatnot. Same as people forgetting about Obama era drone strikes or Guantanamo Bay or what not.
This is extraordinarily dark: government agents surveilling peaceful protestors and trying to entrap them into breaking the law. It’s a classic measure of an authoritarian state.
Clearly the stockpiles were far too low in the first place to be at the levels needed for a conflict with China over Taiwan.
SCOOP: Trump’s Iran War has burned through well *over 90%* of key long-range missiles Sources tell @swin24.bsky.social that the percentage of critical long-range missiles that the Trump administration has depleted in its failing war is in ‘at least the high nineties.’ From @zeteo.com —
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