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There was no hit to the pocketbook so severe as to make people elect the “IF IT TAKES A BLOODBATH [to crush the hippies and civil rights movement] THEN SO BE IT, NO MORE APPEASEMENT” guy Governor of California

First of all I will not allow anyone to say "Tony Soprano" without the title of sheik.

A leftist wargame nerd once grumbled to me about guys rather too breathless about the Mighty German War Machine in WWII: “They talk as if the Nazis only lost because the sun was in their eyes for a moment, that they •deserved• to win. And it is obvious why they rationalize that.”

The Earl of Strafford on being called back to England in 1639:

LL Cool J correctly identifies the trinity here, something actual military theorists (like Martin van Creveld) struggle with.

biddy blaze. scrib doon

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

Some y’all need Jesus, even more need to read a second book

Sagittarius: It's important to look after your emotional health. If you feel the need to dissolve into a puddle of goo and loose bones, just go for it. You deserve to be happy.

This is insane.

from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz

This image in the replies was particularly funny to me

Is your brain full of mind vampires?

since kingdom hearts is in the news, have a classic doodle

"I don't give a fuck about this pain in the ass" is a great campaign promo.

>>>>>>win first playoff series in 20 years

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

Every Quebec election poll: Le Racisme (Pro-Referendum): 29% Le Corruption: 22% Le Racisme (Anti-Referendum): 18% Le Racisme (Talk Radio Tendency): 17% Socialiste: Who Cares%

the enemy might be woke and gay and a woman, but guess what, they still get a vote (ref)

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

It's really comin down out there (civilization)

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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I had a professor once whose area of expertise was government finance. And the thing that has stuck with me was when they said that they basically can never actually talk about it outside the classroom, because it's something every asshole has an opinion on - most of which are based on complete BS.

Fuck am I supposed to do? Call POTUS and tell him I disagree?

Watching Aaron Rodgers’ Steelers vs Robert Kraft’s Patriots.

The first fundamental truth of history is "you're not going to believe this shit"

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...