So, a slight interruption into my normal content, but I am starting my last year (inshallah) of grad school, and starting to think about my capstone project. So if you're a follower with a more academic bent, I might reach out to you for advice. Feel free to tell me no.
this goes so hard, i can't believe it's on a government building. need more of this energy
nuclear reactors should have prometheus stealing fire from the atom
datacenters should have an angel with a flaming sword holding back chaos
@MuseZack
@hradzka
So clearly they need to make a new season of the Mandalorian that both isn't woke and doesn't suck AND revolves around Indian cricket
@SwannMarcus89
I liked where the NYT article noted that she had "experienced oppression"
Lulz was she was the queen of one of the richer places in the world who came from a family that was isolated from all the poors
@LiteralSheridan
@sgodofsk
@pspoutz
Some of the Russian ops feel very OPERATION JUST CAUSE in the sense "Okay, we have to have point where the Rangers do their thing, and we have to get the SEALs involved somehow"
@jarvis_best
"Regular"
Cop: "Tenure track?"
Lady: "Application in review"
Cop: [pulls up Google Scholar]"Lulz, not with that H-index." (continues hauling her away)
A thing a lot of normies (speaking of Colby here, not Zach) miss on ASCMs as weapons is that for the most part, they won't kill modern naval warships above the size of a FACs/corvettes. But even one solid hit is probably a mission kill.
just had the weirdest experience
was watching an X-files episode & there’s this country song playing in the background of the bar they’re in
& it’s so good it jars me out of my idle multitasking to Shazam it
except
🚨 Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore COLLAPSES after a cargo ship from Singapore crashed into it. It’s being as a mass casualty event and multiple vehicles are reportedly underwater.
New: The USS Dwight D Eisenhower and elements of the carrier strike group have been extended in CENTCOM according to three defense officials. They’ve been underway since Oct 14 and for months have served under a crushing operational tempo in the Red Sea.
@TheCVN69
🇭🇹
#Haiti
: The UN Security Council has approved a multinational force to deploy to Haiti amidst brutal and widespread gang violence throughout the country.
#Kenya
is currently planned to lead the operation, which comes almost a year after the Haitian state first requested
angel with a flaming sword holding back the chaos of data, building frieze, socialist realism
I actually liked this one more but it also doesn't feel very socialist realism, tbqh
The Ghost of Kiev thing (especially footage debunked by
@CalibreObscura
et al) re-surfaced a niggling little doubt in my mind that keeps whispering to me: namely, that most of the Anglosphere
#OSINT
world is deeply pro-Ukraine, and I worry about what they are or are not saying
@selentelechia
@Nick65979825
@eigenrobot
Imagine paying billions to join the elite world of pedophile sex orgies and hunting people for sport and all they give you for your round of the Most Dangerous Game is this guy
@Toy__Truck
@selentelechia
@eigenrobot
My not great way of explaining is "if you think people struggle to accept unmerited grace in a theological sense-and they do!-watch them try and accept it without a theological framework to do so"
@CartoonsHateHer
People also amusingly downplay class status to go from middle to working class (cf Nicholas Kristof noting he grew up "on a farm and attended a small rural high school"; you'd never know BOTH his parents had PhDs from that description)
This is a pretty good example of a guy getting over his skis in an area he doesn't know about (and frankly feels like a major own-goal to even go offering opinions, tbqh)
@eigenrobot
@MorlockP
Possibly somewhat related to this: think it's kinda hard for esp Blue Tribe to embrace a "you are our countrymen " narrative when nationalism/patriotism are terms that are inherently coded Red at this point
A Ukrainian combatant fires a shovel from an RPG-7. It appears he's attached a motor and booster via a homemade attachment adapter. Peak meme.
#UkraineWar
#UkraineRussiaWar
#SALW
You, a Smart Person: "the metric system is clearly superior! We should always use it! Only dumb people would use Standard!"
Nuclear Scientists, apparently Dumb:
So, it looks like Ukraine is finally kicking off. As always, remember the First Rule of Crisis Reporting: First Report is Always Wrong. Or, if you prefer, the 190th Rule of Acquisition: "Hear All, Trust Nothing".
@eigenrobot
@petrichoid
@selentelechia
Also also it's fascinating to follow enough tpot accounts to know vaguely what's going on but it's so utterly disconnected from my real life that I might as well be reading about an incident in the Balkans
Christopher Nolan promises that viewers will be able to almost physically feel the nuclear detonation in 'OPPENHEIMER':
“We knew that this had to be the showstopper. We’re able to do things with picture now that before we were really only able to do with sound in terms of an
Congratulations to PV2 Joe for making what I will assume is merely the latest in a series of utterly idiotic decisions.
RIP to PV2 Joe's leadership from Squad Leader all the way up to COL for the month you're about to have
@thinkdefence
Especially underappreciated point IMHO is that the cost of modifying old pieces of equipment for different uses on the battlefield is pretty low (eg converting MT-LBs into SPAAGs by adding old naval gun turrets to them)
@kitten_beloved
@Duderichy
Will never forget my dad in 1999 showing us the new desktop we had got from TigerDirect. Thing had a whole 1GB of memory, and my dad declared, "You'll never fill that up."
Note that report here is that the vessel was hit by a "land-based cruise missile", which almost certainly means ASCMs. Not good.
Also Not Good: chemical tankers being on fire
Breaking🚨: Commercial Ship In Flames After Red Sea Missile Attack
USS Mason has responded to a distress call from the M/V Strinda that was struck in the Mandeb Strait.
What we know:
Your brother-in-law and his wife keep bringing over their dog when they come to visit. You, your husband and your child are very uncomfortable with the dog, but you don't know how to bring it up with them. What do you do? Ask the Ethicist.
@eigenrobot
I respect his opinions but I don't agree with them. EG AMRAAM vs Cruise Missiles is one of those things I guess is *technically possible* but not really recommended for lots of reasons. There's a reason the emphasis is "Kill the Archer, not the Arrow"
@JamezBriant
@jbarro
But email is easily scalable, and phone calls from humans are inherently not! And "tech thinks at scale" is a fundamental philosophy in that world.
@AlanMCole
@RogueWPA
Gonna start a trolling response of "Employers want to bring you back into the office because they love that little Mexican joint down the street and are worried about if it can survive and also are kinda lonely eating there now"
Shades of the SIOP where they intended to nuke the ChiComs no matter if they were actually at war with us or not because they couldn't let that many communists live
I still don't care about the Kaepernick protest, but it has inspired brilliant memes (also some of the data about various groups responses to it was interesting)
@rumpfshaker
@jbarro
83% of Americans think they know what a butter board is and think it's a euphemism for something they've fantasized about and are just lying for fun
@EricRichards22
@LiteralSheridan
*Most* populations can't live this neurotically. I think we've created a special new hybrid of human being who *must* live this neurotically
Related to something
@AlanMCole
said yesterday: when Shatner was born, only one person had flown across the Atlantic, and he lived long enough to be able to fly into space commercially
Happy 93rd birthday to the powerhouse actor/author/host/horseman/astronaut/documentarian/documentary subject that is William Shatner, James T. Kirk on the original
#StarTrek
& TAS and in 7 Trek movies. He also directed & co-wrote the story for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Not saying those guys are lying or trying to deceive us; but if there's one thing we should have thought about the last two years, it's how living in a bubble can effect our data intake and thus our outcomes
@hannahrosewoods
@extradeadjcb
Reminds me of the time Oppenheimer was quoted as saying that all the Manhattan Project scientists had “known sin” and Von Neumann replied, “sometimes one confesses to a sin in order to take credit for it”.