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Department of Defensiveness.

07.03.2026 01:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Word is he's urging the Kurds to do ground fighting. I suspect he's (foolishly) relying on that and his fantasy of a popular uprising.

07.03.2026 00:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

- He didn't really plan this, so he doesn't yet have sufficient ground forces in the area.
- Telling people to leave isn't actually helping them do so, and that failure is well documented. He just wants to dodge blame for any proxy attacks on Americans.

06.03.2026 23:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nobody else made it to gate #3 on time.

06.03.2026 20:57 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Note: Not a comment on any attempted justification for the war itself.

06.03.2026 20:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In any war it's inevitable that some bullets or bombs will go astray. But a decent country does all it can to prevent that, and if it happens anyway, would immediately own up, apologize, offer condolences and compensation, for whatever that would be worth.

06.03.2026 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Apparently her boyfriend Lewandowski got canned today too.

06.03.2026 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was it a tingly feeling in his left arm or numbness on one side of his body?

04.03.2026 20:26 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I mean, he is really defensive about it.

04.03.2026 17:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Frankly, I don't think they planned for Iranians shooting back.

04.03.2026 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I remember that song playing on the school bus radio.

03.03.2026 19:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Flip side is that he suffers from the dictatorial curse: surrounded by sycophants, hearing only what he wants, he may think he's popular.

02.03.2026 00:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh yes. He spent a good bit of time here and knew our productive capacity. I believe his quote was "I can run wild for six months to a year, but after that I have no hope in ultimate victory."

01.03.2026 01:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it's the *types* of input. It's certainly feasible to use motor skills while using intellectual skills, or even two different intellectual skills (like listening to music while reading). But I think trying to absorb two of the same kind of input would jumble them.

01.03.2026 00:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't think it's a matter of the sensory input, but of the ability to process both at once.

01.03.2026 00:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think you're nudging the goalposts. I don't dispute that we would've still won, but a talented commander could've affected a lot of battles before the A-bomb was ready.

28.02.2026 23:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

True, and Yamamoto knew that; but his loss probably made resistance to the American advance less effective. Several major battles could've gone the other way, or caused heavier U.S. losses, with better Japanese command and control.

28.02.2026 23:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Criticism in hopes of improvement is qualitatively different from criticism that aims for destruction.

28.02.2026 23:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not a head of state, but it's arguable the death of Yamamoto had a deleterious effect on Japanese capability in the Pacific.

28.02.2026 23:07 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

She's only following orders: Destroy both channels.

28.02.2026 01:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's Trump's face merged with Epstein's.

28.02.2026 01:31 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Notice it's never "brain day."

28.02.2026 01:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fine, so long as they neglect to also flag the addition of "sphincter" and "vomit."

27.02.2026 21:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hegseth is delighted at the prospect of a cheap new liver.

27.02.2026 21:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The difficulty is not really in building a bomb. Given the materials, that's within the capability of a good college chemistry/physics department.
The prob is building an adequate delivery system: one reliable enough to reach the target and not go off on your own territory.

27.02.2026 21:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hey, we don't exist either!

27.02.2026 18:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Since he maintains that he really won in 2020, by his own reckoning he has been "elected" three times and therefore must resign.

27.02.2026 18:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

News media should be:
- decentralized
- collaborative
- nonprofit
- employee- and/or community-owned.

27.02.2026 17:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is something I only wear when actually in Ohio.

26.02.2026 21:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AKA "Hey, what's this button do?"

26.02.2026 17:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0