Ben Steele

My Roman Empire is what the furry stickers with QR codes could possibly show me if I opened them while on my escalator ride off the train.

The *British~ think Iran should try constitutional monarchy? Can someone tell the British why Iran is not a constitutional monarchy?

The last time a country stalemated a war with Iran when it looked weak, it took an army of 1,000,000 Iraqis with the support of the United States.

There are 1.33M active duty US troops, including all the ones deployed for day to day stuff in all our bases.

Really feels like this attack, even more than last year's, have probably turned 'Israel facing a nuclear Iran as its regional rival' from an 'if' question to a 'when' question.

And when might be pretty damn soon. Strategic catastrophe for Tel Aviv, if so.

All I'm saying is that the anti-DEI push was a treasonous destruction of American cultural capital carried out by domestic terrorists and there is one punishment for treason

They want to rule a region of rubble and the US is, at best, perfectly fine with this albeit not motivated by it and at worst is actively in agreement.

Fuck Germany and god bless Spain

In Washington, we don't have a state income tax. We do have a state earned income tax credit. The coolest part about that is since not every Washingtonian has to file their income to make Bill pay a little out of his Little St. James vacation budget, poor people don't get their EITC!

Absolutely! I saw this and was like... For all the HIPAA training I've had to take for both being in the industry and rarely having to enforce it, I don't think I also ever learned how to file a complaint.

And apparently that's because jurisdiction is split enough that it is legit confusing!

(I asked some DOL staffers I would normally turn to, but since no employer is clearly implicated it falls under HHS authority—we think.)

This page is ugly as hell, but HHS' Office of Civil Rights looks to be the best place in this case to report a company that you tried to warn that is acting with gross negligence. Technically any failure is reportable and finable but this is insane. ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/smartscr...

In many ways the Anthropic story is a more explicit version of what has played out across the research landscape for the past year.

The thinking goes something like this: Contractors (researchers and universities) have their own ideological agenda and use gov. contracts to pursue those goals.

when our time comes we will make no excuses for the pronouns

The *mean~ is what you're thinking of, where all the income is divided by the number of people.

Median is the one where everyone is lined up by income and the person in the middle is selected, making it much less impacted by extreme outliers.

A jail death shocked an Alabama town. The sheriff remains in power. The jail death of a man who suffered from mental illness drew criminal charges against Alabama guards. The sheriff says he’s done nothing wrong.

Last year, I learned the horrific story of Tony Mitchell, who froze to death in a bare concrete jail cell in Alabama.

The sheriff overseeing the jail still has his job. But half of his jailers have been charged in Mitchell's death.

This is that story:

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

I've been graded on going over 1/16in from the edge and now it's my privilege to pass on the trauma to men who didn't go to fashion school.

response back from God after decades of panicked prayers with no response might not be worth the relationship if that's what it was getting us. 2/2

Les Miserables made it click that the social gospel was the only gospel that made sense, and I was surrounded with people that had personal relationships with the Divine that were telling me the State is evil and that poor people should rely on charity. Then I realized maybe trying for that 1/2

Passing around a video to my classmates so we can all sneer at this lowly peasant calling an eighth of an inch top stitch an edge stitch as he cowardly avoids the space we are trapped in for our cute little messenger bags for his manly tactical MOLLE bag.

I love when he tries the "Make sacrifices for the good of the Fatherland!" routine to his base of the whiniest, most entitled human beings who have ever lived, people who had a complete emotional breakdown when they couldn't go to Fuddruckers for a couple weeks in 2020.

Oil up 25% tomorrow to celebrate America 250. Now we're cooking with gas.

The value of having a taboo on headphones in the sewing room is that the fashion school gossip is everything it is stereotyped to be and I have never been left bored.

Okay the other funny thing this week has been people from my org being like "Oh, that's kind of cute and cheap" and then hours later realizing which logo they're wearing and having to be taught how to properly deface their own property.

I'm having a very weird week but there's nowhere that's funnier than this to find out that Noem is going.

For what it's worth, this is the first time I can remember a budget fight resulting in a cabinet reshuffle, which is a good strategy.

It's also kind of wild to be spending a week surrounded by DHS (uh) listening to everyone whine about not getting paid except their shittiest coworkers.

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

what fresh hell

The statute of limitations for getting away with stealing from a pension plan, potentially endangering dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people's retirements, is 6 years.

One small fix right now is that civil immigration violations should absolutely have 1) an SOL, and 2) a lower SOL than that.

The problem with most Islamophobia is that the same people that vote because of ads like this literally do this shit with different clothes on.

Analysis | George W. Bush's Iraq invasion was preceded by months of meticulous planning, and yet history regards it as a failure. Perhaps Donald Trump's loose, improvised approach to invading Iran will be the key to its success.

MBZ: Hello, Mr. Hegseth? This is Mohammad bin Zayed. Can we get more PAC3s, we've burned through $4 billion worth already and there's all these Nepali guys looking at me funny
MBZ: Hello?

Hegs: New phone who dis