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Northern Minnesota resident. Chem Eng background. Sports, outdoors, and cooking enjoyer.

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There is something darkly comical about vibe coding forcing a bunch of engineers who likely derided engineering management now managing a corral of AI agents that basically act like a mix between Amelia Bedelia and the guy from Memento

12.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 198 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

New Past Lives: Why Slavery Matters. Our final episode of the first season looks back at why it's essential to understand the sheer scope of slavery, how fragile the idea of human value really is, and why we can never go back. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

11.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Unearth the Egyptian Stargate.

12.03.2026 00:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Italian Breakfast gets an espresso shot.

12.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I understand the tiebreaker correctly, if Italy scores 4 runs, then the US advances. Italy, with 4 runs in a loss, must have given up 5 or more; advantage US. Italy, with 4 runs in a win, gives Mexico two losses. Advantage US.

12.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like southern sweet tea is being forgotten about in this exchange. It might be a minor league team, but I feel like there would be a sweet tea team in the South.

12.03.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Political scientists in election years: No. Presidents can't really affect gas prices. It's a silly way to judge a president.

Political scientists in 2026: So, actually...

11.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 185 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

Furry Charles I and furry Oliver Cromwell embracing in a hug to piss everyone off.

11.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i actually understand how important the strait of hormuz being closed is because i've seen star wars: episode i: the phantom menace (1999)

11.03.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 273 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

I just keep coming back around to, "there is a reason that no previous president did this foolish thing and it was not because they were weak, woke cowards, but because they could read a cost-benefit analysis."

11.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 1222 πŸ” 214 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 10

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

11.03.2026 13:27 πŸ‘ 3769 πŸ” 941 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 32

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

11.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 14942 πŸ” 3320 πŸ’¬ 522 πŸ“Œ 500

Sour cream?

10.03.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

10.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 7577 πŸ” 1644 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 19

so:
a. the Strait of Hormuz is def actually mined
b. they did ZERO planning for this
c. they're freaking out now that it's leaked to the press and trying to ensure us that 'no it's not'

10.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 552 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4

My neighbor told me oil tankers keep eating his naval mines so I asked how many naval mines he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new naval mine afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding naval mines to oil tankers and then his
Ayatollah started laughing.

10.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

P1: His nickname is 'The Electrician'.
P2: Makes sense, 100mph electric fastball?
P1: No, he's professionally an electrician.

10.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This pushes the comebacks for mumps and whooping cough to winter '26-'27. They must be kicking themselves for this bad luck.

10.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it would be the two of them off the coast of Miami hyping each other up about an upcoming invasion of Cuba. When they cut the engines, they suddenly hear the sound of drone engine that's been following them the whole time.

10.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ezekiel 25:17

10.03.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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.@aclu.org has reached 90 of the ~137 Venezuelans sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, then prisoner-swapped to VZ. 90 of 91 want to challenge their Tren de Aragua designation: 22 by coming back to USA (tho they’ll be detained) & 68 in written petitions.
1/3

10.03.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 266 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6

Wait, the Atlanta Hawks were going to do a strip club theme night. Lol

09.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would watch this movie

09.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I understand correctly, the thing propping up the global economy is Wall Street’s collective belief that a man whose father, wife, and daughter we killed would not want to do anything that would impact our 401ks to us and will make a deal so Mr. Trump can have a good midterm.

09.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 950 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 6
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Now, we need to convince Crenshaw to resign.

09.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's so good.

09.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
09.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 3910 πŸ” 856 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 21

I saw this episode

09.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Add in some Buchanan, late stage Wilson...

09.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0