what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?
06.03.2026 22:05
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what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?
What MAGA sees vs. what the rest of the world sees
Clearly it's the milk they use to make swiss cheese
Also, the Eagles were polarizing well before Lebowski. Probably the Nickelback of their time in terms of being broadly popular (at least by sales) while simultaneously being widely and loudly loathed by cultural gatekeepers.
*frantically writing prompts, eyes reflecting nothing but the screen*
Less clothes.
Shinier hair.
Bigger rictus grin.
Deader eyes.
Deader.
Bigger box.
Bigger.
Bigger still.
Melt the background.
Melt the foreground.
Deader eyes.
Deader grin.
Publish.
*the hand stills, the screen dims*
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
www.wsj.com/business/med...
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
A perfect double tapered set of posts
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
This summer, Rob Schneider is... The Shah of Iran. Rated PG-13
They also mention people not being allowed drinks at courtside. Sure that'll sit greaaaaat with thirsty athletes and entitled high rollers.
Yeah, but there won't be any shortage of generic white dudes to choose from. Also, Secretary of State is generally a place where someone can have a more meaningful impact than VP, except as a launchpad for a future Presidential run.
How are there not scare ads running constantly about MAGA criminals being freed by the President committing heinous new crimes? Maybe I've been listening too much to @matthew.flux.community, but this should be a layup, hitting the President where he's perceived to be strongest (tough on crime).
He's positioned well for State, particularly if a progressive wins (helping Abrego Garcia was even higher profile than his Gaza work). But he's still largely unknown outside of DC circles, so may need to run to cement it. Have a hard time seeing him making it far in a presidential primary.
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
I think LLMs have uses, but "1,000 targets, including a girls elementary school we hit twice with precision munitions" is indeed representative of their state-of-the-art—and likely a fundamental limitation of the technology.
Sometimes sloppiness is okay; sometimes it's 160 dead children.
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
The White House meeting comes as Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg has been leading Pentagon work in recent days on a supplemental budget request of around $50 billion that could be released as soon as Friday, one of the people said. The new money would pay for replacing the weapons used in recent conflicts including those in the Middle East. The figure is preliminary and could change.
USAID was simply too expensive to continue but
The kids are alright. If we have a solid rim protector, we could take a good leap next year. If we have someone that's lights out from 3 (even off the bench)...
Is it only me, or are these people becoming harder to imagine as ones we can peaceably share a society with?
Fetterman's just a gutter racist at this point
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
The IRIS Dena, a prized destroyer in the Iranian Navy, had participated in an international naval exercise in India last month. The ship had been making its way back toward Iran from Visakhapatnam, a city in India where the joint exercise ended on Feb. 25. The United States was among the many participants in the drills.
so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...
I mean, if that happened, wouldn't have been a scandal. It wasn't like it ended minimized by blaming everything on a fall guy who ended up with a right wing media sinecure...
