It’s surprising how many people will plug in a random USB drive that they find. Apparently that’s how the CIA got the Stuxnet virus into Iran’s system and nerfed their centrifuges back in the day.

MacArthur was a bit crazy in that regard…

Ocarina of Time

I can sing the Blazing Saddles theme song pretty decent. Final offer.

I was thinking about Khashoggi, but fair point.

I mean, the Saudis did it a few years ago and we really didn’t raise much of a stink.

Tangentially related. I watched a pretty interesting documentary many years ago about avant-garde art in Weimar Germany. Back in the days of the kaiser and before, if you painted a horse it damn well better look like a horse. During the third reich, if you painted a horse it damn well better have hitler on it. But during the interwar years there was quite an explosion of weird shit from the German art community.

Then, of course, the war happened and all that shit ended, just like it’s happening in Russia now. Not that America did much better back then. Frank Capra was directing WWII propaganda films and Bugs Bunny was flying a B-29.

This is what I keep trying to tell people about this war. There are no good guys. There is no right side of history to be on.

There are sides. And people are perfectly welcome and justified to take a side. But you have to understand that whichever side you take, they have done terrible things to innocent people for terrible reasons.

Argument is correct.

Tone is asshole.

Upvote or downvote? I’m not sure on this one.

That might be more than wishful thinking. Gantz has personally overseen the invasion of Gaza twice, and he joined the war cabinet right after 10/7. He is definitely no friend to Gaza.

Calling him a centrist is only true in that he’s slightly left of Bibi, which is saying nothing.

We had a tiny chance when Obama and Rouhani were talking. Hell, at one point we had a treaty. There was a road map and some hope.

Then Trump fucked it all up for no reason, along with all the other shit he pulled.

I’d at it’s more 'there are two regional powers here, Israel and Iran. The more aid we give Israel the easier it makes Iran"

Edit: weaker* it makes Iran

Fucking autocorrect.

How many Germans does it take to screw in a light bulb?

One. Because Germans are efficient and lack humor.

Bro you can just say that you don’t like brown people.

Not that bad, which is strange for this time of year. Usually I’d be working 'round the clock, but my industry is in a slump, so I have some free time. Hanging out with my partner, cooking, cleaning, played a hot second of video games last week. Hoping to have time to jump back into reading Stormlight Archive, but that’s one hell of an investment.

Thanks for asking, stranger. How’s life by you?

https://youtu.be/ysmLA5TqbIY?si=7qTovV2FJ2OuWM3V

I dunno. They’ve amassed 90% of their population along the US border.

Judging by the sketchy-ass places I’ve gotten gyros from, I’m perfectly willing to die for a gyro.

Do you know what NATO nicknamed the defense plan during the cold war? The Rainbow Plan.

Kinda? That is the logic that the cold war superpowers employed, but it isn’t necessarily true. Having one nuclear-armed ICBM or cruise missile within range of a US city would be one hell of a deterrent.

China at least partly holds to this. Their logic is that nuclear security does not necessitate nuclear parity. So while the US and USSR made thousands of warheads and delivery systems, China maintained an arsenal of roughly 80-100 warheads with viable delivery systems.