Dark Laughter
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Stuck reading a bunch of dumb space doctrine today. "Spacecraft orbits follow parameters according to the laws of physics." Oh, no shit?
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Stuck reading a bunch of dumb space doctrine today. "Spacecraft orbits follow parameters according to the laws of physics." Oh, no shit?
I'm starting to think men who make it through middle age without sleeping with women decades younger than them should get a little medal from the government like the Soviets used to give particularly successful workers or mothers.
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm starting to think men who make it through middle age without sleeping with women decades younger than them should get a little medal from the government like the Soviets used to give particularly successful workers or mothers.
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Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down
How many couples across the country are reading this, looking at each other, and saying "I'm so glad neither one of us is a journalist"?
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
How many couples across the country are reading this, looking at each other, and saying "I'm so glad neither one of us is a journalist"?
The first nine days are log PT, drown-proofing, and pullups.
Navy SEALs want to start a 10-day school to learn drone warfare trib.al/joFrDFx
Navy SEALs want to start a 10-day school to learn drone warfare
Special Operations Command is setting up a new course to teach commandos how to build and repair FPV drones with a final field exercise.
trib.al
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The first nine days are log PT, drown-proofing, and pullups.
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"There was the flag as it mutated from metaphorical to literal weapon, as it was marred by a corruption of the American character that could not be understood or even fully observed through the prism of the partisan binary."
if anyone can tell me what this means i'll buy you dinner
if anyone can tell me what this means i'll buy you dinner
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"There was the flag as it mutated from metaphorical to literal weapon, as it was marred by a corruption of the American character that could not be understood or even fully observed through the prism of the partisan binary."
if anyone can tell me what this means i'll buy you dinner
if anyone can tell me what this means i'll buy you dinner
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
I don't like brutal despots, but when the DoD forces me to watch a Simon Sinek TED talk and take a proprietary Myers-Briggs personality test as part of a leadership course, I briefly understand the impulse to grab a subordinate responsible for something and execute them as a warning to their peers.
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I don't like brutal despots, but when the DoD forces me to watch a Simon Sinek TED talk and take a proprietary Myers-Briggs personality test as part of a leadership course, I briefly understand the impulse to grab a subordinate responsible for something and execute them as a warning to their peers.
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'A House of Dynamite' but it's your uncles trying to deep fry a turkey.
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
'A House of Dynamite' but it's your uncles trying to deep fry a turkey.
As long as this has come up, I was once on a staff with a gay 4A, and the 3A was talking shit about the proliferation of letters in LGBT, because he was kind of a shithead. She hit him with "So, how many letters do you think should be in METT-T?" and he was like "THAT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT!"
Yelling about “2SLGBTQIA+” in an American newspaper
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
As long as this has come up, I was once on a staff with a gay 4A, and the 3A was talking shit about the proliferation of letters in LGBT, because he was kind of a shithead. She hit him with "So, how many letters do you think should be in METT-T?" and he was like "THAT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT!"
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This book is like if you had Major who was separated from the Army for misconduct publish his memoirs on military strategic leadership.
I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This book is like if you had Major who was separated from the Army for misconduct publish his memoirs on military strategic leadership.
"Twilight, but the woman is middle-aged and instead of a vampire it has Frankenstein." -Nuzzi, pitching this book
I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Twilight, but the woman is middle-aged and instead of a vampire it has Frankenstein." -Nuzzi, pitching this book
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the audio book engineer when it's time for her to record the RFK Jr. stuff
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
the audio book engineer when it's time for her to record the RFK Jr. stuff
Farmers repurpose excess orchestras as tenderizers.
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Farmers repurpose excess orchestras as tenderizers.
"Okay, we're going to give each of you the $2000...but it has to be in pennies."
BESSENT: “THE $2,000 DIVIDEND COULD COME IN LOTS OF FORMS… IT COULD BE JUST THE TAX DECREASES. IT COULD BE NO TAX ON TIPS.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"Okay, we're going to give each of you the $2000...but it has to be in pennies."
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As long as Wag the Dog has come up, reminder that it's awful. It had the blind luck to come out before the Clinton scandal and Kosovo, but the source material was a fever dream about how the Gulf War was a conspiracy because it didn't helpfully descend into a Vietnam-style quagmire.
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
As long as Wag the Dog has come up, reminder that it's awful. It had the blind luck to come out before the Clinton scandal and Kosovo, but the source material was a fever dream about how the Gulf War was a conspiracy because it didn't helpfully descend into a Vietnam-style quagmire.
At an absolute minimum, this is fraud/waste/abuse.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
At an absolute minimum, this is fraud/waste/abuse.
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1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
For everyone griping that MTG is obviously awful, welcome to the world of the US military. The people with the most political suction to help your cause have a ton of baggage, and the people without baggage are politically irrelevant.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For everyone griping that MTG is obviously awful, welcome to the world of the US military. The people with the most political suction to help your cause have a ton of baggage, and the people without baggage are politically irrelevant.
"He's not sure what stage of cleaning he was in at the time, so it's unsure if the dog's paw may have gotten caught inside the trigger and the safety was off, or if there was some sort of manufacturer malfunction."
The manufacturer's counsel is standing by to strip the flesh from this guy's bones.
The manufacturer's counsel is standing by to strip the flesh from this guy's bones.
Journalism 101: Dog bites man not news. Man bites dog is.
Journalism 102: Dog shoots man is definitely news.
www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/...
Journalism 102: Dog shoots man is definitely news.
www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/...
Shillington man hospitalized after gun mishap involving dog
The man told police the dog jumped onto his bed and caused a shotgun that was resting there to discharge, striking him in the back.
www.wfmz.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"He's not sure what stage of cleaning he was in at the time, so it's unsure if the dog's paw may have gotten caught inside the trigger and the safety was off, or if there was some sort of manufacturer malfunction."
The manufacturer's counsel is standing by to strip the flesh from this guy's bones.
The manufacturer's counsel is standing by to strip the flesh from this guy's bones.
The business model for AI as I understand it is "sell the problem, then sell the solution," so stand by for them to follow this up by offering a higher-tier Alexa+ subscription that tells your good-for-nothing kid all the things you loved them too much to tell them.
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The business model for AI as I understand it is "sell the problem, then sell the solution," so stand by for them to follow this up by offering a higher-tier Alexa+ subscription that tells your good-for-nothing kid all the things you loved them too much to tell them.
Some real "Phase line Hawk 2A" vibes.
Non-zero chance that's exactly what they are and someone in the 3 shop named them that as a joke, thinking a higher ranking person would catch it and change it later.
Ok these all sound like gay porn titles.
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Some real "Phase line Hawk 2A" vibes.
We may not understand law or politics, but everyone, by the time they're E-5 or O-3, has already seen enough that they have a PhD in "Don't get jammed up for your idiot boss."
This speaks well for service members’ ethics and how seriously they take their oaths. As for DOD, that’s something entirely different. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Military personnel seek legal advice on whether Trump-ordered missions are lawful
Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to...
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We may not understand law or politics, but everyone, by the time they're E-5 or O-3, has already seen enough that they have a PhD in "Don't get jammed up for your idiot boss."
I'm not sure "Those were the good old days..." is the angle the Epstein story called for.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I'm not sure "Those were the good old days..." is the angle the Epstein story called for.