Just took a photo of these two earlier today at the National Portrait Gallery

And for additional context, these two are prominently displayed directly opposite each other

The byronic over-dramatic impressionist General Douglas MacArthur

Vrs

The quiet soul eroding stare of General Eisenhower

Star Wars has a ton of flaws in every property and the fan consensus is "let's make funny memes about them" because, for all of his flaws, George Lucas has managed not to publicly lose his mind on Twitter

Which one is this lol

On top of all the other reasons I like it, it was surprisingly respectful. Like I can easily imagine this being played in a church basement

Are we talking like contract work, at-will, blood oath?

I mean yeah this sounds like it would have been a great summer job in college

What is this panel from by the way and would you recommend checking it out?

There's also Trump Jr's investment in Unusual Machines

I'm not sure how much it matters to this since it seems small relative to other causes & they're already getting substantial graft via the pentagon contract but greed is greed.

Something to keep an eye on at least

Rotini!

I've seldom been disappointed when all I have left is rotini. Can't go with every sauce but works well enough with a lot

“155% tax rates for billionaires at home and 155mm for billionaire dictators abroad”

Nah, Perty runs on resentment and outsmarting himself. I think that one nailed it

Isn't exclusive with him also being a tech-right guy though

Incomprehensible bangers from the pseudorandom word salad bot

There is a joke I like:

"It's amusing watching Bill Kristol and Noah Smith evolve like a painting of Dorian Grey"

(I really wish I could remember who said it because I know I'm not telling the joke right either)

reading and buying books are two different hobbies, much like sewing and buying fabric, or woodworking and buying tools

every major academic discipline should have a probably not monthly but like quarterly publication that writes directly and accessibly to a interested and educated but non-academic audience about the most substantively relevant empirical findings in the discipline the past several months.

I loved Widow! Was damn hard for me but I found the next major boss a cakewalk

“Hey why don’t you invest billions of dollars in a factory here, and every four years we’ll flip a coin and maybe a posse of mouthbreathing thugs will throw hoods over your employees’ heads and fly them to a foreign prison”

Apropos nothing, I was thinking about those responsible for destroying USAID and the lives to be lost with it.

I assessed there was no retribution mankind could devise that would equalize it, and it might be evil to try.

The need for a theological concept of hell became clear in that moment.