that second one still amuses me in a bleak way because the KGB tried to spread it first and it got no traction. then it farmed out the job to Markus Wolf and the East Germans and they successfully got it to spread (and indirectly killed millions of people)

That Oswald killed Kennedy, acting alone, is comprehensively proven beyond all reasonable a doubt, well beyond most historical facts we'd never question. The conspiracy theories did do a lot of real harm, but belief in them is essentially unfalsifiable. It wasn't a failure of the investigation.

this is the rationale that my company gave too, as well as some optimistic promises about it being able to format spreadsheets a lot more quickly and efficiently than we're currently able to. I'm skeptical.

blech...

Like I'm sorry but if you think Israel in response to the question "what country is absolutely central and irreplaceable to capitalist markets" then you are either a Tel Avivi techbro with an incredibly inflated sense of importance or an antisemite

is the general attitude toward online sports gambling as hostile in KY as it is here on (this corner of) the internet? I'd love to see a groundswell of support against it, I just don't know if it exists.

you know, now that I think about it, I'm not at all surprised that some Kennedy way back fucked a fishlady.

you just wait, we'll have you measuring in hamburgers per bald eagle screech yet

suspect that this is what happens when nobody in your family or family's extended circle is around to tell you what life is like without running water or regular electricity.

Knowledge of premodernity functions as a touching-of-grass that too many people just don't have.

I hate to give the slightest smidgen of credit to Lizza here, but he does note one thing that's right: it matters not just as a sordid and revolting melodrama. This is one of the most powerful men in the United States government and he's floridly insane in a way that's not just putting on an act.

Not for Brazilians this morning, we're in a great mood! Exploding memes everywhere
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helping US President Polk's invasion before double-crossing him, becoming Mexican leader, and then losing and getting chased out of power too

today, he has been reincarnated as Viktor Yanukovych

amazing

I'm pretty sure we're not seeing any actual policy or philosophical reversals -- Trump's policies have been very consistently awful, while his rhetoric will just swerve everywhere -- but if he somehow does abandon his MAGA base to the wolves I will laugh so hard