Idk something tells me China would happily buy Russian oil sanction or not. Especially if their main source is disrupted.

We’re gonna find out.

6 months ago, I’d say yes. No matches at all. But I’ve worked out a lot in those 6 months, and I got better clothes, more comfortable haircuts, new glasses.

Imma have my brother get some photos.

I was recently told by several women that I really shouldn’t have a hard time as long as I don’t take selfies. I make good money, I’m 6’0", I’m white (apparently matters more than I would hope), I got blue eyes, and I have muscle. Im attractive at first glance.

They said I don’t need a perfect anything as long as it looks like I put effort in to appearing good. It’s something about effort and confidence being more attractive than being Henry Cavill. But I also have to learn to stay to my values and not just fall for the first hot woman I get a match with.

Oh, no, not at all. It’s purely about its location and importance than worry me.

The PTSD folk? They were in the expelling force in '91. The others were in Iraq (mainly after 2003), and came through Kuwait.

Kuwait was chill after the Iraq regime fell.

Kuwait is right over the Persian Gulf by Iran. It won’t be chill for very long.

Ugh. This kind of hits hard.

I know people who are active in the military (yes they are stupid and yes it doesn’t take much analysis to figure out they’re probably magats). In particular I know several who have been to Kuwait and seem to regularly get stationed there.

I’ve known several people who died by suicide from PTSD from Kuwait, or Iraq.

There’s a girl, she’s a sergeant. She’s in until 2028, been to Kuwait already. I don’t know if she’s even 23. She certainly doesn’t come off as a magat. But it doesn’t really matter. 23 is an adult yes. But to me? I’m 34? She’s just starting life out. To get killed in this kind of war is gross.

She can still hunt rabbits somehow.

Not that they let her. They just discovered this by accident. She’s an indoor cat that roams their high fence backyard when they’re out there.

Still, that’s pretty impressive. Cats are absolutely incredible animals. I’m thankful the “worst behaved cats” still love me for whatever reason because I’ve been able to see some of the crazy shit they do.

My parents have an entirely blind 18 year old cat. She can navigate the entire house eats fine, plays a bit. Hops up and down furniture, finds the sunbathing spots, uses the litter just fine. You do have to keep an eye out for her if your moving around as she can’t smell fast enough if you step in front of her path.

Yes they do. That’s why scalping is so common here. People will scalp anything. Right down to chicken sandwiches during the first weeks of the pandemic. It’s stupid.

Really? I couldn’t get one pre-ordered at any store in town when it started online. Mind you I live where there are <250k people in the county. I figure I’ll give it a couple of months since Nintendo clearly produced way more this time around compared to the Switch and compared to like the PS5.

Yes. I love it.

Yeah, no. It was just as bad this time as always.

I’m not waking up at 5am to be the first one into whatever store to get one either.

Well where are the freaking switch 2s???

The SD card reader on my switch broke a couple years ago so now it takes 7-8x longer to load anything, and instead of paying Nintendo to “fix” it again I’m just waiting to get a switch 2.

But I can’t do that because of scalpers

I believe I read that not only are micro plastics unavoidable, the amount entering the environment produced by any organization is an order of magnitude higher than anything we produce at home.

Especially anything that comes in plastic wrap.

Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror.

Ok does someone want to catch me up on this opinion shared by world leaders but quite literally no one else?

Like yes, Iran is a terrible authoritarian state that is very dangerous. But so is Saudi Arabia?!

So like modern tanks have nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical protections. Does that mean that they are rated to survive a nuclear detonation at a certain radius?

I didn’t call it, but there’s nothing quite like a war to distract the population from rampant decline at home.

This one is weird though, Iran is allied with Russia. Israel is allied with the US. Historically, this made sense.

But Trump and Putin playing war together would benefit both of them. It allows Putin to pull out of Ukraine because “Iran provided us much help and they need us now.” And it allows Russia to maintain the war economy. It benefits Trump because he wants to play war.

Neither leader would have any actual skin in the game, it’s just people’s lives that would never contribute in another meaningful way to their power.

I don’t like this. This is feeling more 1984 than 1984.

Edit: I like this even worse after I read the specifics of the KC-135R and KC-46A. Each can carry about 200,000 lbs of additional fuel. A single F-15E can hold 13,000 lbs internally. 30 KC-135Rs can refuel an entire F-15E 460 times. Israel has 7 KC-130H (60,000lbs) and 7 Boeing 707s (which is what the KC-135 was based on). This isn’t just escalation, this is staging for invasion.

And then I’m a single father, so I’m just fucked!

It says it was located 600m down in 2015. That’s not too bad, military subs have a max depth of like 400m, but deep sea submersibles can get to like 11km. An remote vehicle would be much cheaper at this depth, and wealthier financiers could easy afford salvage expeditions.

But where it was located is not public information. That limits it’s salvaging opportunity immensely. I would also suspect that Columbia has spent some effort securing the salvage, if they can’t afford to retrieve it.

Yes. But the part that non-violence allows is that we can set it up to fight on our terms rather than theirs.

They want gun battles. Charging into enemy formations. Units vs units. They want to make themselves heros of battle. But they will do it only if they convince themselves they will always win.

That’s not how the modem organized military can be defeated. They will be defeated by guerilla tactics. Assassinations. Sabotage. Economics. The first thing that needs to happen is for the population to witness just how much they support each other.

The DNC may be useless, but as long as they keep MAGA thinking the opposition is weak, they will massively underestimate their own vulnerability.

From all available intelligence, no. They clearly have a nuclear weapons program (which are insanely huge to begin with) but there has never been a measured test, and no evidence of enriched uranium at a high enough purity to be weaponized.

It’s insanely hard work to created weaponized enriched uranium. With the sanctions Iran has had for decades it would be next to impossible for them to get all the stuff they need to create it on their own.