I despise this fucking guy.

Yeah, you really shouldn’t need a park ranger lecturing you to understand that throwing garbage wherever in a national park is bad. That said, apparently you do so maybe give those rangers their jobs back.

Not a fan of this guy’s domestic policy but at least he’s pragmatic enough to see the writing on the wall.

What do you mean. Who doesn’t love pirates?

For anyone wondering what this commenter is referring to:

Spavor blames fellow prisoner Kovrig for Chinese detention, alleges he was used for intelligence gathering

Michael Spavor reaches settlement with federal government over detention in China

Do you recall on 9/11 when Trump bragged that he now had the tallest building in New York?

I have this sneaking suspicion that what makes this all so “psychologically important” to him is that he wants to make the US the largest country by area on Earth. Stupid, I know, but that’s par for the course for this fucking guy.

Then you just don’t want your guy being questioned. You’ll have to forgive me if I don’t agree.

Would you give this same grace to Pierre Poilievre were he Prime Minister?

Also France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and others.

Yawn.

This again?

Yeah, obviously. When you hit me with this obsequious bullshit, though?

He’s literally playing a game of Diplomacy, against a mad man backed by demons. Give him some space to cook.

I’m going to tell you to stuff it.

No. This is a democracy and I reserve the right to criticize leadership, thanks.

Could they have? I have seen a lot of talk, but the actual plan that Rubio laid out is that they are going to embargo Venezuela until the government does what they want. The same thing they were doing before Maduro’s abduction. It’s been a couple weeks now since that abduction and it doesn’t seem like Trump is any more in control of Venezuela than he was prior to the abduction. Just a lot of grandiose claims.

Is Trump in a position to “give” Venezuela to Machado? As far as I can determine the same government that was running it before Maduro’s abduction is running it currently.

Don’t look at the sun is advice that applies more broadly than just the celestial object.

What are they even hoping to gain from this? Do they think harassing or harming a small child is going to cow people? Rather than throw a match on a puddle of gasoline?

https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept13/2013/09/29/socrates-writing-vs-memory/

[…] Thamus states that ‘letters’ “… will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls…” (Plato, n.d.). Thamus believed that the people would become dependent on the written word and cease to use their own memories. He also believed the written word would lead people to become “hearers of many things”, appear as though they were all-knowing, but to actually be learners of nothing.

I had been looking for a reddit alternative for some time, but nothing I found was both active enough and not a receptacle for all the shitheads who were too reactionary for reddit. When the API fiasco happened, it seemed like there was an opportunity for federated link aggregators to be that. So far, it seems like that has been true. I was also attracted to the open source nature of the thing.

Jonathan David Ross

It sure feels like our military leadership is not equipped to meet the moment.