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Iran is teaching Pete Hegseth (and Trump and Netanyahu) the meaning of FAFO.

According to the ranking Democrat on the committee, the subpoena was for Pam Bondi by name, not specifically for the Attorney General. The subpoena is completely valid and legal, and her testimony could be crucial to understand the issue at hand.

She is still legally required to testify, and that’s why they’re still asking for the subpoena to be withdrawn, instead of simply saying it’s invalid.

Imagine if things worked this way in the real world. Your boss notices that all of the money is missing from the cash register, so they report you to the police, but when the police come to conduct an interview, you just say, “I quit that job, so you can’t do anything to me.”

The GOP always puts party before country.

But the unfortunate truth is that if you look at all serious presidential impeachments, the votes went almost exactly down party lines. Regardless of the party. Fortunately for the left, though, this time it’s Republicans who are clearly in the wrong.

IIRC, no senator had ever voted to convict an impeached president in their own party until Mitt Romney did against Trump.

It’s just weird to think that they have this big trial, and present tons of evidence, and the most important factor in how you judge the case is which side of the room you’re sitting on. Nothing to do with the actual trial.

So, unless Republicans actually start doing their jobs and follow the Constitution and start working to benefit their constituents and stop breaking their oaths of office, the only chance America has for justice is if there is a massive blue wave in the elections this year.

2½ years’ jail for man wanted by FBI for facilitating oil supply to North Korea

One of the most awkward headlines I’ve seen. How can he already be sentenced if he’s still wanted?

So this guy, Kwek Kee Seng, is a 66 year old Singaporean. He arranged for ships to transfer 6.9 million USD worth of gas oil to North Korean ships in 2019, and he did it remotely.

On April 7, 2026, Kwek, 66, was sentenced to 30 months’ jail and fined $80,000 after pleading guilty to three counts of flouting UN sanctions, one count for receiving the criminal benefits, and another for obstructing the course of justice. Twelve other charges of a similar nature were taken into account.

So since it’s UN, I guess he was sentenced in The Hague and never came to America, so the FBI never had jurisdiction to arrest him? I’m honestly not sure what the hell the FBI has to do with this situation.

In other news, Pope Leo releases an official press release stating that he is, in fact, Catholic.

I suspect that one disconnect is that we’re not specifically talking about DND. This isn’t an RPG community or a DND community. It’s just a comic strip community.

The comic has a cloak of wisdom, but otherwise seems to be entirely in a modern setting.

The person I responded to just mentioned “intelligence” and “wisdom”, and people do talk about these with regard to real life and not games. In fact, my aphorism about looking both ways at a one-way street is one that was created referencing real life.

As a person who cares about the environment and people’s health, I don’t mind if beef prices go up a lot. Although it would be better if they went up intentionally as a plan to improve things.

I’ve heard many different explanations of intelligence vs wisdom, and I used to think it made sense.

Like, intelligence is raw processing power while wisdom is having the advantage of experience.

Or like a smart man looks for oncoming cars before crossing a one-way street, while a wise man looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

But the more I know about the world, the less I think experienced people are necessarily wiser. They’re only wiser if they have the intelligence, clarity, and willpower to learn from their past.

So to me, it seems that wisdom is more like the area under the intelligence curve. Which would make them inexorably linked.

I think it’s pretty obvious that the nutjob was trying to provoke exactly that sort of response out of Aldrin, and that’s the primary reason why I think Aldrin should get a free pass. He had a film crew there and he wanted to get good footage for his documentary or whatever.

Yeah, the joke doesn’t really work, does it? Any decent programmer will have a better shot at fixing a printer, because any decent programmer is good at finding information on the internet and then following the instructions.

Programmers complain about this situation because once people know that we use the computers, they expect us to fix everything for them for free. So, it’s just annoying. But I wouldn’t sacrifice my life to avoid a minor annoyance, so the joke doesn’t really work.

If you’re a programmer that doesn’t generally know how to find instructions to fix things like printers on the internet and then follow them, then I’m on the side of the guy who wants to shoot them.

Pirro is of Middle Eastern descent, and she’s a woman. Trump, on the other hand, has a history of racism and sexism. Something tells me that if he had to tell the difference between a photo of Jeanine Pirro and one of Kamala Harris, he wouldn’t immediately be able to say who is who.

It’s possible you’d get on a “no fly” list, which could be a problem for some people.

There are probably all sorts of ways that a corrupt government like ours can find ways to punish even perfectly innocent people.

If you feel like this summary sort of buries the lede, I skimmed the article, and long story short, this is a controversial sect that is known for some severe practices and severe abuses.

Pope Francis started to act against Opus Dei just before his death, and Pope Leo seems to want to stop or otherwise curb or work against them, as well.

I always thought that a small part of the reason that we, as a nation, try to respect our military and veterans is that it’s a bad idea to train people to be good at killing other people, and then to antagonize them.

The higher ups wouldn’t want to create a situation where they might become a target. But lately it seems like the civilian government has become much more abusive to the military and veterans. It’s so foolish.

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.” - George W Bush

Humans used to be smarter

When was that?

If we don’t hurry up and put him in prison, he might not even understand why he’s there.

I got one a few years ago that had a setting to automatically go to a specified input when the TV started (similar to how normal TVs used to work).

My only mistake was leaving the TV connected to the network, as it updated and caused some hassle recently.

It’s not even all that weird to think that the Easter Bunny exists, anymore. We’ve all seen furries by now, I think.

Wait, you can learn about something just by searching for that thing on Wikipedia?