The Trump admin doesn’t consider competency as a crucial skill to be a military logistician. In fact, the only crucial skill they care about is loyalty to Trump.

It isn’t gambling if you know what the outcome is going to be.

If the people betting on these polymarket shares were in a casino, they would have been escorted out long ago.

You can kind of see this as a general win for anybody who is a fan of using psychedelics for treatment of mental health issues, but it’s important to point out that both of the people mentioned in the headline have ulterior motives for this move.

Trump wants to get Joe Rogan back on his side after he alienated him with his Iran antics. Joe Rogan is one of the biggest conservative megaphones in the nation and he can’t afford to have him be talking shit about MAGA before the midterms, so he’ll throw him a bone about this one issue that he doesn’t give a fuck about anyway.

Joe Rogan is doing this to be able to hopefully one day self-administer psychedelics, not get meaningful treatment or aid from a professional to guide him through the process and change himself for the better.

I’m not sure which of these two are being more selfish at this point.

It’s still protected from precipitation, but if I close it all the way wasps inevitably build a nest in there.

This sounds like a problem that has a solution already baked into it.

It’s an uncomfortable, sweaty-palm conversation that needs to happen. Sugarcoating it isn’t going to help in the long run.

When I was a kid I had two cats. One of them, the older cat, got run over by a car one day. My parents told me about it that night. I was like 8 years old and it absolutely devastated me, but knowing what happened allowed me to grieve properly and let all of my feelings out.

My other cat just disappeared one day, and although I suspect that she also died in a similar manner, not knowing the truth always gave me hope that one day she would show back up on my doorstep meowing to be let inside.

My point is that if you try to obfuscate the subject, the risk is that your kid won’t properly understand what happened until much later in life and all the unprocessed emotions can cause trauma. Bluntness might seem cruel in the moment, but you have to do it. Ask for their full attention, sit them down, and tell them what happened, and offer comfort in whatever way you can. The news will hurt them, and they will possibly lash out at you, but eventually they will recover from it and go back to feeling normal again.

Good luck, OP.

Oh no, those subtleties aren’t lost on me, I’m just lamenting that literally anyone is falling for this scheme. Even if this would be technically unenforceable it’s still 1000% bad and should never even be in congress. I hate that every few years some draconian bullshit like this pops up and we need to muster all of our collective will to raise awareness and fight it. Someone else said it best in the thread - we need to win every time, but they only need to win once.

Does me tapping my order into a self-service kiosk at a restaurant count as “using” the operating system that it is running on?

Like, I feel like this is going to be really difficult to enforce, and big business might actually push back against it if they think it will hurt their bottom line, but my god can we stop with this nanny state internet surveillance bullshit already? The government is too stupid to actually protect anyone with this dumb law because there will always be loopholes and workarounds.

Sweet and savory do seem to be pretty complimentary flavors, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this was delicious.

Why do I find this slightly unnerving? There’s just something uncanny about it, I can’t explain it. It’s not even some backrooms liminal space shit, I just can’t quite put it into words properly.

Someday everyone will claim to have always opposed him.

This doesn’t hurt Iran at all, it just makes the problem worse for everyone else. All this will accomplish is loading more international pressure on the United States to end the conflict immediately with major concessions to Iran.

The first way we could fight, and probably the most likely to be successful, is an economic attack. General strikes, mass protests, and civil disobedience still have the chance to sway those in power that if they want to keep their status, they need to side with the masses and not with a megalomaniac dictator. Historically, we have seen great results from strikes and protest - organized labor is a powerful force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, labor unions are at their weakest they’ve probably ever been because the U.S. government and large corporations have been colluding to make unionizing as difficult as possible. That’s not to say it can’t work in a spontaneous and unorganized way, but that requires people to give up a lot of security and comfort, and those who are not marginalized or are actually happy about the whole Trump crowning himself king would not be likely to show any kind of solidarity with others. It’d be an uphill battle, for sure.

The second way, is by abandoning the fight altogether. At some point, people will decide that throwing their lives away for the American Dream, the way of life that hasn’t existed since they were kids, if it ever truly existed at all, is not worth it. Emigrating to another country willing to accept them, or in other words, mass flight from an oppressive regime, is more likely to happen than the third way.

The third way is revolution, a violent and organized militia that forms to overthrow the government and start a new one. As you’ve correctly guessed, it’ll be very hard for a force to fight against a fully-actualized surveillance state complete with the most well funded military on the planet. We’re not there yet, but if the goal was to make it impossible for any kind of resistance to organize and strike at the heart of the regime, they could have that system in place before the end of Trump’s current term. Now, the one saving grace is that the present day U.S. military has zero experience fighting on their own soil, and modern warfare has shifted dramatically from having armies meet each other on the battlefield to asymmetrical warfare, where the under equipped side employs tactics that are difficult to counter or predict in advance - guerilla warfare, hit-and-run strikes, drone attacks, electronic warfare, cyber attacks, suicide bombings, etc. A civil war fought on American soil would be an absolute bloodbath for both sides, but not an easy win for the mighty U.S. armed forces. I wouldn’t count on the armed forces siding with the anti-government faction, either. At least not in any quantity that would matter.

I suppose there is a fourth way, and that is for the state governments to balkanize and secede from the Union. This would ultimately end up in one of two ways - either Trump let’s us go and those former states become countries of their own, possibly banding together to form a new coalition or democratic state. Or, more likely, Trump will go to war with the secessionists and probably win unless those now-sovereign entities can get help from some other country. America won independence from Great Britain thanks in no small part to France, and something like that could happen again if, say, all the west coast states formed their own country and then allied themselves with the Chinese government.

That has always been the most fucked up part about flight delays. They get everybody boarded and seated, plane is ready to go, maybe you start taxiing, and then you’re just sitting there waiting for potentially hours.

I refuse to believe that returning the plane to the terminal jetway and allowing the passengers to deboard is some kind of unsolvable conundrum or major issue that can’t be surmounted with better logistics. They have never been able to properly explain why they can’t do exactly that, other than that they don’t want to do the paperwork.

This is an absolutely hilarious way to hear about this news.

Sometimes I get into the weeds a bit arguing with someone over trivial shit, and my brain just can’t handle not getting the last word in. Blocking helps with that. It’s petty, sure, but it lets me move on and get back to my day rather than angrily typing out dumb responses that I would no doubt regret later.

I try to do it sparingly. I never want to be the one hardheaded guy everyone knows that will never admit defeat under any circumstances, so getting taken down a peg or two from time to time is probably healthy for me. Keeps me grounded in reality rather than huffing my own farts and calling it perfume.

I think I’ve had to ban more people from the community I moderate than people I’ve had to block for being assholes/trolls.

Unless they’re a fucking SYNTH!

If you lose to Donald Trump, you are literally unelectable.

This is my hole, Jerry! It was made for me!

How convenient for her 🙄

It remains to be seen if Trump can keep a lid on his ego long enough for the whole thing to blow over and Iran to get the concessions they want. The markets are reacting strongly to the news, but I am not convinced that the two week ceasefire will amount to anything if the Trump admin can’t leave the issue well enough alone. We’ll just have to wait and see if the war is more profitable for Trump and his insider trading buddies than it is politically volatile for him.

He’s obviously going to try and spin this as a victory if he does manage to pull out successfully, but it’s important to ask the question - what were the US war goals and did they achieve them? He should not get credit for starting a war and then ending it swiftly, that is the expected outcome. Seems to me that they’ve accomplished nothing and are bragging about cleaning up the mess that they created. Hopefully people will still remember come midterms this year.