He’s a Sunni fundamentalist

Can’t believe he was on Stavvy’s World

Wouldn't minimalist rules of engagement be relatively easier to understand and follow?

I don't think deterrence really works, more likely to draw heat if anything. Does make sense that they might make face-saving moves once Iran depletes the stock more (from what I'm guessing, after they unload on Israel and on US bases after interceptor stock is more depleted).

But anyway my first thought with two countries was Israel and UAE - or at least UAE *wanted* the war, might be recalculating I really don’t know.

What’s the gain for them to actively participate if US and Israel will use their resources instead (and direct involvement is risky on both foreign and domestic fronts)? Both Trump and Netanyahu are all in and politically committed to doing this openly.

Yeah the scientists actually won that one already

He pitches to contact!

I’m about to give a talk saying we need to feel that friction and push back against it. We can’t try and paper over it. We need to state to the admin unequivocally when their constraints don’t serve deeper learning.

Guy who thinks “the Americas” is Red America and Blue America

Guy who thinks the OAS is just the 50 US states organized without the federal government

Bicentennial?

I feel the same way about employees who talk like managers. It’s their job to devalue your labor, not your job!

Yeah people internalizing the business talk of businesses they don’t work in gets to me. Media, movies, sports, politics. It’s a plague on our minds.

Yeah like someone says something stupid and you say “IP” and then get up to go to the bathroom

More times than observant Muslims have to pray

It’s a sex myth that humans can survive without clit training.

Sticking to the principal of honor I see

Regime Change in Iran (Terms And Conditions Apply) The warmongers, once again, get the war they've sought for decades. Trump and Netanyahu leave the hard work to the people they're bombing

While the bombs fall on the regime and its opponents alike, Trump and Netanyahu say that they come as liberators. Only they won't be the ones who do the dirty work. Encouraging the IRGC to sit on its hands and receive 'immunity' is the latest tell that the Iranian people's desires are irrelevant.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Or MESHSH? Doesn’t work either way. It’s like when people sub in Cyrillic for similar-looking Romanic letters but they make completely different sounds.

“He would of been a good man,” the Misfit said, “if it had been a crowd to threaten to hang him every minute of his life

(Note to the mods, it is not a threat of violence, it is a reference to a Flannery O’Connor story concerning someone who finds decency only under mortal terror.)

He doesn't like people who beat him, embarrassing and impossible to co-sign, but he likes winners in general. Helps also that Mamdani beat Cuomo, who is more in Trump's world.

Nope. State-level punishment is wrong on so many levels. Moral: throwing vulnerable people under the bus. Political: you harden voters against you. Strategic: you’re outgunned in this theater, GOP controls federal government.

Glad the Columbia community is fighting back against the DHS terror (immediate protests). Hope the administration doesn’t throw them under the bus again.

A man walks past soldiers saying “This deal keeps getting worse all the time!” Lando Calrissian from “The Empire Strikes Back”

Columbia University:

He’s not even Trump’s coolest VP, which is incredible because it’s hard to imagine someone less cool than Mike Pence. But Pence had an eventual limit to how much he’d debase himself, and he wasn’t quite as desperate to be accepted, the uncoolest trait there is.

For a second I was like “ku…? Drow…?”

The real issue is that a lot of them actually support him. Which is its own lack of principles, but of a different order.

Better not be “The Math of OPS+ Optimization”