Handsome Ralph

All the dudes out there with two $1600/month loans on their lifted pickup trucks when gas hits $6/gal

Orphaned Tactics Oops we did it again

Wrote up some thoughts on the current war with Iran. You can't have a strategy if you don't even have a policy.

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Going thru some old pix tonight, and came across this.

It's true our medical system is a mess. But the doctors, researchers and EMT themselves?

Inside that pile of machinery is a 4 lb newborn whose insides all pointed the wrong way. 50 yrs ago? Doesn't live 2 days. But now? Thriving teenager.

trump at the handover ceremony

I've done this in Civ so many times, so yeah of course this will work.

Screenshot of a November 1, 2024 tweet from Stephen Miller (https://x.com/StephenM/status/1852364946195296620) reading as follows: "To anyone still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes: Trump said warmongering neocons love sending your kids to die for wars they would never fight themselves. Liz Cheney is Kamala’s top advisor. Liz wants to invade the whole Middle East. Kamala = WWIII. Trump = Peace."

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris, the United States would launch a war in the Middle East—and they were right!

Photoplayer Unusual Instrument Used In Silent Films YouTube video by DeanScottPresents

Working in IT when you're short-staffed, you're the lone network engineer, and one of your sites is experiencing an ISP outage
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So this is clearly the result of "hey AI prompt, can you write a press release for a casualty notification?" right?

This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine

"No wonder Trump made me head shield guy."

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Remember when strategy cheese was very worried that sending artillery shells to Ukraine would impact our ability to defend Taiwan?

Anyway I’m sure launching all of our ship based missiles and interceptors in one week will be immaterial

I gather that everyone here is 100% certain JD Vance is racist.

So, who here actually knew that Vance's wife isn't white?

And how does that influence your certainty?

so just not going to acknowledge you got this completely made-up thing from the vdare guy eh

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Real fucking rich for this administration that has more or less hung Ukraine out to dry in terms of support--and repeatedly tried to get them to cave to Russia on top of that--to come hat in hand to them now asking for help for a stupid war they launched on a lark

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

It's quite normal for young soldiers to get dumb tattoos. It is not quite normal for young soldiers to get Nazi tattoos.

Source: I was a young soldier and saw many of my fellow soldiers' dumb tattoos.

If I'm angry about anything it's that I held off playing this game.

Meme of Kristen Whig taking a sip of a drink and saying "God damn it, that's good. Shit, that is fresh."

Me last fall: "Alright I'll buy Ghost of Yotei but no idea when I'll finally get around to it. I mean I loved Ghost of Tsushima, so I know I'll like it, but it can wait.

Me now:

Full page "ad" in The Onion for "60 Minutes": "Is NBC Hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates."

Oh hell yeah!

Live footage of 5th fleet right now.

I liked it a lot, but it felt to me, more like a TV movie that was launching a new series rather than a stand alone origin movie.

You know, I'm not a fan of petty street crime, but on balance I'll take it over tyranny. Or living a life of luxury that's built on modern slavery and the bones of exploited immigrant workers.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....