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Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness (for me I mean)

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In Tucson the buses are both free and kept pretty nice. Unfortunately the infustructure of the bus stops is what really keeps it from being used by the general population, as well as the homelessness problem here getting worse and worse.

09.03.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just needs a more innocuous but still β€˜insider’ sounding name, like most osint

07.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I still have dreams about Kongguksu, which unfortunately is hard to find stateside.

07.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It fucking rules, especially Busan.

07.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s almost as if there was a reason the PRC wasn’t able to follow the KMT there even before the US security agreement.

07.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Maryland krypteia

07.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a little girl is making a funny face while sitting at a table with potted plants . Alt: ΒΏPot que no los dos?
07.03.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit I wasn’t tracking a sequel at all, that looks dope as hell.

06.03.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait hold up

What the WHAT 2??

06.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thesis-Antithesis-Allyship

05.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

descendents avatar checks out

04.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
04.03.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Man, considering how strongly many of us feel about the 2000 Bush v. Gore decision, the actual results of the various hand counts afterwards are something of a cognito hazard.

04.03.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

no, you will not polarize me into liking Dunkin' Donuts. Absolutely not.

I have standards.

04.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The Bush admin also went into the GWoT promising not to nation build and well

04.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think there is any good answer to this question on moral grounds, but it does change the calculus on whether or not it's a war crime.

04.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there is very rarely an option for the Kurds that does *not* carry a significant downside risk.

04.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably the minivan once I can get it second hand, unless someone comes out with a compelling station wagon before then.

04.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've driven hyundai rentals a couple times and they've probably been the best rentals I've ever had, but I feel like Mazda in particular is still in a better price/fun/quality place. Unfortunately they have no serious EV game, so Hyu/Kia is probably going to be my next car.

04.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

needs a hatch and wood paneling and them i'm in

04.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean if his defense was, 'this is actually a 19C Hussars Deathhead and you know, we were drunk at the time' i'd be more impressed.

Unfortunately it's the specific one used by the 3d SS Panzer Division, notorious for slaughtering US POWs and currently worn by AtomWaffen.

04.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i mean not every totenkopf is a nazi totenkopf, but this particular one, well

04.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i do feel some relief in hindsight that when i was into punk rock i somehow fell in with the insufferable straight edge hardcore dorks.

04.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hasn't he also claimed to be a 'history fan'? Or am I misremembering that?

Normally in that cohort of guy, ex-military late college entrance, that means: World War 2.

04.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would genuinely feel differently about this if this was based on like a 20 year old photo and he had gotten the tattoo removed sometime in the intervening years. But this requires a level of fucking credulousness that I'm simply not willing to tolerate.

04.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think a better way to put it was that on the left the practice of religion has usually been seen as a private matter, so liberal christian support of abortion has been framed as liberal rather than christian.

I mean, way back when Roe was decided even evangelicals supported it by like 70%.

04.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There was some pretty gross stuff on SIPR when I was going through tech school, but they at least pretended it was only to prepare us for what things were like. There was always some lurid showmanship to looking up the video feeds, but there was some acknowledgement that it was uncouth in some way.

04.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I sorta agree with both of you. But ultimately I think we way underestimated how load bearing the performance of sober maturity was during the GWoT.

The permission structure would have been much, much worse if Rumsfeld was posting videos of Talibani fighters' heads flying off etc. on MySpace.

04.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it is so humiliating how members of congress keep taking on the role of regime spokesman.

04.03.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

12k+ dead sailors. Wonder how that effects public opinion?

03.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0