lemon
@juicesqueeze.bsky.social
I make lemonade out of lemons, professionally.
Remember when Prigozhin was marching an armored column of mercenaries on the capital of a nuclear power in an attempted coup? I think that might still have been the craziest geopolitical moment of the past decade.
Yes sure. Why not expend our most limited ABM capabilities in defense of a country that has their own ABM systems in a pointless war that achieved nothing?
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The United States launched more than 200 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors in defense of Israel — roughly half of the Pentagon’s total inventory..."
I think that escapes a lot of market folks because markets do not work that way. Whatever happens, a firm can exit a market that isn't working out or worst case close up shop and liquidate. Countries cannot do this and geostrategic effects follow actors home. TACO may not be on the menu at all.
It’s amazing how much we all just want to believe nothing is going on
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo commercial vessels run by registered shipping companies have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since Tuesday as hostilities between Iran and the U.S. flare, according to S&P Global Intelligence data.
It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be
The only concern I have with a congressional candidate who wants to back Ukraine to the hilt, defend Taiwan, and impose costs on Israel for gross civilian harm is how much money I can donate to them. You fucking losers.
Matthew Eadie@mattheweadie.bsky.social · 5mo agoto I reached out to Marcus Stanley at @quincyinst.bsky.social for a take on these positions...He raised some concerns as well: He said what they outlined was "consistent hawkish line," and the stance on Taiwan "Takes a very aggressive position on military confrontation."
quite frankly these scenarios are useless because if they are true there is absolutely nothing you can do about them besides adapt to society collapsing. which, again, little to none of the people raising them really believe will happen
as a proud american i do have a birthright steeped in western values: my god-given right, enshrined in the motherfuckin constitution, to hate the clowns and bums in washington and vote them out on their asses. you can pry that from my cold dead hands, g-men
So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
WTF is she talking about? Our country opposed the creation of a national police force into the 20th century, largely for the reasons we are seeing now. Congress didn’t even give the FBI arrest powers or the ability to carry firearms until 1934 (it was created in 1908)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoAttorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
This is not what "we're supposed to do." You don't need a concealed carry permit in Texas. Texans do not have to show our IDs to police unless we are lawfully detained (reasonable suspicion) or arrested (probable cause). This guy would rather sacrifice his own rights than break the party line.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoChip Roy: "As someone who carries a weapon in TX, if I'm in front of law enforcement or if I get stopped, I tell them that. I tell them that I've got a concealed carry permit. I show them my ID. I tell them where the weapon is bc that's what we're supposed to do. That's not what I think I saw here"
This situation is not, in fact, evolving. It’s over. This is not fog of war. It’s “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoQ: It doesn't seem like he pulled a weapon at any point. So does that account come from the agent? When does it come out? BOVINO: This situation is evolving. Those facts will come to light. But let's take a look at the gun.
The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 6mo agoMinneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
Good, but stop using the word "graft". It sounds wonky and technical. "Tom Homan took bribes. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel covered it up. Why? Are they also for sale to the highest bidder? Maybe even foreign governments?"
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 11mo agoBorder Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.
I don’t feel safe, so let’s explicitly nullify the contract between the states and the federal government and between the government and the governed. That’s the sort of thing that will lower the temperature.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 11mo agoGOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
the trump team even admits it and that we're gonna give the PRC access to americans' data to train the algo hahahahAahahhahah ah ah ah ah ha ah ah i give up www.ft.com/content/550e...
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2y agoThe problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
The President of the United States said, on TV today, that the U.S. should have a justice system more like China's, with quick trials that happen the next day. And most of the media decided that wasn't news, because .... you know what he's like.
I’m not saying y’all have it wrong or need to change your system but it is important to me, as an American, not to live in a ‘papers please’ country
The police can detain whoever they want. If you didn’t commit any crimes, they have to let you go. What’s the problem? I love how deeply committed to the constitution our textualist judges are.
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 11mo agoAmong myriad problems with this ruling, can we pause to appreciate the childlike naïveté exhibited by Cavanaugh on the barely-worth-mentioning inconvenience of being detained and interogated by ICE? We are approaching Plessy levels of obtuseness, or feigned obtuseness.
t is simply difficult to discuss China with even a modicum of seriousness when the President could try to sell the entire island of Taiwan to China tomorrow on a whim