It’s surprising how many people will plug in a random USB drive that they find. Apparently that’s how the CIA got the Stuxnet virus into Iran’s system and nerfed their centrifuges back in the day.

MacArthur was a bit crazy in that regard…

Ocarina of Time

I can sing the Blazing Saddles theme song pretty decent. Final offer.

I was thinking about Khashoggi, but fair point.

I mean, the Saudis did it a few years ago and we really didn’t raise much of a stink.

Tangentially related. I watched a pretty interesting documentary many years ago about avant-garde art in Weimar Germany. Back in the days of the kaiser and before, if you painted a horse it damn well better look like a horse. During the third reich, if you painted a horse it damn well better have hitler on it. But during the interwar years there was quite an explosion of weird shit from the German art community.

Then, of course, the war happened and all that shit ended, just like it’s happening in Russia now. Not that America did much better back then. Frank Capra was directing WWII propaganda films and Bugs Bunny was flying a B-29.

This is what I keep trying to tell people about this war. There are no good guys. There is no right side of history to be on.

There are sides. And people are perfectly welcome and justified to take a side. But you have to understand that whichever side you take, they have done terrible things to innocent people for terrible reasons.

Argument is correct.

Tone is asshole.

Upvote or downvote? I’m not sure on this one.

https://youtu.be/ysmLA5TqbIY?si=7qTovV2FJ2OuWM3V

It makes it harder to quickly choose one app. I had to move Spotify away from Whatsapp for that exact reason.

I dunno. They’ve amassed 90% of their population along the US border.

Judging by the sketchy-ass places I’ve gotten gyros from, I’m perfectly willing to die for a gyro.

Do you know what NATO nicknamed the defense plan during the cold war? The Rainbow Plan.

Bottom trawling is one of the most hideously destructive things we do to this planet. Imagine if you wanted to catch rabbits, so you hooked a giant nylon net to the back of two humvees. Put them 100 yards apart and drive through a forest, knocking down trees, shredding the underbrush, catching anything and everything in its path. At the other end of the forest you carefully step over all of the dying deer, moose, mice etc and pick out the 30-40 rabbits that you want. Then you leave the net and everything else you just happily killed lying at the edge of the forest so nothing can grow under it. That’s what bottom trawling is. People would be horrified by it, except that it literally happens under the surface.

This is a huge part of the reason that we’re missing a billion crab. This is a huge part of why the king salmon are dying, which is a huge part of why the orcas are starving.

Commercial fishing in general has massive, glaring environmental problems, from bycatch to emissions to illegal overfishing to everything else under the sun. But if I had to pick one issue to focus on it would be bottom trawling.

Kinda? That is the logic that the cold war superpowers employed, but it isn’t necessarily true. Having one nuclear-armed ICBM or cruise missile within range of a US city would be one hell of a deterrent.

China at least partly holds to this. Their logic is that nuclear security does not necessitate nuclear parity. So while the US and USSR made thousands of warheads and delivery systems, China maintained an arsenal of roughly 80-100 warheads with viable delivery systems.

Hey, a pyrrhic victory is still a victory, right?

He was in charge of American foreign policy during and immediately after the Vietnam War. TLDR he made policy decisions that led to the deaths of probably over 4 million people.

Punish him by making him watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 300 times.