Yes. In the new world of conquest, any country that is menaced by a great-power neighbor and doesn't have nuclear weapons is just signing their own death warrant. https://t.co/6pwgGeqM52
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) February 19, 2025
Shit, I need some nukes too. Right to bear arms, yeah? 😉
The Economist: "In April 2022, following Russia’s retreat from the north of Ukraine, it controlled 19.6% of Ukrainian territory; its casualties (dead and wounded) were perhaps 20,000. Today Russia occupies 19.2% and its casualties are 800,000, reckon British sources." pic.twitter.com/h3hx04S7i4
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 20, 2025
Ian Welsh: OMG WINNING SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
Everyone who is not a goddamn confirmed idiot: Wow, that’s a colossal waste of money and people to achieve nearly nothing.
America is being sold out by its leaders.
Indeed. The probability of another Great Recession is 90%. And I’d put the chance of a depression (1930s equivalent, not 1873 variant) at around 30% now. And that is directly due to Trump/Musk and the destruction they will wreak upon this nation.
All of you Trump voters did FA and now are about to FO. And yes, Harris would’ve been better. Still bad but better.
I love this; another very small artist I found recently.
One film where I disagreed with Roger Ebert pretty strongly is the bathtub drowning scene in Constantine. He disliked it (and the film) for the same reasons that I love it: the scene is horrible and beautiful. It’s nasty, and not in the sense of any gore or even anything sexual. It’s horrifying what Constantine does to Angela — both his direct actions of bringing her to the edge of death by drowning and what you find out she’s witnessing immediately after. Weisz’s acting when Angela realizes Constantine does not intend to let her up is perfect.
It’s all just so wrong. And that’s what makes it a great scene.
Ebert was not a fan of horror. And it shows in his misassessment of the scene and film.
I’ve apparently gaslit myself about the monty hall problem since learning about it 10 years ago!
What the heck? What would even be the point of the problem if the host ever opens the door with the prize? Goddamn, people are stupid.
This is such an easy probability problem too. It’s dead simple so it’s always mystified me why it confuses anyone.
Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. And it will be very bad indeed.
Federal research cuts would rock Michigan economy, halt clinical trials, those affected say. Great Recession II inbound.
How to Make Trump Unpopular Again.
We Should All Be Paying Attention To What’s Happening to the National Archives. More looting and destruction.
Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them within Weeks.
AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?
How Elon Musk and His DOGE Goons Are Following the Private Equity Playbook.
Think the military lowered its standards for women? Think again.
The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug.
A dozen wolves collared in California as officials seek to track the growing population.
Democrats belatedly wake up to start battling Trump and Musk.