Iirc you can give a nom de guerre and they don’t ask questions, but if you want to move past a certain rank, you have to normalize relations and any open criminal cases with your original country of citizenship (though I’m sure there are exceptions, like if you’re an Afghan national and, you know, don’t want to be executed by the Taliban).

Scholz (the spineless fuck) has already reached out to Putin.

Ukraine’s going to follow through on making a crash nuclear weapons program, and I do believe that they can pull it off.

We’re unfortunately going to do an about-face on supporting them when Trump gets in, and they’re going to have to fend for themselves. Scholz (that cowardly invertebrate) has already reached out to Putin instead of figuring out what to do with France and Poland and the UK in terms of supporting Ukraine.

Ukraine’s only real option for posing a threat credible enough to Russia that they back the fuck off is nukes.

This is bending the knee

Optics. Because we’re the ones launching them.

Lmao no fucking way. That’s hilarious

Apparently there’s a thing called “linear compensators” which are essentially almost as effective as silencers (when used with subsonic ammo), but don’t require a tax stamp? Someone with more firearms knowledge than I can surely share more details on that. But I came across the things recently and found it rather curious.

Ok so I’m like… not upset about this at all. Also, I know this is the millennial equivalent of “get off my lawn”, but fuck me if I don’t find the concept of “being an influencer” fucking dumb. Do a thing you love, post the content if you think you’re good, and be a known expert with a following. Don’t just PR for the sake of doing PR and then hope people listen to you. What the fuck even is that?

Oh, did you just get the memo?

LLMs are largely worthless (in the context of improving human society).

Neural Nets aimed at much more specific domains (recognizing and indicating metastases or other abnormalities in pathology slides for human review, for example) are EXTREMELY useful and worthwhile.

Interesting! Thank you for the information! And yeah, while “center-right” isn’t something I’m enthusiastic about, tbh it’d be hard to do worse than Orban, imo.

A firearm is very much a tool in some non-combat applications. Ranching, for instance.

Red Wing Iron Rangers

Any Hungarians around who can provide additional colloquial context on the challenger?

The (infuriating, I absolutely agree) choice was “Gaza in rubble”, or “Gaza AND the West Bank AND wherever else Israel feels like annexing (probably a good chunk of Lebanon) in rubble, and the possibility of open war with Iran”.

Glad you got what you thought you wanted, I guess.

Hey, Arab American Trump voters:

WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO. YOU FUCKING IMBECILES.

Fuck, dude. That sucks.

I’ve had to go through that, and it’s awful. Just try to remember: you love your pup and made her whole life better, and she loves the fuck out of you for it. Not letting her linger and suffer, while tragic, is simply a final - albeit deeply bittersweet - act of fundamental love.

I want that timeline. Can we please have that timeline?

Tbh I’m having a hard time understanding why these authoritarian leaders are basically low key begging Ukraine to actually commit to their theoretically-possible crash nuclear program they’ve mentioned a couple times. They can do it. If people stop giving them support, they will.