The fact that they understand dignity hides the fact that they din’t understand much in general

Bonus round, it’s closed again because Israel didn’t honor the ceasefire.

There is nothing about being ancient beyond all proper comprehension that makes something less scary

It’s been good. Real good, for eighteen years and counting.

He subscribes to the Russian view of reality too much for me to take him seriously.

Do you mind elaborating for the people who don’t know but don’t want that in their search history?

Lacking proper scholarly evidence, I’m just going to assume it showed up within a decade of the invention of printed news.

Goddamn zombies. Goddamn greydwarves.

Well, he’s alive, but whatever the fuck happened clearly necessitated a shot of the good stuff in his IV, so I’ll stay positive about the future.

I do similar shit on the solstice these days out of respect, but if the Christians get any worse I’ll start doing my part to dilute the holiday’s religious significance even further out of spite.

Go to bed earlier than you did the previous night. Not necessarily at your goal time, but closer to your goal time than the previous night.

Staying up overnight and then all day until a good bedtime the next day will fuck you up more than it helps. I’m not so sure about trying to go to bed way before you get tired either. Regularity matters almost as much as quantity for sleep, so try to avoid totally bucking your cycle.

Booze has rarely helped me more than it harmed in terms of sleep, but there have been a few cases where it did, usually in medium amounts as a counter to bad coffee decisions. But it’s a net negative overall and not to be trusted.

I would like to nominate Diego de Landa, burner of the Mayan books. And a lot of Mayan people. The Mayans had books, like normal paper booms filled with Mayan writing. Histories, religion, presumably everything a society would write down. There are only four Mayan books left now. It’s all gone. It’s a tragedy that particularly boils my blood and I’m making him the final boss of a Mesoamerican-themed Pathfinder campaign I’m about to run, because I want to live out a fantasy where he gets fireballed to death or something.

This is not the only platform I’ve seen Green come up for protest-voting in the last couple days. I see a psyop pattern.

I’m actually seeing a real lesson from the Mamdani campaign here. Not the one I really want to see them learn, but they learned something, at least.

They called you a bit of a hippie, almost certainly in an endearing way

If weed is a walk in the part, mushrooms are climbing a hill, and acid is a hike up a mountain, salvia is skydiving

Matt Gaetz says a lot of things

Doesn’t he shill for the Kremlin?

What the fuck

If the goal is to destabilize the regime until it collapses and then we fund a friendly government into power, it might be doable if we can block their oil exports. But we just lifted sanctions on their oil, so they’ll never run out of money. China may be making shaheds now, so even if we bomb all of Iran’s military manufacturing infrastructure, they can probably keep buying weapons forever.

Iran is very mountainous. This restricts the use of our biggest and best machines of war and gives them places to hide things. Iran is also big geographically and demographically, much larger than Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s also important to note that while the regime is not loved by many, they ALL really hate us. The regime is evil, but everyone west of Greece or so is a fucking demon to them. They have decent historical reasons to feel this way.

Occupying them and achieving complete surrender is probably not going to happen, and if we try for it, it’ll cost massive shitloads of money we don’t have and probably also a lot of lives. The best thing that can happen is we bail and try to say we won. The worst is the president nukes them and Russia nukes us back on their behalf. What I think is most likely is a collapse in the dollar and a withdrawal afterwards.