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Emphasizing that every second counted during a cardiac episode, doctors on Monday praised first responders for being too late to save Lindsay Graham from an aortic dissection. “Paramedics had a very short window to save Sen. Graham, and thankfully they did not make it in time,” said George Washington University Hospital cardiologist Dr. Eric Fallstaff, who suggested that EMTs should receive special commendations for arriving at the four-term Republican senator’s house long after they could have successfully delivered life-saving care.

Superman Unlimited #11 - "Fallen Son" (2026)

REVENGE on @krowfaced !!

Had SO much fun drawing this dude! I made him a little wormy in terms of anatomy, sorry i just wanted to push the pose—his design calls for movement!!! XD

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

The idea that societal collapse exposes mankind’s true nature ignores one thing: society IS mankind. We make it, just by being around each other. Social mores and customs aren’t arbitrary rules inflicted on us by some unseen force, they’re our own behaviors and views. We say please and thank you because we want to be kind. We establish charities because we want to help others. We set up garbage cans because we want to be clean. We’re the ones setting the standards and frowning at the people who don’t rise to meet them. We’re the ones who are appalled by the cruelties in our history.

The problem with nearly every post-apocalypse story is that they take the worst behavior of people during a riot or a natural disaster, extrapolate it to all of humanity, and assume that situation never changes. But even the worst disasters end. Hurricane Katrina looters aren't still looting. And there were far more people helping than looting.

The leaders of the british military get a reasonable amount of flack for not opposing Hitler more in the 1930s. I get that. Britain at times (e.g. with Neville Chamberlain) seemed incredibly reluctant to get involved in a war with Germany.

Then I asked myself why.

So I began looking at the military careers of the 4 men who served as head of the British Army in the 1930s. All high ranking Generals or Field Marshalls in the 30s. I asked myself "what rank would they have been 20 years before?"

Probably company commander level. Captains or the like.

So I looked them up and each of the 4 men (George Milne, Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Cyril Deverell and John Vereker) served in field command at least during the early stages of WW1. On the front lines of the western front during Trench Warfare at its worst. Some of them were wounded in battle. One earned a VC.

So I went digging and as expected many if not most of the Generals and Colonels during the 1930s had served in junior officer positions on the front lines of WW1.

The Great War.

A war that killed almost 900,000 british soldiers. About 1/8 soldiers died. That is maybe 10% of ALL the men from 18-40 in Britain.

And these men served in the mud, and the trenches during the worst of it.

I am not surprised they were reluctant to start another war. In 1939 when we declared war it had been only 21 years since the last one ended. 21 years. Young men who left the trenches now had sons who were equally young men and eager to sign up once again. JRR Tolkien served in thsoe trenches in WW1. His son Christopher went to war in 1943 with the RAF and whilst he never saw front line action he certainly could have. Another son (Michael) volunteered but was turned down.

What father, having served in the first war, would be eager for his son to sign up for the second? What general would not do everything in his power to avoid sending millions of young men to risk death again?

Sure we "won" WW1 but it was truly traumatic for Britain. Every town, every village, has a monument to the dead from WW1. Every single one lists the eager young men who left for war and never returned. A lot of these Cenotaphs were built shortly after WW1 ended - the one in the town I live in was dedicated in 1921 and lists over 360 names.

Were we as a nation reluctant to enter a second major war with Germany? Yes we were. Incredibly so. That let Hitler get further along the road than he should have.

But WW2 was not just within living memory, it was the formative memory of many of the men now in power. It was the event that defined their early 20s. They ALL had friends who didn't make it. ALL of them.

but now it's a franchise because the fandom begged for more and Nickelodeon and Bryke gave us more and now it's far more difficult to take the original series all on its own.

we had the Shyamalan film and were all happy pretending it didn't exist, but then we got the comics and they're a mixed bag, and so is Legend of Korra, and the Kyoshi novels (and presumably the Yangchen ones, I haven't read them yet) are legitimately good, and there's the Netflix adaptation which is just a worse version of the original show and now the new movie which might be good (I didn't watch it when it leaked) and Seven Havens coming and-