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I don't like to make too much of a business of joking about how the US military is bad at doing war because the inverse (a world where we're good at wars) would be an even worserer situation but like. Jiminy fucking Christ we're really really bad at wars it's downright remarkable

I'm really hung up on the oil thing. I love the part where we apparently have a critical interest in preserving the economy of the country we're trying to blow up because our economy will collapse if their economy collapses. I just. That's the worst anyone's ever done it, buddy. It's like the eternal war in 1984 but like the Jason Friedberg version of 1984. If the term total war describes the Clausewitzian mobilization of an entire country's political and economic apparatus towards war then the USA of America is in a permanent state of Quarter-Ass War. Like they're never gonna get there but they're gonna keep on trying anyways

it feels like their incompetence at war is directly linked to a desire to do war. It's trite to say but I think "They are so bad at war they want to wage it" works for the modern era. The more the bomber mentality took over in ww2 and afterwards, the worse America got at war and the more they wanted to do it. Being good at war would involve knowing how disastrous/expensive/long it would be to try it.

Last I checked (today), the Iran war has cost the US 130-135 billion dollars in military resources and skyrocketing costs of living. Aside from various war crimes including bombing 168 schoolgirls on day one and gaining various criminals a bunch of billions from insider trading, it has accomplished nothing. Cutting their losses and paying 300 billion in reparations as Iran demands is overwhelmingly the best available option for the US; it could only be better if they had done it six weeks ago

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

"'I don't know' isn't an answer" alright man then I'll just. Fuckin. Enter my philosophical mind-palace and check the fuckin akashic records. Real quick lemme just catch and cook and eat the Salmon of All Knowledge. Tell me ur question again so I can real quick climb to the highest branches of the Yggdrasil and lay it at the feet of Freda the all-wise Queen of Heaven. Dickhead.

"'I don't know' isn't an answer" isn't an answer. It's not an argument. It's not a reasonable statement. It's not a logical chain of thought. It's a thought eliminating exercise. It's a slogan. It says "Don't think about what's true or false, just tell me what I want to hear." It trains people to speak without thinking rather than show ignorance or insecurity. If anyone had said that to me as a child, I'd have stopped speaking. As an adult, I'd probably just stop speaking to them.

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

My mom taught me to never confuse pretend and reality when I was like 4 cause she worried I might kill myself emulating the Brothers Lionheart or Superman, and now I'm supposed to pretend I can't simply buy myself candy unless I "deserve" it for cleaning the windows? Like, maintain a delusion of my own design day after day as though it would have real effects? Come on.

There seems to be a real chance of Trump dying on camera. Trying to remember a recent photo of him where he’s fully conscious.

It would be ideal to avoid 2-3 months of the party pretending he's still alive honestly

If I remember correctly his whole beef with Anish Kapoor was over a misunderstanding about Kapoor was making sure no one could use vantablack as opposed to the reality that Kapoor was the only person who was licensed to handle vantablack due to its dangerous radioactive properties. Pretty dumb. Also, I kinda like cloud gate, it's neat looking in person.

The lab which actually owns Vantablack (which is not a pigment but a substance that has to be applied in a lab) chose one artist to work with to demonstrate its properties. The exclusion wasn't Kapoor's choice. He was just the artist they chose.

Everyone said, specifically, Kapoor trademarked the exclusive use of vantablack for artistic works because he's a vain headline-chasing poopoohead. Wouldn't be the first time society has fallen for a bald-faced lie designed to assassinate a person's character for corporate interests, obviously. And it doesn't seem to hold up.

i hope i think of this video in the last moments before i die

"I'm not sure I can even explain it, Craberta. It was so big that just seeing it, just trying to grasp the size of it, made the world turn upside down. Over and over. It reached out and made things right side up again, for me, but then I tried to look at it again and everything went the wrong way. Eventually it thundered off into the horizon, I think just to protect me. I met a creature bigger than the world and it didn't eat me."

Curiosity peeking out of her bag to shame mankind

yeah the hero lead our whole party into a forcefem dungeon so thats why we're all girls now. to be honest its fine. we're all happier this way, but it has messed with out synergy. our knight turned into a shortstack and now her old armor doesnt fit, but she refuses to buy a new and just uses her shield to defend herself. it works but her tunic leaves nothing to the imagination and its really fucking distracting

our cleric is dealing with the fact that it was only so easy to keep up her vow of chastity because she hated the idea of having sex as a man. we keep telling her that her magic has nothing to do with not having sex but i guess its a lot of shame to unlearn. unfortunately she is REALLY horny and keeps getting lost in fantasy and thinking out loud while healing us.

the hero is the worst of it. shes mostly normal until we're fighting any women, and then shes so eager to give up. she starts acting like we have no chance and we need to give up and surrender. then she starts taking off her armor and clothes. she often does this after taking out any men we're fighting on her own so no one really buys, but they're so confused im able to blast any one left with magic, but i dont whats gonna happen if she does this with a woman i cant take out.

No, I am NOT jealous that im the only one the forcefem dungeon left "flat chested." Im not even flat! I have b cups!

“character who gained weight to show how they are healthy now” trope my beloved

that's literally what the motherfucker who invented "vaccines cause autism" did.

Imagine if you could like, get an automatic citizenship claiming to be a refugee from the Burger Kingdom. But noo we can't have AI in charge of important shit like keeping a firm line between Foreigners and Real People, it's only good at automating meaningless paperwork exercises like medical research and writing science textbooks.