Jump to content

956 Worldwide

Full Members
  • Posts

    10321
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    26

Everything posted by 956 Worldwide

  1. Everything I said is what I heard on the live stream.
  2. Follow-up: they announced that they were going forward with the Next Generation Air Dominance 6th Gen fighter. Boeing won the account and it will be called the “F-47”. At one point Hegseth listed all the other numbered “F” fighters in the inventory (this will be more Fs). It’s also named after Trump (“47”) but he said the generals picked the name. Trump said it will “go higher than 2, which you rarely see” (he means Mach 2) and also said that it will be a “Level 6, not Level 5.” Actually this is a slap at Elon who has loudly demanded an end to manned fighters.
  3. Breaking: DOGE discovers that the agency in charge of collecting revenue for the global hegemon has a much larger IT budget than a midsize bank, still trying to understand why though.
  4. Hesgeth tweeted this at midnight.
  5. Since we’re talking wives and being funny, take my wife. Please.
  6. They are going to let Elon make decisions on force posture and weapons systems procurement and sustainment under the guise of DOGE.
  7. I will repeat— an honest historian 100 years away in a different country will say we had a dual executive. It’s not a joke, Elon has extensive powers and authorities that traditionally only belong to the president. He’s actually exercised more expansive executive authority than many presidents.
  8. We absolutely are going to have a recession sparked by sub-prime burrito loans spread across different CDOs. It’s coming.
  9. True. The only crime you can’t accuse him of is inauthenticity. Impossible to imagine any other chud GOP figure loudly proclaiming how much he loves musical theatre. He’s rewarded it. Sometimes I just sit in awe of it.
  10. Trump is making the Kennedy Center unwoke by bringing on the flamboyantly day Ric Grennell to stage performances of Cats and do interior design.
  11. Probably unrelated but you can now finance a pizza.
  12. GOP rep learns that old people are the only reason he’s a GOP rep in upstate New York.
  13. Holy shit what an awful idea and tweet lol.
  14. Hey Smart Women- What is the appeal of a charismatic, handsome world leader who has been globally praised for bravery and leadership while defending his country against a hideous fascist army? It also seems he loves his beautiful wife and young children. I just don’t know what you see in him. What does he have that JD Vance and Elon Musk don’t? Signed, A Conservative Man Who Isn’t Mad. At All. Lots of Women Like Me. I’m Just Curious Not Jealous.
  15. You can’t be a good writer without first being a broad and experienced reader. Academic and non-fiction writing won’t do to train your instincts. Great books curriculum didn’t produce brilliant writers but it did produce coherent writers. If I could design a reading boot camp for grad students I would include: - The Gospels in New King James, which is accessible but gives you the rhythm and pace of modern English. - Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville - A few Twain humorous essays - Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway - Orwell’s essay on shooting an elephant - A Good Man is Hard to Find by O’Connor - Something by W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene - Good translations of some Chekov short stories - Good translations of Joseph Roth dispatches from Weimar Berlin - Strunk and White. Follow the rules until you are sure you are good enough to break them, sparingly.
  16. At nearly every mentorship or informational interview I have, I tell grad students and interns to learn how to write clear declarative sentences and to practice turning five pages of work into one. Without AI.
  17. Surely my fainting couch hyperventilation about how Obama is a the real fascist will in no way create a lumbering zombie horde of seething grievance, dead set on destroying the things I am trying to “conserve.”— Jonah Goldberg in 2012
  18. In which Elon proposes Trump investigate the entire cabinet for corruption less than 90 days into his presidency.
  19. That’s what they want you to believe.
  20. Another one I’ll choose to believe.
  21. A conspiracy theory I choose to believe is that most Tesla firebombing is insurance fraud from dealers or owners who can’t sell or want to ditch their cars.
  22. Extremely sharp response to this from the GOP committee chairs. Rightfully, but will they have the backbone in the end? I know it’s not sexy and arcane but the key things to make noise about and call Congress and get active are the (decisions made to reshape the bureaucracy. COCOM structures and military titles seem deathly dull but this is how a dictatorship locks in its choices by default. Stalin once said “the cadres decide everything!”
  23. As far as I know, no one has released the names of the people we stuffed in a Salvadoran prison. Just a nameless mass of people we are assured were illegal gang bangers. Terrifying.
  24. Elon casually endorsing the idea of turning the U.S. into a Central American dictatorship. 5d chess to stop migrants by making America equally as bad. Also, imagine letting adult oppositional defiant disorder “libertarianism” break your brain so badly that you feel compelled to goaltend for the richest defense contractor in the world, who is also a high-ranking government official. Very embarrassing. But many such cases. SAD!
  25. It’s performative in favor of the Russians. Also important: Trump announced “energy and infrastructure” ceasefire and Putin announced “energy infrastructure ceasefire.” This is because Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure hurt Putin, and he knows that Ukraine will not engage in large attacks on civilian infrastructure. Putin will attack Ukrainian civilians (and never offered not to), and honestly cares more about his refineries than the entire oblast that surrounds them. Likewise, Ukraine has no maritime military assets to attack except drones, while Russia has many. If implemented, Russia would be “graciously” agreeing to stop bombing grain ships to protect its own missile barges. The terms are all upside for Russia. We will try to browbeat Ukraine into accepting this, and will not treat missile launches into hospitals and apartments as a breach.
×
×
  • Create New...