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  1. Oh look this thread got good.
  2. Dude gives off a vibe like if Guy Fieri and Joe Rogan had a baby. “Dudes being bros” sports talk is so braindead. “Just bros talking shit and calling people pedos!”
  3. Wow. Iran has no shortage of enemies that might have done this. That said, it’s the sort of black swan event that could lead to a stumble into regional war regardless of who did it.
  4. You, my friend, have blessedly not been inducted into Incel Theory. Because so, so much of this is all about dudes getting themselves laid. See, these dudes view women’s control over reproduction as the cog that leads to a breakdown of society (defined as men not getting laid). Per incel theory, birth control and anti-virals allow women to have sex with who they want without concern that they will be forced to carry a child to term and take care of it (and worry about STDs). And so, per incel theory, young women flock to have sex with the top few percentile of men and don’t sex up all the nice guys who would be good husbands. And then, after they had their fun and they get older, they look for a beta to marry and maybe have one kid with. How to fix this? Well, first you make it so that any sex act may lead (for women) to life-altering consequences. Next, you cut sex ed and make sex terrifying and also make basic health care inaccessible. And now it’s fixed! All those women can either live celibate and alone forever, or they can get with the program and get assigned their husband early if they want any sort of companionship and intimacy. Win for society (society, here, is dudes getting laid). All perfectly rational here except it’s the thought process of incel weirdos who think they are owed sex. But the kernel of truth is that women’s autonomy hinges on birth control and reproductive health. Which is what these people want to go away.
  5. Except this is actually a huge escalation. The Hezbollah leader has canceled his planned speech tomorrow. These types of strikes were understood to be off the table inside of Lebanon, kind of a tacit understanding. There’s a risk that Hezbollah joins for real now. @Brisketexan, it can’t be emphasized enough that Hamas and its allies would BY FAR rather see Israel kill every Palestenian in Gaza than strike leadership of Hamas hiding abroad.
  6. Super important article detailing the rejuvenation of Russian security apparatus. I cannot overstate the extent to which, if the U.S. can’t deliver aid to Ukraine, it will be because of Russian tradecraft and smart exploitation of our own issues. It already is a ringing success.
  7. I disagree, that is a very infuriating thing, but the most infuriating thing is when they sense the moment you’re content and come along to ask some inane question or ask you to do something or watch videos on her phone with the sound on.
  8. I use Kenji’s reverse sear. My oven won’t hold at 200, so I use 250. Works every single time and the rest before sear really makes getting the rest of the meal ready easier. https://www.seriouseats.com/perfect-prime-rib-beef-recipe
  9. Nah, if you are going to sit down somewhere else and have a meal, you’ve left the pool. Maybe you’re coming back, but you went and did something else. Your chairs are fair game. The chairs are there to be used and if you’re not, someone else should.
  10. Pick up the stuff and stack it neatly nearby or on the next chair over and start using it. Fine to do it if you’re actually in the pool or just ran to get a drink or something. You don’t get to fence off lounge chairs all day for when you feel like coming by.
  11. NYE surf and turf: Horseradish crusted prime rib (with @jimmyjazz horseradish sauce), shrimp dip and cold boiled shrimp, salet.
  12. As a radical centrist, BBQ sauce belongs on the side.
  13. Also, dissent in these hierarchical organizations has its own etiquette, and it’s learned at all levels. You learn how and when to solicit dissent as a a 2nd lieutenant from your NCOs. You learn it as a junior officer from your local staff in the field. You learn its importance and more importantly, how to ASK for it. You don’t learn it as a body man for a principal. Now take a look at Sullivan’s bio: Aside from clerking and teaching, he’s always been a body man to very high ranking people. You learn quickly in that job that filtering bad news and dissent for the boss is how you win.
  14. Yeah, although there’s better and worse ways to do this. GWHB’s NSC + State and DoD is the model.
  15. Don’t wanna CR the DT, so I am sticking to structures and process here. To say that our current policy formulation is too-heavy and White House driven is an understatement. The current NSC is also EXTREMELY lawyer heavy. We get paralyzed by both the simple inability of this small group of people to keep up, we also get paralyzed by nuance. It is a creaky process that does not reward clear feedback to decision makers. And they’ve lost good, clear thinkers with expertise and experience like Fiona Hill. Jake Sullivan is emblematic of this. Take a look at his background. The top person has spent a career in law and at a staff and policy-level positions. He’s brilliant. But he’s never seen at the operational level what it means to pull a trigger or deliver a demarche or what the policy looks like on the ground. He’s been positions where he’s almost never been told “you’re wrong” by an expert on force or diplomacy. It’s a role where you have one client and one metric of success— “is the principal satisfied.” And everyone you interact with has a strong incentive for you and the principal to be satisfied. A lot of relevant options and feedback never gets presented because the implementers can feel vibes and know how to self-censor.
  16. That letter is a masterclass in clear and effective communications when dealing with a broker that is dishonest on every level. It is very disappointing that we are unable to get our heads out of our asses on strategic communications.
  17. Official response from Czech PermRep on Russia’s UNSC demand:
  18. I took the whole crew plus grandkids to this. I liked it. Plenty of moments made me actually laugh, it was well directed with good acting and music. It’s for sure family fare but a high point. Also Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa killed it.
  19. I wrote that in a shitty way. I meant that Russia-Czech relations are even worse than Russia-U.S. ties. We are pretty tight with the Czechs, really tight. Charter members of Russia’s official “not friends” club,
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