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  1. I think it’s all stupid as fuck and that if someone is wanting to kill me they will shoot at the window or at the very least their spray and pray won’t be precisely targeted at a door panel. I think it’s especially stupid as fuck, and designed for drooling fanboys who care about “late-civilizational vibes” than function. I think that it should insult your intelligence to fire a Glock 9mm at the door and then follow up with an HK that shoots the EXACT same 9mm Luger cartridge, just more rapidly, as if they’re showing us something different.
  2. The creation and release of this video by Hamas yesterday is pretty illustrative of where they are. Specifically designed to create rage and anger in Israeli society combined with the decision to stop releasing hostages and start shooting rockets. They are trying to re-escalate and prompt a massive Israeli response. They must feel like they’ve regrouped sufficiently and that Israel will take the PR hit for going back on the offensive.
  3. Prediction: “From the River to the Sea” crowd will start the timeline at 7:03 and kvetch about how being asked to condemn Hamas is unfair or racist or some shit.
  4. Predicting that the “From the River to the Sea” crowd will mention only what happened at 7:03 and the kvetch about how they shouldn’t have to condemn Hamas.
  5. Ghouls. A painful death is too kind.
  6. It is extremely funny that in the test video they are using different guns but they all fire handgun cartridges.
  7. But why did they move up the escalation ladder to “crush?”
  8. The dog is worth more to the world than any individual wearing one of those green headbands.
  9. Nothing wrong with a horizontally opposed engine, it’s all about packaging. In aviation use they are the standard and it’s what works for a rear engine layout. They have great balance and weight distribution. An electric motor is always going to deliver the power instantly but batteries still aren’t where good old guzzoline is for storing energy. The Porsche will run the same 9 second quarter all day and only needs to stop for refueling and it’s back at it. Hybrid is the best of both which is why that’s the top level of motorsport’s power plant of choice.
  10. The 911 in various guises wins all kinds of races to this day. Not drag races, though, it’s not what you’re for. And they’re glorious.
  11. It’s a fun stunt but I can’t think of anything less useful for determining how good a truck is as a truck or a Porsche is at being a Porsche. We all know that high end EVs can deliver instant, monster torque to all four wheels with great traction control.
  12. One of the striking things about that article is that it does a deep dive into the differences scale, intensity, and tolerances for civilian causalities between Israeli strikes since October 7 and previous Israeli operations in Gaza— while not referencing any context for the motivations. The escalation ladder is real, folks, and you don’t climb up a rung without risking that the other side climbs up a few too. The scale of October 7 in proportional terms is far beyond what we saw on 9/11 and so Hamas finds themselves (and the civilians they swim among) in a pretty tough place on the asymmetric adversary ladder: The AI thing is where modern warfare is going. It will cause the same discomfort we felt when we started launching Hellfires from Reno instead of from the cockpit of an F-18. We may not want a revolution in military affairs, neither did cavalry officers in 1914, but revolutions sweep away all before them.
  13. Yeah, it’s always an issue with authoritarian governments that we won’t just hand over citizens on their say-so and that even if there is a legitimate criminal complaint there is a process in place. We have an extradition treaty in place. You don’t just whack people if you aren’t happy with the process. The baroque conspiracy theories are out in full force, LMFAO at the idea anyone in the U.S. or Canada governments actively give a shit about Sikh separatism and using to…do what, exactly? This shit is what is politely termed a “bilateral irritant” (aka, the other side is like a dog with a gotdamn bone and can’t discuss it rationally.)
  14. LOL, BJP nationalist Twitter has found its way to Surly. Hell of a world, and I wouldn’t want turban any discussion for sure.
  15. Well, Representative, let me frame it in this way. If you’re at a theatre, and your date wants a handjob, then you’re over resourced. You can use one hand to yank his crank, and another hand to vape, or to shush people who ask you to stop stroking pole at a community musical. But now what if the guy on the other side wants an old-fashioned? Now, you’re properly resourced. Two hands to fulfill your core function of distributing rub and tugs in aisle 5. But secondary duties like cradling balls—-those go away. But now what if you’re presented with a third dong to stimulate during Act III? Now you’re under resourced for the task at hand. At least one shaft will have to go unmassaged as you try to keep up with the demand to manually get those members to climax before the house lights come on, or before a volunteer usher has to ask you to leave while you drunkenly ask if everyone knows who you are. And so even though you’re still resourced with two hands—at 2023 Beetlejuice levels—- you’re going to end up with a backlog of seminal fluid and an unhappy nightclub owner with serious case of blue balls. And he might even write a letter of complaint to his representative. It’s a simple math problem, Madam Representative.
  16. Three people murdered at a bus stop and many more shot. The perps are allegedly two brothers who were at one time in Israeli custody. A good reminder of the non-proportionality of these “exchanges” as the Israeli hostages are innocent people who will go live their lives and the Palestinian prisoners are nearly all already in the terror infrastructure and many will go on to be terrorists again. Literally exchanging Israeli lives now for lives later.
  17. This story is fucking wild. An Indian government official directed a plot to murder a Sikh American activist in the United States and the cutout man tried to hire and undercover DEA agent. I bet they did not Sikh that coming.
  18. There’s a kernel of truth here in that people tend to back the parties in existence. That said “no party” is certainly an option and it finishes barely above “Hamas’ more radical cousin.” And my point stands that there appear to be no calls for anything resembling a tolerant and Liberal political movement. To your other points of “people can’t answer openly.” Ok, but in that case we just throw this shit out entirely and say we can’t really know anything. If the data is corrupt (and it could be) then all we have is vibes. But we can’t cite the article and approvingly say “Hamas has modest support” and then argue “people can’t express their true feelings” when it’s pointed out that over a third is actually pretty gotdam high. Either these data are worth thinking about or debating or they aren’t. Economic concerns are a major aspect everywhere. One thing that struck me while living in Pakistan and talking to real believers is this— Islamic fundamentalism is meant to work. The argument is that this system is not just meant to be righteous. It’s meant to bring a middle class, clean streets, clinics, and full supermarkets. It’s all part of the package. I don’t think you can discount the idea that Hamas and other extremists have sold their publics the promise of prosperity by way of jihad and rigorousness. And very finally, preference for democratic systems in no way a preference for tolerant and liberal democracy and in much of the world, it’s the exact opposite. The idea is that you elect people who terrorize or eliminate your enemies and not you. Often this is explicitly formulated as “true democracy” that is not thwarted by things like arbitrary human rights. Generic support for democracy is basically meaningless without definitions.
  19. Here again to point out that there is nothing reassuring about the Foreign Affairs polling data. Over thirty percent of Palestinians respond that they most identify with either Hamas or its more extreme cousin Palestinian Islamic Jihad and that is utterly horrifying. We need only to write “thirty percent of Americans respond they they most identify with the Ku Klux Klan or the New National Democratic Socialist Party” to contextualize how stupid it is to cite these figures as “modest support.” Likewise, expressing a low amount of trust in Hamas is not reassuring without more context as well. Plenty of American voters don’t trust the GOP or Democratic Party because they want those entities to be more uncompromising and strident and it’s safe to assume there’s a contingent of disaffected Hamas supporters who weren’t really happy with them till they walked the walk on October 7. And finally the worst part of it all is that there is simply a non-existent movement advocating for the things so many “decolonialists” in the West say they want. Palestinian society has stubbornly refused to birth a genuinely tolerant, Liberal, secular political movement and we have to assume that the appetite for one just doesn’t exist. So the facts are these— a minority but extremely large and powerful bloc of Palestinian society explicitly aligns with violent, intolerant religious extremism and reports that this ideology best represents their political alignment and there is no truly humane and tolerant alternative to promote or deal with. That doesn’t justify the mass purposeful killing of civilians, even though many of those civilians really want someone to come along and mass murder you and your nation, but it should help frame the realities of what there is to work with.
  20. “Hamas, which I do not support at all, is not effectively leveraging the toddlers they are holding hostage after murdering their parents.”— By Glenn Greenwald and Anastasis
  21. Just make first downs and focus on your assignment for the next play and that will come.
  22. The era elite of college HFCs that seem like they are enjoying their lives and mentally stable went out with Steve Spurrier, Bobby Bowden, and dare I say it, mid-2000s Mack. It’s just one form of mental issue for another—- Saban, Urban, Jimbo at FSU, — these guys are sociopaths or stress puppets. Even Dabo is faking that home-fried bullshit, he’s messed up. I do think there’s something to the older generation like Saban and their spouses swallowing the bullshit. I have no idea why they don’t take the buyout and go play golf except they’re stress puppets that aren’t happy unless they’re unhappy.
  23. Step one, defensive-minded head coach. All that’s left is elite recruiting and player development, an offense with a great QB that scores a bunch of points, and a really good culture. We’re on our way, how hard can it be!
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