Still gradually sorting the kitchen, found a knife sharpener and thought I might as well give mine a go and wow does it make a difference. Gotta make sure I don’t go too far, still got a wicked scar on the side of my finger from when I lived with a bunch of kitchen staff and tried to slice a bagel drunk
speaking of combined arms doctrines, I am loving this one:
To that end, the Marine Corps employs force with organic or supporting arms down to the lowest level, but future fights demand an expansion of the arms available to those units at the tactical edge. Combined arms across five dimensions means using all available means to confront the enemy with multi-faceted, reinforcing, and rapidly-shifting dilemmas at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels in order to shatter his cohesion, corrupt his decisionmaking, and increase his friction.
I feel that if I confronted units at the tactical edge with multi-faceted, reinforcing, and rapidly-shifting five dimensional arms it would certainly shatter my cohesion and increase my friction, yes
You know if we’re lazily smearing things as anti-Semitic based on long-forgotten historical resonances can we do people who complain about the commercialization of Christmas?
This really started at the 19th Century dawn of the German Empire, contemporary with the growth of a thick commercial retail culture – “Christmas” as we know it is essentially an epiphenomenon of the department store – and much early criticism focused not on how it detracted from a religious cast the holiday had once had, but on how it was becoming a yearly ritual of riches flowing from Christian pockets into the tillers of Jewish retailers, manufacturers, and traders.
As time progressed and the Second Reich fell, this was the theme of infamous interwar antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer’s editorial cartoons at Christmastime every year.
(This was also, coincidentally, when and where the traditionally minor Jewish holiday of Hannukah was glowed up into a rival gift-giving celebration, so as to undercut Christmas as a draw for [then much more common, often with secular motives of cultural belonging] conversion.)
cars may be hostile to most forms of life and generally make you lose all empathy and decency the second you are behind the wheel. it may turn your fellow commuters into enemies you have to run off the road lest they arrive to a red light before you. but you have to admit they are pretty cool
There's absolutely a ton of detrans kink on Tumblr, as you might perhaps expect from the horny trans people website. IME, it's most commonly by and for transmascs - probably a combined effect of "taking T makes you really horny" and the kink-power of (unintended or forced) pregnancy as an identity threat. Many people are quite explicit about it being an eroticization of things that are painful/frightening about their real lives. Search the rot13 of "snxrobl" or "snxrtvey" if you want to find it.
Yeah, the “misgender me with your dick” thing. I’m kind of unsure how to take that sometimes because recalling the old Craigslist Casual Encounters, “treat me like a girl and give me your str8 load” (alt. “breed me”) was a pretty common fantasy scenario for cis gay men too
I mean, the British did spend three centuries trying to genocide my ancestors and all, but they didn’t succeed and seem to have stopped trying. And it sure is convenient that we all speak their language now.
And you can hate on America all you want for literally anything else, but postwar Britain becoming a vassal state to the former British colony my great-*grandparents fled to will never not be funny to me. Hard not to read the American reception of the British monarchy as essentially “Oh, how quaint, those posh little vassals of ours have still got themselves a king, that’s adorable.” I still think they should kill him though.
I do like how America’s all gruff like “hon hon hon, our founding involved freeing ourselves from a king, so anti-monarchism is a key part of our national traditions”, and then look at the UK and be like “but not this one, this one’s quaint and charming” when like, that one was the one!
so the thing about my family is that we have two ancestors on my dad’s side who were buried in france, where I currently live. one died in the spanish civil war, and one died prior doing…we don’t know what. but he somehow managed to get buried in père lachaise.
so anyhow, my gran sends me a message like “pls put flowers on ur uncle samuel’s grave because he’s gone over a century with none and it will make the ghost mad if he hasn’t already” because my family spends time in europe but never long enough to go all the way to père lachaise and give ya boy samuel jr. his death rites. so im like “ok gran I can do that” bc im a good grandson and you do not fuck with gran she doesn’t DESERVE THAT
i figure out which plot he’s on and ask someone specifically where you can find uncle samuel jr. and they tell me where and so I arrive at the junction and.
HE GONE.
WHERE DID YOU GO UNCLE SAMUEL.
*celine dion’s smash hit “my heart will go on” playing in the distance*
in other words either someone stole my entire great great uncle samuel or he has risen again, ready to party in paris for all of eternity.
You’re pretty chill about a corpse disappearing.
My guy, my dude, he’s been dead since 1851. He could be anywhere. He does what he wants.
What a way to learn you have a Vampire in the family.
the reason is because they are under the impression that if you catch a fish, especially if you pay good money to fish there, you are naturally entitled to take it away and eat it
nothing could be further from the truth. these places are in fact fish torture facilities where you catch fish, beach them a while and then throw them back in.
Is this about Baltic fishing quotas? I’m pretty sure this is about Baltic fishing quotas.
always bothers me when someone explains why conspiracy theories/etc are popular by saying they “posit a simplified theory of how the world works” because conspiracy theorists “abhor complexity and ambiguity” because like
well, every theory of the world simplifies the world. that’s like. you reduced the world to words and stuff, that’s going to be an approximation. it’s inevitable.
moreover, you don’t have a choice but to simplify the world, if you want to do anything with thought. nuances take time to consider, and you only have so long to consider them. you also don’t like complexity and ambiguity beyond a certain point.
so that explanation doesn’t work. the problem is way more complicated than that, and people just don’t want to think about it because they abhor complexity and ambiguity.
The territory is not the map but you can’t keep the territory in your back pocket for when you need directions
Fascinated by this one Instagram account run by a girl who got divorced young and decided to make a career as a cottagecore divorce influencer out of it apparently
STATUS: DIVORCED
As someone born in the 1980s, it unironically warms my heart to see that young people are still getting divorced
For decades, U.S.-trained officers —from Haiti’s Philippe Biamby and Romeo Vasquez of Honduras to Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi and Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan— have overthrown U.S.-allied governments all over the world.Rarely, however, have so many coups been so concentrated in a region over such a short period of time.
Last fall, after returning from a trip, alongside other top State Department and Pentagon officials to the Sahelian states of Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, Ambassador Victoria Nuland was upbeat. “We went to the region in force. We were looking, in particular, at how the U.S. strategy towards the Sahel is working. This is a strategy that we put in place about a year ago to try to bring more coherence to our efforts to support increased security,” she said during an October conference call with reporters.
After Rolling Stone pointed out that U.S.-trained military officers had conducted seven coups in these same countries—Burkina Faso, three times; Mali, three times; and Mauritania, one time—since 2008, Nuland was less sanguine. “Nick, that was a pretty loaded comment that you made,” she replied. “Some folks involved in these coups have received some U.S. training, but far from all of them.”
The classic trick for starting a same-age fake identity was to go to a local cemetery and look at the small-headstone kids’ graves until you find someone born around the same year as you so you fit the age and then go get their birth certificate, because building out the identity from there will use that but not like, any affadavit that there’s never been a death certificate for that person.
This was in a world of thinner-documented lives, probably more obstacles in a digital era.
The difference between someone who discourses on tumblr about shipping all day and someone in 1785 who sat in a pub pumping out asinine pamphlets about the hill they’re going to die on in a parasocial fight they’ve started with Burke or Rousseau or whoever over the dumbest drama you’ve ever heard is absolutely miniscule. nonexistent even. brothers in arms seperated by centuries
