This waves vaguely around is so fucking embarrassing

I made a rather detailed comment on this topic yesterday

I think the point being made is that the number is so absurdly large that some might think it was a darkly humorous parody/joke article

They have a broad selection

Hot fuzz is a fantastic movie lol

Lol yep, newfies are borderline unparseable sometimes. The character Hitch from Shoresy will give you a relatively mild taste of the accent, and sometimes it sounds like he’s speaking gibberish.

You’ve clearly never experienced the jerky counter at Buc-ee’s.

More seriously: if you happen to be in Texas, and you’re driving somewhere, and you go by one, it’s amusing to check out. And the jerky selection is bonkers, and they make it all, so it’s super fresh and great quality. But yeah, overall, it’s a bit hilariously overblown. The cult following is a bit much.

Hey so uh, Orban, here’s a thought, you fucking shitass: maybe don’t order your people to literally kidnap Ukrainian government employees and rob them of the better part of $100M, and we wouldn’t need to have this discussion.

That’s very literally what I’m pointing out…

No, because orangeboi is just a useful idiot. The people driving this are much more committed.

Not sure, but iirc Wikipedia also very recently discovered and looked into that, and subsequently banned archive.* from being a source.

I have been a habitual user of archive.* for years now, but be warned that it was recently discovered that they were actually altering archive copies subtly in many cases.

Shutting down the department whose job it is to watch for that sort of thing in the US was such an inspired idea.

/s

Seriously: I’m… honestly both in awe and aghast at how fucking blatant the regime is being about it. They’ve literally shut down the team that is in charge of addressing and categorizing security threats to the US originating from Iran immediately before starting a fucking war with Iran. Like… I just… what the actual fuck. I can’t even.

Between this and the documents leaked about their plans for the election, the intent couldn’t be more obvious if they put it on a fucking billboard. I hate that it comes down to such imbecilically stupid and petty US political bullshit like that, and that it’s killing so many people and fucking up so may other parts of the world… but seriously, I really think that was a massive part of their rationale here. It’s a distraction (operation Epstein fury), combined with creating an extremely obvious opening for an asymmetrical/terroristic threat that will be used as a justification for removing the electoral process. That’s the plan.

It Can’t Happen Here

It can; it is; we have been watching the progression for decades; the vast majority of people didn’t notice because of how slow and creeping and careful it was for most of the preceding several decades.

Ah yes because that has worked out swimmingly for us in the past

The radars in question are essentially scaled up, next-gen iterations on the stuff that is put into Arleigh Burke DDGs, and there were only about 20 of them worldwide before this started, and they cost between $500M and $1B a pop.

So yeah - turns out that ignoring the threat of Shahed-style drones and the lack of effective response the US and allies currently have to that style of attack is a pretty fucking serious strategic misstep.

This… uh… sounds an awful fucking lot like state sanctioned robbery.

It’s almost as if we’ve gotten better at understanding the condition overall and in nuance.