Trump was trying to force a deal with Israel playing as the tough guy, but he didn’t expect Iran to negotiate in kind with their own show of immense strength in response to the bullying.

The cry bully strategy has worked for them so many times in western media.

You can have some samarium, but only if you are a good Samaritan.

Japan (1.13T) and then UK (750B)

https://economicsinsider.com/top-15-largest-us-treasury-holders/

Combine these with heelies and parkour for maximum urban mobility.

A paywalled article about how to avoid persecution by the US police state is pretty on the nose.

I was vaguely aware of some of the early games criticism (critical games theory basically) at the time because I was following a lot of the discourse around ‘are games art?’ debate. It was a super niche corner of the internet mostly of leftish libs trying to do some critical analysis of games and gamer culture. The whole GG thing amplified this tiny niche ala Streisand Effect but with a lot more misogyny. That’s the basic contours from my memory at least.

If the GG escalation had not happened, we might not have developed “we add another gender every time you complain” for another few decades.

Day and night are always happening concurrently. This is one of those truths that the deep state doesn’t want you to know.

meanwhile the ‘peasants’ of the Ohio River Valley (JD Vance’s childhood home) keep getting flooded

‘Building more lanes will reduce traffic’ is a classic.

Donald Quixote

There was the cybertruck technical some wealthy Russian was posting about. Last I heard Tesla remotely disabled it.

The only way this makes sense to me is that Musk has to play nice with the last two, while the rest are happy to play ball with him as long as stocks keep inflating, regardless of how much of a rage baby he acts. If they are not playing ball, he can just throw a fit on X until he gets his way. No chance of that working so well with the last two. So he has to show fealty. Musk has much more leverage to get what he wants from the west. Outside of the west he actually has to make deals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline_(film)