Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
10m ago
If somebody controls an important pass
Question: does Pakistan also control the Strait of Hormuz? It's within range of their ASBMs, so what's stopping them from threatening to close it every time they get into a scrap with India?
Mantergeistmann
12m ago
Probably making either a curry or a dal. Easy to heat up during the week when I don't feel like cooking. Also got a leek & potato pie on tap to make at some point, although I will freely admit I just use storebought puff pastry for the topping. I do need to learn how to make a proper shortcrust at some point, since I love meat pies & pasties, but that's sure as hell not a today thing.
Mantergeistmann
18hr ago
Treasury direct
What's the advantage of Treasury Direct for anything other than IBonds?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I've always found The Sting to be stuffy and airless. It's a big studio crowd-pleaser that sanded off too many rough edges to hit the mass-market middle ground (and box office receipts show they nailed it).
Maybe I am the mass market moddle ground, but I loved it. It's probably got some of my favorite twists, and the con scenes are pulled off very well.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
A 1909 dictionary of Victorian slang agrees, "by our Lord" (blood) "by our Lady (bloody), including a mention of a "blady hell" having been found in 18th century literature.
Of course, it also includes "birdofreedomsaurin" as a legitimate word, so...
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I'd put "The Longest Day" ahead of "Saving Private Ryan" as a D-Day war movie, personally. And Kelly's Heroes remains one of the great comedies/heist films of all time.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
The phrasing of "everyone is presented with the option to walk into a woodchipper (or not!), but it'll jam if 50%+ of the population all decide to walk into it together" is a similar phrasing that'll probably lead to fewer choosing blue.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
sometimes someone's going to get stabbed in the belly.
There may have been a very significant disconnect between senior management and the ICs over "proportion of these investigations that do in fact result in someone being stabbed in the belly, or indeed whether the purpose actually is fact-finding and improvement or just an excuse to stab someone in the belly..."
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I don't think this requires psychological self-awareness. It only requires self-interest. It doesn't take someone particularly self-aware to notice that, when someone fails spectacularly and then tries to hide it or ignore it or otherwise try to minimize it, this lowers their esteem in the eyes of people who aren't already predisposed to liking them. Or the opposite, that someone who takes full ownership of their failures, in a way that credibly signals that they're not doing so for the purpose of image, tends to have their esteem raised in the eyes of people who don't particularly like them but are open to the possibility of liking them.
I work in a very regulated industry that places a massive emphasis on responsibility and owning and learning from mistakes. It has been a horrendous struggle to get people to not run screaming any time there's a problem and a fact finding analysis.
I can only imagine it's a hundred times worse for something like politics rather than engineering.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
My understanding is a) the Secret Service rot far predates Trump's first term, and b) the shooter was already inside the hotel, as a guest, and that was a bit of a blind spot. Obvious in hindsight, but still.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
To instill doubt that this is a weirdly dumb/fake manifesto/false flag planted by the FBI? That's what it's being used as "evidence" for in certain parts of the internet, at least.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Isn't a shotgun what was used in the "all out of bubblegum" scene from They Live?
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Presumably any situation where the mods won't be capable of banning you the following day regardless of what you post.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Everything I know about surviving a nuclear war I learned from Alas, Babylon, but it's not very helpful in my current geographic location.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
A bit late to the party, but it was a Chainsawsuit comic, originally done in response to GamerGate.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I never knew anyone who hated Obama. Hillary, on the other hand...
I know plenty who hate Trump, though.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
George of the Jungle. It even has a part where the narrator pauses to reassure the audience that everyone is all right.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
The share of boys agreeing that women deserve equal pay also fell
How much of that can be attributed to them disagreeing with the idea that there's a significant pay gap for equal work to begin with, and instead just selecting "disagree" to represent that?
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Americans often make jokes online about the UK and "have you a licence for that knife", but it's the same principle. Guns are harder to get over here (though not impossible, in parts of Ireland we have our own native gang culture shooting away at each other), so stupid dumb teens tend to carry knives instead and when they get into a stupid dumb fight people end up dead, even if not intended to end that way, though overall knife homicides are falling (due to the police cracking down):
A modest proposal: legalize duelling again.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Democracy, in my fantasy setting?
Metaphor: ReFantazio intensifies.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Hilaire Belloc
Aside from his Cautionary parodies, I was always a fan of his Epitaph on the Politician Himself:
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
I bet this guy had to sit through a training about not leaking classified performance stats on the WarThunder forums.
You say that like the people who make those trainings are a) fun, or b) the same as those who actually track current events.
We did get a neat briefing on peanut butter sandwich guy once, though. That was enjoyable.
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
For example, I completely dismiss the "This is our ancient homeland" argument because that only plays if you are religious. Otherwise, no one has a right to land just because your ancestors lived there 2000 years ago.
Isn't "this is our (somewhat less than) ancient homeland" also the entire argument for why the Palestinians should have primacy in the region over the Israelites?
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
Clearly the only logical solution is to just swap the populations of Taiwan and Israel.
As a turtler who's terrible at RTS games because I'm horribly sloe to expand, I love me a good defense mission. But I'm hardly the modal player, and SC sure as hell shouldn't be catering to me.
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