I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might

Anyway, good luck on that three front war

I got really into ants for a while, and sometimes I think that capitalism is our species' equivalent.

Intel didn't scuttle their new Israeli fab because of BDS. Intel does not give a single shit about BDS!

Buddy, then investors in health care companies would have to realize some of that "risk" they keep blabbering about. It would make them sad!

Because Boston is the biggest, shittiest, college town in the country.

Blue Screen of Death

Orange Screen of Success

"He’s quite happy for Russia to be the smelliest, farting uncle at the barbecue,” Mr. Tesch said. “The signal is, ‘Yes I am a disrupter. I can act in ways that increase the complexity of what you’re trying to manage.’"

In America, women hold up the entire sky.

Unless it can't be held without bleeding, it isn't thin enough.

It's beyond video games, you see this with music and movies as well. Gamers are just particularly odious. A lot of adult children NEED their choice of treats to be validated by others.

Their larvae look like little red and black alligators.

It's not like the seminal work of high fantasy that inspired an entire genre is actually a direct response to the author's personal trauma suffered by war or anything. It's surely not a (wee bit racist) allegory for the dangers of industrialization, industrial war, and a paean for an idyllic simpler pastoral/peasant life that never existed.