Preventive strikes, regime change. So, new world order same as the old world order then. Arrogance of the unipolar moment come to life again.

new world order...same as the old world order

I think he did it just so that he could walk a corridor, get to a microphone, and proclaim the death of Khamenei.

Rubio sounding like Rumsfeld here

Remembering the great Japanese actor, Takashi Shimura (志村 喬), on his 121st birthday!

Out of the Oscar nominees, I prefer Bugonia more than OBOA, Sinners, and Marty Supreme. But I like almost everything by Yorgos.

Herzog said it better: "If you harshly light every last corner of a house, the house will be uninhabitable. It’s like that with your soul; if you light it up, shadows and darkness and all, people will become ‘uninhabitable.’"

Could argue that China rose to become a superpower *with war*. Fought off the Americans in the Korean War. Taught the Indians a lesson in the 1962 war. Divorced the Soviets with the 1969 conflict. Used the 1979 war with Vietnam to get close to the United States.

Timmy about to redeem himself with this space opera

You write like what you read. If you mostly consume AI writing, then your own own writing starts to look like AI writing. Happened to me too.

This was my first experience of Kurosawa. A professor in college let me borrow his VHS of this film.

On TV: six member panel discusses collapse as it happens On web: One guy, behind a desk, or on gaming chair, insults his paying followers while watching another creator’s live coverage of said collapse. On radio: Ads for some local business

Vietnam is Russia’s closest ally in the region.

Myth. It was violent. Vilnius massacre, Riga barricades, Tbilisi massacre, ethnic violence in Fergana valley, Black January in Baku, Conflict at the Russian White House, Chechen wars, Georgian civil wars Tajik Civil war, Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, and the Russia-Ukraine war

Geopolitical events are entertainment, unfortunately. It is only when you are personally affected by conflict, war, violence, that you realize the seriousness of that matter. You stop finding it entrainment and don't even want to concern yourself with debates over it at all.

Least favorite word: polycrisis

Digital commodities out. Actual commodities in ( Have been for a long time on hyperliquid)

Nukes? Hope not.

Then why is Trump threatening the end of a civilization?

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped