100%. Though the only thing worse than no movie would be a badly made movie. I mean, Greyhound showed it’s possible to make that sort of movie, but feels like the exception rather than the rule to do WW2 naval action well.

This is made possible by the fact that the strike package, at least the components of it that enter contested airspace, are essentially just munitions and fully expendable? The original proponents of strategic bombing were thinking more about assets making a round trip, I’d think.

Love me some Odd Lots.

Mr. Walter Wally Wigglebutt, Ph.D.

Very much so!

Preferably with a more favorable turnover margin for SEA.

It can be hard to remember which ongoing crimes are unconstitutional, because for the rest of my life, if a thing was known to be unconstitutional then it probably wasn’t happening in the open for months at a time.

If they're deliverable futures, I mean, sort of: www.cmegroup.com/trading/agri...

The year is 2025. To negotiate effectively with the current US administration, European governments dust off their archived playbooks for negotiating with the regimes of EM and Frontier markets from the 1980s.

I so wish I could set up a full garage machine shop. Having access to a mill and lathe again would be lovely. Physics lab machine shop is one of the things I miss most from undergrad…

and now it is his turn to study statistical mechanics

Lizard brain and the Dunbar number apparently still rule everything around us :-/

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

In 2016, a kid fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo…

Fwiw, I tried to find the actual sound bite or a transcript and couldn’t, pretty sure this wasn‘t a real quote. Tho the fact that it seems plausible says an awful lot, and none of it good.

The Steak n Shake thing is wild. I remember going there periodically during the late 90s/early 00s when I lived in STL, and “local burger chain will ape neo-Nazi aesthetic 20yrs from now in their online marketing to score points with conservatives” was absolutely not on my bingo card.

Also, the weather is better most places in the US around Memorial Day, so in traditional American consumerist fashion, you can sell more stuff (three day weekend trips, backyard bbq, etc) for that holiday vs November, so better economics to make it the bigger deal.

…a set at the local Veteran’s home, and seeing those folks living with life altering injuries from Vietnam or GW1 was pretty sobering and didn’t give me an overtly nationalist vibe. But that‘s personal anecdata, not necessarily representative of the broader cultural valence.

Honestly, now that I think about it, I dunno which of Veteran’s Day or Memorial Day has more of an anti-war valence. You’d think it’d be Memorial Day, but my mental association with Memorial Day is WW2 movie marathons on cable TV, whereas for Veterans’ Day, our school jazz band went and played…