Like, I'd be proud to do time in Leavenworth if I actually knew I'd prevented a nuke strike on a US city.

The proper military procedure for an Only I Can Stop The Nuke scenario is:
1) Sign a letter confessing to the illegal thing you're about to do
2) Do the illegal thing
3) Turn yourself in for arrest
4) Tell it to the court-martial board
5) If convicted, await pardon knowing you did the right thing

If we do the other Known Space stories I had Parnell down for Beowulf Shaeffer, but he can do both

"What's that you're fiddling with, Leaf?"

"What? Oh, it's my emotional support encoder." Leaf twisted the knob back and forth, pressed it in with a soft click. "Go on, you were saying?"

siri seems cold. fish fuck device.

"Some clown hit me with a tasp, okay, Lana?!"

I think the audience for this skeet is, like, generously, three people.

we haven’t invented the word for it yet, I propose hirnfehlersyndrom

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Hegseth definitely hates black people.

$18K a year is $1500/month.

For a 3/2. In Cupertino. That's like a quarter of market rate for rentals there.

I’m… pretty sure “architects are cooked” was a joke?

The hilarious thing is that our enemies no longer have to bother compromising any rank and file members of the armed forces via anything as crude as blackmail over gambling debt.

I was just saying in another context "shitting in the punchbowl of objective truth is one of the greatest sins in my ethical system".