While I don't know enough about military organization to know why or even whether this is a bad idea in itself, even I can tell that it's an opportunity to get rid of any top generals that Hegseth thinks might refuse illegal orders, which is surely reason enough for him.

Césaire formulated it, and Arendt (or perhaps even one of Césaire's translators) first called it ‘boomerang’, but Foucault also discussed it later on, and he's more famous than either of them, so …

Infinite generations of ancestry are required. William the Conqueror was not English. Alfred of Wessex was not British. When King Arthur returns, only his direct descendants will be allowed to remain. Tomlinson should hope that he's one of them. /s

Why Do We Have Hands? [two hands with question marks on them] There Are Many Reasons: pat the kitty [a hand patting a kitty] give high-five [two hands high-fiving] holding the soup, soup for your family [two hands cradling a can of Campbell's tomato soup] punch the nazi [a fist slamming into a face]

This is why every year we remember our honored dead by entering their sacred passwords so they will never be truly gone.

Maybe the people of that region put South at the top of their maps now.

I like the last one, because often I'm *not* there when it happens, but I don't need the rest.

Not many cryptids can say they punched out a guy at the Council of Nicaea.

It's true, they are closed and have no isolated points.

e+π … I guess.

Yeah, that number's obviously fake.

But to a set theorist, a real number is just a set of natural numbers, and a formula (in the sense of logic) is just a natural number, so that's how this set of formulas is a real number.

There are some states whose administrations would just go along with this because Trump said so, but Colorado isn't one of them.

This is so out of touch. Would you be OK with losing access to expensive things that you don't have access to now? Yes, I guess so!

Yes, Washington and Jefferson knew that slavery was wrong and decided to keep doing it anyway, while Trump can't imagine what they were so conflicted about.

That and the racism.

This explains why Asia is legally considered part of Italy, which otherwise makes no sense.

If iPhone, here's how to turn off

Trump has always been simultaneously friendly towards Russia and hostile towards Russia's client states, such as Syria, Iran, and Venezuela. My diagnosis is that he doesn't know anything about international politics but is just attracted to whoever is in charge; which is Putin, not the clients.