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No way to run a government, or any organization. This mismanagement is going to have long standing effects on organizational culture as well as the ability of governments to recruit in the long run

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

The entire history of modern warfare shows that logistics and mass production are key to winning. Centuries of warfare show that armies based on who is the manliest buffest guys lose out to tactics, strategy, and technology. The shallowest conception of strength is a recipe for national weakness.

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

Good points here from @schatz.bsky.social about how these little language questions aren’t just about language — they are signals as to whether you think for yourself or outsource everything. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 75 days ago • 33 comments

Saturn’s rings at around 600 meters per pixel. Not close enough to see individual ring particles but close enough to discern the textures and patterns drawn out by fast-moving clumps and straws. Images via Cassini in January 2017.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

it is so terrible for women that no one can have them murdered for showing their hair

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

The speed with which these people are publicly repudiating principles they spent their entire careers pretending to care about is remarkable. Trump has been a revelatory force in politics—no single individual has exposed the abject hollowness of GOP personalities more than he has.

submitted 85 days ago • 11 comments

The Fear Is the Point open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 85 days ago • 18 comments

Public praise for a killer is an escalation of a troubling trend: bloodlust for destruction & retribution. Americans are rejecting leaders who propose solutions for problems, in favor of antiheroes who just want to burn everything down—figuratively or literally www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 87 days ago • 202 comments

Every government agency should be required to accept service at a designated email address. Absolutely insane that we're still using certified mail.

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in"

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Accounts with names or descriptions suggesting they share natural world photography but primarily post AI-generated images aren't worth following.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone got eyes on Kristi Noem

submitted 103 days ago • 101 comments

An underrated aspect of the "China Shock" is that the Bush administration tried to protect steel jobs in a way that raised the price of metal for American manufacturers of things made out of metal, thus undermining their competitiveness. www.cesifo.org/en/publicati....

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

submitted 109 days ago • 899 comments

If the observable universe were scaled to fit within the sphere defined by Neptune's orbit, the Earth would have a diameter of ~0.13 microns, orbiting a Sun with a diameter of ~0.014 millimeters at a distance of 1.5 millimeters. The solar system out to Neptune would fit in a gumball. #space

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people. It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1886...

submitted 111 days ago • 387 comments

Meanwhile…

submitted 111 days ago • 36 comments

Rikers banned mail to inmates because of alleged fentanyl smuggling. But there was no fentanyl smuggling through the mail. They were using drug field tests with an 85 percent false positive rate. (*Illicit drugs are primarily smuggled into correctional facilities by staff.)

submitted 111 days ago • 12 comments

How the Andromeda galaxy would look from Earth if it were brighter

submitted 113 days ago • 551 comments

Good piece on how media should cover Trump Term II, with advice that boils down to focus more on what they do than what they say, don't feed the trolls, and remember that your job is informing the public, not reality TV-like drama.

submitted 112 days ago • 3 comments

Idiots. Trump is been an economically illiterate protectionist his entire life. fortune.com/2024/11/17/t...

submitted 112 days ago • 21 comments

“Russian bots and propagandists promote conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism, anti-feminism, anti-L.G.B.T. sentiment and anti-immigrant rhetoric on social media. The aim is to deepen the polarization of American society and, eventually, break it apart.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

submitted 113 days ago • 15 comments

This is like when Homelander made The Deep eat Timothy

submitted 114 days ago • 175 comments

Occasionally

submitted 114 days ago • 185 comments

Look I found a Mac Pro

submitted 114 days ago • 11 comments

Russia’s economy is paying the price of Putin's war. www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

The most exhausting thing about this era has been watching people I once respected -- personally, professionally, politically -- steadily migrate toward Trumpism. Even as Trump gets progressively nuttier and more authoritarian. Just a relentless, eight-year barrage of gut punches.

submitted 117 days ago • 168 comments

I refuse to experience imposter syndrome ever again when we live in a world where RFK Jr. and Matt Gaetz can get these cabinet nominations

submitted 117 days ago • 103 comments

A multipronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.

submitted 117 days ago • 151 comments