So are the “elite” brigades just the ones that aren’t comprised entirely of prisoners at this point?

Is he the fighter of the Day Mayor?

I think it’s just that most of the competent heavy vehicle drivers have already died due to drones or artillery fire. You can’t just throw some random Conscriptovich into the driver’s seat of an infantry fighting vehicle or tank and expect them to be able to effectively navigate obstacles.

In retrospect, we should have noticed sooner. He was constantly asking kids to tickle him, after all.

I think you’ve got some very mistaken ideas about who Democrats are if you think that a supermajority of them would be totally up for implementing a slew of progressive policies. They’re way more progressive than the Republican party is, for sure. But that’s such an incredibly low bar that it’s laughable. Democrats will do things like make Cesar Chavez day a holiday, or fly BLM and LGBTQI flags, but expecting them to actually pass legislation that addresses the root inequities in a meaningful way is an uphill battle.

God damn, Nature. You scary.

He didn’t get his black belt for nothing.

I love SIGBOVIK - truly some insane projects are presented there. Like Tom Murphy’s projects of creating a hard drive from pings, or using AI to create uppest and lowest case letters. Or reverse emulating a Nintendo (which is a particular favorite of mine).

One other project that I really love was presented at the 2021 Sigbovik: Fontemon, created by Michael Mulet. It’s a full-blown choose-your-own-adventure game as a font. Truly insane. Here’s a short video showing the basics of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1hDQMeU3A

Well, the House already passed Ukraine aid, which is one of the things that Marge’s FART squad was set up to prevent. So unless there’s another big set of legislation coming down the pipe that Democrats really want out of Johnson, I don’t see much use in them keeping him in the chair. There’s only the tiniest, atom-thick difference between him and those “Freedom Caucus” chucklefucks, so it probably won’t get worse for the Dems if another speaker election happens. One possible effect of another speaker election, however, (especially with all of the recent Republican “retirements”) is that Jeffries could squeak into the speakership role. So, very little downside, some tiny chance at upside.

PSA - this is just my mostly uninformed opinion on the matter. Do not mistake anything said in the above paragraph for facts.

“Population” could also mean “Eligible voting population”, not just “total population”. Both contexts work.

Well, I mean - that’s a pretty misleading figure, tbh. It’s true that around that percentage of Americans as a whole voted for him, but “Americans as a whole” includes a whole bunch of people who are not eligible to vote. Like, people under 18. Or people who have felonies and cannot exercise their voting rights. The eligible voting population in 2020 (according to the US census bureau) was 231.6 million. As Trump received 74,223,975 votes in 2020, that represents about 32% of the population. Of course, 231.6 million people didn’t vote in 2020. Only about 168.3 million were registered to vote, and only about 154.6 million actually voted. So if you look at the percentage of people who were willing to vote who preferred Donald Trump, that’s a staggering 48%. What’s depressing is that if you tally up the people who didn’t vote (either because they weren’t registered to vote, or they were registered and decided not to), you get about 77 million voters - more people than actually voted for Trump, or about 33% of the total eligible voting population.

So what’s probably most accurate is to say that America is roughly divided into thirds: those who think Donald Trump is swell, those who don’t, and those who couldn’t give a shit either way.

…such as the suppression of fire, or the psychical thinning of fuels in forests, or prescribed burns.

I’m definitely picturing Jedi clearing debris from the forest floors using the Force, now.

I love that this piece of shit read something that said his local library was working to increase literary representation for black and gay people, and he was like: “NOPE! NOT IN MY STATE!!!”. He even had the unfettered temerity to say “I’m a pretty tolerant individual, but this has gone too far!”

Christ, what an asshole.

More like:

Scientist: “Hey, I think this thing.”

Scientist: goes on to commit atrocities in the name of thing

Other Scientist: “Jesus Christ!”

But, if they did that, how could they then show the world how much of a victim they are?

Also, I’m amusing myself by using they/them pronouns for this person because I am 100% certain they’d hate it.

That artillery count, tho.

“Going to go human wave tactics”

Bro, that’s been their doctrine for the last year. They’ve sent something like 70,000 prisoners to an early grave because of that doctrine.

51 artillery systems? Holy shit! That’s pretty fucking nuts!