AnarchoAnarchist [he/him, comrade/them]

Just ask Senator Rick Scott, former Governor of Florida, how likely someone is to see real consequences for defrauding Medicare.

Intersectionality and solidarity?

Fuck that, let’s shit on the elderly and burn bridges!

I hated how there was one cop who had the common sense to say “perhaps the guy who has been in a wheelchair for 2 decades didn’t kick in a door and flee on foot” but he was ignored and overruled.

Perfect example of why all cops are bastards. That one “good cop” knew it was bullshit, but he wasn’t gonna risk his job defending an innocent man.

“shit yourself outside”

You gotta go, you gotta go. Ya know?

It is tennis for people who don’t want to break a sweat. Pingpong for people who lack hand/eye coordination.

https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/

Squash? I’m pretty sure they all play pickleball now.

You will always have a planned economy. The only real question is “planned by whom?”

War is easy. You just make sure you don’t get shot. I’ve spent the last 40 years not getting shot.

How to win a war against Iran:

1. use weapons to attack them
2. don’t let their weapons attack you

This has real “if I were Hitler I simply would have invaded Britain” energy. Purely vibes based analysis that ignores the material conditions and objective reality of the situation.

Saying “use bunker busters on Natanz” makes it sound simple. Just like “manage fallout diplomatically” makes it sound like a single embassy flunky could do it over a weekend.

The reality is that if the US knew where every radar installation was and flew a flight of B21s in a crazy serpentine way to avoid detection and managed to drop dozens of Bunker busters, it probably wouldn’t impact the nuclear program at all. And within 10 minutes every oil field on the Arabian peninsula would be in flames. It’s hard to “diplomatically manage fall out” after Iran single-handedly destroys every Gulf Nation economy. I think they should have nukes, I want them to have nukes, but when you can utterly destroy everyone around you with conventional warheads just by targeting their oil infrastructure, it’s a bit of a moot point.

If “decimating Iran’s nuclear program” were simple, it would have been done already. NATO is not squeamish about conducting an attack like this. The reason it hasn’t happened is because everyone knows military intervention in Iran would make the war in Iraq look like the US SMO in Grenada.

The problem is airfields and airbases are stupidly large targets that can absorb a lot of damage.

Hit the fuel storage or otherwise soft targets and you can cause massive damage. But when it is 70% empty space you need a lot of 50m holes to have the effect you want.

The real win here is not material damage. It is morale. If one missile can get through, 50 can. If a couple dozen flights can be delayed, the whole airport can be shut down indefinately. If any Israelis felt it was safe to fly out of their settler colony, they are rethinking it now.

Patching a 50m hole in a taxiway only takes hours. Convincing British airways that hundreds of millions of dollars of planes are safe after this attack, and they should keep their normal routes in place, much harder.

Oh look, another liberal that didn’t pay attention to this conflict until 2022.

Wasn’t there to talk during Trump’s first admin that most bridges in DC aren’t strong enough to handle a tank?

I think it would be hilarious to watch an Abrams drop into the Potomac live on TV.

Hot take, but in a fight between John Fetterman and depression, I’m going to give my critical support to comrade depression.

Jira can already be programmed to annoy me about open issues that have not had an update in a couple days. Program it to message me at inconvenient times asking me stupid questions about the project that I’ve been working on for 2 years, program it to deny me a raise, and you could replace half of the middle managers at my company.

How can you trust grok to tell you if something is woke, when grok itself is woke?

Dunning-Kreuger hits medical doctors and engineers the hardest.

I used to work for a civil engineer who was convinced that climate change was fake. While he was having to take rising sea levels into account. While he knew firsthand that the instances of 100-year storms had increased beyond what was statistically considered normal. He was still convinced that God would not allow humanity to alter the climate.

Specialized knowledge in a narrow field, can turn people into the biggest idiot. The humility it takes to be an expert in something but still listen to others, is beyond a lot of people. This is made even worse by fields like medicine and engineering that require a massive amount of ego to begin with.

Anyway, here is Wonderwall

More than half of U.S. adults (53%) now express an unfavorable opinion of Israel, up from 42% in March 2022

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/08/how-americans-view-israel-and-the-israel-hamas-war-at-the-start-of-trumps-second-term/

Warning shots are dangerous, that bullet will fall and in a densely populated area God knows who it will hit. I don’t blame the officer for not firing into the air.i do think that was a perfect opportunity to pull out a baton or a Taser. And I would even understand pulling his pistol to force the lynch mob to comply with his orders to back off.

I do not use the term lynch mob lightly, and find it hard to think of a more fitting description.