This money isn’t just vaporizing. Someone is cleaning up on these skyrocketing prices.

Probably why they’re only holding protestant ceremonies in the Pentagon now.

Splitters!

Don’t think that plane is going to rise again in three days.

Well, but that’s impossible. In China, he won’t have any freedom. He needs to stay in the United States where he can pursue research into biology and medic- door bang

shouts of military police

repeated gunfire

screams of terrified research assistants

confused orders from multiple officers at once

more gunfire

moaning from injured civilians

more gunfire

radio chatter from officers

“Yeah, they were armed. Looks like syringes and a bunson burner. Yes. All illegal. Yes, we’re cleaning up now. No need to report this up the chain, they already know. Signing out.”

Largely rubber-stamping what they’ve already been doing.

We’re going to get an earful, in twenty years, when liberals clap themselves on the back for repealing this law.

What more do we need?

A time machine and Merrick Garland in a choke hold until he agrees to press charges.

a distraction from the only subject that matters: the Trump-Epstein files

Because it increased by over 3%?

Part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the Steam China numbers. Month over month they report a 31.85% drop to the Simplified Chinese language use and English use increasing by 16.82% to 39.09%. Other languages also showed gains amid the massive decline in Simplified Chinese use.

So it wasn’t a major jump in usage, just a re-weighting of accounts by real active usage.

That’s still much better than several years ago in the pre-Steam-Deck days when Steam on Linux was at around 1%.

And a heavy amount of Linux use is just Steam Deck console adoption. So, not nearly as much a cut-over from Windows to Linux as a cutover from XBox/PS5 to Steam Deck.

Skyrocketed

5%

:-/

Listen, it’s progress. But why the headline gore?

“You can say whatever you want here!”

“Cool, what do most people talk about?”

“Well, you can say most stuff anywhere. So we tend to just talk about the stuff that gets us banned: CSAM and telling one another to kill ourselves”

Just another step in the decades long campaign of real estate consolidation.

Bankruptcy is the goal. Force the small farmers out at a discount and add their land to your hedge fund.

Based and v6 pilled.

I struggle to imagine JK Rowling resisting the rise of the Nazis if she was a prominent figure during that time

Very easy to imagine Rowling as a British Nationalist who would say we need to kill all the Nazis and then say we need to kill all the Russians and Kenyans and Indian nationalists and anyone else who crosses the UK.

I could see her doing the “Hilter and Gandhi both need to die” speech.

She’s a British supremacist. The only people who get to do fascism are the ones working out of an office in London.

It’s clearly a butterfly with a massive dong

I can oppose both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the US/Israel war on Iran.

Two enormous armies in a proxy war on foreign soil is nightmarish for the people forced to endure. All so that the Pentagon and the Russian MOD can have a dick swinging contest without touching tips.

But there’s this insane Westoid reasoning that says Total War is fine when we do it. It only becomes a crime when anyone else cribs from our notebooks.

Why wouldn’t they? We did the same for Ukraine. They get to inflict the same kind of attrition on US forces that we intended to inflict on them during their own disastrous operations.

Each one of these that bite the dust means 5-10 less planes raining bombs on Tehran.

These aren’t just bombers. They’re part of the air force’s command and control structure. You fly one of these planes at high altitude and use it to command a fleet of fighter-bombers. Losing five of them functionally puts dozens of more basic aircraft out of commission.

Americans have wanted to invade Iran going back to the Reagan administration. Trump’s just so zooted up on his own supply that he thought he could make it happen.

That’s okay, though. We’re going to invade Cuba next. We can stop blaming Zionists and point the finger squarely at Florida Billionaires going forward.

We get to pay for that.

Can we even build these planes anymore? The C-17 was produced by McDonald Douglas, a company that went bankrupt back in '97 and had to be acquired by Boeing. Now Boeing is way behind on orders, because they’ve outsourced themselves to the hilt in the same way that ruined Douglas.

This isn’t just an issue of the fiscal costs. The US literally cannot produce airliners reliably anymore. Boeing is increasingly just booking orders it cannot fulfill. Even if Hegseth gets a blank check from the Treasury, this equipment isn’t going to be replaced any time soon.

Pete Hegseth going over to his emergency appropriations request and adding another zero to the back end.