Carney does like that word a lot, although not nearly as much as “if I may”

Carney also called him a “transformational president” who “revitalized international security” and Trump nodded “it’s true!” because he’s too stupid to realize it wasn’t a compliment.

I don’t pretend to be able to predict the future. All I can do is look at past mistakes and try to avoid them.

1923, not 2023

I would hope most readers here could infer that from the fact I was talking about the NSDAP.

The ban was of course lifted later, but there’s nothing right-wingers love more than being able to say they are a persecuted by a political elite, so the ban was very good for them.

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The only surprise here is that it was for China, not Russia.

Isn’t that movie notoriously terrible?

For whoever is interested in reading it, I quite liked the Peter Green translation. Fair warning though, it’s quite long, longer than the Odyssey.

Ackshually it’s only Hectoring if you drag them behind your chariot, otherwise it’s just sparkling heckling.

I just noticed that the title of this post indirectly has the name of a Rush song in it. It was meant to be!

That Germany gave rise to Fascism. It was “invented” by Benito Mussolini based on a hodgepodge of preexisting concepts and named after the fasces carried by Roman lictors, the bodyguards who accompanied high officials. Benny wanted to recreate the Roman empire so he drew a lot of inspiration from it; it’s why the fascist aesthetic is so classicaly-inspired with a dash of Italian futurism, which was also in vogue at the time.

Poor Mussolini doesn’t get the respect he deserves. First he failed at being a leftist, then failed at journalism, and finally the one thing he actually did that had any impact on the world is usurped by some random Austrian artist.

VFP 1812 Was a Practice Run
LSV Free Healthcare
GOU Taking the U out of ‘Neighbour’

GOU Type II Sorry
ROU Geneva Suggestions
LOU Trench Raid
GCU I Never Agreed to a Truce

Type II “sorry”

Love this, and now that I see your username I find this quote has a Banksian quality to it.

Type I: I’m sorry
Type II: You’ll be sorry

Oh hey 2112… You’re actually the first person here to notice / comment on it!

It fits — Charlie is a punk rocker whose band opened for the Dead Kennedys.

I don’t necessarily disagree with your take here, but this is all conjecture until we see a 5th-gen in real combat. There was that story about an Israeli F-35 sneaking right up to a… I forget what, Syrian AF probably, but even if that anecdote really happened we haven’t really seen them used in anger. As I said elsewhere here, China is really the only one who’d offer a near-peer opponent (unless god forbid the US go so far off the rails that they turn on NATO).

One example I should have mentioned earlier is that the F-35 has cameras outside the plane so that the helmet HUD allows the pilot to look “through” the fuselage. It does much more than simply show sensor readings inside the visor.

I must not be explaining this very well if that’s your takeaway.

The Gripen doesn’t have the systems (hardware or software) to run it. The F-35 was designed from the ground up to use this.

SAAB have a basic version but there’s less info about it and it’s certainly less advanced. https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2016/saab-receives-order-from-fmv-for-a-new-helmet-mounted-display-system