Daniel Palumbo

@poisonjr This is a critter dense situation gale

pray 4 me

It's really striking that Israel and the US launched their attack a few hours after Oman's foreign minister claimed that Iran had agreed to almost everything the US wanted to ensure that it wouldn't develop nuclear weapons. I hope that journalists will look into this to figure out exactly what the Iranians offered, because if the deal was as good as Albusaidi claimed, it will make this attack even more outrageous.

This WaPo article is unreal: they unironically mock China for not being imperialist and failing to use force to defend its interests, arguing that they're losing out to the U.S. (in Venezuela, Panama, etc.) which does precisely that. In essence the article can be summarized as: "You Chinese losers thought you could gain influence by actually building things? The only thing that actually works is bombing people." I'm not even exaggerating. The author literally writes that "China can spend all the money on infrastructure it wants... But in a crunch, it is only military force that counts." He argues that China's approach was "a colossal waste of money" because "control of infrastructure can be changed" with a US-led "change of regime" and "ownership of any asset can be overturned." His article's conclusion? "You can’t buy an empire, nor can you purchase global influence. It is only hard power that counts for anything." As cynical and brutish as the article is, it's also refreshingly honest. It is factual that China's strategy was to win over the Global South by investing in their infrastructure and development, while the U.S. maintains its influence through regime change, various forms of coercion, and the threat (or use) of force. The conclusion that it is China that should feel embarrassed by this as opposed to the U.S. is, however, completely insane. Every sane person on earth should hope that it is China's approach that ultimately prevails, for the sake of our collective future as humanity. China is ultimately trying to prove that one can prevail geopolitically without violence, by building instead of destroying: don't be like this idiot WaPo writer and root for the answer to be "no". Src for the article: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

Sergio Leone: The first shot will be a horseman in the distance. [tearing up a little] And he will be shot in the head so beautifully…. Ennio Morricone: Sergio my friend I love this first shot. It is molto sublime. Perhaps one second later a spring should go “boing” 100 times?

@poisonjr My goats!!!

@willmenaker also a big fan of Kenji's older vids where it's just unedited POV from a head mounted go pro for just getting a sense of moving quickly, confidently & intuitively in the kitchen youtube.com/watch?v=RPYk9W…

Now try again, but this time, don't say “And there's nothing we can do about it.”

No one has ever done drunk acting better. She was supernaturally funny. What a loss!!!!

greatest city in the world

like, do 10 seconds of vetting before you post to 830k followers? This is a fake image of Neptune. JWST observations of both planets exist and can be found trivially, here they are:

Literally wrong on both accounts I cannot stand these high-follower science engagement accounts that post 75% garbage.

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his fits were insane

In my day, critics denounced U.S. wars of choice as imperialist schemes to seize foreign oil - while the president insisted they were really attempts to spread democracy Now, critics denounce such wars as attempts to spread democracy - while the president insists they are really imperialist schemes to seize foreign oil

these men monitor the situation so the rest of us don’t have to

Arguably my favorite one

@AlanaFeral I missed that you got engaged, congratulations!

Wild that I asked for woodcarving tools every christmas as a kid and never got them. My fiance got me a beautiful set this year and I never had to ask.

I feel so sorry for myself, working late on Christmas Eve, but these cells just reminded me: my life is just not that hard.

Donald Trump, answering phone call from 7-year-old on Christmas Eve: "Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it's marginal, right?"