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That’s the Pope’s brother, Louis Prevost, with the vice president at the UFC fight Sunday…

Infantry will be totally obsoleted by drones. Long range fires like artillery and missiles will start to come from unmanned vehicles on the ground and in the air (imagine an autonomous m109 Paladin, or the next Anduril Fury fully replacing an F-35), and shorter ranges and patrols will be handled by vehicles slewing common machineguns and grenade launchers, scouting huge ranges of territory with fast drones, sending payload bearing drones guided by high aerial drones spotting thereafter. Countries which can build these systems because they have sophisticated factory systems and engineering talent to make them will create layer of deterrence just below nuclear and an offensive capability that eliminates the military viability of countries which cannot. War will become much less common, but authoritarian rule will become much more possible.

whoever said bread and circuses were bad neglected to consider what if the circuses were really fucking cool

Are Americans even bad at any world sports? How can they be so good at everything they do ?

And had to do a Song of Shepherds Zelda alt for fun

Buc-ee's brisket is like a 6/10 but that's because in America half the country can do a 10/10 brisket with a $30 smoker and 100 year old grandpas spice blend. If you're not from the states? hell, not from the south? Buc-ee's will blow your shit smoove off, do no sleep on it.

A grandmother in Missouri is pushing for a new law that would require drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a parent. (Bentley's Law)

Joseph de Maistre notes that, in his long and storied life, he has never encountered “man”—the subject so championed by the French revolutionaries. “But there is no such thing as man in the world. In my lifetime I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; thanks to Montesquieu, I even know that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare that I have never in my life met him; if he exists, he is unknown to me.” Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France.

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen. I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify. In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather. "Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully. "Honey, that's what it looks like." The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it." I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it. I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South. It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent. "Well?" the waitress asked. "I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed." "Everybody does, hon." Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it. Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating. I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden. It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

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