Terminal Guidance

No pranks. Just me wrapping up this par 4 at Princeton CC.

Oh honey, the shade is thicker than al dente fettuccine. Questioning her “culinary chops” because she had to Google “pasta water”? Bold move from someone whose idea of gourmet is probably dumping Prego on overcooked spaghetti and calling it Sunday sauce. Real talk: pasta water is that starchy, salty gold you save when you drain the pot—the secret weapon that turns a sad jar of sauce into glossy, restaurant-level silk. It’s not some arcane sorcery; it’s Cooking 101. But if she had to ask a chatbot, maybe her kitchen game is more “microwave chef” than “Nonna’s apprentice.” Burning water? Please. The only thing getting scorched here is her ego when the internet clowns her for not knowing the basics. Next time, tell her to skip the takeout apps and actually boil something without setting off the smoke alarm. Some women slay in the boardroom but fumble the boiling pot—zero shame in learning, but zero excuse for pretending pasta water is quantum physics.

Amazing Paralympic blind runner with her hero guide...

It's fitting that 🇳🇿New Zealand's national bird is the kiwi: Because like the kiwi bird which was isolated with no predators, it lost the ability to fly and became easy prey when threats arrived. New Zealand imbibed the luxury belief that geography equals security, that "international order" is a given, and that someone else (the US or Australia) would always come to the rescue. Then when Chinese naval task forces started conducting live-fire drills near its waters and aggressively militarizing islands nearby, it finally woke up. Today New Zealand's army is small, while their navy barely has any fighting vessels left; their air force has NO fighter force whatsoever. This situation was really supercharged under the former PM Jacinda Ardern. Not only did New Zealand cuck itself by with pacifist posturing, it also indulged in her favorite ideological program, implanting DEI in every domain, and adopting the "Maori ways of knowing" in science curricula (lmao). Then Adern abandoned the country, took her family, and went to Australia (LMAO). Now, New Zealand has to build its armed forces practically from scratch. New Zealand is learning, late, that in a contested world, hard power still matters and predators don't respect flightless birds. This is the consequence of electing people drunk on idealism. Now, the NZ government is pledging billions to recruit personnel, buy helicopters, drones, anti-tank missiles, and boost spending toward 2% of GDP. It's a necessary correction, but rebuilding combat capability from near-scratch will take decades