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From the words of Secretary of State Rubio and President Trump, it's actually worse than projecting for power. Israel was going to launch strikes, so the President, Rubio, and Hegseth decided to do this too.

I'm not joking or slanting this. The State Department has on its own website these comments from Rubio. https://www.state.go...rks-to-press-6/

 Planck, on 03 March 2026 - 06:20 AM, said:

There has not been a stoppage of violence - a blockade has been put on and food/gas will not reach Gaza. The genocide continues. It also doesn't go away once violence is stopped either. The effects continue on for generations.

If you don't quantify what is happening in Gaza when the UN Committee focused on determining that did (https://www.ohchr.or...ommission-finds), you have an ideological position that is probably a bit offset from reality here.

One can simultaneously say the government of Iran has been a particular blend of religious extremism, brutal control, anti-Semitic, anti-peace, and stupidity and not want the members of that government to be murdered indiscriminately alongside civilians by a stupid, corrupt, and incompetent US federal administration.

The people of Iran are a combination of mourning and celebrating the deaths of the top government people, while also likely all wanting the US and Israelis to stop bombing them and hurting people. Military force alone doesn't put in a democratic government that's good. This path doesn't lead to good things.

If you look at his work prior to that 2001 date, the racism and bigotry was there in smaller doses.

He focused it heavily on Muslim after 2001, but this was a person ready to be that guy for a long while.

Good riddance to him even if he wrote a truly great novel (The Terror).

Mentalist, on 23 February 2026 - 12:12 AM, said:

Cut a slot in the screws to use a flat head, talk to the IT folks about new screws, weather the jokes, and replace everything as you need.

Tsundoku, on 22 February 2026 - 07:58 PM, said:

The tolerances of people for boxes being vaguely in the right place are quite stunning in their range. Some of us even have partners who basically sit us down with a notebook and pen, then write "unpack basement boxes" with a box (the irony!!!) next to it to tick off when completed, plus a list of other things we need to accomplish this weekend or the world shall melt fully into squalor.

Three of these boxes have been packed since I graduated from school (2011). It has been freeing to finally go through them and toss/keep because I didn't really have the settled in feeling before now (long story). A thought derived from that: I really should have been selling back my textbooks - except my absolute favorite ones - instead of keeping them because they might come in handy some day. Same for recycling my notes and binders. The space they've taken up is honestly a decade plus blunder that could have gone to more fun blunders.

I can see on the horizon the competition for storage space with additional family members, so paring back comes with a mindset of "nature abhors a vacuum" mixed with "where else am I going to put the little one's stuff?".