PhilipTheBucket

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Everyone wants to do an Operation Praying Mantis, and walk into the briefing room the next day and yell "WHAT'S UP NOW" and then run the meetings from then on. I suspect that it's a strong motivating factor behind a lot of things which actually aren't in the best interests of any country from the standpoint of the people in the country.

Also, the current US president at least has been fine with US forces directly blowing up Iranians and Iranian installations. (Also, for the matter, with Iranians blowing up Americans.) It's only within the brute logic of geopolitics that they can say with a straight face that Iran "must not" attack Americans.

You walk forward boldly with your lady into a more rewarding future

Competition? Send 'em south
They're gonna drown? Put a hose in their mouth.
Do not pass go, go straight to hell
I smell that meathook smell...

I was once on a farm, laughing at something, and a horsefly came up and bit me on the tongue.

I had no idea why it happened, still don't, but it was one of the worst things that had ever happened to me at that point in my life.

The early story of McDonald's is one of the great American tragedies. The food used to be excellent fresh-cooked hamburgers, real milkshakes, all this real food and available cheap and fast because they were well-organized. There's a reason it got popular on a historic scale and started making a basically unlimited amount of money. Then, Ray Kroc pulled an Elon Musk on the (original) founders who had invented it all, hijacked the whole thing and took it over, and ruined the food to save money. Not satisfied with having fucked over the McDonald brothers, he then sued them for using their own name and then successfully drove them out of business from even having the single hamburger stand serving real food -- now with a different name -- that was all they had wanted to have in the first place.

It's like everything good and bad about America, all wrapped up in one heart-rending little anecdote. Look up the whole story if you want to get upset.

South pole

They did this in Ukraine right before the shit hit the fan for real, too.

The pro-Russian ruling party at the time was cracking peaceful protestors' skulls, so they started wearing helmets. And then, the helmets became proof that they were up to something violent somehow, and they tried to make helmets illegal. Within about a month it was street battles, fireworks and small arms and bow and arrows.

Waiting until the US is too dysfunctional to reliably bail them out of whatever wild bullshit they get themselves into. And then, starting a regional war. Great stuff.

Maybe shooting starving families for this long and everything going according to plan has convinced them that they're indestructible, and nothing can go wrong. It absolutely can. The US has managed to get successful outcomes out of about 0% of wars it has started in the Mideast, and the US is a hell of a lot more capable at these things than modern Israel is.

"It’s common for people across the company to have questions for the CEO, but he doesn’t have time to answer them all," Jean Yves Couput, senior advisor to footwear company Salomon CEO Guillaume Meyzenq, told The Information.

With the help of San-Francisco-based startup Personal AI, Meyzenq trained an AI chatbot to answer his staffers' annoying questions about company culture, mission, and strategy, per Couput.

Where are The Yes Men? I feel like they did this.

Wait, what the fuck?

https://ww.fashionnetwork.com/news/Salomon-names-guillaume-meyzenq-as-ceo,1680479.html

It's real... I was sure that this was made up to sound out as "John is Kaput" and "Guy Amazing" or something. I cannot believe that there are real life humans who believe that all their underlings are dying to have a bit of their time, to ask them questions about company culture and mission. In all my experience the things I have wanted my boss's time for are "did you look at that thing I sent you" and "can you make a decision about this and then enforce it afterwards please, any decision, literally any at all."

I have seen them at protests, and they do seem organized and they definitely can yell. What the fuck, I'll take it. I feel like it's probably mostly the central leadership that's somehow been corrupted into trying to throw elections to the Republicans and getting upset about us sending aid to Ukraine.

I don't know if the person on the microphone I saw spend most of their speech yelling about Democrats (literally more than 50%) was from the PSL, but I don't know that they were. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say maybe not, fuck it, come along with us, you can do your thing and I can do mine, sounds good.