thank you, I really appreciate it!

im thinking of going to hong kong and macau on vacation, does anybody have any recs?

sookie stackhouse (where my true blood fans)

i think people would have pestered him more if his brother hadnt died in a horrible accident. Theres an image of him sitting on the curb at the scene. I think its just accepted this is something he might never emotionally recover from enough to release music again

why is israel not getting involved? are they afraid?

Wait im confused is his strategy ridiculous because he's conveying his statement through this rag? So it sort of undermines the anti-racist message?

yes many chasers come to thailand

car keys explode

wait how tho? you drop em or smth

russian is very not woke. Nouns have gender and verbs in the past tense do as well, so good luck being nonbinary. I suppose you could try using neuter but thats also what phobes do to dehumanize and I feel iffy trying to reclaim it.

kazakh is a lot better since theres only third person pronoun and gender does not exist as a grammatical category. Everyones nonbinary by default!

Also like the other comment said a lot of woke words are just imported from english. Some are understood by a wider audience, but most only if ur in the know.

think ur cute dont you

To present a different option, Singapore. Very smug and think theyre intrinsically better than their neighbors. When rly it just comes down to geography and english proficiency. I just hate that they're always trotted out as this capitalistic success story when their "success" came about under a set of very specific circumstances

they mean the us kidnapped maduro for allegedly violating us laws (specifically drug trafficking) while being outside the us. So your second sentence sounds correct on its face but in practice the break has already happened, many times, with the US as the culprit.

So if America just gets to do whatever the fuck it wants, why should other countries be bound by different standards? I do wish we lived in a world where everybody respected each other's sovereignty. But thats not our world, and hamstringing yourself while your rival doesn't bother themselves with such frivolities just doesnt seem very rational

slayyyter - worst girl in america. Fantastic electroclash bangers

Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. Don’t like it as much as sour or guts but still a nice effort.

Courtney Barnett - creature of habit. Solid rock album

Tom Misch - full circle. How does this Brit have so much soul in him? A bit perplexing but when the output is this good who cares.

michael richards, tho not like his career post seinfeld was great

if you like to solve crosswords, crosswithfriends.com has crosswords from many publications including nytimes and its free

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-far-will-trump-escalate-the-war

Four months into a difficult air war with Iran, President Donald Trump’s popularity is sinking among American voters. I have been told that in a recent secret meeting in the White House, he began speculating, albeit vaguely, about a nuclear option that could perhaps bring a quicker end to the war.

It should be said immediately that it was just inside talk to senior staff by a frustrated president. On Monday night Trump was intensely booed at the NBA Finals game between the Knicks and the Spurs at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and polls have consistently indicated that the Democrats will return to a majority in the House this fall and might flip enough Republican seats to gain control of the Senate.

If that happens, there will likely be calls for impeachment proceedings. There is no mixed-martial-arts fight, basketball game, or World Cup soccer match that can change the scenario. Iran has been able to continue producing drones and missiles in underground factories during US and Israeli bombing attacks, and Trump is stuck in a war he may not be able to win before the midterms. The immense US and Israeli intelligence failure about Iran’s underground capabilities has rarely been discussed by the Trump administration as the war goes on with no resolution in sight.

I was told that the president’s talk about the need to target Iran’s underground missile production facilities was along the lines of determining whether the use of a nuclear weapon “was doable.” It seemed clear that Trump was aware, as a December, 2025 Congressional Research Survey study put it, that he, as president, has the “sole authority to authorize the use of US nuclear weapons . . . in his Constitutional role as Commander in Chief.” The four-star commander of the US Strategic Command is responsible only to give the president advice, when requested.

When Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initiated a joint air war in Iran in February, Iran responded with surprisingly successful missile and drone attacks on Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, US military and intelligence bases in the region, and oil and gas production and storage facilities in the Middle East. The vital Strait of Hormuz has been shuttered, to the shock of White House planners, and remains an international choke point for energy.

It was amid what could be called a “what to do” meeting that a frustrated and angry Trump, perhaps only thinking out loud, raised the issue of using low-yield nuclear weapons to destroy “some” of Iran’s underground missile factories. I was told by someone with extensive knowledge of nuclear weaponry that it was “a very scary and very serious moment.” The president was depicted at this point to be “desperate not to lose in Iran.” His idea was to warn the Iranian leadership that “we are very seriously” considering such an escalation. I was told that the president apparently “was talked out of” any thought of nuclear escalation.

At least one of the aides at the meeting came away disappointed or even shocked that an American president would talk so openly and casually about initiating a nuclear war in the Middle East. Trump’s words were seen by the aide as just another sign of what seemed to be his inability to control dark thoughts, as when he crudely attacked Pope Leo XIV this spring and the pope replied: “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

I was told that the president’s remarks about nuclear escalation in Iran came not at a cabinet session but at a small staff meeting and that the president often “does not control himself” during difficult moments full of bad news. Nonetheless, there were at least a few present who thought it was “very bad” that such thoughts were voiced by a sitting president.

“The failure of the [war with Iran] is on his mind.” I was told. It is not clear whether the president has aides with enough courage to tell him what he should not do.

i suppose on the off-chance that israel considers the risk seriously and backs down. But we all know israel is too far gone and rabid for that.

Kazakhstan? You know kazakhstan isnt a part of russia right

wow drag me

Aremnia

Who? Armenia?