nope, it’s the verbal analogy puzzle format used by tests like the SAT.

throuple : threesome :: couple : hook-up

Trump rounds trans people up into death camps

“another attempt to distract us from the Epstein files!”

также мы с NoiseColor не согласны - не думаю что Путин хочет ядерную войну. а победе в Украине надо прекратить поддержку НАТО. ну Путини кажется что Тромп НАТО не дальше поддерживает, и затом НАТО ослабляет. так может быть что Путин нападает Польше, чтобы сломать союзу НАТО. а это очень опасно…

я говорю чуть-чуть по-русски, и занималась истории СССР, а ещё мы - не согласны. СМО неоправдан.

I’m pretty sure the Epstein files are the distraction from sending the military to conquer our own cities.

pff, you call using an operating system bare metal? I run my apps as unikernels on a grid of Elbrus chips I bought off a dockworker in Kamchatka.

and even that’s overkill. I prefer synthesizing my web apps into VHDL and running them directly on FPGAs.

until my ASIC shuttle arrives from Taipei, naturally, then I bond them directly onto Ethernet sockets.

/uj not really but that’d be sick as hell.

for work I have a cloud dev VM, in which I run WSL2. so there’s at least two levels of VMs happening, maybe three honestly.

Hamas is getting exactly what they wanted.

they provoked Israel into massively overreacting, responding to a terrorist attack with a genocide. Israel burned though all its international goodwill and now most of the West has recognized Palestinian statehood.

Netenyahu’s arrogance amazes me. this was easy to foresee.

I’ve been talking with Russians on Reddit. maybe it’s all bots, but most of them really think NATO started the War in Ukraine, that every country in the West has always hated Russia and wants to destroy them, that all the invasions are in self-defense, that attacking the Baltics and Poland would be justified… it was terrifying.

they’re so cynical too - Western news is propaganda, Western democracies are shams, NATO wants to destroy Russia, everyone is Russophobic, that our citizens deserve to suffer for arming Ukraine, that we’d kill them all if we could, so they don’t care if they kill us.

they think they can break NATO, that we will fall apart if Poland is invaded, that Russia will emerge victorious and the Western order will lie in shambles. don’t they see they’re playing with nuclear holocaust? do they care? are they so fatalistic they’d play (apologies) Russian roulette with the extinction of humanity?

I ask you because you seem sane. is this just propaganda from kremlbots, or are most Russians really like this?

idk, honestly. usually this kind of tribalism burns itself out after a World War and a bunch of atrocities. there’s a global empathy shortage… too much hate and too little love.

They also normalize risk: forcing constant intercepts drains resources and tests cohesion among allies.

it also keeps defensive forces sharp, by giving them practice, and strengthens cohesion by highlighting the shared threat NATO protects its members from.

the Soviets did this for decades. it’s still part of their military doctrine, I guess. though it seems counterproductive to me.

I’m fine shooting down hostile fighter jets the second they cross into sovereign airspace, and not a moment sooner.

the Soviets used to fly fighters close to Western airspace to probe our defenses. we’d intercept, and if they crossed over we’d take them down. this is nothing new.

I can’t find the pro-LGBTQ+ ones are they on backorder?

is that the Network State that Peter Thiel is trying to build?

and make MAGA Place pay for it?

it’s weird that he uses those juvenile nicknames even in private(?) conversation.

wtf? didn’t Scrooge McDuck get drafted into the US Navy?

my sibling in Christ, Reps. Mace and Jackson literally shouted the t-slur yesterday and called for all trans people to be forcibly institutionalized. Trump said he “wouldn’t oppose” banning the trans flag when a reporter asked about “transtifa.” Musk retweeted someone who called trans women “perverted, deranged bioweapons” and trans men “osteoporotic, androgynous goblins,” calling us to be contained and forbidden to communicate with each other. along with someone else calling for a total ban on HRT for all ages. we’ve been kicked out of the military, and stripped of security clearances. the DoJ has floated banning us from gun ownership by ruling that we’re “mentally defective.” my passport has an M on it because Trump reverted all the rules on his first day in office. it’s a literal felony for trans women to use the women’s bathroom in Florida, and for trans office workers to use their own pronouns. coverage for trans health has been stripped from nearly every public service. trans protections have recently been eviscerated in Skrmetti.

it’s really not going great.

if you were a centrist before 2020, and you still are in 2025, then you’ve moved Right, since the Overton window shifted Right.

if you kept your principles you’re now Left. that’s how the window works.