I would like to nominate Diego de Landa, burner of the Mayan books. And a lot of Mayan people. The Mayans had books, like normal paper booms filled with Mayan writing. Histories, religion, presumably everything a society would write down. There are only four Mayan books left now. It’s all gone. It’s a tragedy that particularly boils my blood and I’m making him the final boss of a Mesoamerican-themed Pathfinder campaign I’m about to run, because I want to live out a fantasy where he gets fireballed to death or something.

They called you a bit of a hippie, almost certainly in an endearing way

If weed is a walk in the part, mushrooms are climbing a hill, and acid is a hike up a mountain, salvia is skydiving

What the fuck

If the goal is to destabilize the regime until it collapses and then we fund a friendly government into power, it might be doable if we can block their oil exports. But we just lifted sanctions on their oil, so they’ll never run out of money. China may be making shaheds now, so even if we bomb all of Iran’s military manufacturing infrastructure, they can probably keep buying weapons forever.

Iran is very mountainous. This restricts the use of our biggest and best machines of war and gives them places to hide things. Iran is also big geographically and demographically, much larger than Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s also important to note that while the regime is not loved by many, they ALL really hate us. The regime is evil, but everyone west of Greece or so is a fucking demon to them. They have decent historical reasons to feel this way.

Occupying them and achieving complete surrender is probably not going to happen, and if we try for it, it’ll cost massive shitloads of money we don’t have and probably also a lot of lives. The best thing that can happen is we bail and try to say we won. The worst is the president nukes them and Russia nukes us back on their behalf. What I think is most likely is a collapse in the dollar and a withdrawal afterwards.

Decent chance that when it is hacked, the hackers will actually use it to spread true information.

Would. Both of them.

For a few frames, there are actually three, and it turns into something a lot like a hand when he goes for the ass

All they know how to do is eat ram, hog power, and lie

The individual you’re replying to may be sincere, but a shill trying to demoralize us would say the exact same thing. If a scary message doesn’t end in a call to action, it’s not helpful.

With a superconductor, you can create a much more powerful electromagnet through which the coil will still produce a lot of voltage even when turning very slowly. Thus, you can use a much simpler gearbox or even just skip it entirely.

A bunch if young Australian guys try a bunch of different salts on french fries. Can’t remember the exact title but it’s old as fuck. They go down the periodic table column that familiar sodium chloride salt is in and try potassium et cetera until it gets radioactive and unobtainable.

My favorite application for room-temp superconductors is low-speed generators. They have exactly one application, but it’s big: Wind towers without a giant gearbox. Wind power is cheap, but without the truck-sized gearbox with a bazillion moving parts that you can’t lift without the biggest cranes known to man, it’s even cheaper.

Sometimes I could use some of these to convince the inspector I didn’t touch the plumbing.

We got a MAGA who thinks driving a Jeep makes her cool, but other than that it’s just three generations of mild autism

I still don’t know how to articulate the feeling I get seeing my country in decline but also seeing the world rearrange itself in a way that is probably healthier long-term as it happens. The Germans don’t have some long frankenword for simultaneous relief and deep unease at the same time, do they?

Man we got war droids already and the people who really need ones that work are NOT making theirs shaped like a guy.

Fahrenheit is nice for talking about the weather, but metric is just better for everything else.

unholies your land

Unless you want to be used by an older man for sex or groomed to serve a naturally abusive personality profile, bail. But if you don’t bail, consider therapy.