Don’t forget the conglomerate names:

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard

He’s a big guy

Oh, you mean the part where they almost completely undid the Mando S2 finale?

Then Mando S3 undid the rest

They fly now!

Sometimes I describe Andor as a 10/10 show that’s a 9/10 because it’s Star Wars

And I love Star Wars

The Kessel run might fit the lore, but the lore was clearly added after the fact and it’s so much of a stretch that the black holes look like silhouettes that were made for me on the other side

And I think that Club Penguin’s block on news is keeping word from getting out

It was supposed to land tomorrow, so if it crashed today, that means they couldn’t even get the craft into a lunar orbit.

ISRO > Roscosmos

There was a moon in the way

I thought this was useless until I spotted my current city of Detroit, it matches well enough

"Like a viper slithering around its prey, the CCP [Chinese Communist party] is coiling around Solomon Islands in hopes of tightening their grip on the Indo-Pacific region,” Dunn said.

First impression is that the quote is unnecessarily dramatic.

Second is that no, I think politicians should use dramatic comparisons like that, it’s fun.

Third was “Wait, vipers use venom to hunt, not constriction”

That sounds like an incredibly shallow reason to stop contributing

But those two tidbits about Tom Clancy are fun.

The NSA reviewed his books and asked him to present his sources because he concluded a bunch of classified information using unclassified sources.

Feel free to tl;dw me for the link, it’s only fair, but it’s a very interesting listen

https://youtu.be/VS54M5Mqa9M

Tl;dw

According to the documentary Down Periscope, a nuclear sub is no match for a diesel sub with a misfit crew.

The US Navy wouldn’t last a week

Capitalism: imminently about to collapse under its own weight for the last 150 years

“Americans” as in “Agents of the American government”, not as in “American citizens”

Just English being weird as per usual

That would, unfortunately, be abduction.

In this case, I’m pro abduction, let’s do that

Denazification.

Vague

Demilitarization.

Vague

No application to NATO.

Ukraine made that deal when they gave up nukes, Here’s Russia invading anyways

Independence for Luhansk and Donetsk.

No comment, shit’s too complex

Recognition of Crimea as Russian territory.

“Just concede the most valuable part of your country as a gesture of good faith”

Shit, if all you have to do is park a fleet at a region and it’s yours, I have been playing paradox games wrong this entire time