Oh it’s the millennium challenge 2002 report from Van Riper! that’s cool, it’s not even overlong.

I get the impression that he hated the exercise design and wanted to emphasize that fact as much as possible, seems much more like a treatise on simulation design than on war

holy cow, I’m back in the trenches again

I ate a grilled cheese and it fixed my upset tummy

if I did that my manager would sit me down and explain why he found the bit about the guy with the 100 ft penis that’s always hard so funny and deliberately impress upon me that my taste in podcasts is becoming a HR issue due to all the women who have gained an uncontrollable desire to pat me on the head like a housecat

There’s a moment I remember where some Mensheviks quit parliment in protest, giving the Bolsheviks a majority, and Mike is a total realist about it, no pearl-clutching about civility or anything. I think that moment stuck out to me because it seems like a perfect moment for a more brainwormed historian to howl about duplicitous Bolshevik betrayal, but Mike gives you just the facts ma’am.

I’m certain there are moments where he gets scoldy, or treats power-grabs as somehow ominous, but I don’t remember it as getting to the point of being insulting.

The Guardian: UK ‘mortgage meltdown’ looms amid ‘terrifying’ growth in arrears

However, while homeowners were more likely to make cuts to other spending before falling behind with mortgage payments, buy-to-let landlords may take a different view, he said.

“We are more likely to see arrears in the buy-to-let sector, where landlords face a unique set of challenges. If a landlord finds their mortgage is no longer affordable, or the rent no longer covers their outgoings, they only have two choices – sell or default. If they opt to sell, they may have to wait up to a year for the tenancy to end, unless they are willing to sell with a tenancy in place, which is more difficult. “Landlords are also more likely to opt to default than those struggling with a mortgage secured against their main residence, so this is an area to watch,” he added.

Just spotted this banger in Schrodinger’s Nekomiya-san

it’s a natural filtration device. you know you found a seven days a week freak if they get down to the vince guaraldi/lil ugly mane playlist

what’s it like to live in an apartment that stares straight into another? do you become balcony buddies with the people across the way?

english is a pretty weird language. you can be subjected to objectification. can you be objected to subjectification?

dyou think john dolan sounded like Otakon when he was younger

Why can’t the EU power ahead with green subsidies like Biden’s? It isn’t just political procrastination — Yanis Varoufakis

Teppu, a very straight womens’ MMA manga

Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, a yakuza thriller manga

Oh, so it is. I thought the red exterior paneling was part of the platform barrier rather than the train itself, and that threw me

Beautiful interior. The deep green on the seats particularly.

That’s the finest platform gap I’ve ever seen.

What’s so funny about the name sussus amogus?

Once in a while I get stimulus-overloaded from like shopping at markets and such, or similar things that take a lot of mental energy, and I think it might be fixable with sugar? I got it today and remembered that pro gamers will eat chocolate to get a bit of sugar to the brain. So I tried something similar and now I feel much better.

Russian jets have buzzed Margaritaville’s ADZ

At least around 156 school buildings in the UK are being evaluated for collapse risk due to use of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) in their construction from the 1950s until the mid 1990s, with some being closed entirely just as the term starts.

More English schools could close due to crumbling concrete, minister warns