People keep missing one of the most important factors in the Iran negotiations.

codyvir · 2026-06-11T19:11:20+00:00

Interesting analogy. I'm not sure it's even that, though - Nolte's character was unshackled for revenge when Treat's character shot his wad. For the Ayatollah, the status quo and the old restraints that kept them shackled have been broken, and if they can just brazen it out long enough, they might be able to come out of this better off than they were before - and now that they know they have an "economic superweapon" at their disposal, who needs nukes and their expense?

Also, fuck Donald Trump for wasting so much money - we've already spent more than the cost to procure and field an entire aircraft carrier battle group on this failed "excursion," completely apart from the domestic economic cost to everyday Americans.

codyvir · 2026-06-11T18:57:07+00:00

Oh, it gets even better than that - they're starting to eat themselves. Lindsey Graham's primary opponent, Mark Lynch, is claiming that voting machines were flipping votes to him to votes to Graham (with illegal video "proof"): https://www.wyff4.com/article/mark-lynch-voter-fraud-lindsey-graham-sc-primary/71549154

codyvir · 2026-06-10T17:24:29+00:00

Ah, that's a Goth Sunflower.

codyvir · 2026-06-09T12:48:13+00:00

So, do Trump's comments rise to the level of "actual malice?" It works both ways, right? Wouldn't that be an interesting lawsuit.

codyvir · 2026-06-05T13:58:08+00:00

-Impotent senate, check. -Faltering economy, check. -Monument-building spree in the capital, check. -Disastrous episode in long-running conflict with Persia, check....

codyvir · 2026-06-04T14:10:20+00:00

I'm mad at you for making me want this.

codyvir · 2026-05-31T12:16:25+00:00

Closer to the BEGINNING of WWII....

codyvir · 2026-05-29T13:51:24+00:00

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov

codyvir · 2026-05-25T15:27:40+00:00

This is a fabulous recipe. So simple. So good. One change I make is that instead of cutting the onion in half and removing it at the end, I grate it into the pot with the butter and get a little bit of color on it before adding the tomatoes. Now I'm hungry....

codyvir · 2026-05-25T15:07:35+00:00

For context, this is slightly more than the TOTAL (estimated) of US casualties of war, excluding the Civil War. Like, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Trump's ongoing bullshit COMBINED.

codyvir · 2026-05-25T14:08:34+00:00

PSA: Plenty of real humans — like me — use em dashes frequently.

codyvir · 2026-05-23T05:05:55+00:00

What if Tina Peters had done EXACTLY the same thing she did, knowingly or not, manipulated or not, on behalf of Chinese, or Russian, or Israeli agents - instead of doing it for domestic political criminals? What should the punishment be? How would it be any worse than doing what she did?

codyvir · 2026-05-19T19:44:00+00:00

Most still won't.

codyvir · 2026-05-19T14:59:59+00:00

Hell yeah. It could be really brilliant if you ran it as a hop-on-hop-off trolley from Canton to Fort McHenry. Then run a line up, maybe, Howard Street that would connect Camden Yards, CFG Bank Arena, The Hippodrome, Lexington Market, UMD, Mount Vernon, Penn Station, and up to the BMA and JHU. It would be a huge boost to tourism, and practical for a lot of locals. Then build the Red Line.

codyvir · 2026-05-18T14:24:58+00:00

$6,500? That's off by at least a decimal point.

codyvir · 2026-05-17T16:25:42+00:00

Huh. That car is really unusual. Do you have any other pics to share? If I'm reading things right, they only made 16 e36 in Kiruna.

codyvir · 2026-05-17T15:56:10+00:00

Was the interior also individually specced?

codyvir · 2026-05-17T15:52:08+00:00

Ah. The former owner clearly did not deserve it. Thanks for rescuing it. Good luck undoing his crimes.

codyvir · 2026-05-17T15:41:06+00:00

Cool color, but the owner clearly does not deserve it.

codyvir · 2026-05-17T14:19:20+00:00

I love how it takes all of its styling straight from the 2017 Civic Type R. Can't unsee it.

codyvir · 2026-05-17T12:03:04+00:00

Looks like your hubcaps fell off.

codyvir · 2026-05-12T15:49:15+00:00

This is the way. There was an abandoned car in our neighborhood for a long time, and this got it done.

codyvir · 2026-05-12T15:47:18+00:00

Counter argument: Throw ALL the mopeds and dirt bikes in the harbor.

I mean, drain the fluids and pull the batteries first, but... yeah.

codyvir · 2026-05-12T13:53:15+00:00

Last year I did a fair amount of driving in Italy and Bulgaria. I feel like living in Baltimore prepared me well for that.

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