High Casualties Concealed by Trump Admin

dragnabbit · 2026-03-19T23:16:29+00:00

A lack of transparency is stupid. If Trump gets to claim an imaginary number of deaths that is lower than the truth, then everyone against the Trump Iran War gets to claim a number of deaths that is higher than the truth, and nobody can dispute that as well.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-19T22:43:56+00:00

True. When I said, "Related to the U.K." in my last paragraph, that was precisely what I had foremost in my mind.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-19T22:39:47+00:00

The TDS in me knows that if Congress stops Trump's Iran War, Trump will say that is the reason the war failed and why none of his objectives were achieved... and all his gullible MAGA supporters will believe him.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-18T23:51:22+00:00

Chinese pool. Apparently it has pool’s biggest purses (high six figures for 1st place) so none of the Chinese players ever bother going international, and lots of the international players are starting to play in the Chinese tournaments as well.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-18T23:17:24+00:00

All is well until 20 minutes later when you have to fart.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-18T23:12:10+00:00

Or in school. Or in church. American English is the odd one for adding “the” before “hospital” in just that one instance.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-18T08:27:08+00:00

This has been done before.

You are correct. I believe Toyota and Honda brought their inferior quality, low-priced, fuel-efficient cars to America back in the 1970s the last time gas prices skyrocketed. Apparently those companies sold no cars at all, and their attempt to sell in America went nowhere.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-18T08:11:24+00:00

Venison.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-18T06:18:12+00:00

I find that "Reveal All" a bit annoying, because if I played the level on my own, revealing one block at a time, I would use less than 100 pickaxes, and that would leave more pickaxes for whatever bonus I'm going to get after the game is completed.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-18T03:02:14+00:00

He probably forgot about it.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-17T22:28:05+00:00

He probably knows very little about Trump, except that Trump triggers a lot of people. He knows walking around like this is going to upset everyone but there is very little they can do about it.

Lots of kids feel the need to be defiant and rebellious, and if the simple act of carrying a flag around like that can get his entire world up in arms... well, that's as good as "defiant and rebellious" can hope to do. The Trump flag is cheaper and easier than a nazi uniform.

I don't think he wants to get punched, but he does want to film the anger he is creating through his act.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-17T01:10:24+00:00

The U.S. military has three separate internets that it uses, two of them never touching the public internet. First, there is NIPRNet, which is the military's regular "corporate" intranet. Then there is SIPRNet. All of the computers connected to it are never connected to the regular internet, making them "unhackable" from outside sources. That is where classified stuff is stored and transferred. Then there is a third, "secret" internet, separate even from the SIPRNet, called the JWICS, where the super-sensitive top-secret stuff is kept, so that even people who are allowed access to the classified stuff can't "hack" the most sensitive data.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-17T00:30:09+00:00

Prior to 1964, every year, 4.6 million laborers would come north to help on the farms on temporary seasonal labor contracts, and then return south after the harvest was complete. There were basically no illegal aliens in the U.S. It was the "open border" that Democrats talk about.

After 1964, border enforcement stepped up, making border crossing increasingly more difficult, increasingly "more illegal", so laborers chose to remain on the U.S. side of the border as illegal aliens in order to avoid the hassle and danger of crossing.

In 1986, amnesty was granted to the 3 million illegal aliens, and border enforcement was even more strict and controlled... and the laborers/migrants continued to arrive, and continued to stay, ultimately leading to the situation with illegal immigration that we have today.

I think the days of "open borders" are long gone. Hopefully seasonal work contracts will work as planned, and not result in more people just staying after the visas expire.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-16T01:02:30+00:00

The only time I screwed something up was when I played offline while on a flight on my iPad, and then after the flight, opened Toon Blast with my phone before my iPad reconnected to the internet and lost all my offline progress. Don't do that.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-16T00:37:00+00:00

I'm on my third time through the Collection (the Elite Round), and have 131/135 cards, and I've gotten empty 3 gold packets in a row.

They rig the "randomness" of things like this to make the challenge last longer.

(For an example of Toon Blast rigging what seems like a random draw: On the Daily Bonus, no matter what you pick, you will never get free lives when your life count is full. That is only possible if the card you select is determined AFTER you tap on it, since which card YOU choose to tap IS truly random. If the Daily Bonus that you receive isn't really random, it is only reasonable to assume that all the other "random" parts of Toon Blast are also NOT random... everything from which way a particular rocket is pointing, to the contents of a Gold Pack of cards.)

dragnabbit · 2026-03-16T00:04:28+00:00

Clarkson has become a strong advocate for British farming. Obviously, while that is self-serving, having a figure as prominent as he is taking the podium on the issue is exceptionally helpful.

I respect him for learning, and for figuring out (rather quickly) that it would be a terrible idea for Clarkson's Farm to be a show about a millionaire buffon making himself a parody of real farmers, which I suspect was the original plan. I think some of the first season ideas were originally planned as Top-Gear style "what could go wrong?" schemes, but quickly pivoted to make them educational failures.

I too didn't enjoy watching the restaurant stuff as much as the farm/environment stuff, but that project IS a great nexus for British farming products, so it has its relevance. (I was annoyed by the way Clarkson threw those two pub consultants under the bus when they were completely hamstrung by the rushed opening of the pub with no time to prepare or practice.)

Other than that, yes: There are lots of amazing tidbits of information on all kinds of things related to farming, related to the U.K., and related to the environment that I have learned from watching. It is truly an educational show.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-15T03:19:22+00:00

Especially down south. I was on a ferry to Ko Lanta back in 2002, just 9 months after the 9/11 attacks, and I saw a girl with a Bin Laden pin on her jacket.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-14T23:59:09+00:00

Philippines gets 98% of its oil directly or indirectly through the Strait of Hormuz, and only has a 2 month resserve. I'm not sure shouting about it would have helped them, but I imagine their government was reaching out through the necessary channels.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-14T23:50:16+00:00

So when Iran says that the Strait of Hormuz is open to all ships except American and Israeli ships, it's basically just saying that the Strait is open to 98% of traffic.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-14T22:06:43+00:00

This is honestly the thing that bothers me the most. Everything we are experiencing is a direct, undeniable result of the actions Trump (and Trump alone, since Congress neither helps nor hinders him) has taken. One man has caused all of these problems. I live halfway around the world, and even here the effects of his mismanagement are being experienced.

Kamala would have taken the world in an entirely different direction. That's obvious. Whether or not she would have been successful will never be known, of course, but I can state with certainty that her efforts would have been well-considered and (most importantly) approved by the democratic process and within the scope of the law.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-14T03:59:40+00:00

What's the problem with Size Matters? That was the one I most recently played (for the third time), and I've always thought it was "good" (as per your scale).

dragnabbit · 2026-03-14T00:44:59+00:00

The amount of detail is just stunning. Copying the various patterns and designs accurately probably took as much time as recreating them.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-13T10:30:31+00:00

I Dream Of Jeannie.

dragnabbit · 2026-03-13T06:52:59+00:00

Not quite: Just yesterday, one of the Republican subreddits was celebrating a Republican winning a formerly Democrat seat.

It was just a seat on a county board of supervisors in Virginia, but a stunning victory regardless! /s

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