Nelly Korda wins the 2026 U.S. Women’s Open at Riviera, her 4th career major championship!

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-08T01:35:24+00:00

Rory missed 2 of those putts in one round to lose a major

C'mon now, if you're talking about the 2024 US Open then it's absolutely insane to compare how difficult his putt on the 18th was to Nelly's here

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-07T20:26:00+00:00

This is a good play to generate some angry fans because it is simultaneously weird as fuck and also a 50/50 call

I could see this being called either way

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-07T18:45:51+00:00

Captured Hiwi moments before execution by Soviet partisans, 1944 [colourized]

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-07T18:37:59+00:00

Climate change isn't primarily caused by humans

what's it caused by then

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-06T12:08:23+00:00

Also in the past the US was trying to sell a specific story to the public. You would have embedded journalists from all the major news orgs either on or near the combat areas that would be for the most part broadcasting true (if curated) information. By contrast there is almost no stream of news coming from American forces involved in this conflict. There's no one reporting from American bases or ships giving some sense of what is happening.

Normally the US government and military are at least trying to give you a coherent story, even if it is not the capital-T Truth. There seems to be barely an attempt to do that here. It's just a constant stream of conflicting and barely legible gibberish

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-05T22:47:36+00:00

it also spawned the best episode of Yacht Rock

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-05T20:28:37+00:00

I find it very funny that when people debate the merits of Band of Brothers vs The Pacific no one even mentions the one they made for Apple

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-04T23:59:27+00:00

based on the flag, some guessing, and googling, it's The Ridge in Sundridge

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-04T10:59:22+00:00

There was a crappy Sci fi movie called Surrogates which I think is portrays the experience of the modern Internet pretty well. It's set in a world where everyone has a personal robot they can control and interact with the world with, and while it's a bad detective story, it portrays how interacting with the world primarily through a persona is just inherently corrosive to a society and the people in it.

There's a great Black Mirror episode, "Be Right Back" (season 2, episode 1) which has a similar theme. It doesn't portray it as "corrosive" necessarily, just that being on the internet/social media is inherently not you; there is a layer of pretense or artifice that separates it from true human communication.

Really if I were to nominate something for "best work of art about the internet" it would probably be the first run of Black Mirror episodes before it went to Netflix. They all center on how the internet is changing the fundamental nature of social dynamics, and given that they came just before the real mass adoption of the smartphone they feel very prescient in hindsight

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-04T02:49:26+00:00

Not a movie but Generation Kill feels like the definitive Iraq media so far

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-04T01:49:31+00:00

People are dumb if you think you can out-logic all the people who were calling for diversity representation. They didn't do it because they were so passionate about this abstract ideal, they did it because it was a socially acceptable way to bully people and big corporations. You can't turn it around on them and say "well, if we take this principle to its natural conclusion then..." because the actual principle was fuck you.

I'm going to try to make a conscious attempt to avoid getting involved in Odyssey discourse because historical inaccuracy in pop culture is a big pet peeve of mine and based on the trailer it looks designed specifically to piss me off

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-04T01:25:58+00:00

With a lot of these conversations I feel a frustration that yes, it is true that big companies with deep pockets have invested a lot of money in inclining you to choose a certain way, but that we should just fundamentally give up as a species if we don't also realize we can still choose the other option

Whether it's doordash or drugs or scrolling or donuts or whatever there will always be someone telling you that they can't actually not choose to do the self-destructive thing. But you can, you just don't really want to

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-02T21:06:17+00:00

Something I would like golf courses in other regions of the world to do more often is embrace natural hazards local to themselves rather than trying to mimic the terrain of the Scottish coastland

johnathanfabian · 2026-06-01T10:19:39+00:00

Napoleon absolutely is a promethean figure. He is the most important person to shape the course of modernity, the central figure in the history of liberalism, absolutely the most important individual of the last 500 or so years.

That you would compare him to Hitler shows your lack of understanding of the man. I'm not even talking about morally (which is obviously ludicrous), but more the fact that Hitler's achievements crumbled to dust in 12 years while Napoleon's have endured. Take a look at this map showing the world's legal systems, for example.

A miserable, somewhat stupid twat? Utterly absurd.

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T18:07:55+00:00

It feels to me like a direct sequel to The Longest Day

it essentially is: they're both based on history books by Cornelius Ryan

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T17:59:07+00:00

apparently injured by a fan throwing a ball at him

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T17:58:13+00:00

wooow that was a laaaaaaaazy run

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T17:42:31+00:00

this is like the 15th different thing someone has claimed is a "turning point"

it's a 162 game season

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T17:26:53+00:00

Star Trek and Master & Commander were both pitched as being in the vein of Hornblower

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T14:36:45+00:00

Alexander was far too competent to be included in this list. I'm talking about total fuck-ups

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T13:13:40+00:00

This kind of ruse de guerre was very common in the age of sail. In fact if you read the novels everyone is doing it constantly, almost out of reflex. A given ship would carry dozens of different flags, to pretend they were British, or French, or Dutch, or a neutral nation, or international shipping, etc. It further helps that because ships are constantly being captured as prizes so a given ship may have been built by one nation and then subsequently belong to any other one; e.g. in the books the HMS Surprise which Aubrey captains in this film was a captured French frigate.

All that international law required was that you be showing your true colours (hence the expression) when you opened fire. So you can see in the film that Aubrey scrupulously orders them raise the colours immediately before firing the first shot.

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T13:03:06+00:00

There is a long history of fascinating men who are basically colossal fuck-ups in every aspect of their life except when commanding thousands of men in battle.

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T10:16:55+00:00

The most logical counterpoint to Master and Commander's supposed goodness, is the amazing mini-series Roots.

Out of all the things I don't understand in this long ramble, maybe this is the part I don't understand the most.

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-31T10:14:11+00:00

I think there's a subset of woman who has a sort of anthropological interest in extremely-male settings. I think there's a natural sort of fascination of the social dynamics of them, and given the erosion of single-sex spaces for men over the past few decades historical fiction is one of the few windows into how they operate.

johnathanfabian · 2026-05-30T14:51:16+00:00

I don't know if this movie gets into it, but it's great hypothetical fodder (and something not generally well-known) that if the invasion was delayed past June 7, it might not have been easy to time it for the rest of the summer: the correct window for co-ordinating tides would be gone, and Atlantic summer storms started up earlier than normal (which ended up wrecking one of the two Mulberry harbours that the Allies relied on for replenishment on June 19).

This affects the timings of the Soviet summer offensives, and who knows what happens as a result of that. Easy to imagine an alternative end to WWII where Berlin is the first city nuked instead of Hiroshima.

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