Makigal
@SignalingGround
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21st Century Schizoid He/Him
Minnesota
Joined February 2017
Felt like I had to update the comic
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An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with
The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before
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Since moving out onto my own the most liberating realization is that I can just do things now. No need to tell anyone about it I can pick a place and go and this is increasingly something people can’t do and struggle to break out the mentality of being observed.
I read that teens would be willing to get off their phones more if their parents let them go anywhere alone. They’d even settle for hanging out in their own front yards unsupervised. But parents overwhelmingly won’t allow it. I don’t think therapy can do much in the face of that.
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“Okay I drew two Dalmatians. Are we set?” “Brother, not even close.”
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muted my Grand Vizier groupchat because they were messaging me at all hours of the day with shit like, “sire, i implore you to reconsider” and “my lord, i beg of you, the economy…”
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A collection of the dumbest dudes you knew from high school felt emasculated when a black man got elected president, so, to compensate, we now have a semi-sentient pig’s stomach in a red hat starting an illegal war to distract the country from all the sex crimes he committed.
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The term “preemptive” is pure propaganda. The U.S. once again used the veneer of negotiations as a cover to bomb Iran. Tehran had just offered terms that went far beyond the 2015 nuclear deal. What was preempted was diplomacy. The same propaganda tactics used in 2003 Iraq war.
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a friend of mine recently turned me on to this incredible article about the bleak state of the ai tech world and the robin hood-esque escapades of @laserboat999 and now i must share it with all of you because it’s the best reporting i’ve read in a while https://t.co/2V3wcCxNqs
harpers.org
Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking
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