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8 points ·

I wouldn’t be surprised if forces on the ground deliberately downplayed the damage when reporting to Trump so he wouldn’t endanger them all with further escalations.

14 points ·

The Russian equivalent of “you can’t fire me—I quit!”

13 points ·

Sure, it looks like foul play—but it’s also a perfectly natural reaction to driving a Tesla.

4 points ·

You could restrict it to cases where the victim and defendant have significantly different demographics, then.

10 points ·

You could expand that to a general principle for all criminal cases: select one judge that matches the demographics of the defendant as closely as possible, one that matches the victim, and one that differs to an equal degree from both.

57 points ·

He was originally jailed for life but at an appeal doctors told the court the rapes arose of sexual frustration arising out of his marriage to an “ambitious and demanding” wife. The sentence was reduced and he spent only about two years in jail.

Why are rapists seemingly the only category of offender judges always manage to find sympathy for?

11 points ·

It was the power station near Arak that the IAEA had been monitoring.

7 points ·

*Our Father, which art*...

...uh...

...which art foundation should we cut funding for next?

7 points ·

Weren’t there jokes at the time about them inadvertently building a submarine?

6 points ·

So the upshot’s that Grok bot’s a crackpot?

5 points ·

100% tariff on indulgences.

2 points ·

In Italian or Latin, it would be “Papa Pizzaballa”.

11 points ·

Someone needs to get Trump talking on camera about making Romania the 52nd state.

23 points ·

They may not have enough manpower to guard a more distributed site, especially if they’re afraid of internal groups seizing some of it.

47 points ·

Kirzhach is on the far side of Moscow from Ukraine. Did the drones fly over Moscow to reach it, or did they take a longer route?

10 points ·

We thwarted two aerial attacks that the enemy was preparing to launch

That kind of sounds like they had inside intelligence—did the Defense Department accidentally add them to a planning thread?

201 points ·

Tesla makes limos now?

2 points ·

I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin put Trump up to it, so Russia could step in and portray itself as the defender of Europe.

8 points ·

Technically, in a lynching a mob kidnaps a suspect from police custody—this was more of a reverse lynching. (Same ultimate intent, though.)

24 points ·

He’ll just threaten to invade Sweden unless they give him the peace prize.