My local waterways aren't so fucking filthy that swimming has been banned for a century. We spent the 4th happily boating (electric!), swimming, fucking around on the local river, no thoughts of foul water.

Netanyahu ending the war? The war that's postponing his corruption trial? Magic 8 Ball says, "BULLSHIT".

The moon masses 8.1 x 10^19 tons. Every single thing mankind has ever produced in our entire history wouldn't dent that.

Reason #4,538 why I'll never live in or near a large city.

Yep. Given the choice, most people would rather be getting laid. Apparently lemmy finds this idea distasteful.

We're sending war materiel, not so much (if any?) small arms.

I'd be shocked if we can't. Since WWII, our whole military mission has been predicated on simultaneously fighting two major fronts and one brush fire. We've only recently dropped the brush fire bit.

OTOH, maybe I'm wrong. Put my comment in ChatGPT:

• Obama-era Reassessment (2012): The strategy began shifting toward being able to fight one major war while deterring or denying another — a step down from the full two-war capability.
• Trump and Biden Administrations: Strategy documents further refined focus on peer or near-peer competition (e.g., China and Russia), moving away from the rigid 2-MRC structure. The “brush fire” idea has largely fallen away as the military now emphasizes great power competition and integrated deterrence rather than trying to be everywhere at once.

🎵 Only the good die young! 🎶🎷

Send 'em here to Florida. We've about killed ours off.

Nah. Fox News is (usually) more subtle than that. They simply stop talking about fails. And that's all it takes. Just stop talking about the fail and talk about something else. Why bother lying when you can STFU and get the same or better results?

All true, but my point was that he's hardly been isolated in North Korea. He knows there's an outside world, and to your point, knows how rich it can be.

I'm not certain what he knows or does not know. In any case, his message to MAGA is clear, Canada will pay, and they'll believe it.

OP didn't touch on a major issue for PhD holders: over qualification. I'm a good example, even not having earned a degree. Can't get a low-level IT job because my experience is too much. Nobody wants to hire somebody that's able and likely to jump ship at the first opportunity.

Worse, I think one of them is his sister. That's the kind of woman who would have a man manually disassembled.

Kim was educated in Europe, not like he's clueless about the outside world. Also, there's such a thing as "poverty tourism". (I forget the word.)

Bingo. "Mission accomplished."

"We killed you!"

"Not so much."

Face saved all the way around.

And if you gotta fuck around, this wasn't too bad. So far.

Y'all just don't get Trump, even after all these years? To his mind, there was no failure. The parade was a wild success. He literally cannot think anything differently. That's NPD for ya.

OTOH, he can notice that there wasn't enough praise and admiration. That is what is eating his skull.

There are engineers, smarter than both of us combined, that worked on these weapons. These are problems smart men have worked on for decades.

Given the expense, and rare usage, we only had a few dozen. How would you test such weapons? And this is key, without the intelligence of their effectiveness getting out. People are going to notice when you blow up fucking mountains.

In any case, we'll gain some solid intelligence from this mission. Not that I supported it, quite the contrary, but we'll learn a thing or three.

You are not smart for making fun of this thing. But if it makes you feel better?

classified as ‘top secret’

leaked ... by an anonymous, low-level loser

C'mon media. Ask the obvious follow up question. C'mon!

Iran has got jack for leverage. There is a binary choice here:

A) Shutdown the Straight. Get fucking wrecked by the US military, or a coalition.

B) Posture but don't actually shut it down.

You don't fuck with international trade.