Crucible

A brand new type of completely unforced error. Exactly what I expect here

I've been making fun of the hexbear name a lot lately, I must have accidentally touched the lathe

The state dept. would get them to come together and defeat a common enemy when mysteriously an ISIS-K cell appears down the street from their stand off

to be used against enemies that have little to no way of countering an air force's operations.

Isn't that basically all NATO nations strategy? 'step one: establish air superiority, step two: ???, step three: profit'

turns out Frank Herbert was fucking cooking with the Butlerian Jihad

It would be funny if this is what made Zelenskyy finally get couped- openly talking about selling off the country piecemeal, talking about what they have to give away when previously this was all for democracy and whatever

Which I would argue generally exist despite the us government not because of it.

Exactly. Homophobia was a major axis of US policy forever, I imagine without that influence the entire world might have more queer friendly spaces now

Of course Hawass was willing to go with him

quotidian is a good one, 'cause if you use it in English it sounds fancy and has more subtext meaning mundane but in French 'quotidienne' is actually very quotidian

He has to praise the truck or they'll turn off his self crashing mode privileges on the next one

I don't think anyone can complain about stale memes on the website named after a meme that nobody remembers