Raptorpat

https://x.com/IranIntl_En/status/1936772105506291832

their convenient excuse is presumably "they aren't in the majority and aren't the committee chairs" but we know why they'd cut out the opposition party and they probably would have done it had the Democrats had either majority

they didn't brief any of the relevant congressional Democrats

imagine if there were some sort of deal related to Iran's nuclear capabilities, let's call it a "nuclear deal" and imagine if that nuclear deal would have prevented them from developing nuclear weapons while developing a direct diplomatic relationship and offering an opportunity to reintegrate with the world and now envision that this nuclear deal would have been ten years old, but someone eight years ago decided to unilaterally revoke it because it was good rightwing politics

consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, of course

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/republican-medical-student-loan-limits-00415741

Thursday was the beginning of the high heat etc. so we put in the window ACs, then Friday was mid 70s/high wind - the perfect weather to open every window in the house to get a nice crossbreeze going and take a nap. Now we're back to the heatwave into next week.

A WRITTEN SUMMARY! imagine you're watching a cell phone video of an unattended, unmarked SUV with no plates that was left in reverse on a suburban-looking street with palm trees the unmarked SUV slowly rolls backwards with its driver door ajar - the presumption being that the driver jumped out in a real hurry (shock and awe?) after five seconds, you hear the dull thud, scraping of metal, and creaking of the hinge as the SUV's door makes contact and runs along the side of a parked car (taking out the car's side mirror in the process) over the course of six seconds after which the door hinge tries to snap back from its over-extension at this point, the vehicle is about to reverse into the intersection with the main street as a man in a black t-shirt with a tactical vest frantically runs back to the SUV to jump in and slam the brake as he drives the vehicle forward, you see him try fruitlessly to close the door - its overextension in the collision makes it impossible - and then the video ends as the driver parallel parks the SUV

I think it def helps to make sure kids know the rules and logic of math before letting them use all the shortcuts. also this, 100% it was the only math I bombed out on. in 10th grade I got a 48% on the trig exam, which was probably my lowest grade (excluding like getting a zero for not doing something) until 11th grade/pre-calc when I got a 36% on that trig test. it just didn't make any sense, like you can multiple and divide, but you can't sin something? like what is that even? it wasn't until scrolling reddit long after finishing school and someone posted an animated gif of like a circle and triangle visually moving around each other and how that generates all the sin/cos/tan values and waves. the logic all clicked in that moment, long after any of it was relevant, just as it clicked for a thousand people in the comments. one of the commenters basically said that the reason no one understands trig is because the math teachers don't understand it either, so they can't elaborate beyond "this is what the rule is" to help it click like with that one gif.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time my older sister had the N64 cartridge I had the GCN Master Quest disc that was a reward for pre-ordering Wind Waker my dad got me a used copy of the limited edition Zelda collection on GCN (Zelda 1, Zelda 2, OOT, MM) I got the 3DS remake I just beat the game on the Switch virtual console

@cixblah if you are alive we are one day away from friending up

also (if you haven't seen Coco, don't spoil yourself - go watch the full movie right now)

Woody's Life Lessons: Toy Story 1: it is ok to not always be the center of attention Toy Story 2: love will always end, but it's preferable to emotionally sterile immortality Toy Story 3: it's ok to let them go when they move on Toy Story 4: it's ok to let yourself move on Toy Story 5: ... it's... ok to die...?

3 seemed like a good place to hang it up, and only do the shorts and seasonals after that to their credit though, the fourth one did continue to progress the existential "Woody's Life Lessons" to a reasonable next level

also happy Juneteenth

setting aside everything else in this thread experience, the one absolute positive is that after 35 years I've finally learned how to spell "heinie"

yeah, the "two weeks" buffer has been consistently overplayed throughout the tariff "negotiations" so I don't believe it at all