When it is dark enough, you can see the stars

Canadian. Syncretic Heathen/Druid. BA Anthropology.

[depsidase]

[bruzum]

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[viralfrog]

[runawaymarbles]

"Why can't Trump be impeached" because the democrats don't control the house or the senate. "Why doesn't the Supreme Court stop him" well the lower courts are stopping him but he stacked the Supreme Court in his first time. "Why can't they do the 25th amendment" because that requires the president to be basically unconscious. "When will congress do something" probably in January when the new congress comes in if the democrats pick up a lot of seats in the midterms

[runawaymarbles]

#they could do something if they really wanted to but they dont#dems rn are pretty bad at their job and super flimsy ngl#repubs have had the minority up until now and they kicked a huge fuss any time anything happened#so much so that they could lock things up and prevent things from moving forward even though they were the minority#the same is here but dems wont do jack#pretty disappointed ngl

I don't know how else to explain to you that when Republicans did that they controlled the Senate and sometimes the House. Or that when the dems "controlled" the senate for two years in 2020-22 they did so with a 50-50 vote and one of those votes was Joe Manchin and the other was Kierstyn Sinema, who mucked things up as much as they could, and they STILL got a bunch of shit through.

Right now the Republicans control ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT. The executive branch, both houses of congress, AND the Supreme Court. The Democrats have not had that in my lifetime.

To act like the dems have the same bargaining power the GOP did during the last 6 years of Obama's presidency or all of Biden's presidency is to fundamentally misunderstand how math works

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

The Dems haven't even had enough of a majority to force through the appointments THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO MAKE in decades.

The reason the Republicans control the Supreme Court is because every time for like, 20 years, that the Democrats have been in a position where they've been required to appoint a Supreme Court Justice, the Republicans have dragged their heels on confirming the appointment until they have a patsy back in office in the White House.

[short-wooloo]

The fact that Obama managed to appoint 2 SC justices in of itself is kinda amazing (but this was that brief window when the Dems had almost 60 senators), like that was a miracle

[nerathul]

Most of the stuff these people are asking for requires a 2/3 majority in both house AND senate, which hasn't happened to either party in decades.

And it's pretty clear at this point the electoral system and constitution are being pushed toward a breaking point by hyper-partisanship it was never meant to deal with.

[mapsontheweb]

The Journey of Odysseus

[besidethepath]

I miss seeing beautiful, large beetles in my garden. The magpie's feeding habits fuel a suspicion as to why that is the case.

[thememedaddy]

[wanderthewood]

Steyning, West Sussex, England by theendlesshorizon

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[pagecommando]

IMO? Covid supply squeeze, plus GLP-1 Agonists are annihilating the snack food market AND the 'name brand' snack companies fucking around with shrinkflation in a recession where people are already incentivized to buy store brand stuff that at this point tastes the same because flavor science has exploded in the last 10 ish years. Pepsico's just been particularly stupid about it. Like really fucking stupid.

Doritos at $7 a bag ended up costing PepsiCo billions

But now that a plan to bring prices down is in motion, new challenges have emerged that threaten to blunt its impact.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I remember when Doritos were $3-4 a bag

They seriously doubled the cost of a non-necessity and were surprised that people stopped buying as much?

[the-library-alcove]

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped or turned back, for their private benefit. -Robert Heinlein

(When Heinlein is the one making the point...)

[wynndy]

Image made with a Nikon D4

[josilverdragon]

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

[armengoldira]

[archduck-waddles]

Fuck it

*un-sesame's your bun*

[ms-demeanor]

Service animal hard at work

[thepromiscuousfinger]

I love very specific cakes

[easily-evi]

I had to redraw this cake 🍰

[sweaterkittensahoy]

A companion:

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

[2ndplaceleader]

[whencyclopedia]

Great Britain’s insular position has long made it both protected and coveted. Situated between the North Sea and the Atlantic, the island commanded important maritime routes and offered political, economic, and strategic advantages to those who controlled it. From the Roman conquest under Claudius (reign 41–54 CE) to Germany’s planned Operation Sea Lion (1940), foreign rulers repeatedly sought to secure Britain as a source of wealth, legitimacy, military security, or regional dominance.

The success or failure of these invasions depended on more than battlefield performance alone. Strategic planning, logistical capacity, naval supremacy, political support, and geographic constraints all played decisive roles in determining whether invaders could establish lasting authority. While some campaigns transformed Britain’s political and cultural development, others reinforced the island’s reputation as one of Europe’s most difficult conquest objectives.