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Obama was able to talk them out of all of the second thing, and they agreed.

Like so many other things, this could be a motivation for Trump to undo things, regardless of understanding any of it. It's why he ran for President the first time, out of spite.

Better than applying the money to socialist programs back home, for sure. (the ones still around)

"I hate moon dust. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."

"I hate Mars dust too."

It's actually a huge problem to solve before any rational long term settlement occurs in these places. The stuff is pretty bad.

-- Trump response when asked about how the tariff situation was going.

Gandalf's line is probably my favorite from the book. You can only control what you can control. Do what you can, and know at the end of the day that you did your best, regardless of the outcome.

for what it's worth, Mbin can see and interact with both Lemmy type communities as well as the Mastodon type of broadcasts. They are still two different parts, but within a single interface. Often I see things on the sidebar from them, usually dropped into "Random" as the algorithm doesn't know what to put it in, and have the same thoughts as you. That it seems like it's shouting out into nothingness. But...I could respond to the commentary, and it would bounce back to them. It's just a different way to communicate, not as "permanent" as a discussion board format.

May be little and cute, but the look on that face is full honey badger. I'd turn and run.

The ONLY good point to this would be that it would draw the US public into action. A base in the Middle East got hit? People shrug it off, it's nothing new and doesn't affect them. A naval or army base on the East Coast gets a missile hit? At least if there was disagreement on what to do, we'd be arguing about it. Assuming that Iran can even get that far...

And to be clear, it's only a good point in that it would wake people up that shit isn't right, and maybe they'd feel threatened enough for their own welfare to do something.

"Stop shooting ourselves in the feet!"

So many decisions being made are very isolationist, and that never works well for the one shutting everyone else out. But who looks at history, right?

From the novel, Sulu had the most appropriate reaction in his test, follow the rules. Scotty had the best though, new physics was discovered thanks to his actions.

Don't wish to commune with the dead. A lot worse than you can imagine.

"As I've long maintained, this was the correct move by (Trump)," the Pennsylvania centrist posted on X. "Iran is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities."

Seems intelligence is saying that after strikes on three places where such things would be, nothing has changed. So basically they didn't have any. Good job, you needlessly attacked someone. Very brave. Are we trying to make 2020 feel like not as bad of a year as 2025?