I’ve long known this is true. The actual literacy rate is ~25%.
WTF
Serial Service
Why don’t serial killers just join the army?
Some do!
A guy I met at MEPS when I was joining the army told me the only reason he signed up was, “So I could kill people legally.”
Not really people the army actually wants, but not much I could do about it. Glad I never saw him again.
Handless Handles
The idea of getting a tattoo to me is as foreign as the idea that you’d want a hand cut off.
Just horrid.
Fake Is Fake
Gen Z is so fucked up that you have to put things like this before media that’s aimed at them:
That’s incredibly sad.
815K
That’s 815,3000 dead, by Russia’s own accounting.
If that is the Ian Welsh et al. definition of winning, then losing is gonna be a real damn nightmare.
Des Dis
Whether you think attacking Iran is right or not, Wil is correct. And I’ll never be sad that the evil bastard Khamenei is dead. I can hardly think of a person who was more deserving of disintegration by a 2,000 pound bomb.
No Mas
Yes, it will cost $1,500 to eat at Noma L.A. René Redzepi explains why.
Ain’t no explanation that will cause me to spend $1,500 on a meal at any restaurant ever. I have my doubts I’d even like most of the fare.
Vene
I have no idea why we’re at war with Venezuela but I doubt it’ll make the place any better.
Their Own Doom
What. The. Fuck.
If I saw something like that, I’d be out of there so fast you’d hear the sonic boom in Zurich. Pulling out my phone and taking a video would not even be a thought. I guess most people don’t realize how quickly fire can spread. Most people don’t realize most anything.
Gen Z has no brains left.
Razed
Now that we seem to be coming back to the idea that biological sex is real, maybe we can also declare that most men aren’t in fact crazed rapists and that men’s sexuality isn’t threatening by default? That’d be nice.
Cola War
I think I speak for all cola-blooded Americans when I say this would never stand here.
From our cold, refreshing hands https://t.co/Dc4bH3BO59 pic.twitter.com/llStheiifa
— Misha (@drethelin) October 12, 2025
What the hell is going on in that country?
Doggedly
Dogs are really odd when you think about it.
We bred a race of slave animals genetically predetermined to love us unconditionally. I mean, that’s pretty fucked up.
What the Dickens
One interesting response to this piece is the number of people who have told me that the Dickens passage American university students were unable to understand in the famous study of reading comprehension is absurdly difficult. I really don’t think it’s that hard. https://t.co/a3lVVFCzbQ pic.twitter.com/gZLPdhDJWy
— James Marriott (@j_amesmarriott) September 23, 2025
That is an extremely easy passage, I agree. In a normal world I’d consider that to be what 4th-6th graders should be able to handle.
We do not live in that world.
There is just nothing very complex or intellectually challenging there, especially if you can use Google. That university students in the US cannot make sense of it is fucking appalling and an indictment of us all.
D-Fens
% of people who say that they would defend their country.
Germany is simply mind-blowing, people there lost the traditional values. No wonder that German economy and society are collapsing, if Germans are not even willing to defend their families and country. What happened? pic.twitter.com/4ujTlOkrsI
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) September 23, 2025
A people that pathetic perhaps deserves to be Islamicized.
Dang that’s sad.