Yeah, I've never seen anybody else talking or complaining about yet. Very peculiar, and I haven't got a clue what could be up with my phone specifically that could be causing that.

Android, and as far as I know, everything's up to date. It's really bizarre.

Does the site just straight up not work on mobile for anyone else? I can only sign in when using an adblock browser, I can't filter posts or communities, search doesn't work, and hitting next keeps me on the same page.

(if I recall correctly, wikipedia even has a page just for Tibetan torture methods)

Would you happen to have a link handy? A cursory google search yields nothing but the expected anti-Maoist trash

It's always a head trip being reminded that the engines from Thomas the Tank Engine are all real

I might be going to see Santa Fe 3751 next month, and I'm so jazzed about it

Jesus Christ, how embarrassing. This kind of behavior is so baffling to me. I've been verging on poor for a good bit of my life, and I've earned money by working with my hands more often than not (and thank fucking god I'm not doing that anymore for the foreseeable future.) If I had Tim Pool's money, nobody would ever see my happy ass again.

At any rate, yeah, I never could get a grip on it. Never got a handle on roller blades either. Got pretty good with four-wheelers though lol

I've always been crap at sports in general, even things that I should've logically been good at, like wrestling (I'm a large lad.) I don't know if it's the ADHD or what, but not being able to get good at something right away often leads me to quit from sheer embarrassment.

That all sounds utterly fascinating, and also cause for me to once again bemoan my utter lack of coordination and balance

I never could get a grip on skateboarding as a kid. Alas

Exactly, no accountability, no citation, no critical analysis, not even basic questions like "How in shit's name would the MOD be able to derive anything like an accurate casualty projection in this situation."

Like I get that articles like these aren't meant for people who tend to actually think about what they're reading, but goddamn, it's just gossamer thin.

Adding to Ukraine’s woes are Russia’s huge advantage in manpower and its willingness to accept staggering losses in return for capturing small objectives

Do we even have reliable casualty numbers for the Russians (i.e. that don't come from Ukrainian reports) or is this just the usual 'Russians have no regard for human life and rely on human wave tactics' trope

Edit:

The offensive has also come at a huge cost to Moscow, with an estimated 70,000 troops lost in two months, according to the U.K. Defense Ministry which posted the projection last month on X

That explains that I guess

Makes sense. Kinda wish I'd had a pair at my last job. Digging boric acid out of a hole in the ground in the middle of the desert. Doesn't compare to coal mining, but I'd come out of there absolutely covered in the shit. Dries your skin out something awful as well.

How'd you know that

My thoughts exactly. Plus gatekeepers are pests no matter what's at issue.

Hey, please, be pedantic, it's just one more way for me to learn (And I'm definitely not also saying that because I'm habitually pedantic myself.) I do recall reading something like that though, in a book I've got on jeans in the old west. Clearly it's been a while since I've opened it lol

I know what you meant, my bad, I should've phrased that differently. I'm asking that of these guys, and what I really mean to ask is where they got the idea that only working cowboys can dress that way when there's so few of them to begin with, and when that manner of dress has so long ago transcended its original purpose.

Like what's next, you can't wear blue jeans if you don't work in a coal mine?

You sound so much like my drinking husband lol

That's exactly what he would do in that situation, and it's what anybody should do. He looks better in that getup than most anyway, and I'll bet you do too

That, and what does it even mean to be a "real" cowboy? There's only like a half million working cowboys left in this country, and even that seems like a high estimate. These guys must get awfully exasperated in the crowd at a rodeo or a country show.

But again, most people either dig it or pay me as little mind as they would any other stranger. It's been years since I've had one of those conversations.

Hirbawi is fantastic, I bought mine in the same pattern ages ago, and it comes with me on every desert camping trip I take (back when I wasn't too lazy to do that)

Wear whatever you want, who cares.

I've got a beautiful 10X Stetson that looks just like the one Tim Olyphant wore in Justified. I used to go drinking with a guy who also liked to dress western, and we'd go out in boots, hats, and buckles most of the time. He worked as a ranch hand very briefly years before I met him, but other than that, neither of us knows shit about being a cowboy (not firsthand anyway.) Didn't stop men, women, and everyone in between from checking us out everywhere we went.

There'd be the occasional guy from Texas or wherever interrogating us to see if we were "real" cowboys, which is idiotic on so many levels. Pay no mind to any of that, and dress how you like. We'll all be dead someday, live it up while you can and yee some haws with me.

Spec Ops: The Line, beyond being a pretty good game with a lot to say about the average gamer's enjoyment of military shooter power fantasies, also introduced me to my favorite band, the Black Angels, and I'll be forever grateful to it for that.