I doubt the space force will be wearing those uniforms in space. Actual astronauts will probably be a minority in the space force. There’s going to be a lot of uniformed support staff on earth wearing those uniforms though (each military branch has its own HR, supply, IT, legal support, cooks, intel, etc. etc. that…

I googled this to see if jezebel was fucking with me with the name.  Nope.  Jesus Christ.

Yes, I read that article. It doesn’t include much in the way of figures, but refers to dozens of cases. Looks like enough that doctors are inferring young COVID patients are at higher risk of stroke, but it doesn’t suggest the risk is high relative to all young patients, so I feel comfortable saying a group of 21 and…

And presumably, some of them will also be helping convert locations into hospitals to help address the crisis, as the Army Corps of Engineers has been doing, so be careful what you wish for.

The friends and family is what concerns me most. The cadets are all young, likely don’t have any of the comorbidities associated with COVID-19 complications, and will likely be ordered to self-isolate/quarantine for a couple weeks as soon as they arrive at their new duty stations, so even if they get it they’re a low…

This is a very shallow response to this, but whenever I’ve seen Brad Pitt in the past few years, I just want to know who his dermatologist and/or plastic surgeon are, because he looks about 15 years younger than he is without getting into uncanny valley territory.

Unless Jimmy Soul says it, then I’ll sing along.

Yeah, that’s what I thought about the interview on that Christian network. I’m a little less inclined to be generous about the deaths claims, since we and the uk already have well over 1,000 deaths each and we’re just at the beginning of this, but there is some value for some in the crisis to stroke trump’s ego. As…

Just out of curiosity, what are the holes in her story? I’ve been looking into what’s available online and it looks like the biggest inconsistency is she initially reported last year that he inappropriately touched her shoulders (consistent with Biden’s weirdness), and now is describing a different, more serious…

Bernie is losing because more people are voting for Biden, not because of a DNC conspiracy against Bernie. And I say this as someone who did not vote for Biden in the primary. I’m not very excited about him, but Bernie hasn’t been able to broaden his enthusiastic base to become a viable candidate for the party as a…

I like that he seems to be suggesting that NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command, of all organizations . . . I doubt he’s referring to any of the other units/organizations in Colorado Springs, of which there are many), is best equipped to coordinate the response to this when it’s USACE (Army Corps of…

In fairness to actual Bernie supporters, over on reddit all the threads on this are getting brigaded by conservatives masquerading as Bernie supporters (determined via comment history) to push conspiracy theories and sow discord among democrats, so I don’t think we should attribute all that noise to his supporters.

This is not exactly the feedback you asked for, but if you were a close personal friend of mine and told me something like this, I would probably be texting you every night asking if you made an appointment with your doctor until the answer was yes. That said, I do have a friend who has experienced a never-ending…

Let’s not forget Andrew’s sacrifices -- he lost his ability to sweat during the Falklands war! /s

I really don’t think this conversation has a chance of being very productive until one of us reads the SOFA between the US and Iraq (which I doubt either of us has access to), or there are more facts about the specifics of this strike out there (since the legality/illegality depends in part on facts unavailable to the…

Again, I agree with you that we should not have invaded Iraq in the first place, but you are broadening the scope of this conversation. I am only discussing whether or not our current operations there (and specifically the Soleimani strike) are legal or illegal which depends on our agreement with Iraq and domestic and …

I should have been more specific, it’s not relevant to the legality of the specific issue we’re discussing, as you asserted that the initial invasion was illegal, but now we are there pursuant to an agreement with the Iraqi government (though, they just voted to kick us out, so not anymore). Obviously, it’s relevant…

I completely agree with you that we never should have invaded Iraq, but that isn’t relevant to our current operations there. And yes, while we are there with the permission of the Iraqi government, that does not necessarily mean we have to inform them of every operation we conduct — that would be determined by our…

We are not at war with Iraq or Iran (yet), but we do have a military presence there and are continuing to conduct military operations there (mostly focused on ISIS). Iran backs militias there that are hostile to the U.S. and which have been involved in attacks on U.S. Forces. We have also been conducting operations…

I think my issue is mostly semantic at this point. If something violates international law, then we can characterize it as illegal, so I’m not sure what “the norms of international law” are if not international law. There is a degree to which norms and customs are incorporated into international law, but its not…