"we couldn't do anything useful for citizens in my 14 years of office allocating 60 trillion USD. but if we can just steal from the rocket science electric car guy, then we can solve all your problems."
The most influential artist you’ve never heard of died a few days ago. John Blanche was commissioned by Games Workshop in the late 1970s to illustrate the first British version of Dungeons and Dragons, then Warhammer and Warhammer 40k. He created the aesthetic now known as Grimdark, which in time laid the foundations for GW to become a multi-billion £ company. Along the way, most importantly, he fired millions of young imaginations (including my own). Quite the legacy.
I ordered one pancake in America. The waitress wrote it down and said, "one short stack."
Short. I am a small and humble man. A short stack sounded perfect for me. I waited with a calm heart.
She returned carrying three pancakes, each the size of my face, stacked into a tower, with a block of butter on top sliding down the sides like slow lava.
This was the short one. I did not dare ask what the tall one looked like. Some knowledge a man is not ready for.
I ate for forty minutes. I was not full. I was afraid. The tower did not shrink. I am fairly sure it was growing back faster than I could eat it.
I had to surrender. I left half. In Japan, leaving food is a deep shame. So I leaned in close and apologized to the pancakes directly, in a low voice, one by one.
The waitress asked if I wanted a box. I did not know food could be taken into custody. I declined. I did not want it following me home.
In America, is the short stack truly the small one?
I need time to prepare my spirit before I ever face the tall one.
"Drone warfare is uniquely dehumanizing" no you think that because there aren't ww1 europop hype edits of the chlorine gas flowing into bunkers a ypres, a million shells being fired in verdun, or thousands of sobbing dying in mud pits at Passchendaele
War is terrible
Christopher Nolan was handed source material so classic and bullet-proof that it should have been impossible to screw up.
And yet, somehow, someway, he’s managing to do it.