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[Dan @BrowningHat]

You ever look up at the moon and wonder if, somewhere, Taco Bell's discontinued Volcano Double Beef Burrito is looking up at the same moon?

[Dan @BrowningHat]

Set the tone

[Dan @BrowningHat]

@AGHamilton29 @cardinals150 This is a good example of how "sunk cost fallacy" isn't much of a fallacy for those running a war and why Putin's own self interest is to take a million casualties.

Its a very old problem and why we used to use separate out the decision to go to war from the conducting of a war

[Dan @BrowningHat]

That is the Bear

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

86 years ago today, a king destroyed his own legacy at 4 in the morning.

Belgium had held for 18 days. Their army was shattered, their cities burning, their coastline overrun by German armor.

King Leopold III was 38 years old. A widower since his wife died in a car crash he survived. A soldier-king who had refused to flee with his ministers.

At dawn on May 28, 1940, he did something his own government had explicitly forbidden.

He surrendered.

Alone. Without consulting his ministers. Without warning the British or the French armies still fighting on Belgian soil. Without a single word of thanks to the men dying to cover his retreat.

The Belgian government, in exile in France, immediately repudiated him and declared he had no constitutional right to do it.

French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud went on national radio that afternoon. His voice was almost a snarl.

"There has never been such a betrayal in history."

Churchill, who privately sympathized with the impossibility of Leopold's position, was pressured by Reynaud into denouncing him on the floor of the House of Commons:

"Without prior consultation, with the least possible notice, upon his own personal act, he sent a plenipotentiary to the German command and exposed our whole flank."

Leopold spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of the Nazis at his own palace.

When he tried to return home in 1950, Belgium had to hold a national referendum on whether to let him back. He won 57% of the vote. Then the strikes started. People died in the streets.

He abdicated within a year.

In Belgium, the argument is not actually over.

[J. Mangual @MLBShotsFired]

Inflation is completely out of control, you can’t even take 3 kids to a Detroit Tigers game anymore without spending an arm and a leg! Crazy!

[Dan @BrowningHat]

This is me at a car dealership

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance says talks between the U.S. and Iran have ended after 21 hours without reaching an agreement. https://t.co/idhbnnAl3H

[Dan @BrowningHat]

Instead of a live action Moana or Harry Potter show, they should do a shot for shot remake of the movie "Downsizing" every 8-15 years.

I'd cast Jesse Plemons as Peter Safranick, Keke Palmer as wife, Aqwafina as the love interest, and Stellan Skarsgard as Dr. Jørgen Asbjørnsen

[Dan @BrowningHat]

Wow, can not believe it is almost the end of Q1 2026. Seems like just yesterday it was the start of Q3 2024

[Dan @BrowningHat]

They did get the speed of the examination process pretty spot on though

[Dan @BrowningHat]

I dont think the Zootopia 2 writers understood how the Patent system works

[Dan @BrowningHat]

@NateSilver538 Sounds like something a neo-liberal post-modernist would say to divert attention from critiquing classist power structures

[Kellie Meyer @KellieMeyerNews]

President Trump says his State of the Union speech tomorrow is going to be a “long speech” because he has so much to talk about.

[Dan @BrowningHat]

@whignewtons Step 1 of the plan-"The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Neil Gorsuch, and in such inferior Gorsuchs as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."

[Dan @BrowningHat]

@OrinKerr Whose Cass Sunstein then?

[Dan @BrowningHat]

I gotta have more fog horn

[Dan @BrowningHat]

Nah this is Nathan Fielder

[New York Post @nypost]

Ski resort worker finds engagement ring dropped by ‘nervous’ boyfriend from 118-foot suspension bridge https://t.co/IG3nD1VIak

[Dan @BrowningHat]

Congrats to all American heros who survived "lets circle back after the holidays week".

[Dan @BrowningHat]

These Stranger Things kids got too many plans man

[Dan @BrowningHat]

Just another day here in hell

[Dan @BrowningHat]

Tigers and Mariners, we just keep it going. 100 years. Or forever. There can be an inning where everybody has an octopus body. Thats a whole inning.