Lachlan O'Dea

🇮🇱 Antisemitism is pure evil 🇮🇱 @[email protected]

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

This captures my feelings perfectly. It’s weird to know how the last blacksmiths felt. https://t.co/aQnKByf8nY

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@gruber @LiveCasinoPHL Did @benthompson pay up?

[Kai Lentit (e/xcel) @KaiLentit]

Dying company's board when they decide to go all-in on AI.

[Andre Silva @andresilvatw]

"The series also shows that Spain did not benefit from its empire. That is a problem for every theory tying colonies to modern growth." This is important and surprising: with all the gold and new territory, GDP per capita in Spain did not increase. The figure below shows the same message with a different dataset. GDP per capita in Spain is almost flat between 1500 and 1800. It is not gold that explains the wealth of nations

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Most people completely underestimate the insane, inhumane scale of the war in Ukraine.

According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, the siege of Mariupol alone saw between 27,000 and 88,000 deaths in only three (3!) months.

Read that again and let it sink in

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@HistoryBoomer Why do you hate Australia?

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@HistoryBoomer Your points are valid, but I think you underestimate how much has already been lost at 1.2%, and how much more ground you will be asked to cede.

In the US, can you publish a cartoon ridiculing Jesus? Can you publish a cartoon ridiculing Mohammed?

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

This is the page for "Invisible Stalker" in the old AD&D Monster Manual.

In the credits, four different artists are all listed as contributing to this masterwork.

I personally feel that D&D peaked here.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@HistoryBoomer Luigi

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@RadioFreeTom Something that seems to have been forgotten about by many, but shouldn't be, is Trump's "KEEP PROTESTING… HELP IS ON ITS WAY" post. I think a lot of Iranians took that seriously, and they're being comprehensively sold out now that it's all too hard.

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

I really wanted it to work, but I never had much confidence that the Trump administration could pull it off. It's now clear they assumed the initial decapitation strike would do the trick, and were completed lost when it didn't work. A massive unforced strategic blunder.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it.
https://t.co/WtiJcw7PUO

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@TychoBrahe

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@HistoryBoomer @TerribleMaps You are more cursed than Hurin

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

Loved this from @cmuratori https://t.co/uoHzizJm7Y

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@HistoryBoomer All these are skipping the critical step of changing the conditions that prevent any solution. The primary reason there is no solution is that the Palestinian side won't face the fact it lost and can't achieve its goal (that goal being the destruction of Israel)

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@SarahTheHaider

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@SarahTheHaider A lefty equivalent is “greedy bankers/tech bros”. Huge economic and social issues reduced to the moral failings of individuals who are—inexplicably—evil. “Explanations” that prevent explanation.

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@soychotic and yet you live… so your story checks out

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@BriannaWu The tragic thing is we were on the right track for a while. People were willing to make most reasonable accommodations. Then gender ideology came and fucked everything up.

[Lachlan O'Dea @quelgar]

@DrewPavlou