I’m curious to know why they are there. They can’t have much in the way of line of sight from there.

Maybe. Trump isn’t exactly motivated by trying to protect democracy.

A good question. It’s kind of like when crime happens to criminals. Yes, they are entitled to the same protection as everyone else, but there’s a side-eye there.

We all know Iran is governed by assholes. But it’s still wrong for us to invade them like this.

if Iran had a democracy there would be no war happening right now because the people of Iran CLEARLY wanted another government

Iran didn’t start the war. Our idiot in chief did. Maybe he wouldn’t have attacked a democratic Iran, but maybe he would have.

I think maybe someone should be worrying about it.

The only thing this makes me think is “May I, please?”

We can’t tell if it’s pointlessly gendered unless wet know what the questions are about. Seems likely to be a study of some kind, and knowing how men perceive other men, for example, might be valuable data.

Unless you’re a MAGA influencer. Then you get evacuated.

Isn’t that the guy that played Unicron?

the whole political system will lose its credibility

I think that ship has sailed.

Our government isn’t quite a case of Trump’s word is law. And it was only two years ago that we had a nearly functional government. When Trump finally does the only good thing he will ever do, we have something to fall back on.

We are talking about the Navy, right?

And yes, Iran is a bigger, better armed country, so we should use more stuff to attack them.

Assuming we aren’t gong to do the sane thing and not attack them.

Might have been. But there are dozens of us.

In this case, the enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. Nothing more.

Always has been. Sometimes my enemy’s enemy and I want the same thing for a little while.

Maxim 29.

True, but we don’t have that society, yet we do have the ability to automate a lot of people out of a job.

We could automate those jobs, yes, but then a lot of people would have no jobs at all.

Motivation, mostly. I have half a dozen abandoned projects in writing, model building, miniature painting, electronics, programming.

I’m a man of many talents, and limited attention span.

That’s why I specified lady minotaur. I know what I’m about.

Male minotaur need not apply.

If they switched that up for a timid young farm boy and a lady minotaur with huge . . . tracts of land that need caring for, I’d read it. Wouldn’t even need to change the title.