I'm not saying "do nothing". Maybe I'm just naive and worn out because I served in the military for nearly a decade during two wars, and grew up in the era of numerous international peace talks, but I'd really like to see a little bit more effort put into diplomatic solutions before we rattle so many sabers.

We were actually quite close to smoothing relations with Iran during the JCPOA negotiations, but I agree that any relief of tensions that resulted from those dialogues has been completely undone and likely cannot be recovered at this point.

It's less about the public perception and more about the kind of impetus that open war between Iran and Israel could add to the current global tensions.

You can look in my profile to find plenty of instances of me criticizing Joe Biden, but I personally think his defense staff has been smart to slowly ramp up the kinds of weaponry being given to Ukraine.

There's a benefit to ramping up slowly because at the end of the day these military decisions are still being made by people, and "here's all our top tier military tech on day one" ramps up tension to 11 and may result in some unfortunate decisions.

The more open war to manage, the harder it will be to keep that balance between ensuring Ukrainian victory, and not causing something like tactical nukes or other WMDs to be deployed.

From listening to Pod Save the World routinely it sounds like that was more or less a promise Netanyahu is making.

I agree with another one of the comments here that these recent infrastructure attacks in Iran are probably, at their root, directed by the Israelis.

Really unfortunate time to be stirring up shit though, imo. With the link between Iran and Russia solidifying it could easily be interpreted as another "Western" power directly attacking Russian goals.

My heart tells me that is good, but I really worry about escalation. We're heading towards a very bloody Spring regardless.

Is this all post COVID? I've flown out of Logan and back about a dozen times and never had an issue getting to and from the airport. I can't say I've ever traveled during rush hour, but these days rush hour feels like it lasts from 6AM to 10AM and 2PM to 6PM.

I would usually take the silver line too, it wasn't really that much of a hassle. I haven't traveled since December 2019 though.

I don't see it mentioned on any of these lists, despite being quite popular when it was released (very early this year) - but I just finished rewatching Peacemaker and still enjoyed it so much.

Some of the jokes do get a little repetitive, especially on a repeat viewing, but the emotional beats are surprisingly hard hitting for a show that doesn't shy away from pure absurdity.

It's the thing I've enjoyed watching most this year.

Best thing, though? I got around to watching Over the Garden Wall for the first time and I cannot believe it took me this long. So charming, and well executed.

That was going to be my first iteration of the mantis shrimp joke that I made elsewhere, but I didn't want anyone to think I was flying a drone while on mushrooms. lol

You guys don't understand. This is a true and accurate representation of what they saw. It's actually a pretty restrained edit.

I was shooting in the same area the day before and this is what I saw. For context, I am a mantis shrimp.