It’s not really comporable though? USA had more manufacturing capacity than almost the entire rest of the world combined in 1941.

Plus Iran has consistently shown it does have the stomach for a fight. It’s used terrorist cells and proxy militias to engage in indirect warfare with Israel and it’s allies since the Islamic Revolution. You couldn’t pick an enemy in the world more willing and able to put up a fight against Israel and America.

Certainly not in conventional means but then they’ve never shown any interest in conventional warfare since Iran/Iraq and they mostly won that through the use of suicide bombers disuading Hussein from perusing a ground offensive in Iran.

And 3 paragraphs talking about Mario Kart World.

In January 1941 it really didn’t look like USA had the stomach for a fight. They’d spent 30+ years withdrawing from the global stage, there were marches on the street to keep America out of the war in Europe.

The very fact that by 1943 they’d shipped more than a million soldiers 6,000 miles away to an entirely different continent while doing the same thing in the other direction was an unprecedented achievement.

Plus is also didn’t look inevitable that the axis would lose, Germany were still steaming forward in Russia at that point it was far from certain who would prevail and if Japan hadn’t hit first they would never have achieved anything.

I’m all in for crazy hockey. Boosters, bumpers, multipuck, moving goals, tilting ice, pucks made of different materials, sticks made of different materials, boxing gloves appear at centre ice giving the player who grabs them 30 second free pass for roughing.

Let them fight to the death.

MMMMMMMULTIBALLLLLLL

Any sport, doesn’t really matter. Periodically during the game more balls start getting added into the playing field to spice things up, a la pinball tables.

Tennis, Football, Volleyball, Baseball, Basketball etc etc

Get down to 6 Bags Cinema in Victorville. The aircon isn’t great but shows nothing but popcorn classics.

2 nights in a hotel in Sydney. Arrived at about 10pm straight from the airport. Unmanned entry to had to call someone from reception to come and give me the key despite arranging all this in advance.

Got in the room and the AC was broken so as a Brit arriving in Australia for the first time it was unbearably hot and the room stank of damp.

About the worst way to start jetlag recovery and I got out after the first night despite paying in advance.

Edit, oh and the fire alarm went off at 3AM!

I was working in a house this week that had a ~4 year kid in another room. They were on the mums phone watching YouTube shorts and I think I had an aneurysm listening to it. It was godawful and the attention span was so low they constantly flicked through so most didn’t even play for more than a second or two of incomprehensible gibberish before they’d flicked onto the next one.

I feel really sorry for anyone who has to grow up surrounded by this bombardment of shite.

Blast Corps

LOL. My point was, when you have come down of your high horse, that the opponents of gun control hide behind the Second Amendment and the need to protect themselves from government overreach, but those are the exact same people who jump up to volunteer to do that exact bit of overreach.

Plus I get to have a little dig at your country’s ridiculous gun laws at the same time.

Not for long

Do you wanna mess with this?

Where’s the well regulated militia you Americans scream about so loudly when someone suggests not letting a mentally ill child own an assault rifle?

Isn’t this exactly the government tyranny that argument is used to defend against?

ISIS

Yeah, he was just a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!

Who’s Yamamoto and Nimitz in this situation?

It’s a jungle out there and I oughta know!

Thinkin Things

And Sammy’s Science House

What if you’re on the bus?