• 6 Posts
  • 1.27K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

help-circle



  • The only limitation is you have to be outside during the day with the watch exposed a few hours a month or cheat with other light sources.

    You really don’t. Maybe other watches use more power but I left my gshock in a drawer for months, maybe even a year and when I took it out the battery was at “M.” Put it on a window sill and it was at H in no time. Haven’t actually seen it in years and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was still alive.









  • Afterward, Bandar told me privately that the Saudis were very worried about where Bush’s obsession with Iraq was going. The Saudis were alarmed that attacking Iraq would only benefit Iran and set in motion severe destabilizing repercussions across the region.

    New headcanon, Bush knew the Saudis were behind 9/11 and invaded Iraq specifically to fuck them over. /s

    Interesting read though. The 80% number believing Iraq was involved is not surprising to me, I just didn’t realize the bush admin actually pushed that narrative.


  • no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11 attacks

    I was a kid during all that, but my recollection is they didn’t directly try to claim that he did? It just seemed like the country was swept up in the patriotic “glass the middle east” fever and went with it because murica fuck yeah, and it was part of the GWOT, but the messaging was all “evil dictator wmds etc.” and not “saddam did 9/11.” Though I was probably in high school before I could even articulate the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan, so I could be mistaken.