Bon Cop Bad Cop, the 2026 TV show, is quite enjoyable but it gets thoroughly unbelievable in some of its portrayals of Canada's various ethnic divisions and regional politics. For example, the Prime Minister in the show is from New Brunswick.
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I feel like it's a pretty established pattern that Iran likes to respond symmetrically whenever it can, or as close to symmetrically as possible in cases where it can't. Which has... implications.
Carl Quintanilla(NYT) - The scope of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems has grown to include at least seven states and may be far wider, officials and experts warned .. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
This is partly inspired by the (excellent) @bretdevereaux.bsky.social series on pre-modern armies and part just something I've been interested in for a while. When discussing unit cohesion and morale in a military context, it's common to talk about combatants as if they have lost rational thought.
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVb: CohesionThis is the second half of the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. Last we…acoup.blog