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Yes!

I was just talking to my wife about, if not this idea, then the ramifications of splitting. We were discussing how someone like Putin can stay in power, or how I think it would be touchy to have joint protests against Trump in the U.S., even as his support falters across the board – because I couldn’t imagine republicans with morals, disaffected MAGA, democrats, and leftists on the same side of a picket line.

I’m glad I have ADHD and will forget about this by tomorrow, or else I’d spend my weekend trying to figure out what temperature and droplet size makes the slipperiest ice. You can probably use far less water with a mist sprayer, assuming the mist doesn’t freeze before it hits the ground. (Saving water means better coverage by the time you run out, being my thinking.)

I sort of think it’s a multi-pronged thing.

I think one of Trump’s advisors floated it for the easy to grasp reasons -
Proximity to the trade lane that’s beginning to open up through the arctic as the polar ice melts, and access to Greenland’s rare earth minerals as a way to not be reliant on China for them.

I also suspect that should the Trump admin ever gain control of Greenland (I don’t believe they would), but they would turn it into a penal colony as they attempt to turn the U.S. into a white ethno-state.

There’s the ego factor. The rest of the world is telling the man-child Trump no, so he’s trying to see if he can get away with it. He’s a psychopath who likes to see if he can enforce his will on others. It’s not even about the actual gains of the action, but about overcoming the objections of others because he’s fragile and weak inside.

And finally - because if the U.S. looks like a credible threat to Europe, that means that Europe will have to invest in meeting that threat, even if the threat never materializes. Resources are finite and that harms Ukraine’s defense. No doubts from me that Trump is getting encouragement from his pal Putin to keep pushing for Greenland.

It is completely fucked, though. No ‘real’ U.S. citizen wants this, either.

Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.

Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” — Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

Personally, I’m sort of hoping for the same karma as when Elaine Chao was secretary of transportation and let Tesla roll out an untested and confusing shifting system, which later helped kill her sister.

Having just read a comment about someone who actually went through the process of having a kid by employing stuff like cycle and fertility tracking, scheduling both sex and abstinence, as well as other not-fun stuff, your comment made me think of taking the kink to an extreme, where instead of lots of rambunctious boning, it was a couple nerds doing intense and fruitless science to find the optimal way to impregnate someone that was impossible to impregnate. (Unless they start looking at the mating habits of bedbugs, but that’s a third, separate, entirely unhinged thing.)

I mean, I’m pretty sure I know which interpretation you meant. But brains are weird and I’m sleep deprived.

As someone who isn’t going to have kids and doesn’t want them, I still get the growing old alone concern.

It’s not that I would have wanted children to take care of me, but that I don’t trust the social safety system in the U.S.
Even if things are going well, it’s still a terrifying proposition. My first job ever was as a dietary aid at a mid-level retirement home, and while some of the people there were thriving (namely the folks who somehow managed to go into the home with their partners), the majority were a study of what happens when the ability to live exceeds the will. It was a formative experience.

That’s why I’m in therapy and desperately scared that between neurodivergence and trauma, that I’m not going to be one of those really social old people with friends everywhere that care for them and keep them company. Although I think it’s not a given that kids will automatically be there for you as you age, I can see the appeal of doing what you can to hedge your bets. It’s a terrifying world out there, and we only have each other.

I installed clips onto the bottom of my sectional sofa that prevent it from separating. Which is good, because it’s been separating a lot since I installed wheels onto it.

The wheels were to make it easier to move because stuff kept falling behind it, but they worked too well. They even just slid around while locked. With all the sections clipped together it doesn’t seem to budge. The clips are the alligator style ones that you push the couch together to cinch, or lift the couch section to release.

I thought cats domesticated themselves

To be fair, I’m one of the 10,000, so it was novel to me!

Are you saying wheat domesticated early man?

I got my wife a Legion Go in May and immediately installed Bazzite on it. I think I had a few minor issues, but nothing like what this blog post is talking about. It was a shockingly easy process!

And yeah, it totally rules as a gaming machine. I’m honestly jealous and am waiting for generational improvements to happen in the space before I buy another handheld. (Or possibly, I’ll buy the Steam Frame instead.)

Her name is Juniper! We mostly call her June Bug, though.