I could swear I’ve seen some sort of small three pronged thing that you drop into your pot, and as the liquid boils, it spins and stirs it.

They all do.

In the handicapped zone of the parking lot, always leave a cart or two, or three. Older people like to get out of the car, and have a cart right there to act as a walker across the parking lot, and across the street.

We had five cats, and they all knew each other’s names.

We probably look like little Minions, running about.

At some point a horny platypus fucked a chicken, and invented the duck.

Here is America we hit a similar milestone last year, with fewer than 10% of the population smoking. That’s the first time it’s gone below 10%.

Then I remembered that the article didn’t mention vaping, which is way up. It’s good that smoking is down, but if most of it is just being replaced by a product we know nearly nothing about, I’m not sure how much of an improvement that really is.

The AI won’t replace labor, automation/robotics will do that. AI will provide the brain to operate the automation properly. We’ve had the automation for a long time, the AI is making the difference.

They are working very hard on the intersection of AI and Automation to replace human labor.

It’s the next step of their indoctrination into corporate wage slaves. They were just convinced to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a half-assed degree, and now you have to set them up for the frustration of either having a terrible entry level grunt job, or no job at all.

So you send in a Captain of Industry to encourage them to enthusiastically apply their noses to the grindstone in order to reach their dreams of success.

Except people are starting to catch on to the scam, and are letting them know.

He’s going to have to face consequences, too.

All Trump is interested in is taking it over, and turning Cuba into one giant MAGA theme park for the wealthy, a Western Hemisphere Version of Dubai. He’s going to do the same thing in Gaza.

Oh, dude, I hear that. I’ve always told people that the secret to having a good relationship with your kids is: Love what your kids love, and your kids will love you.

So one day I was waiting in line at Chipotle, standing next to a table with a guy and his teen son, who was going on and on about an episode of Dragonball Z in intense detail, as his Dad looked like he wanted to die.

I went home and called my son, who knows my philosophy, and told him about seeing the guy and his son, and said “I have to give the guy credit for hanging in there, but if you had been a Pokemon or Anime kid…I would have had to cut you loose.”

He laughed, and said he would have deserved it.

When you go to war with the entire world, you make enemies you don’t even know about.

Oh, yeah, the damage he caused is incalculable.

Or:

“Just keep making and selling them more rope, eventually they’ll hang themselves with it.”

They’ll attack Cuba, a massive flotilla of inner tubes, canoes, and rowboats will fill the waters, the administration will start shooting the refugees from the sky by the hundreds, and claim:

“President Trump is finally liberating the people of Cuba!”

I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh in the late 80s, when he first came on. He had a great tonality for radio, and was facile, and could drone on for hours, in a uniquely entertaining way. He set the standard for the legion of wannabe conservative talkers that followed. That smooth talking, speculative, non-stop patter is all Limbaugh. He’s the guy that did it best, and the one they all copy.

I had good Critical Thinking Skills, so he didn’t draw me in, and I was able to watch from the sidelines as he spun his propaganda. But others weren’t as able to resist him, and I listened as they called his show, and praised him for showing them the way, through conservatism. As his popularity grew across the country, and he quickly became the main tentpole for the Conservative Propaganda Machine, literally the recruitment and indoctrination arm, I wondered where the Republican Party, and America would be in 20, 30, 40 years time.

I figured we’d get a hold of it somewhere along the line, but I also thought about how bad things could get if they got everything on their Wish List, and that Worst Cast Scenario is exactly what has happened. The Dems let us down badly, as I also predicted was possible, even probable.

There are paths out of this, that puts America on a proper path for the rest of this century. America can be a place where people are helped to rise and improve themselves, their families, and their community, like China has done, or it can be a place where people are enslaved to profit.

The only problem is that is going to take strong Democratic and Citizen resolve, and it’s going to get pretty ugly, and very possibly violent, to purge MAGA from our government and society, and the current Democrat Party doesn’t have what it takes. Let’s hope that changes in 2026 and 2028, and we get enough courageous people in office who will exercise that level of resolve.

But they could recycle, they just don’t. But they could. They just don’t.

But they could.

Don’t forget the Ellisons.

I just saw a post in a different thread where someone called it the worst thing they’d ever watched.

I loved it, but I could definitely see both sides. It was a weird movie. But great. And fun.