JD Vance was forced in as the Trump VP pick by the Heritage Foundation so that when Trump either dies or stops cooperating with them on Project 2025, they already have a man in place to take over. And that’s likely the reason for the assassination attempts.

If Trump dies, they get Vance (a true believer…unlike Trump who just wants the power to stay out of prison) at the top of the ticket.

Are you even a Linux user if you don’t randomly wonder what operating system the person in front of you in traffic prefers? It’s a good thing that this person says “wonder no more.”

The rational person in me knows that IQ as a metric of intelligence has long since been proven to be bullshit pseudoscience.

But the anti-american in me is just going to turn that part of my brain off and chuckle for a few moments…

Is that what that is?! It just randomly started happening and I thought an update screwed up my compositor.

So with that question answered, how the hell do I turn it off, because it’s annoying as hell.

I suspect X/Twitter will be a long distant memory well before these folks would be grandparents.

Come Back to Bed by Valley Lodge

https://youtu.be/z81PWYEQYpU?si=s8pkZcZ9RNL_khGl

I kind of don’t want to know, because the real answer would probably be terrifying.

Is it that Britons are more likely to doubt their health, or is it that Americans are pathologically afraid to be sick because it can bankrupt them, so they tend to overestimate their health in order to not have to go to the doctor.

Because the entire western world seemingly has to tip toe around Israel and let them get away with whatever they want because of some collective shame and empathy Europe and America still feel for something that happened before most people in Israel today were ever born…

The holocaust was bad…yeah. But the fact that that tragedy somehow gives the state of Israel an unlimited pass in perpetuity to be assholes is just wrong.

The impact brain chemistry has on all sorts of things is very poorly understood.

It’s not just an impact. Everything we are IS brain chemistry. Emotions, thoughts, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, skills, talents… they’re all just a combination of chemicals and firing synapses in the brain. We are biological meat bags. There’s no such thing as a soul.

Yeah. Sadly it’s a trap that no one is immune to. Correlation doesn’t necessarily imply Causation.

Do you think Jackson Delacroix Vance grew the beard so he would look less like the result of Adam Lambert fucking a Cabbage Patch doll?

I’m honesty sitting here trying to remember the last Ubisoft game I actually enjoyed. And I mean truly “couldn’t put down” enjoyed. Some of the older Assassin’s Creed games were fun, but the same endless gameplay loop was meh, even then.

I’d almost have to go back all the way to those original Rainbow Six games for something that felt (to me) fresh and innovative.

You mean making the exact same cookie-cutter game loop for more than a decade isn’t a good idea!?

Dazed and Confused

Great. That means it’s only a matter of time before Hank Hill and his Hillbilly Sask Party decides to do the same thing in Saskatchewan…

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Easily Converter Now. So darn handy.

Not a full on extinction event, but the late bronze age collapse has always fascinated me. So much do that it led me to pursue archaeology in college.

So many theories, everyone has their favourite, but yeah, what ultimately caused every near eastern civilisation as well as the Mycenaean Greeks to just all collapse and disappear over a relatively short 200 years or so (archaeologically speaking a blink-of-an-eye)

People are brainwashed into not knowing the difference between big “S” socialism and " Capitalism with a strong social safety net".

There isn’t a single developed western nation that is the first. They’re all the second. We’re not “socialist” and less free than the good ol’ Murica. We just know that your capitalism runs better if your population isn’t struggling…