Peter Barabas

Wars became "weird". Can be hot or cold, secret, or open.
I guess there is not even "simply" a peace and war, but a continuum with all countries somewhere on that continuum, sometimes sliding, sometimes hopping in one or the other direction...

Instead of getting along, finding sensible compromises.

"Correlation is not causation" is a phrase used so often in Academia, it became almost something that you are expected to say and then is usually followed up with a "but we think... ".

It's really just a combination of "mental sloppiness and realpolitik", isn't it?

Oops, I made a genotypo

"Ambition"

An old photo of my son at the University Village in Salt Lake City.

He seems to be dealing with it a bit differently...
bsky.app/profile/pete...

When used judiciously and with good taste and restraint, current AI-generative tools allow everybody to express themselves in novel, fun ways...

The "hunt for the Reds" begins.
History rarely repeats but it rhymes quite often.

Eternal (compared to our lives) simple beauty

If you know, you know :D

Always perfectly dressed for the occasion - any occasion! :)

Have you heard? Musk have been trying to kill off Wikipedia because he says it's biased and now he will launch HIS version, using HIS AI to dream up facts the way he wants them to be dreamt up, not written by biased people.
Because that, of course will not be biased at all...

Exactly.
Medicine itself is not about making people live forever - "merely" to live longer, healthier. So in that vein, they had a problem with the aims of medicine itself, being employed to everybody instead of just them.

Earth has just reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point Global policy makers are being urged to take ‘immediate and unprecedented’ action to prevent the risk of triggering further climate tipping points.

First of several - climate tipping point reached.
Bye bye coral reefs.

Then - bye bye rain forests
I expect some countries that have heft and will be clubbered will start moving around that time, but of course others will counter

The 3rd tipping point will be messy
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

I retrospect, it should not have been a huge surprise with cynical sociopaths in charge of everything.

The entire UK cabinet's pandemic policy can be summed up in this half-sentence:

"Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die soon anyway"

A public relations fight to convince people they need to die, so that "the economy gets better" instead of implementing basic public health steps.

True, true, sometimes it's Royal that Amazon uses and sometimes Royal MKail uses Parcelforce which is way worse (actually this parcel for my wife was via Parcelforce, I think). But never had a problem with RM when delivering Amazon :D

YouTube video by Chris Kohler Sorry, this is a cashless bank branch

Coming to your town: cashless bank branches!

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You cannot rush rest
I don't think you can have the same attitude towards resting and recharging as you do with chores, duties, jobs - to be precise, meet the dealine, "get it done" in spite of curve balls.

I find that the more deliberately and efficiently I try to "get rested" - the less it works.

A meme showing a speech bubble from an anthropomorphized paperclip character (resembling Microsoft's Clippy) asking "Hey, it looks like you're waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you've been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen?" with two response options below: "I'm aware" and "Wow, rude." The paperclip character appears in the bottom right corner with googly eyes attached to it.

I'd add, that he only wants to and needs to convince his own supporters that there is already an insurrection in the USA, perpetrated by lefty terrorist democrats and their supporters to take away the rights of Republicans and as such he HAS to (in pure self-defence) take steps to protect the USA.

I think I'm starting to get the meaning of #brainworm

I love trees

Impressive Holm Oak, Known as The Umbrella Tree, Italy.

YouTube video by Elle Cordova They did the Monster Slash

Telling about the Monster Slash in rhyme and music: @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Gotto love the simplicity of this.

May the Flying Spaghetti Monster bless you with infinite patience, unyielding focus and immortal persistence and the mental stability of a metric ton of sea salt.

You kiddin' me, interracial dancing?!
Guard, get'em - the green chicken and the unicorn!

The extra confusing bit is that this does not look like an anti-vaccine or "kill the weak" move, since the most in danger and most fragile are still getting it.
So what am I missing, has the virus became less dangerous?
Or is there less money for the vaccine now (did it become more expensive)?

Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion Up to half of patients coming to some pharmacies are being turned away because they are not eligible.

There seems to be a quiet roll back of Covid immunizations in the UK with less and less people being eligible (and the rest cannot even buy it).

It's the worst of both worlds: neither a social provision or market based approach.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The latest techno-oxymoron: Tesla "FSD Supervised".

FSD = Full Self Driving
It means a vehicle that drives itself from A to B without human input, interference or erm... supervision.

To trot out the GREAT NEW FSD Supervised v14-something and expect people to fall over in awe is just special.