Sub-Orbital

Why I Can’t Stand Wellness Culture Despite Loving the Practices

The wellness industry discovered they can charge more if they add mystical explanations to things that already work
meditation: free, works, 2500 years of evidence
meditation + "quantum energy fields": $200, works the same, sounds fancier
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A trade deal between the UK and the US - how fucking thrilling.

This is what the start of an economic collapse looks like.

#BlameTrump

Does this clown not know how anything is made? Movies/TV now? Made everywhere, from pre to post production. Global network. Can he please just go the fuck away already!

Good thing SCOTUS made this POS untouchable, no matter what he does.

And some people paid good money for that bridge; I sold them in Brooklyn. The colloquialism I guess is, suckers?

Mars? Only one person needs to take that ridiculous one-way ride, and that's Musk, oh, two: Him and the orange doofus.

At least for once, he got something right - the whole world is indeed talking about it. What a fucking shit-show he's created.

Almost every response I get these days on Upwork is tellingly written with AI - it's kind of annoying—overly wordy dribble.

Is he this moronic?

Wow - didn't see that one coming!

Let’s stop pretending this is some 4D chess move from a strategic genius. It’s just another page from the same old authoritarian playbook, made worse by the fact that the guy holding it upside down still thinks he’s reading a menu.

Trump couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery with a map, a megaphone The idea that he's behind the wheel on anything more complicated than a golf cart is laughable. —loud, erratic, and useful as a lightning rod while the real machinery of grievance politics grinds on behind the scenes.

Funny how American cars go hard with names like Cougar, Wrangler, Nova—all muscle and menace—while Chinese EVs roll out with Dolphin, Sea Lion, Good Cat. One market sells power. The other sells charm. Says a lot.

Ah yes, the time-honored tradition of threatening senior military leaders with a machine that’s about as reliable as a Magic 8-Ball. Nothing says ‘serious leadership’ like leaning on discredited pseudoscience to assert dominance over people.

Bet no one could have predicted any of this? Oh yeah, almost anyone could have. The guy is a fucking idiot, out of his depth, filled with hubris, a liar, a drunk, a bum.

And is that why the dollar is dropping and the markets are a mess?

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Echoes in a Well A man stood at the edge of a well, listening.

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And the voices replied:
“Why do you keep listening?”

There was a long silence.
Then both sides laughed.
And began again.

Echoes in a Well

A man stood at the edge of a well, listening.
Voices rose from below — urgent, endless, certain.
They spoke of justice, reform, catastrophe.
He listened every day.

One morning, he shouted back:
“Why do you keep talking?”

The "get out" part and the "Ukraine" part

In the immortal words of Robert Bruce - "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

Honestly, at this point, there is only one word. IMPEACH

Question: How does the SCOTUS decision to make a president essentially unliable for anything impact impeachment?

Honestly, at this point, there is only one word. IMPEACH

Honestly, at this point, there is only one word. IMPEACH

I like how the comic was like he was “self-aware” and nice to him and willing to “accept me as a possible friend” and seemed to not realize trump does that with everyone; it amazes me Bill Maher saw that as a positive as opposed to evidence of incredible insecurity and cowardice from Trump

Looking Forward, Not Backward America's True Greatness Lies in Creation, Not Regression

Creative Spirit vs. The Golden Toilet: America's Real Greatness and Trump's Fundamental Misunderstanding
Examining what truly made America exceptional - jazz, modern art, literary innovation - and why MAGA's backward-looking vision misses the point entirely.
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