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Never Fight Alone Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform.

General McRaven commenting on his front-line experience with NATO troops. As one might expect his frontline experience essentailly contradicts the words of trump.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If I had a bucket list item, it would be to see aurora borealis (or australis, but that's harder to do... :-) ).

Wonderful image, thanks for sharing it.

Sorry about that... We did not ask for but have received your snow and arctic weather. 😀

Oh so healthy to do all that lifting and throwing. We don't get 35 cm regularly, so we do not have snow handling equipment at home: it's hand shoveling all the way.

Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Not a heavy drinker. But for reasons I do not really get, it just stopped 20 years ago, almost without notice.

I don't miss it *at all*

It's been too late since John Roberts was elevated to chief justice, and Clarence Thomas placed in SCOTUS to "give us" the Citizens United decision. That was the culmination of decades of hybrid war waged against the people of the USA.

EE guy here...

It is a huge accomplishment to advance the state of the art in any domain.

To do it under such social constraints is greater yet.

Ms Clarke is someone that I would listen to and learn from.

FWIW the white collar guy is waay out of line.

There are many of us "second guys" who believe the world is so much better when people are who they are.

I am impressed... Cincinnati is more conservative than my hometown of Columbus.

What we have today is far more insidious than "wolves in sheep's clothing".

What we have is "wolves in shepherd's clothing".

Those who should be our leaders are indistinguishable from a criminal gang.

Not to disagree BTW, where we are is a very dangerous place...

TIL of a quadruple loss to humanity..

Franz Kafka's most well known stories were dark and difficult to read.

What I have read of his life is in contrast, he was a gentle spirit. I have to assume his sisters were too, as exemplified by Ottla from this post.

Missing the /s... that said, it makes me wonder about interestimg applications of fuse filesystem. Maybe in a well bounded container or VM. :-)

If I had the spare time (still working >full time...), I would enjoy doing some experiments.

Thanks for the idea.

Taking Greenland by force "Could" set in motion?

The correct word is WILL.

That is *the plan*.

There are only two peace plans for Ukraine:

1) Unopposed kremlin 100% ownership
2) Full independence for the Ukrainian people.

As long as the kremlin thinks it can outlast Ukrainians the death (of both russians and Ukrainians) will continue.

Autocracy "rules".

I used to think we had a 50% chance of recovering from MAGA within my lifetime.

I now estimate a 25% chance of surviving it.

I hope to be wrong.

Hyperinflation is a well understood way for oligarchs to fuck over members of society that do not possess hard assets.

Imagine why private equity is calling every homeowner thrice daily offering cash for our homes.

I used to write that the the current resident of the whitehouse and kremlin need not be collaborating directly.

Reading that russian bot farms are DDOSing anti-ice sites...

Maybe heritage, federalist soc, other fascists worldwide are starting to or have been working together.

It is necessary to establish a strong enough disincentive to discourage bad behaviour.

A trillion dollar corporate executive doesn't notice a 50 million dollar fine. A restaurant worker would be destroyed by a 10 thousand dollar fine.

It's not about punishing anyone for being wealthy.

I think a scandinavian country (Norway?) sets fines as a fraction of the offender's income.

I think I learned that in association with a speeding ticket in the 10's of thousands of the local currency.

That kimd of proportionality (never in the great USA 🤨) would help.

There are four lights.

These people are so damn self-centered that they think that if they become a minority, they will be treated as badly as they treat existing minority people.

Unfortunately, they could be setting the stage to make their bogus beliefs possible: They are spending our tax dollars pissing everyone off!

One way to understand the civil war: democracy vs feudalism.

Slaves fit the role of serfs: no escape, owner had total control.

Now look at the way "conservatives" behave: traffic girls, control information, corporate domination.

We are seeing a return to a similar form of unaccountable power.

I grew up in those times. The "Leave it to Beaver" families were a large minority.

Too many of us had Completely Different and rather more challenging situations.

Our billionaires and racists have been telling manipulative, destructive lies in "media" for most of a century.

What we have is inexcusable and unjustifiable.

Too many "citizens" have allowed themselves to be taken in by the torrent of lies told by our "leaders".

It takes a bit of discipline to form consensus around facts rather than their cult leaders. Apparently that is too much work.

I live in the U.S. and cannot figure out why our "elites" want to rule over ashes instead of leading a formerly (weakly trying to be a) great nation who aspire to earn the privileges promised in the U.S. constitution:

We the people of the United states, in order to form a more perfect union...

I just skimmed "Coding is the purest form of art" (into every life some workdays must fall, did not have time for the whole article).

You have expressed my reasons for starting what is now a 50-year career very well.

Do not lose that enthusiasm!

"We" keep Getting Fooled Again....

How many lives must be wasted before people catch on to torrents of lies?

Not enough of us saw this on the horizon.

Chilly season: sweats & sweatshirt
Warm season: gym shorts & tee

In warm weather, my wife likes long skirts.

The whitehouse sick "stable genius" paraphrased: "doesn't know about the election in Venezuela".

That election was verified multiple ways, and was a total unambiguous blowout against Maduro.

The liar cannot control his yapping mouth.

I had NO NEED for the sicko in the whitehouse to exemplify the too-emotional-man-for-leadership meme, yet here we are.

I'm with the many who think this timeline sucks. Every week we get a brand new fuckup that we collectively will be paying dearly for, for decades.

Far be it from a geek in Ohio to correct Texas Paul (thanks for your messaging BTW) but the best phrasing is

"You broke it, WE bought it."

The rest of your message is right on target, we would be lucky if this debacle only costs us trillions that we cannot afford.

Another Ohioian here, agreeing. Vance is the Chosen One. As evil as the sicko in the whitehouse but more cunning. He is the real threat.

My problem with with this broken timeline is that We are about to get what They deserve. While they skate by, enjoying undeserved wealth and privilege.