@Mik said in It's not just Minnesoota: That's ridiculous. How do you know they didn't identify these schemes to begin with or serve as the catalyst that led to it? I think we can know that. Elon would have bragged about it either then or now. Plus the bulk of it was from a pandemic era program that ended in 2022. I’m pretty sure doge was more focused on cutting current and future spending. What backwards-looking investigation they did do was focused on justifying the termination or reduction of ongoing programs.

@89th said in Marriage advice: Good idea, as long as you have a partner willing to part ways! I actually have a whole corner of our basement storage area of baby things (clothes, toys, gadgets, etc) that are absolutely ready to be given away once I get the nod of approval. Maybe I could be more of a dick about it, but ultimately it's not hurting anything sitting there and I know getting rid of baby stuff is more sentimental, too. We've been carefully keeping quantities of paperwork from kindergarten and elementary school in boxes in the downstairs garage for reasons that aren't fully clear to me. Apparently, mice love to recycle even more than we do, and made some of it into affordable housing.

Hey, w00t! https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/38082/time-s-2025-person-of-the-year-predictions

apropos me being a globalist... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nick-fuentes-kill-globalists-at-cnn_n_58fe7e95e4b00fa7de16ed9e “Who runs the media? Globalists. Time to kill the globalists. I don’t want to not watch CNN. I don’t want CNN to go out of business. I don’t want CNN to be more honest. I want people that run CNN to be arrested and deported or hanged because this is deliberate.”

You wonder if people with crazy eyes know they have crazy eyes?

The question is the answer.

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They were taking the long view.

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Der Spiegel: Zwei Schurken, ein Ziel https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-donald-trump-die-europaeer-an-wladimir-putin-verraet-a-2fb67045-1ab6-4caf-9467-fceeec9351c6

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I'm going to pretend that I care whilst secretly sneering at your pointless existence.

https://x.com/nbcnews/status/1998880427902149088?s=46

@Renauda said in Chilling video essay re authoritarianism: Vlad, as always, raises some salient points. As he should, he knows what he sees. As to travel, right now I wouldn’t even consider changing flights in the US let alone entering it as a tourist. Several of my Canadian relatives feel the same way.

Peter Attia interview from back in 2021 with the journalist who really dove into the Andrew Wakefield hoax and the origins of the ‘vaccines cause autism’ memetic complex. He follows the histories of the players involved (Wakefield originally sought out to show measles caused IBD), what they did, what they fabricated, and how they were able to have their initial success. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/id1400828889?i=1000517725939

It’s hard to say. I haven’t been doing much cycling in the past 6 weeks but it’s gone up in that time. I bought an indoor trainer for my basement but haven’t used it much due to the awkward placement. I just got rid of that large extraneous bed in my basement which will allow me to put it in a good place and use it more. What’s new for me in the last six weeks or so is daily treadmill time.