Tarantulas are insects ferchrissake… They have the nervous system of a guitar amplifier.

Wow, I didn’t realize Bezos’ new wife was that trashy. She’s a walking warning against the excesses of cosmetic surgery.

Then again, his husband isn’t much of a looker either. If he wasn’t megarich, he’d probably be single.

I didn’t do it on purpose. It just happened. I guess living out in the sticks does help: it’s not like we don’t have electricity or internet out here, but the first neighbor is 3 miles away, the town is 5 miles, and we have real starry nights here. So it’s quite easy to turn off the light and experience a, quiet peaceful night at the hours at which sleep should be happening naturally.

I fall asleep around 8 or 9 pm and I wake up around midnight or 1am, watch something quiet and peaceful so I learn something interesting without falling fully awake - and more importantly without waking up the missus - then I simply fall back asleep until 5 am.

I live above the arctic circle, so when it’s winter, I usually sleep longer. And when it’s summer and it’s daytime all night long, of course I sleep less. But on average, I sleep 2 x 4 hours per night. I feel just as refreshed as when I slept 1 x 8 hours. But perhaps feel less “disconnected”, if that makes any sense.

I practice biphasic sleep - have done for decades.

I usually put on a light documentary - something about nature or technology, not exciting, terrible or controversial.

Nah. It’s not that thick! It’s only 1.6" thick 😃

I like 90’s style chunky and solid. Weight and bulk aren’t really a concern for me. Solid, open-source and repairable are my priorities. That’s what works for me.

They are not. They’re in cell holders.

Why, that’s an easy one: don’t do social media. Regardless of what the American fascist regime wants to abuse it for, it’ll do you good.

What a terrible country.
All three of them.

I own one of these. I have zero issues replacing the cells 😃

Nope. They’re headed straight towards jackboot dictatorship.

If nothing else, Trump and his henchmen are proving day after day that the Americans talking big about their god-given Second Amendment right that keeps the government in check as the reason to own so many firearms and overlook so many deaths by firearm was basically a pretense: this is literally the scenario when they swore right and left they would exercise it and they aren’t.

All a bunch of phoneys, is what they are. And they’re getting the nasty dictatorship they richly deserve.

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That doesn’t matter: Chávez was the charismatic revolutionary, Maduro is his unloved but definitely authoritarian successor.

Trump is the charismatic “leader” who got the whole shitshow going, and Vance is ideally placed to entrench the dictatorship, because he won’t need any charisma to do that.

Although on a personal note, I really fail to see what sort of charisma this crooked crass New York slick his fans can possibly find in him. I really don’t.

I think he’ll snuff it soon - or more likely, he’ll become so blatantly deranged that he’ll be impeached because he’ll just have to be. And I think it’ll happen before the end of his term, assuming he doesn’t get impeached by the dems after the midterm elections.

The immediate danger if that happens is Vance, who’s lying in the shadows and is 10 times more dangerous than Trump, because unlike Trump, he has a working brain.

I highly doubt he’ll survive this long. He’s a fat burger lover, and his personal physician swears he’s in excellent health - which probably means the exact opposite, seeing as though anybody gravitating around Trump is a pathological liar.

Billionnaires are hoarders. Like all hoarders, they don’t need what they hoard.

The problem for the rest of us is, instead of hoarding empty tincans or Hello Kitty figurines, they hoard money that they get in large part by not paying their fair share of taxes, and the money they hoard lets them buy politicians who in turn let them steal even more tax money.

The death of Henry Kissinger is a heartwarming reminder that life imposes an expiry date on even the most terrible people with power.

Or as Chaplin said: dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

A comforting thought in Trump’s America. Because remember: Trump is 79. His expiry date is fast coming - and not a minute too soon, I might add. All we really have to pay attention to is that none of his younger henchmen succeed him.

That’s the legacy of Henry Kissinger. Damn his rotting corpse.

So what? Trump and his henchmen don’t obey the courts. Haven’t you noticed?

Doesn’t it bother anybody in Belgium that the future queen of Belgium doesn’t study in Belgium? There are great universities in Belgium, on both sides of the language border.

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It’s the Russian resistance’s long game: in 10 years, there won’t be enough young people left to send to die at the front, so the war will naturally peter out.