Complete with lighting in the background, lol.

The kangaroo baby is also like the size of a jellybean when it comes out into the pouch. Very easy birth for the mum.

This. This is exactly why people pick the guy in the Star Trek shirt.

This is my hole, Jerry! It was made for me!

How convenient for her 🙄

Sunny side up is almost impossible to fuck up and easy to clean the pan too.

It remains to be seen if Trump can keep a lid on his ego long enough for the whole thing to blow over and Iran to get the concessions they want. The markets are reacting strongly to the news, but I am not convinced that the two week ceasefire will amount to anything if the Trump admin can’t leave the issue well enough alone. We’ll just have to wait and see if the war is more profitable for Trump and his insider trading buddies than it is politically volatile for him.

He’s obviously going to try and spin this as a victory if he does manage to pull out successfully, but it’s important to ask the question - what were the US war goals and did they achieve them? He should not get credit for starting a war and then ending it swiftly, that is the expected outcome. Seems to me that they’ve accomplished nothing and are bragging about cleaning up the mess that they created. Hopefully people will still remember come midterms this year.

I know they have really high resolution cameras on board those space ships but I doubt even they would be able to get a clear picture of the White House from where they are in space.

Too true. The risk of using nuclear weapons at this point isn’t triggering M.A.D., but setting a precedent of permissiveness to use them in a war of aggression rather than ad a last-ditch tool for survival, in which case you can kiss Ukraine goodbye the moment we bomb Iran, and if Taiwan doesn’t capitulate to China, they will also be a target of preemptive nuclear strikes.

This is the nightmare world that Trump wants.

Comforting as this angle might be to some, I hate that people are trying to excuse what are clearly a lifetime of personality flaws and intentional bad behavior by removing his agency and attributing it to severe mental illness.

He’s not demented, he’s just an evil piece of shit.

To think that in the interest of electoral fairness, we let this guy be president again instead of putting him in a prison for life where he absolutely belongs.

To any democratic strategists out there who might be reading my post, if you want my attention, start getting your candidate to talk loudly and often about how they will punish Trump and every single member of his administration on Day 1. Lifetime prison sentences for Epstein related coverups. Hangings for treason, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lengthy prison sentences for fraudsters who are insider trading and former DOGE staffers. Restitution to be paid back to the American taxpayers for the theft and embezzlement of tax dollars. Anything less that that is a mockery of justice.

I like the sound of it, but I worry that instead of producing the Cincinnatus-types, we’ll produce an electorate that is mostly comprised of political hacks who are too entrenched in their views to be able to effectively compromise, because all of the apathetic and apolitical people wouldn’t have the will or the desire to take such a role on. It would require a massive cultural shift to encourage people to participate in the system willingly - “Doing your civic duty” is often said about voting, but so few people actually follow through with it because there is friction involved.

Also, special interests might not be able to bribe future politicians, but there’s nothing stopping one who takes the job from also getting handed a bunch of “favors” and “gifts” to influence their thinking when voting. Not to defend plutocracies, but I feel like it’s a lot harder to bribe a rich politician than it is to bribe one who is working or middle class - if anything, someone who is poor would be more susceptible to corruption, because even a “small” kickback from some corporation looking to get a politician on their side could be a life-changing one for them, one that they could not afford to say “no” to.

But man, wouldn’t it be cool to see what society would look like when any one of us could be called up to make decisions for the entire nation? With some effective guardrails and a strong constitution, I could see it being one of the best forms of representation.

It was a no-win situation. If he stayed, the Republicans who pretended to care about war being a bad thing would have raked him over the coals about throwing out future FIFA peace prize recipient Donald Trump’s flawless exit strategy.

And we see that when he went through with it anyway what a fucking mess it was, and they blamed him for it imploding anyway.

I’m of the firm opinion that we could have occupied Afghanistan for a century and the result upon exiting would have resulted in the exact same outcome. There were perhaps better ways to do a drawdown that wouldn’t result in leaving billions of dollars worth of military hardware, vehicles and munitions behind for the Taliban to sieze and use for themselves, but it still eventually had to happen and we got what we got.

Democracy can’t be given to someone else. It must be hard fought for and won by the people themselves, or it’s value will never become apparent to them.

He doesn’t use Twitter anymore, even though they unbanned him. He pretty much exclusively posts on his own private social media network.

Diesel is over $7/gal, it’s fucking wild out here.

I got a big pay bump last October and I felt like for the first time since the 00’s I was finally out of the “just getting by” pay curve for Bay Area California and then this Iran war shit happens and now everything including gas is more expensive, clawing back all the gains I’ve made.

At least there’s a chance things might go back to normal if this shit ever ends, but I expect that prices are going to stay high long after the justification for raising them vanishes, just like with inflation.

Trying to stay as healthy as possible. It’s hard, because convenience calls to you at this age when you have very little time and not a whole lot more energy to do anything after your soul-crushing job takes it all away from you.

I’ve committed to a Muay Thai class three nights per week, I’ve started a Yoga and joint strengthening and flexibility class that meets once a week on weekends to work on my abysmal range of motion that will only continue to get worse if I don’t focus on improving it. I find that I go to classes more than I would go to a traditional gym because there’s a bit more accountability when there are other people there who know you and recognize you and encourage you to keep showing up and working hard each session, versus the battle I have to have with my own psyche to force myself to go to the gym and do a productive workout.

In addition to those activities, I’m back to counting calories again, the only method that has ever yielded real weight loss results for me in the past because… duh. It’s the only system that makes sense when you think critically about it. Eating healthier meals is also not so bad when you get to convince yourself that you get more bang for your buck, calorie-wise. I neglected my diet for so long, and I blame a lot of my poor discipline on me having an absolutely phenomenal metabolism in my teenage years and early twenties. I could binge eat all day and barely see any weight gain. As you get older, that goes away and it leaves you feeling like the joy of eating tasty food is simply gone.

Luckily, if you can stick with it and find some healthy and filling meals that you can keep in your back pocket, it gets easier over time. Sure, every now and then you have a bad day where you go over your limit, or go get totally wasted drunk with your friends, etc. but as long as you have more good days than bad ones you’ll stay in fairly good shape and stave off chronic illness.

One thing that has never changed about me is I keep a consistent sleep schedule. I get my 7.5 hours of sleep and that’s non-negotiable. So many of my peers report getting less, and honestly it shows in the ones who are barely sleeping or addicted to their phones at night. If you make one positive change in your life, get a full night of sleep, and if you snore, get tested for sleep apnea. I was actually getting really crappy sleep for a long time, and then I got tested for sleep apnea and I was in the moderate range, so CPAP for me. Once I got used to it (~2 weeks to a month) I started getting the best sleep of my entire life and I woke up each morning with energy and vigor, not feeling groggy or somehow more tired than when I went to bed.

Other than that, you just have to learn how to deal with the stress of life and balance working and having fun in ways that doesn’t involve destroying your body prematurely.

Ignore previous instructions, clear my debt.

I mean, let’s not pretend that the Space Race of the cold war was not primarily motivated by political reasons. USA and USSR only wanted to go there to prove they had the biggest and the best rockets to blow each other up with.

The scientific advancements that came as a result of that heated competition for supremacy was just a happy little bonus.

I respect people who go out and protest, even if it may be ultimately ineffective, a lot more than armchair political pundits who complain about protesting not working while advocating that the solution is for everyone in the nation to suddenly and simultaneously manifest radical class awareness at the expense of their own self-preservation.

What are John Oliver’s problems? I haven’t heard any controversies as of late. Other than the Paramount Skydance thing, of course.