UPS is still delivering (says the guy who just got a package delivered from one of his favorite bands in Germany earlier this month)

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... this is pretty terrifying. They are classifying anyone who takes their child across state lines for transgender care as a terrorist and will be unable to get loan forgiveness

Found a very old piece of Cyberpunk history while packing up my study this afternoon

It's a proto Cape Cod from 1940

Also, how great was it that the library was streaming live music?

The current state of the living room floor in our new house

I saw that performance soon after seeing the movie

Have you seen Moxie? That's the Amy Pohler movie that brought them on my radar.

There once was an anchor named Heggy
Whose qualifications were totally vaguey
He used open chats
Has supremacist tats
And his face is covered in eggy

The Feurschwantz cover of this song is great as well

Definition of irony: A giant corporation (Meta) used several editions of the Cyberpunk RPG and some of it's supplements to train their generative AI

Waiting on the inevitable ban on nuclear weapons because someone heard they have trans (uranic) elements

@todddowning.com

Does anyone else want to skip to the part in The Space Between Us where the billionaire founding the colonization of Mars is now a recluse that hasn't been seen in public in more than 15 years?

Unfortunately, at this advanced stage, neurosyphilis is untreatable

To be clear, there are very specific requirements spelled out for the position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The man Dear Leader has put up does not meet any of them

While ADF is well known for the Flinx series and his various novelizations of movies, I have always found his one off books to be highly underrated as well as great reads.

Neurosyphilis: What It Is, Types, Symptoms & Treatment Neurosyphilis is a complication of syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection. It can cause serious neurological issues, such as stroke and paralysis.

Just going to post this here since the NIH website has been edited to remove the symptoms (and no, this does not apply to me):

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...

Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up (ft. Kate Bush) YouTube video by Peter Gabriel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq...

Exactly

Don't forget to mutter "thoughts and prayers" when you slip

I think you are combining two things here:
1. TFG has no plan for what the world looks like after he is gone. He is simply trying to play the "he who dies with the mot toys (money and power)" game.
2. His "Agenda" is being shaped by others, most who have given him money or have stroked his ego.