Russian bot operating out of a troll factory in St Petersburg. They are geniuses at asking stupid questions that are completely unanswerable.

I guess killing off the military is a cost-cutting measure from Drunk Pete and Hell-On-Mush.

"The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, occurring during WWI, caused roughly 100,000 deaths among soldiers, killing more U.S. troops than combat. Around 45,000 to 45,849 American soldiers died from the flu, with about 30,000 dying in US training camps and 15,849 in France." Wever & van Bergen, 2014

Because the rituals around death are focused on the survivors, whatever you have survived, and helping you figure out what you need for your own remaining years, and how you can maintain a connection with the one gone until your spirit joins them.

I started understanding grief some years ago. Grief can be for anything, anyone; the difference between grieving for a close relative and anything else is often the lives touched. Generally relatives don't show up for dog funerals as they may for human funerals, but occasionally, often, they should.

Since I became a US citizen in 2008, I have been called for jury duty 3 times. First, I sat in a room before being dismissed; second, dismissed before I arrived; third is tomorrow. Odds are plea deals have been reached and innocent men are already in jail.

BBC is self censoring, doing its best to "interpret" the ramblings of the Diarrhea Felon, something NPR has done since 2016. Always a bad idea to pay upper management million dollar salaries; they are immediately working for oligarchs.

I was afraid we would turn into Nigeria, a nation with huge natural wealth, and administered by thieves (I have been to Nigeria 7 times), but have realized we have zoomed past Nigeria and are turning into Nauru. If only the British had stayed home.

Ugh, bastardized Spanish. It's perro, not doggo; nino, not kiddo (what about ninas?), postre, not pastry (how in the world is a donut or a muffin a pastry?!) I haven't seen catto, but that is close to gato, which a cat definitely is. #WordsThatDriveMeNuts

Make it make sense.

H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,

Berlin Station looked to me like a set from Star Wars. Definitely my favorite station, but all German stations are my favorite. And the city hauptbahnhofs all have statues of Rittersport chocolates.

We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.

How about the US declares war on Israel. They’ve interfered and manipulated US politics for generations. They drain OUR money. They caused every war in the Middle East for the last 80+ years.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

I believe it would be beneficial to American if we were to take away the lifetime healthcare and pensions for elected representatives and made them find healthcare and benefits just like their constituents
We have created lifetime of benefits for a job that was not meant to be a career

Term limits!

And cold. I wanted to go for a ride too.

6. Release the Epstein files.

Today someone turned on WHYY in the kitchen, and there it was, a Christian Nazi saying that Drunken Pete belongs to his church, and is doing great, and here's a bible verse supporting non-defensive war! And nothing can make him criticize Diarrhea 2/3rds of the time. He didn't explain the one-third.

NPR was bailed out by a billionaire. That's the end of hoping anyone calling for " #taxtherich " on NPR. Which is not a surprise in an organization with higher-ups with million-dollar pay checks. I stopped listening to NPR in 2016 when they aired every nasty thing Diarrhea Felon said about Hillary.

20251027 Wind farms seen frain from Magdeburg to Leipzig S4460003 YouTube video by Dr SJ Dodgson

Wind-farms are all over Germany. I remember seeing them in Denmark in 1993 when I was on a train to a university in Sweden. And now, over 30 years later, they are part of the scenery in every train journey through Germany. youtu.be/cSXIsx8zWLk?...

First, they came for pregnant women. Then they came for anyone opposing massacres, for scientists, for Muslims, for immigrants, now for Catholics. Oligarchs will keep supporting the destruction of the peoples, seas, lands until the healthy, educated population has been eliminated #MakeYourVoteCount

Hitler would never have got out of jail if oligarchs had not backed him. Diarrhea Felon would have been in jail if oligarchs had wanted it. Oligarchs have elves everywhere in government offices, in churches, in media, and their main goal is to decrease the world population. #ResistTyranny

It was 1995. I left my two younger children with their father in the Black Forest, and I went to learn all I could about global CO2, having worked on the physiology and biochemistry of CO2 and other blood gases since my BSc honors year.

Ooh. Take no prisoners.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Parents of the 168 children murdered by the US government have written to Pope Leo. They wrote of their children and their deep grief.
They thanked him for being a voice for peace.
Meanwhile silence from the White House.
But there is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Oh lovely!

What? So now cabinet members who are Catholic, are now not Catholic any more - because the Pope preaches the gospel, to be kind - and Diarrhea Felon thinks that is treason?