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I just ended my paid membership with Twitter. Been meaning to do it for some time but was too lazy to do it.

I'm so glad to see he finally is being impeached. And for so many reasons, too.

I've been away dealing with life and teaching, so I'm both surprised and sad to see he's gone.

I'm not sure I can forgive him for killing all those people in Japan, even though he contributed to saving half the planet.

Say it loud enough and Samuel L. Jackson will demand he star in a movie of the same name.

I'm more concerned that trans women are looking too much like regular women so that I might accidentally jack off to one before realizing I did something wrong. And you just know there are Maga conservatives who think that exact thing. As for me, really, I still find Bugs Bunny as a girl really HAWT. Way too many people let such unimportant things get in their way of their mundane lives.

I was looking for something in the same vein as Stardew Valley without the strict time constraints (very quick days), and I found Sun Haven, which just released a short bit ago. It, instead of just a farming sim, involves fantasy elements into it as well, and I've already put in over 100 hours into it. It's a lot of fun.

Since the show began, my belief has been that Grogu was always the Mandalorian from conception. It just took a couple of seasons for that to play out. But I always suspected that was going to be the case.

Q is way too busy bothering captains in Starfleet.

The Shaw monologue definitely made this episode and will probably forever link that actor with the greatest scenes of Star Trek.

Wait! Star Wars is about Florida??? Guess that explains the Florida government and stuff.

I'm kind of on a rehash/update kick with games recently. Been mostly looking for a space sim game but haven't really found anything that does anything for me. A few days ago, I bought Distant Worlds 2 and tried to start it up, but so far it's feeling a lot like an overly complicated Galactic Civilizations 3. Still too new to really make a decision yet. My other rehash that I finally put into the queue is Master of Magic, which is a rehash they made a year or so ago. Unfortunately, finding something awesome to play with a top notch system can sometimes be hard. Might just play through backlog until Starfield finally comes out, and then I probably won't emerge again for months to come.

A number of states are already banning it. I live in Texas, and for a few months now all schools and organizations that receive any state funding are forbidden to use Tik Tok on their servers.

I use to drink tons and tons of diet Dr Pepper. A year ago, I stopped cold turkey and now have diet A&W Root Beer once a day, if that.

I kind of equate it to the efforts they make to push forth the argument that they're not racist because they "hate everyone".

There was a point during the pandemic where I started to wonder about Adams because his whole humor was based on office culture, yet office culture was being destroyed all over the place. And then to make things worse, due to his career success, he wasn't even able to make commentary on the changed work environment because he no longer spoke like the sarcastic critic of the work place as he hadn't been in a work place in ages.

I'm thinking of using the George Santos resume add-on.

Another thing to consider is that in some cases, divorce is far worse than suicide because a shrewd wife playing the right cards can seriously destroy a husband for decades after a divorce as the legal system still rewards a wife over a husband after the divorce. And while a few instances have tried to reverse this, it's still very lopsided against men, even the ones smart enough to marry with a prenup.

There's a significant reason why West Point has historically given a copy of the New York Times to every cadet dorm room from the first day of the fall semester until graduation. When I was that age, I thought it was because of the stature of the New York Times. But then over the years, I realized the reasoning was because there's no better herald of news in the US that buys the foundation of what the west believes than the New York Times. And no, this isn't a criticism of the New York Times, but just an acknowledgement of something people should have realized a long time ago.

I was a strong conservative right up through the Reagan years. Saw liberals as weak and spineless, mainly because I was in the service and bought the erroneous lie that Republicans stood for military and patriotism. I was right about Trump from day one, projecting that there was no way a woman was going to defeat him. People kept saying I was wrong and I kept telling them the Electoral College doesn't work as they believed. Even criticized Nate Silver, comparing Trump's campaign to the mule effect. I wish I had been wrong.

This is the one thing that is bothering me. If this was a UFO, or if any future unidentified object is a classical UFO, the US's first response is to shoot it down without even considering that it might be here for peaceful purposes. So, imagine if we're flying a surveillance recon of some future planet, how do you think we would respond if some unforseen alien civilization chose to respond to our "we come in peace message" by shooting down our representative? We may have just declared war on some alien race that we have yet to even establish communications. Just saying.

Very interesting. Wish I would have been around during those heralded days.

I just hope that this isn't one of those stories we remember years later as something that was fudged by a scientist for quick fame.

Okay, Story time with the Legospaceman: (either you'll find it interesting, or at least it will let me blow some steam) The doctor who put a graft into my arm (who can't seem to remember if it was a fistula or a graft) was told months ago that I had lost all feeling to the index finger of that arm. He indicated that was normal and that the no feeling and numbness would go away. A month after that my finger started to feel pain.. He looked at the finger and said "It's healing". The next few months were series of the nurses at the dialysis center constantly indicating that they didn't think it was getting better. Calls to the doctor were impossible to make because no one answered. Finally, I walked into the clinic and said I needed to see the doctor (of which I had been informed that this breached some kind of unwritten protocol). Saw the doctor. He looked at the finger and said "I really think it's healing." Fast forward another month and the head nurses decided they were going to contact the nephrologist and inform him that in their opinion something needs to be done. Get an appointment and he arranges a new surgery to repath the graft (or fistula). A few weeks after, he sees me again and says "it's definitely getting better." Anyway, about seven months of this have taken place, and I've been in pain the whole time. Advance a few more months into this timeline and I see him once more because "no, it's not getting better." He sends me to a plastic surgeon with the idea of cleaning out the debris that has accumulated as this finger was "getting better". The plastic surgeon says he doesn't want to clean it out until we've had an xray to make sure it's not infected (which means he'll have to amputate part of the finger). I go and get an xray and it turns out that the finger is NOT infected. I go back to the plastic surgeon and he says the only option is to amputate. This is kind of where I am now. My nephrologist has honored my request of getting a second opinion, so now we're in a holding pattern waiting for some mysterious doctor to entertain me with a second opinion. Meanwhile, my finger has made it so I haven't had more than two hours of sleep most nights during this period.

Man, I was hoping it was going to be me again, or "YOU" as I was so honorifically identified.