The estimate I’ve seen is that cards won’t be coming until 2026, otherwise yeah, this would be an easy choice.

(East) Berlin would dispute the example for Deutschland. Ampelmann is an icon.

My spouse came home from a week at the hospital to a stupid button I hooked up that messaged me “Emergency! {name} needs you!”

It was perfect.

My partner has one - and still loves it while on the fourth of a few models (over seven years). I can barely use it – my fingers are too large. The camera isn’t great and the white balance is just incorrect.

The battery life is understandably atrocious. But – it is TINY.

This is a good summary of my experience of both Speed Racer and Jupiter Ascending (although the latter has Eddie Redmayne chewing scenery like it was going out of style).

Base jumping. Funding is difficult, so the local water utility has started charging admission. €10 for access to the lines, and €20 to clip on.

Not that bright, but REALLY cute.

“Dogezone.” Completely normal. Everything’s fine.

What the heck is this nonsense.

fElon has to step down. He is a “special government employee” and limited to 130 days.

LORD Bowler.

The bill has a poison pill – it allows Trump to shift funding. So yes, judges on vacation bad, but the bill effectively authorizes the behavior of the meme department.

I had thought this was a photoshop. WTH.

The Lightning Bug.

I read this recently and was surprised how much I loved it.

Not in the US, but that LLM didn’t know that.

I thankfully walked out of the room, but overheard part of a press conference where Trump was ladeling the blame on the FAA’s DEI policies; how the FAA was hiring disabled people and that lead to this crash.

I need to find an alternate radio station for my dog to listen to. No one should have to hear that bullshit.

Cannon can because there are two non-dismissed cases that are referenced in the report.

The federal government is still pursuing those cases… Which is interesting, because if Trump did nothing wrong, there’s no case to pursue.

So, of course Cannon has blocked the release. At this point, Republicans win if they stall enough.

Yeah, but Zachary Levi has also gone outspoken anti-vax and conservative-to-the-point-of-crazy.

Which is sad, because I loved him as Chuck but apparently failing to break out after Shazam went to his head.

My spouse and I opted not to tell our kid last year, with me not wanting to be the one to spoil it and her wanting to keep the magic “just one more year.”

This year was already too late. The kid got into an argument at school about whether or not Santa was real.

My spouse and I planned it all out, planned on going out to get a hot cocoa, etc., etc. Instead my kid sat ME down and said they wanted to ask me something. So I got stuck telling answering that Santa wasn’t real, but spun it that it was about learning to give without getting, and ended up pulling out Death’s SPEECH from Hogsfather about believing in big lies.

The kid mostly cared that they’d still get presents, so it was a bust.

I still think about the episode where John walked into his stock trader and randomly bought rights to some kind of seafood (shrimp, I think), explains why, then sells it – at a huge profit. It was this little moment that explained why John could just “do stuff” and didn’t need a job.

Also, it made my hate working forever, but I don’t know enough to not have to. Yet.