Maybe a homeless man pointed a cat toy at the plane and blinded the pilot.

Epstein Island was sold to the US by Denmark, so there’s that parallel, as well.

Speaking of worms eating brains, there was this experiment where scientists trained a worm to find food. Then, they killed the worm, blended its brains or brain equivalent, and fed it to other worms. When those worms were put into the same environment, they already knew how to find the food, apparently having learned it from eating the other worm’s brains.

So, it’s possible that this worm ate some of RFK Jr’s brains and that the worm went insane as a result.

The idea that a worm could eat a small portion of RFK Jr’s brain and cause him significant mental impairment is laughable. He wasn’t using his brain in the first place. Certainly the worm got the worst of the exchange.

Become a crab. Become an anteater.

I would call those normal footprints, not inverse footprints. We call both additive and subtractive marks left by feet “footprints.”

If you were to step in ink, and then step onto paper, that would create a footprint.

If you were to step in drying concrete, that would also create a footprint.

I’m reminded of this possibly apocryphal story about Picasso:

[A woman] approached Picasso in a restaurant, asked him to scribble something on a napkin, and said she would be happy to pay whatever he felt it was worth. Picasso complied and then said, “That will be $10,000.”

“But you did that in thirty seconds,” the astonished woman replied.

“No,” Picasso said. “It has taken me forty years to do that.”

To me, this story is about the paradox of mastering a craft. If a person has spent decades mastering an art or a craft, then when an amateur sees them working, it looks like it’s trivial. The amateur thinks, “Anybody could do that. I could do that, no problem. It’s easy.” Of course, it only looks easy because it’s the master doing it.

The question was what would MLK Jr think if he were alive, but he’s a ghost, so they only get what he thinks if he’s dead. For all we know, everybody who becomes a ghost simply becomes obsessed with technology.

You know the paradox of tolerance? The idea that if you believe in tolerance, then you have to be intolerant of intolerance.

I think this general concept is applicable in many areas. Like, it makes sense to be nonviolent except in preventing more violence.

And in this case, we should all make a giant conspiracy to destroy the places where conspiracy theorists talk to each other.

A concerned community member reported that Council President John T. Cannon was leading Wicomico County Council members and attendees in the Lord’s Prayer prior to the Pledge of Allegiance at every meeting. FFRF was informed that multiple citizens had asked the council to end the practice, to no avail.

This is a problem. The Council President should not be leading a Christian prayer. I’d say that they should also get rid of the Pledge of Allegiance. What’s the purpose of pledging allegiance to a flag or even to the republic itself? That’s just nationalism. Depending on interpretation, you might as well be pledging allegiance to the current administration.

If they wanted to pledge allegiance to the US Constitution, I might be more amenable. It would still be stupid and meaningless, though.

On one occasion last fall, Council Member James Winn even read from the bible during his comments, exhorting that “everything is right here, the answers, this is truth.” He then read multiple passages from the bible, giving his interpretations. He concluded by saying, “I know that not everyone here is a Christian and that’s OK, I’ll pray for you. There’s only one way, there’s only one way, and that’s through Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior.”

If it wasn’t a council member, but an outside preacher, and they let people pray before the meetings without favoring a specific faith, then it would be more legal. Still crazy bullshit, though. Of course, in this case, it was a council member, so it’s a complete no-go.

Now that I think about it, why does Trump tend to praise countries like Russia and China, when they haven’t even given him any Nobel Prizes?

Since this has been cross-posted, I thought it would be good to summarize the other conversations:

In other news, Oxfam finds that water is wet, the sky is blue, the Pope is Catholic, and that bears shit in the woods.

The article says that his condition was stabilized, so he wasn’t murdered.

Also, according to this article, the retirement info you have can’t be right.

Meyer has been judge in Tippecanoe Superior Court 2 for 12 years. He’s in the final year of his second six-year term. Meyer, a Democrat, announced in December that he didn’t plan to run for a third term in 2026.

The election they’re talking about is in 2026, which makes sense, because if his term was up in January, it would be strange for an elected official to announce his retirement in December.

Also, I obviously don’t want to make any conclusions about motives, but I can’t help but see the word “Democrat” in that quote from above.

ICE is deporting her back to France.

It’s a fundamental flaw in first-come-first-served moderation that also gets to reserve a unique name.

Prosecute and imprison ICE for their crimes. When they get out of prison, take away their passports and turn them into refugees.

He seems like the sort whose pee and poo just goes straight into a collection bag of some sort.

I only got four hours of sleep last night, and it’s miserable after only one night.

You’re not a hypocrite for following the current law and also wanting to change the same law.

One opinion is about what an individual’s best choice is, given the situation.

The other is about what laws would be best for a society to have.

What’s best for an individual is not always the same as what’s best for a group or society.

I have brought great shame upon myself.

What do you expect from a country that replaced Trump with Trump?