Well, There’s Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides. Not as dry as it sounds, a lot of it is taking the piss out of the people in decision-making roles who made the disaster possible. The video version is recommended for afore mentioned slide decks; none of the hosts actually appear on screen.

Last time the administration said another country didn’t have any cards they destroyed a quarter of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet a few weeks later.

But Trump clearly said, “Now is the time for peace.” No takesies-backsies, Iran! /s

Russia doesn’t get to dictate who other sovereign nations choose to associate with.

We know what happened.

The Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance* has been petitioning the Patrician for months trying to get a vampire onto the City Watch. The Campaign for Equal Heights and the Fresh Start Club have already gotten dwarves and zombies onto the force, so it’s only a matter of time.

* They’ve sworn off the red sticky stuff, oh deary me, yes.

I’m thinking specifically of People magazine. With paper magazines, the time to print and distribute come into play. If they had waited until after, the article wouldn’t have hit store shelves until late mid February, after it was most relevant.

Seriously, remember Betty White? Articles about her 100th birthday were already written when she died 17 days short of it.

It’s not until the last sentence of the article that they acknowledge what’s most likely the actual cause for the rapid fall off in sales.

Tesla is being squeezed out of the European market, in large part due to most consumers’ dislike for its CEO.

I mean, if you’re an EU trade minister, who looks like the more reliable trading partner right now?

If the Tesla board of directors was being responsible to shareholders, they’d have recognized the damage the public perception of Elon is doing to the company and either have him rein it in or outright remove him. However, Elon’s gotten a number of his cronies onto the board, so I don’t think it’s happening unless the shareholders vote out the current board.

Vermont imports a quarter of its electricity from HydroQuebec. We’ve made it very clear this past weekend what we think of the administration. All the same, I completely understand.

Everyone assumes Canada is super liberal country just because of universal healthcare. They forget that Alberta is basically snowy Texas, and the other prairie provinces have more in common with the Midwest than New York.

Even if Canada would merge with the US, surely it wouldn’t become a state. We all know the importance of the Senate at this point, and how the two-senators-per-state rule affects things. At the very least, each province would want to become a state to get more senators, and it may be in the best interest of some of the larger provinces like Ontario or Quebec to subdivide to gain even more, if they can get away with it. Goodness knows the idea of splitting California has been floated by some to try to get something closer to senator-per-capita parity.

Trump said he’d end the war in a day. If it’s not over by Tuesday, I may start thinking he wasn’t being honest.

The Yakuza games are very serious crime dramas with absolutely bonkers side quests and minigames.

Polonium allergies are more common than you think.

This action will probably reduce pressure on the defensive lines in Ukraine, too, as Putin has to redeploy troops the defend Kursk and any supply lines that run through it.

In some ways I feel bad for his volleyball partner, whose only other choice would have been to walk away from the Olympics.

It’d be region locked to hell. The International Olympic Committee sells the TV rights for each country at an exorbitant price, so the broadcasters feel the need to zealously defend their investments.