Oh no doubt. We’ve got friends with older kids and we’re getting a bunch of hot tips about what comes next - some good, some bad.

One of my friends swears the best day in a parent’s life is the day you change the last diaper. But the second best is the day your kids beat you at chess.

So I’ve got a lot to look forward to

I mean, this is a pretty straightforward photoshop. I would fucking hope they didn’t need an AI to manage it.

Getting a slew of “Aliens are Real” content all lined up, just in time for all the old 60s hard core alien-heads to pay $20 to see a film and die of old age in the theater.

Maybe I’m a bot who has been monitoring your entertainment traffic specifically to incept this shit onto your monitor.

Or maybe I just got through a Fast and Furious rewatch and had Vin Diesel’s “This is Brazil!” lodged in my brain, but opted for this picture because it isn’t just him in a wife-beater yelling at Dwayne Johnson.

I blame Afonso Henriques, pictured below

It is absolutely maddening to see American pundits defend every dumbshit, ruinous, genocidal policy over the last twenty years by pointing at China and claiming, “We had to show them we were the boss”.

From AI to A-bombs, there’s nothing you can’t get away with by insisting “China Bad! This will stop them!”

Christ. My son has a cough, and he crawled up into our bed last night. Spent hours coughing directly into my ear, slapping me with flailing hands, and crying for milk (which he then rejected after it was offered).

I am in an absolute haze this morning.

When the server came to take the drink order my date lean in close and whisper to my ear “only get a mixer” as she pressed two small bottles into my hand and then winked at me.

Marriage Material

Women in movies: “Going to do a full blown date prep montage, complete with song and dance number, where I transform from mousy librarian to runway model over the course of 15 minutes. Come out cool as a cucumber and charming as a prince.”

Women in real life: “Going to throw on a top and some jeans, half watch a Netflix special about serial killers while I curl my hair, then down a mug of hard liquor to build up the courage to look a guy I’ve got a crush on straight in the eyes. Try to make it through dinner without mumbling, burping, or mentioning that I’m on my period.”

Unrealistic to believe the guy at the Linux stall would not come at him like John Constantine pulling out a demonic possession.

Mozart and Carlos Mencia trigger the same parts of the ear canal.

We need to get back to the root of human evolution and provide mankind with the information they know they can trust.

My man has an incredible figure

The degree to which the O&G industry has co-opted the Republican Party cannot be understated. This only really took root under Ford, when guys like Bush and Cheney were promoted into the upper echelons of the political leadership while in the midst of converting historically Dixiecrat Gulf Coast states to the Republican Party.

Democrats were late to the party, having more heavily aligned with the NY-based Finance Sector and CA-based global shipping magnets. It’s been the outsized demand for energy in Silicon Valley that has really collapsed the Green-ish Democrats into O&G by way of Obama/Trump/Biden Era rapidly escalating demands for electricity. And even then, Dems are consistently in favor of generic economic growth while Republicans are hyper-fixated on O&G growth exclusively.

The Emperor pitted two historic rival houses against one another, with the expectation that they’d annihilate themselves and leave room for upstarts to take their place. The Bene Jesuits had seen this cycle play out before and knew it would preserve the Emperor’s power at the expense of the advancement of the society as a whole. So, they backchanneled a breeding program between Atreides and Harkonen - on the Atreides side via Lady Jessica and Duke Leto, on the Harkonen side between Feyd-Rautha and Margot Fenring - to yield the prophesied optimal off-spring, the Kwisatz Hadarach.

But all of this ran afoul of a third agency, the Planetologists of Dune, who believed the planet’s perpetual condition of spice harvest was undermining what could be a new kind of Eden for domestic development and liberation. Their efforts to irrigate Arakus at the expense of the global galactic trade (catalyzed by Lady Jessica’s unlicensed male hier) was what ultimately undermined both the Emperor’s political schemes and the Bene Jesuits’ breeding program.

In the end, the primary antagonists of the Dune series are the environmentalists, fighting a guerrilla war against a Galactic Oil & Gas Industry.

It’s losing priority to Mandarin due to rapid economic expansion and public education teaching Mandarin.

Rubbing this on my back while drinking a tall glass of Dew Crimes

You’ll never make it in government with that attitude

The 1950 invasion was a military annexation by the PLA, not a domestic Marxist uprising.

Tibet wasn’t militarily annexed in 1950, because it was never officially independent. It was annexed in 1720 by the Qing Dynasty and only briefly splintered into an autocratic theocracy during the civil war.

Indonesians chose English for global trade while maintaining their state language. Tibetans face structural coercion

You must be joking.

Which Fortune 500 companies allow you to speak Indonesian exclusively?

Tibetan is dying out as a language because the Tibetan nationalists never bothered to build up educational infrastructure when they were in charge.

That’s just the CIA