Moik

@theothermike.bsky.social

From the Pacific Northwest, USA. Not immune from dumb ideas, reading seems to cure most. Geopolitics, AI Empires, Climate Change. Off grid, solar charged cars ✊🏽, 🌈, 🇺🇦, 🇨🇦, 🇲🇽, 🌻, and 🐈’s.

On this day in 1520, Ferdinand Magellan became the first European sailor to find a sea route to the Pacific—the Tierra del Fuego—the strait that now bears his name.

🙏 It’s always more complicated than a meme. The law places a legal duty on Welsh ministers to pass laws by 2030 against knowingly making or publishing false or misleading statements of fact to influence an election. The distinction between opinion and false statements is always the gray area?

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Hard math 300,000 Tons of diesel sounds like a lot but at 7.33 barrels per ton, we use twice that in a day. It would take 21-30 days to get to the US from Russia. Trump did the same brag about 2 days worth of eggs in March of 2025 from Turkey. What port and how is it going to be distributed.

From Borowitz Report Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made headlines by offering this vision of the military: “No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals.” Inspired by this wisdom, we’ve complied our own list of people who should be banned from the US government:

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America has 4.7 times as many unemployed adults as Canada. 7.1% of 33 million adults is 2,343,000 4.1% of 269.7 million adults is 11,029 ,000 Canada’s unemployed have health insurance.

Trumpflation hits streaming hard. In 2 years the % of increases: Apple TV (Oct 20) 50% Peacock (w/ads) 66.7% Netflix (standard) 29% Paramount+ (w/ads) 50.1% Hulu (w/ads). 50.1% HBO basic. 10% Premium options do differ.

Trump has mentioned Joe Biden 890 times this year averaging 3 times a day. Not once did he say Biden’s in the Epstein Files. Trump has blamed him at least 210 times over the economy, 168 times over immigration and 138 times over foreign policy and national security.

Canadians against Donald Trump. “A rare photo of Donald Trump from 1934, helping Albert Einstein finish the theory of relativity. According to Trump, Einstein had been stuck for weeks. "Smart guy, bad with numbers. I looked at the board and said, Albert, put a little 2 up there. He loved it."

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"It is now time to stop acting surprised that our warming planet keeps getting warmer. This is occurring exactly as forecast by scientists literally decades ago," and it won’t stop “Will we do anything about it or just stand there while the climate train runs - Andrew Dessler Texas A&M.