Throwing my vote in for Gauss.

Have a clear and honest conversation with your wife. “She thinks it’s fine” is not enough. And know your concern and worries more clearly. For example, “The age gap is representative of an emotional maturity gap.”

And you might be right. But that doesn’t matter. She need to know for herself in her own way. And she needs to feel like she can trust you to not hold it against her if they do go “wrong”.

Either way, have an emotionally honest conversation with your wife.

It’s sad because they aren’t curious about nuance and polarize it instantly. So it’s impossible to reorient to those more interesting qualities. Doing so is a rhetorical mistake. So we’re left with not leaving a comment or engaging in an unnecessarily polarized discussion.

Senators up for re-election will remember if we do the following:

1. If you have a dem senator, write to them and tell them that the leadership is out of touch with the demands of the moment
2. If the blue incumbent in your state is retiring in 2026, run a progressive. Use this moment to draw real separation between the progressive and the establishment candidate. Make any contact between them and the democratic leadership toxic
3. If the blue incumbent hasn’t condemned this and the democratic leadership, do the same as above.

Democrats up for reelection in 2026

• Colorado: John Hickenlooper
• Delaware: Chris Coons
• Georgia: Jon Ossoff
• Illinois: Dick Durbin (Retiring)
• Massachusetts: Ed Markey
• Michigan: Gary Peters (Retiring)
• Minnesota: Tina Smith (Retiring)
• New Hampshire: Jeanne Shaheen (Retiring)
• New Jersey: Cory Booker (Chair of Strategic Communications Committee)
• New Mexico: Ben Ray Lujan
• Oregon: Jeff Merkley
• Rhode Island: Jack Reed
• Virginia: Mark Warner

Flipping the senate in 2026 seems unlikely, but transforming the democratic party must start now. Schumer is up for re-election in 2028, but he has to be removed from leadership now.

Kevin went full ACAB.

I do not know how meditating 10 min/day morphs into a Leatherface audition, but I’m hitting up my zafu right now!

ADHD brain made me skip the most important line: take your meds people

You aren’t being fair minded about it or examining it in context.

Hell yeah. Matching people’s energy and tone have been invaluable for me. And not just in the terrible situations. I find matching kind and energetic people even when I’m not in the mood to be the best cure for my malaise.

Crazy. It was less than two months ago. Guess I am old.

Princess Donut.

https://www.tiktok.com/@masterameriken/video/7568903917598166302

Au contraire, legumes froid.

Even in their dismissal of the simulation, which I agree with, they return to a idealism.

Lawrence Krauss, a co-author of the study, explained: “The fundamental laws of physics cannot exist inside space and time; they create it. This signifies that any simulation, which must be utilized within a computational framework, would never fully express the true universe”[^2].

These laws are:

1. Immaterial
2. Transcendent
3. Imminent
4. Apriori
5. Eternal

Everything about this is so messed up that the incompetent, lazy cop is the least surprising part.

This Creepy Powerpuff Girls Theory Isn’t True, Thank God:

Cartoon Network spokesperson Jean Woo told io9 that the character of Jared Shapiro was created by writer Haley Mancini and co-executive producer Bob Boyle, and Mancini was the principal story writer for the character. The network didn’t clarify why Goldman was brought on to voice the character, but it’s not uncommon for animated shows to include their writers or artists in the show—like Pendleton Ward, who voices Lumpy Space Princess on his show Adventure Time. Plus, former Powerpuff Girls storyboard artist Grace Kraft wrote on a Twitter thread that the artists modeled Jared after Goldman because he fit the character, and figured it’d be fun if he voiced him too.

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

I silently recite this to myself.

But now I just end up blurting out, “FEAR IS THE MIND KILLER.”