Happy 4th of July!

May you have the same number of fingers and eyes after celebrating as you did when you started.

Time to celebrate the 4th of July! Traditionally, that involves fireworks, picnics, and pulled pork.

Not me. I pulled my pork once. Lots of advil, ice, and a visit to the chiropractor fixed everything up.

@spaf Irish whiskey. There is a reason we call it in Irish, "uisce beatha", which when translated into English means "water of life"

RE: https://ohai.social/@resuna/116850404536234134

Science!

Asking for, er, a friend.

The doctor advises making healthier choices.

Which whiskey has the most antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals?

It is a bit toasty in the Midwest US this week.

Pentagon warns US unable to fight two ceasefires simultaneously

https://www.duffelblog.com/pentagon-warns-us-unable-to-fight-two-ceasefires-simultaneously/

Today is the first day of scatalogical summer. That is when you step outside, the heat hits you, and you go "Oh, crap — it's summer!"

Happy Tau Day! (US calendar notation)

https://www.tauday.com/state-of-the-tau-current

@spaf For you pious folks any stairway might be to heaven, but for the rest us we must be careful because any highway might be to hell.

Any stairway can be a stairway to heaven. You just need to be old enough to remember when the song was new, skip the handrail, and wear the wrong glasses.

I just drew a triangle with a 91-degree angle. No matter how I look at it, it doesn't seem quite right.

They finally got AI to think like a human! That human happens to be the drunk guy mansplaining in the pub who is confidently wrong about half of everything he says. Then forgets what he was talking about. Is probably a fascist, definitely a racist. Claims he never said that anyway and passively aggressively apologizes, but not really.

The ancient builders of Stonehenge placed the giant stones with such precision that each year on the summer solstice, you can see pictures of them all over social media.

#solstice

Our new fangled tech solutions for the climate disaster are failing, so we should consider some old school strategies, like sacrificial billionaires. I'm not sure how many billionaires will be needed to mollify the angry god Climatus, but I am sure that eventually we will see positive climate impacts if the sacrificial frequency is sufficient.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others & the world remains & is immortal.
-- Albert Pike

Thanks, Dad, for all that you did.

Dad always lectured me, "The early bird gets the worm." So I always get up late & I have never had worms. Thanks, Dad!

And a Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there dispensing great advice to their offspring.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told.

Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

-- H.L. Mencken (1880–1956)

I know all about quantum mechanics.

Basically, I can't tell if they worked on my car until I open the hood and find a dead cat.