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I feel very tired. Trans visibility day always falls on March 31. Easter happened to fall on March 31. Certain Republican douchevolcanoes decided to pretend to be angered by this and demanded an apology from trans people in a blatant attempt to stir up outrage among their voters. This is offensive in so many ways. Just to mention a few: 1) They are demanding that trans people apologize for existing. They know perfectly well we won't and plan to use our refusal to further outrage their befuddled and frightened voters. 2) Their pretense that it is somehow the responsibility of trans people that a holiday that falls on a different day EVERY YEAR happens to coincide with an unrelated holiday this year. 3) Their use of a holiday meant to honour a man who preached tolerance and acceptance as a tool to further promote hatred and intolerance. 4) Their assumption that their voters are so blisteringly dim-witted so as not to know how calendars work. 5) The possibility that a number of them actually are that dim offends me personally. Sigh.

You get a Lamp of Diogenes and use it for lighting in Plato's Cave. Once inside you cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge to where you will find the box with Schrödinger's Cat. The replacement blades lie right next to the box.

I am thinking that an Immortal who marks a person leaves some detectable trace behind, so they effectively have Pandora’s “fingerprints” on them.

Shouldn't those boxes be classifed as Hope Chests?

My grandfather was in the Army Air Force and spent the war in Alaska and the Aleutian islands. As far as he was concerned the weather was as big of an enemy as the Imperial Japanese were.

My dad's job during WWII was aircraft quality control across multiple factories. He was not only exempted from the draft, he was kicked out (and sent back to flying his private plane over the western US and Canada making sure airplane parts from factory A connected properly with parts from factory B ) all four times he enlisted.

Speaking of the defeat parade, apparently the T-34 caught wind of a rumour that it was to be sent to Ukraine after the parade and tried to injure itself to avoid going into the grinder. https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1655946975836262400?cxt=HHwWgMDS2YfAjfstAAAA

Thus causing millions of people to get more exercise by taking the stairs, instead. Brilliant!

Can I believe someone who claims to be an expert on the Dunning-Kruger effect?

Politicians make excellent subjects for beginners’ anatomy classes: they have no brains, no spines, no hearts, no guts, and no balls.

The currency she uses is good enough to pass inspection by a kid working retail. But still I wonder . . . . Perhaps world economics are run by inhuman forces that are unconcerned with human law, ethics or morality.

"The Human has stopped coughing and is sorta up an moving. And he wants to sit in this chair. Meh, might as well let him" - Explorer the Cat.

She has said that her flight was from telekinesis.

Due to living alone and not wanting to go out and make some one work on a holiday (i.e. waitstaff) I got my self something special for Thanksgiving. I'm having steak later today!

"The Human kicked this blanket off the bed last night because he was over heating. He didn't put it back on the bed. He can wait until I'm done napping on it to put it back." - Explorer the Cat.

"The Human got a shot yesterday,so he's feeling a bit down this morning. I'll help by being close and purring" - Explorer the Cat.

Latest Ruzzian seige system.

Frankly, I don’t even care whether he’s jailed or not as long as he no longer has any influence over national or international affairs.

My partner once got six economy-sized bags of cat treats she didn't remember ordering. When challenged on the matter, her cat pretended to complete innocence.

"I'm back home! Didn't like the safe place. There was a small yappy dog!" - Explorer the Cat.

"You look funny upside down!" - Explorer the Cat.

Proof the world is not flat: if it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.

"When In doubt clean. Words to live by" - Explorer the Cat.

"Gonna hang out in here for awhile, then join The Human in the living room. Suspect I'll be on his shoulders in a bit." - Explorer the Cat .

"The Human has gotten up late. As soon as he gets in the desk chair I'm gonna sit on him" - Explorer the Cat

You say that, but one broke down during their first parade. They blamed it on driver error, but it took 30+ minutes to get it going again.

You make me feel inadequate. I feel good if I make a meal that takes more than one pan and has more than 3 ingredients.

"Taking my morning nap. Why you bother me?" - Explorer the Cat.

"I'm not in the way and I'm not grumpy! I just look grumpy and your tea isn't done yet." - Explorer the Cat.

Fort Gregg-Adams. Not named after a traitor any more.

Way back in the day, like 76 or 77 the DM for one of my games was an Episcopal priest, just for what it's worth.

Mrs. Prof's father went ashore with the second wave at Omaha beach that day. Unarmed, as a medic. He made it all the way to Germany, methinks. I'd have to ask again, but she's gone to bed. Let her sleep.

Russian tank identification guide for Ukrainian AFV For those that don't get the meta joke the tank labeled as "M1 Abrams" is in fact a Leopard 2. Also for those that don't follow the Ukrainian war daily, Russia has claimed it's destroyed multiple Leopards and has released a video of one being destroyed by a helicopter fired anti tank guided missile. The thermal image is of the tractor in the lower right. Leopard 2 have not been used in combat by Ukraine at this time

"I'm under the desk. Not in the way of anything except maybe your legs. You can scoot around" - Explorer the Cat.

Their treatment of Hong Kong qualifies as a show stopper as well.

The Pyramids were never supposed to go anywhere. The Sphinx, on the other paw, was . . . Well, you know how difficult it can be getting a small cat to do what you want . . .

"The Human seems a bit upset. He doesn't know for sure if I knocked the glasses off the desk or not. He found the lens after only a few minutes crawling around. He needs to keep his glasses in the glasses case when he's not wearing them" - Explorer the Cat.

To be fair to Hitler, he at least did somewhat better during his initial invasion of Ukraine.

"I'm taking a nap here. Why the flashy thing?" - Explorer the Cat.

Well, they was just after the 2 storm shadow, 1 decoy attack so they might have been a bit trigger happy. Also given that Russia and Ukraine have the same air frames and electronics they have the same IFF units so some mode of IFF will respond the same way. They may have used the wrong mode and gotten a return, which the Russian aircraft had been told to disable. Don't know if this is possibe, but I know that NATO aircraft during exercises would turn off mode 3, but use mode 4. A target the squawked mode 4, but not mode 3 was considered to be friendly. Aircraft that squawked mode 3 only (i.e. commercial aircraft) were evaluated based on their actions. Now IFF is supposed to be coded on a daily or even 4 times a day basis, based on code books sent to the various users. My personal bet it that the ADA units on the ground and the flying units didn't get the same code books, so IFF request goes out, aircraft doesn't squawk the right response, it's hostile. Or the Russians are just idiots, could go either way.

On a related note, the anti-war pro-Putin faction in Denmark has come up with an amazing new argument. One side effect of Denmark sending as much gear as possible to Ukraine is that when we replace it, it is generally with newer and better materiel. I mean yes it is not great that it is old stuff the Ukrainians are getting but at least they are getting it right away. But Denmark still needs vehicles and weapons of its own and replacements obviously tend to be more modern. The Putinists are referring to this as 'stealth mobilization' and is warning that this will lead... to Denmark taking a more aggressive stance against her neighbours. ... ...dafuq? Denmark is literally the smallest nation in all of northern Europe with the possible exception of Luxembourg. I don't think we've waged a war of expansion since the 17th Century, and the ones we fought in then did not end well. Well, yes, Luxembourg is smaller than Denmark but I do not quite see the Danish Army beat aside the Germans and the French on our way there. I swear to God, the Putinists have lost control of their single brain cell and it is desperately hiding from them now. (In my teens I did once formulate a plan for Denmark regaining control of southern Sweden, but it involved airdropping large amounts of Schnapps and beer over strategically important junctions and then moving in with truckloads of more booze we would hand over for free. I figured we would be greeted as liberators because of Sweden's near-Prohibition level control of alcohol sales. Sadly, my plan never gained much traction, though my military acquaintances did say it was a lot less likely to lead to mass casualties than conventional warfare.)

"Shouldn't you get dressed before you start using the flashy thing?" - Explorer the Cat.

"Gonna hang out here in the living room in the sunbeam. Then I might get up on The Human or help him on the desk" - Explorer the Cat.

The Ukrainian government has said that it wasn't them. If I was going to make a symbolic attack on Russia/assassination attempt on Putin this time of year, I would wait until the May 9th victory parade. Then you will know exactly where Putin will be and when. A short range loitering munition/suicide drone should be able to deal with him. Granted it would need to be fairly self guiding as the amount of ECM being used in Red Square is rather high. At least GPS is being jammed for a about a half mile radius.