Links to Interesting News Stories

DHL plane crashes in Vilnius, Musk wants to get rid of manned fighter jets, Germany suspects sabotage after undersea internet cables are severed, Musk floats acquisition of MSNBC

Reply to Evgeny Kuznetsov

Maybe feeling lonely once in a while isn’t such a bad thing when compared to the insanity that’s engulfed places like Twitter, TikTok and Instagram.

Reply to Evgeny Kuznetsov

Maybe feeling lonely once in a while isn’t such a bad thing when compared to the insanity that’s engulfed places like Twitter, TikTok and Instagram.

A Note on Warmongers

It’s a definite sign that something has gone very, very wrong when a meathead comedian and MMA commentator makes more sense than the heads of states of most countries or almost all of the media.

Toot, toot!

This is a screenshot from a recent promotional video for Kingdom Come Deliverance II. Apparently, the game will have a tavern called The Hole and that is its pub sign.

Leitmedien

This was an actual headline in Die Zeit, one of Germany’s biggest newspapers yesterday. No, I did not fake this screenshot.

The Culture

After being on my literary to do list for decades, I decided to start reading Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. These books seem to me to be particularly relevant today.