Today's Random Stuff -- dogs, frogs, and physics

Dogs, bruh!

Great, now I have to go buy twice as many tennis balls. https://t.co/PMJnXwp8lJ

— Gerggers (@gerggers) February 23, 2023

this dog is friends with a crow and it's like a real life pixar movie
(jukin media) pic.twitter.com/A3pKDJOb9i

— theworldofdog (@theworldofdog) February 22, 2023

That Wascally Wabbit pic.twitter.com/SyuTkIDV1M

— Madeyousmile (@Thund3rB0lt) February 26, 2023

Duck and Dog Wrestle Playfully in Snow

Look how they play! 🙂

💌Follow for the most inspirational stories of hope, love, tradition, family and art. pic.twitter.com/1EaBIWBH4v

— Funniest Family Moments (@Funniest_Family) February 27, 2023

As seen on George Takai's substack:

Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week. pic.twitter.com/MHlGmz9Ph2

— fragrance and foolishness (@Brieyonce) February 27, 2023

Today's News: "In the Covid era, the vulnerable die earlier, the remaining become vulnerable earlier"

I've been noticing and collecting a variety of recent posts and tweets about Covid and our situation these days, and the challenges we will be facing in 2023.

This pretty well sums it up, really:

In the COVID era, the vulnerable people die earlier, the remained ones become vulnerable earlier.

— Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) (@Yash25571056) January 14, 2023

And as for the continuing political implications:

Many people expected a huge explosion in babies after everybody stayed home for COVID but I didn’t realize they would be 20-50 year old men flying “F*ck Trudeau” flags screaming about imaginary rights they don’t understand.

— Dean from Winnipeg (@Dean_Winnipeg) January 30, 2023

Yes indeed:

... the same people who were wrong to say that we all had to catch it are the same people who were wrong to say that there is no way to stop it are the same people who were wrong to say that it's just a cold are the same people who were wrong to say that kids don't get sick ...

— tern (@1goodtern) January 30, 2023

... are the same people who were wrong to say that there is no airborne transmission are the same people who were wrong to say that the pandemic would only affect people in China because western healthcare is better are the same people who are all complete and utter idiots.

— tern (@1goodtern) January 30, 2023

Why do we even hear from any single one of these people ever any more?

— tern (@1goodtern) January 30, 2023

But wait, there's more....

Today's News: Incredible or incredibly stupid!

Incredible!

Tonight has shown, beyond any shadow of doubt, that universal access to safe and affordable abortion care is incredibly popular. When Kansas votes 2:1 to support abortion care, I think the conversation on “public debate” is pretty much over.

— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) August 3, 2022

Republican men don’t realize how many pro-choice Republican women there are. I’m including the ones who tell pollsters they are pro-life.

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 3, 2022

No one is hating the results in Kansas more than six members of SCOTUS tonight.

— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) August 3, 2022

“Let the states decide.”

…5 weeks later…

“No, that’s not what we meant!l!”

— Obama Event Horizon (@44EventHorizon) August 3, 2022

This is every Republican elected official who's been mouthing pro-life pieties for years, has become more extreme in his proclamations recently as he drifted along with currents on the Right...and who's now hearing about the Kansas referendum results. pic.twitter.com/S6pVCIM31D

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 3, 2022

I’m a one issue voter. When I see the word “Republican,” I ignore the candidate.

— Jesse D.Lifson (@DoYouEvenLif) July 31, 2022

Today's news: Nelson moments

 

Today seemed to be a day of "Nelson" moments. 

There was that day-long Rogers outage:

Having Rogers internet down all day meant spending the day talking with family. They seem like nice people. 🤣

— KNugent4118🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 (@knugent4118) July 8, 2022

I can't grasp the scale of how bad this is at Rogers. This is an unprecedented disaster. Been down now for over 12 hours and they still don't know why.

And they have really smart engineers working there. I know, I've worked with them.

— Catelli 2.0 🚣🚴🏕 (@Catelli2Oh) July 8, 2022

You start a simple kitchen reno. And then next thing you know you're jacking up the house and rebuilding the foundation from the footings up.

There is no "just put the wall back up and hide the mess we found"

— Catelli 2.0 🚣🚴🏕 (@Catelli2Oh) July 8, 2022

They appear to have turned their router off and back on again.

— David Cochrane (@DavidWCochrane) July 9, 2022

And that story about SCOTUS justice Brett Kavanaugh being chased out of Morton's by protestors:

The Morton's restaurant chain opened in 1978 and is therefore not "deeply rooted in the nation's history and traditions."

— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) July 8, 2022

Yup, you have to articulate the right at the most specific level you can so that you can find that the right doesn’t exist. There is no fundamental “right to eat at Morton’s in DC on a Thursday night without leaving through the back due to protestors”

— Defend the Truth and Defeat the Lies (@fitzador) July 8, 2022

On the other hand, they could argue that the right of powerful white men to ruin other people’s lives and expect to not face even the mildest of consequences is very much “deeply rooted in the nation’s history in tradition”

— Jacob Harris (@harrisj) July 8, 2022

What did Brett Kavanaugh and his right wing Supreme Court pals think their lives would be like after they criminally assaulted 200,000,000 American women? Did they think people would just smile at them in restaurants? Also goodbye Mortons for aggressively taking Kavanaugh’s side.

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) July 8, 2022

It doesn't matter if protesters interrupt his meal because Brett Kavanaugh believes dinner begins at reservation

— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) July 8, 2022

All six of the SCOTUS majority are too arrogant and stupid to understand that they will never eat an unspat-in restaurant meal for the rest of their lives.

— Randy Cauthen (@Joe_Bourgeois) July 8, 2022

And Tamara Lich is back in jail:

I'm reading angry tweets that Lich is a martyr -- but honestly, what did she think would happen after she breached her bail conditions? Her lawyers did her no favours.

I find it hilarious that Tamara Lich's lawyers awarded her some bs "freedom award" that ended up causing her to lose her freedoms. Good job JCCF! #cdnpoli #FreeDumbConvoy

— Rob Gill (@vote4robgill) July 8, 2022

We have now entered the glorious “Find Out” phase.

I bet she’s pissed her little attempted martyrdom didn’t get the goobers worked up enough to overthrow the Commie Nazi tyrant Trudeau. 😂🤣😂https://t.co/irmv1TDheI

— Jay Gamble (@DrJayDrNo) July 8, 2022

And Elon Musk wants to pull out of the Twitter deal.

You know, I always believed  that the only reason Musk wanted Twitter was because he had promised to reinstate Trump, but then it got too complicated and Musk never actually wanted to work that hard.

Elon Musk has announced he is not going to buy Twitter as he needs more time to stay at home with his families.

— Gene Spafford (@TheRealSpaf) July 8, 2022

BREAKING: Elon Musk has terminated his deal to buy Twitter, which is shocking because I didn’t think he knew how to pull out of anything.

— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) July 8, 2022