I Love These Renditions.

It's Friday and it's time to hang out with the family.

This is beautiful and powerful and what it means to be a person in this world.

anyway my hot take is that the modern night-of live reporting model is bad and probably should be illegal. democracy is not a spectator sport and the fact that news outlets are allowed to exploit partial vote counts for ratings is ghoulish. there is nothing you can learn the night of a major election that has greater value than waiting the several days to a week that it will take, and always has taken, for the final vote totals to be established

Sauce: https://xkcd.com/2444/

Cutting up some Christmas items for the kiddo to play crafts tomorrow. #crafts #papercutout #christmas #constructionpaper https://www.instagram.com/p/Cleq2QPp-Lp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I made myself laugh because we're coming back to this with AI.

The whole #barbenheimer thing is peak crap of the internet. It's just another oddball cringe trend that people got swept up in because it was weird but when you look back at it, probably be more embarrassing than a fond memory.

I watched the Oppenheimer film. I think it was well casted and the story peaked further interest in the real history of events. I heard people cried at the end of Barbie, but I felt like going through Oppenheimer felt way more emotional. Living through atrocities that people put each other through is maddening and frustrating. Especially if you are helpless against it. And I know people will argue history on how at the time of WW2, they were faced with few choices. But that is one message of the film, it's all about the choices people make and how they impact others.

I lived through 9/11 and I knew my choice was not to do any invasion in the Middle East. Knowing the history of those wars seemed pretty clear to me that the war on terror was not going to make any benefit for the community at home. We now have 20 years of history put into that fiasco. Will this be a lesson learned. No because people just want to pretend it didn't happen. We may not have had a bombing event of that scale again but lives still have been lost to war since.

I'll just give it some more time when media looks to monetize that history some more and see those memes make the rounds. Yikes.

Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997

Because it's just nice to have a pick me up every now and then.