This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.

The answer is always going to be, “Because you’re running the incredibly bloated Windows operating system.”

It’s a very big “if,” though. Europe has a lot of work to do.

But with the United States falling to fascism and despotism, there’s no one else to step up. And I doubt Europe has any illusions about the size of the threat Russia poses, so they have every incentive to halt Russia’s expansionist goals there in Ukraine.

Putin once said Russia’s borders don’t end anywhere, a very telling sentiment: He doesn’t believe anything but Russia should get to exist. A country that doesn’t respect its own borders is a threat to all of its neighbors.

And because of its expansionist goals, its neighbors are the entire world.

So… Europe is going to massively step up support for Ukraine. It’s possible that unlike the United States, Europe will have no reservations about giving Ukraine everything it needs to not only hold Russia back, but to outright win.

An unambiguous win for Ukraine would almost certainly culminate in the death of Vladimir Putin and a full, systemic collapse in Russia. At this point, Russia is all in on destroying and taking over Ukraine, and if it can’t, it’s basically got nothing else to fall back on.

Twice. They did it twice.

Alternate headline: Iowa becomes first state to declare that it really doesn’t want any tourism dollars at all. Like, none.

I’ve fought tooth and nail against accepting this, but looking at their plans it’s becoming unavoidable: This will not end without violence.

Well sure. Trump literally does not care about the truth value of any word-like sounds that squirt from his facial sphincter. The algorithm running through his toupee support system works like this:

1. Is it something the idiots who support me will buy, at least long enough for me to come up with the next distraction? (Y/N)
2. If Y, say it. Say it a lot. Say it everywhere and anywhere.
3. If N, accuse everyone else of saying it.

That’s it. Whether it has any relationship to the truth, good or bad, never enters into it. He’s not even as honest as a liar, because a liar has to at least care what the truth is. He truly, genuinely doesn’t.

She is literally a Russian asset, and now she’s going to be our top intel official. We’re fucked.

Family of four. We probably go through 10 to-12 eggs a day much of the time. Scrambled eggs, French toast, homemade bread, cookies, pancakes, frittatas, huevos rancheros tacos… It adds up. I recently started buying the 18-egg packs because it’s more cost-effective.

Blatantly unconstitutional, and he knows it. But the point isn’t to win on this issue, it’s to move the Overton window a little more and to sow more chaos.

Got 2 birds stoned at once

OK, that makes sense. Sadly, all of my family have been here for four generations or more. My wife has one slightly easier potential option: If her father claimed Irish citizenship and moved to Ireland, she could piggyback on his Irish citizenship and claim it for herself and our kids, and I’d be able to live there as her husband. But that’s really a non-starter, since her father has health issues that preclude a big move like that.

Right now, we’re focusing on Vancouver, B.C., because my oldest wants to go to college there, and it’s not too far away from where we are now in the Pacific Northwest. If I can get my company to move me, that will make it a lot easier, as they have an office there and my job is 100% remote anyway. But until he finds out if he’s accepted or not, we’re in a frustrating hurry-up-and-wait mode.

Hey, I’ve been thinking about this for the last few days… How did you do it? How did you get out so fast? I’ve got a house, I’ve got pets, I’ve got roots here. Pulling up stakes is slow and time-consuming.

And do you have a work visa? Or are you a dual-citizen?

I’m more concerned about chown. If someone figures out how to chown the Constitution, we’re fucked!

Jesus… This will directly and unequivocally shrink the economy. That money? It’s paid to businesses for services. He just fucked our GDP.

And it’s going to disproportionately affect red states, because those are the states that receive the most federal grants.

I’m shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

Thanks. It’s heartbreaking, because I love my city and I grew up here. I have a house. I have pets. I have roots. But the whole country is no longer save for my kids.

If I had no children, I’d stay and fight as best I can. But kids change the equation. I have to make sure they survive. And evidence strongly indicates that they’re going to be targets of the new Nazis if we stay.

That would be fantastic. I’ve been thinking a lot about early 1930’s Germany lately, and the Jewish people who saw the writing on the wall there. The people who survived the Holocaust were mostly the ones who got out before it started.

I have queer kids. I’m currently working on moving my family to Canada.

You inspired me. I added a few more entries.