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there are about 3.6 million calories in a mammoth, or roughly 2,000 human days worth of calories in one mammoth

Six people connected to the same U.S. defense research network Are dead or missing in under a year; Monica Jacinto Reza - aerospace engineer - co-inventor of Mondaloy the alloy behind America’s replacement for Russian rocket engines - funded through AFRL programs - working with NASA JPL June 22, 2025: goes hiking in Angeles National Forest - waves at her companion - disappears - no body ever found four days later Melissa Casias - Los Alamos National Laboratory employee - Department of Energy advisory board member - drives into the lab that morning - later tells her daughter she “forgot her badge” - family says that makes no sense - returns home - both phones factory reset - leaves everything behind - walks toward the forest - never seen again October 25, 2025 Jacob Prichard - AFRL Sensors Directorate - kills his wife Jaymee - breaks into coworker’s apartment - kills 1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus - TS/SCI clearance - Air Force analyst - then kills himself on camera - 3 AFRL-connected people dead in one night February 2026 - Carl Grillmair - Caltech astronomer - worked on NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor - systems used to detect asteroids - same physics used to track satellites and hypersonic weapons December 2025 - armed man caught on his property - carrying unregistered rifle - lies about why he’s there - arrested February 5, 2026 - charges dismissed 11 days later - February 16 - same man returns - shoots Grillmair on his porch - dead at the scene then William Neil McCasland - former AFRL commander - controlled billions in aerospace research budgets - tied to the same programs funding Mondaloy February 27, 2026 - disappears

My zoomer girlfriend is forcing me to wear a red flannel shirt all day and eat avocado toast and grow an ironic ill fitting beard style, she calls me a "millennial piggy" and when I complain she says "oh that's so sad why don't you listen to some sad music on your turntable record player then". She throws bottles of craft beer at me and laughs

@Pathless110 Going tonight. We shall see, hoping it doesn’t disappoint.

@druideight Yeah, it’s not a catastrophic week, just “lousy.” Tomorrow should be a good recompense - hubs is home, we’re going to get non-sketchy massages & go see Project Hail Mary after making breakfast at home. I think I ODed on various strains of “situation monitoring” + work.

Orbital’s “One Perfect Sunrise” just came on and I remember that being happy is a choice you can make in an instant. I’ve had a lousy week, altogether, but sinking into this song washes it all away.

@ETCviperidae @selentelechia I think pretty much everyone but the gov has realized making life less expensive for families with children would have a positive effect on birth rates

@druideight @selentelechia

this will not work

@ETCviperidae @selentelechia it just may be

@druideight @selentelechia Is tax fraud the cure to the declining birthrate?

now you MUST blow above .1 to drive

Denmark reportedly prepared contingency plans to blow up Greenland airfields if a U.S. invasion occurred, deploying troops with explosives, blood supplies, and ammunition amid tensions over Trump’s threats to seize the island. The plan was never carried out. — NYT

local beaver makes detailed plans for dam construction

@LaysenLand @selentelechia An obscene amount of money.

@druideight @selentelechia Obviously you’re joking, but when I feel a little aimless as a SAHM or get insecure/worried that I’m not “contributing” enough, I remind myself how much it would cost to outsource the work I do.

@zach26655 @selentelechia It’s all fun and games until she outsources your sex life.

@druideight @selentelechia The HR violations will be pretty wild

yudkowski has the chance to do the funniest thing

@Thortys_Shorty @FlaPanthers Seriously 😂

@druideight @FlaPanthers The fan policing on this post lol let people have fun, so what if they hopped on the wagon, cool to see fans all over. Especially kids lol

Found the cutest Cats fan in Canada 🫶

doomscrolling when you got dementia prolly fun as fuck

before this is over he’s going to be the thing you tell your children is going to eat them if they don’t go to bed

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@kjc_2599 They’re hockey fans in Vancouver. You don’t think they know who a major Calgary Flames player is? A lot of adults flake, a lot of those kids will stick with it like I did.

@druideight You’re a rare exemption then. It happens every time a team wins a chip, people who knew nothing about the team beforehand buy their merch for clout then move on when the next team comes along. Guaranteed most of them have no idea who Huberdeau is.

@kjc_2599 That's exactly why a lot of people become fans. Like me. And I'm still here, thirty years later.

@druideight Yeah those are all bandwagoners. You don’t just magically become a fan of a team right after they start winning championships.