The more I think about this… when dog(e) cut the funding it was no longer about NWSW in Central America, it was about tracking it in the Southern US. Just pure evil.

Which is the definition of stupidity. Esp considering it's likely already in the US.

DOGE cut the program monitoring screwworm. I think that was the OP’s point. “And when the Trump administration killed 5,300 grants and programs from the U.S. Agency of International Development, it terminated a screwworm monitoring project.”

defector.com/make-america...

To be fair -- New World Screwworm was detected in Mexico back in 2022, so M*sk didn't cause this, but his (and probably RFKjrs) actions are not helping at all: www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2025/10/arti...

I was intrigued by Aura frames when listening to Judge John Hodgman but wasn’t totally sure it was all they said it was. You just totally sold me on it. Aura frame ordered for my MIL.

The only children having this type of surgery were born with neither. A surgeon would not even consider it otherwise because repeat surgeries will be required as the child grows. Willful stupidity here.

After listening to it the 3rd time I started asking why she wasn’t asking them to delete the recording.

How is their peppermint bark now $100 a tin? That's insane. It used to be $30.

In my old apartment I had an EU washer and dryer which plugged into an adapter plugged into the dryer socket (sold by the manufacturer for installation in NA homes). I wish I'd thought of getting an EU kettle to go with that -- especially once I replaced the washer with a NA plug washer.

XXX-mas!

I'm sorry. How do you spend 18mil on a CHATBOT?!?

It’s totally a thing in Toronto. Not a thing in New York.

I don’t like Oasis. I like Stranger Things. I don’t think people who like Oasis are misguided. Ergo…

The fact that the memo states that these free speech suppressors often work for financial institutions and that they have included "compliance" (like, compliance officers?) in their list of objectionable occupations, I'm wondering if the real purpose is to undermine AML work.

These guys feel threatened by Bandit (from Bluey) who unquestionably protects, provides and procreates without being an *sshole - simply because he plays with his daughters while his wife works.

That would actually be pretty awesome. A Harryhausen style stop motion featurette made with old T2 action figures.

But I'm sure those applicants just scored poorly because the application pool was flooded with DEI applicants that were just trying way too hard and skewing the averages. /s