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For the last few years, every time I've looked at the DeviantArt homepage, it's run rampant with inflation porn. Every goddamn time. I've tried hiding a few dozen of them, but there's either no personalized algorithm, or it absolutely sucks. I've now basically written the site off as an inflation fetish site.

For those who haven't read it:

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

Not necessarily. If enough of them die drinking raw milk...

Maybe necrobestiality? He seems to have a history of doing weird things with animal corpses.

I hope it's only two years. 2026 Senate election looks to have 22 Republican seats up for grabs, and only 13 Democrat seats. Rooting for the pendulum to swing hard. Really hard. I want to see a non-Republican supermajority in both chambers overturn every goddamn thing that will have happened in the next two years and codify every progressive dream policy with indelible ink and a veto-proof majority. I doubt that will happen, but let me dream.

Airbus A321 this time, not a Boeing for once.

Cradling Trump's balls while he's golfing in Miami.

See my comment above.

I used to adjust my mirrors to see a sliver of my car, but it's still not ideal. See my comment above.

ITT: a whole bunch of people more worried about scratching or bumping their car in a parking lot than possibly killing themselves or others on a highway with an unsafe lane change.

Adjust your mirrors so cars approaching from behind in the lane to either side start entering your side mirrors as they start leaving your rearview mirror. There should be a point where you can see one half of a car in the side mirror and the other half in the center mirror at the same time. You should not be able to see your own car. You might not be able to dial this in while parked and might have to adjust on the road, but it's absolutely worth it.

If you need to see the lines while parking and your mirrors don't auto-move in reverse, explore methods that don't rely on mirrors. I used to park on a long, squiggly driveway. I'd crack the driver door open to see where the edge was while I was reversing, and I could follow it precisely at speed. If your car allows you to crack the door open without shifting into park, give that a shot (you're wearing your seatbelt, right? Don't fall out and run yourself over.). Otherwise you could try rolling down a window and peeking out that way.

The leaders also discussed concerns over US interest in Greenland, where Denmark recently announced a $2 billion military investment to counter potential territorial ambitions.

This has arisen in me a suspicion that Trump's mandate that the US takes Greenland is a ploy to divert some NATO member funds away from Ukraine, and not actual territorial ambition.

Regardless, Greenland is considered NATO via Denmark, and there has been at least some signaling that Congress would resist Trump pulling US out of NATO. It would be disastrously moronic to piss off NATO, and unfortunately "disastrously moronic" doesn't seem to be a deterrent for Trump. I don't know where this is going, but I don't like it either way.

My work Teams is only really active for my department's channels. My department is about 10 or so people, so I don't suffer from the same problems others have mentioned with notifications for reactions and whatnot. My two gripes are:

• I'll send a writeup from my Google Pixel phone while on-site doing field work and include inline photos. I'll proofread my message and everything is good. After I click send, my phone shows my post truncated in the group chat. I cannot see the full message, and it looks like I deleted half my written message. From the desktop or my coworker's Samsung phone, everything shows up fine.

• I'll often find Teams silently closed on my workstation. I might minimize it occasionally, but I don't believe I ever close it, and Windows reliability history doesn't show any crashes.