The estimate I've seen is that cards won't be coming until 2026, otherwise yeah, this would be an easy choice.

(East) Berlin would dispute the example for Deutschland. Ampelmann is an icon.

My spouse came home from a week at the hospital to a stupid button I hooked up that messaged me "Emergency! {name} needs you!"

It was perfect.

My partner has one - and still loves it while on the fourth of a few models (over seven years). I can barely use it -- my fingers are too large. The camera isn't great and the white balance is just incorrect.

The battery life is understandably atrocious. But -- it is TINY.

This is a good summary of my experience of both Speed Racer and Jupiter Ascending (although the latter has Eddie Redmayne chewing scenery like it was going out of style).

Base jumping. Funding is difficult, so the local water utility has started charging admission. €10 for access to the lines, and €20 to clip on.

Not that bright, but REALLY cute.

LORD Bowler.

The bill has a poison pill -- it allows Trump to shift funding. So yes, judges on vacation bad, but the bill effectively authorizes the behavior of the meme department.

I had thought this was a photoshop. WTH.

I read this recently and was surprised how much I loved it.

I thankfully walked out of the room, but overheard part of a press conference where Trump was ladeling the blame on the FAA's DEI policies; how the FAA was hiring disabled people and that lead to this crash.

I need to find an alternate radio station for my dog to listen to. No one should have to hear that bullshit.

Cannon can because there are two non-dismissed cases that are referenced in the report.

The federal government is still pursuing those cases... Which is interesting, because if Trump did nothing wrong, there's no case to pursue.

So, of course Cannon has blocked the release. At this point, Republicans win if they stall enough.

My spouse and I opted not to tell our kid last year, with me not wanting to be the one to spoil it and her wanting to keep the magic "just one more year."

This year was already too late. The kid got into an argument at school about whether or not Santa was real.

My spouse and I planned it all out, planned on going out to get a hot cocoa, etc., etc. Instead my kid sat ME down and said they wanted to ask me something. So I got stuck telling answering that Santa wasn't real, but spun it that it was about learning to give without getting, and ended up pulling out Death's SPEECH from Hogsfather about believing in big lies.

The kid mostly cared that they'd still get presents, so it was a bust.

I still think about the episode where John walked into his stock trader and randomly bought rights to some kind of seafood (shrimp, I think), explains why, then sells it -- at a huge profit. It was this little moment that explained why John could just "do stuff" and didn't need a job.

Also, it made my hate working forever, but I don't know enough to not have to. Yet.

... Bourbon??

My universe has just expanded.

I gave my at-the-time eight-year-old my older Ticwatch. They had no interest in the step tracking or even what time it was -- they used sleep tracking as an excuse to wear the watch to bed and play games on it.

If the Syncup has some sort of parental controls, or if your child has some sort of impulse control, you might not suffer the same fate. BUT the question I'd ask is why a watch, smart or otherwise. Will the kid actually set and listen to alarms, do you want to be able to send them messages, have they benefitted from knowing what time it is? (parenting hard, I am not a professional, do what works for you and yours)

Hate the idea of the former in a private setting, would like in a business setting. Absolutely adore the idea of directions (drove a car with a "heads up" display but it only integrated with the dreadful in-car navigation system and yet it was still awesome)... But player stats dangling over people's heads? That maybe my kid without AR glasses wouldn't be able to see and I could be the cool parent again? Awesome.

Ed Shearing

Nepotism. There's some story I heard about how he coach surfed in California until he got a contract, and I figured he must have SOME talent, then found out he was staying on Jamie Foxx's couch, so clearly some he knew someone...

Except unfortunately my 30 second Wikipedia fact check shows he didn't. He met Foxx because he was invited to be a guess on Foxx's show and must have made a good impression. He did make seemingly the hardway; he started out as a working musician working with other musicians and worked his way up. Didn't hurt that he got a positive review from Elton John early on, but the guy apparently has something.

Damn. I thought I figured it out...

This is what I get for not defining my acronyms.