Day: February 26, 2025, 2:29 AM

Pants Chance

Chill Amusing, Sex

Woman Friend of mine: I like that you’re my friend and visit me even though there’s no chance we’d ever have sex.

Me: No chance?

Friend: Why, are you interested?

Me: No. Sex is a lot of work at the best of times and I’m tired. I just wanna chill, really.

Friend: Then why do you care if there’s a chance or not?

Me: I like optionality! I don’t want to rule anything out.

Woman: Ok. There’s a trillionth of a trillionth percent chance.

Me: Ok, much better!

(This wasn’t confrontational. We’ve known each other quite a while and we were both joking around in a much longer conversation about how men and women relate and misunderstand one another.)

Chill Links

This Executive Order Reveals the Trump-Musk Endgame.

It’s the Health Care, Stupid. Forget DOGE. Republicans are playing with political fire as they move to gut Medicaid.

Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation. The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

Taiwan Watches Trump Undercut Ukraine, Hoping It Won’t Be Next. Oh it will be.

My truck plunged into a ravine – and for six days I was trapped, alone and afraid.

Taiwan Detains Ship and Chinese Crew After Undersea Cable Severed.

America — and to be clear, that also means our economy and markets — are now headed into the ravine that is the great unwinding of “America” into “American Oligarchy.”

Why Gen Xers and Millennials Are Giving More Money to Their Kids Than Baby Boomers. Boomers really are in general terrible.

The Shrouded, Sinister History Of The Bulldozer. From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology without safeguards can be misused.

The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption.