Following on from last week’s award-winning blog post on Elon Musk and Tesla, I thought I would include an epilogue of some sort. And when I mean award-winning, I mean…wait, do I need to explain that joke?
Anyway, Musk is a busy man. He’s mismanaging DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), selling Teslas at the White House, launching and blowing up rockets with SpaceX, selling and buying his companies to himself, and doing interviews with Fox News.
To everyone’s surprise, Musk still manages to find time to share his innermost thoughts and ideas with his 218.8 million followers on Twitter.1 Because of this, I talked to my Chief Consultant for Bad Ideas and decided to examine what Musk has been posting and reposting on his account lately.
Three things to remember before we start this stupid idea: 1.) I’m only going back a week at the most, because, well, that’s all I can tolerate. 2.) I’m focusing on the different posts and reposts that Musk has done on his Twitter account. I’m not including anything other people have said about him, that is not on his account. 3.) Since this is my account, I get to decide what happens. Because of this, I will be selectively choosing posts and reposts, which make Musk stand out for various negative reasons.
Awesome, so let’s read what nonsense the richest person on the planet has to say on nearly everything.
Credit: Sky News
Make of these posts as you will. That’s a lot to take in, as it was only over a few days, and that’s not counting all of the other stuff on his account. Musk is on social media more than George Takei, and that’s saying something!
Love him or hate him, Elon Musk is not going anywhere, least of all on Twitter, which Musk recently sold to xAI, an artificial intelligence start-up company, for US$33 billion. Just to clarify, Musk owns xAI, so he purchased and sold a company to himself. I have enough problems remembering to remind myself about things to buy at the supermarket.
Anyway, like I said last week, Musk is a complicated person, and his posts and reposts are a small window into the mind of a man who is one bad day away from becoming a real Bond villain.
That’s another blog post for another week. Thanks once again for reading, following, and subscribing to Some Geek Told Me.
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1 I know Twitter has been rebranded as X, but it’s still Twitter to me; just like the Gulf of Mexico.Sorry, I’m a jerk.
Saying Elon Musk is a complicated person is like saying, “Star Wars is just a movie.” There’s more to him than being the richest person in the world, which is starting to have some truly horrible consequences. He’s making the news for good and bad reasons, but we are so deep into the rabbit hole that, at this stage, I don’t think there’s much difference.
I’ll be honest here, I’ve tried to be balanced with this topic, but it’s awkward.
I admire Musk’s work with SpaceX and The Boring Company because they are creative and inventive companies that are pushing human development and advancement. It may not be popular, but I don’t care that he’s the wealthiest person in the world, because if its not him, its going to be Jeff Bezos or some other loser that has not become Batman.
I’m not particularly fond of billionaires in general, but I think Musk is impressive for his contributions to scientific development. However, I believe that billionaires should be taxed at a higher rate, regardless of where they reside.
However, my admiration of Musk can only go so far. His shenanigans with DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), his anti-woke crusade, the buyout of Twitter (X) to ensure/suppress freedom of speech, and his not-so-subtle sympathising with Nazis, have slowly turned him into a financial and social pariah.
This amazing transition brings us to Tesla. Although Musk did not start Tesla, Inc., he is now Tesla’s face to the world. When you think of Tesla, you think of Musk, like Jeff Bezos and Amazon, Bill Gates and Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Apple, and Ronald McDonald and some random burger chain.
To help combat climate change, I believe Tesla is a crucial player in this effort. As one of the world’s leading electric car manufacturers, it employs over 125,000 people. While it is a business focused on making a profit, it also provides a valuable resource to the world: electric cars.
I’m naive about many things in this beautiful world, but I understand how capitalism and businesses work, because I purchase products from major corporations, including food, books, shoes and clothes; they are a necessary burden. But they provide a service or product, that we, the consumers, want.
Tesla is no different in that regard, so I have no major ill will towards them. They have a great concept and I wish them all the luck in the world with their electric cars. If I had the money, I would own an electric car of some type.
But Tesla is in trouble, because of Musk’s actions and speeches. The backlash towards Musk is justified because his personal life is clashing with his professional and business life. It’s been a snowball of conservative actions, topped off with his ascension to DOGE, and he is, for all of the optics, a Nazi sympathiser.
Tesla dealerships are getting graffitied and attacked, while the cars are being fire-bombed, destroyed, vandalised, scratched, and defaced, whether they are on a lot, in car parks, or at people’s homes. This has meant that Tesla stock has taken a hit, not just across North America, but around the world. It’s a global boycott.
About four years ago, a former colleague of mine and her husband bought a second-hand Tesla with the help of a bank loan. She often spoke about how owning a Tesla was a dream for her because she believed strongly in the electric car industry and its potential to combat climate change.
Last week, my wife was talking to another mother at school, who revealed that she had purchased a second-hand Tesla 10 months ago, for the same reasons my ex-work colleague had. However, she also explained in the last few weeks, members of the public have been yelling and cursing at her, with one man calling her a Nazi.
She reinforced to my wife that had she got the car, “…before Elon become a dickhead. We didn’t know he liked Nazis. We haven’t done anything wrong.”
I am both impressed and proud of the resistance against the actions of the richest person on Earth. It’s truly remarkable what people can stand up to—if you can’t confront an ultra-wealthy Nazi sympathiser, then who can you stand up to?
On the other hand, Tesla was not Musk’s creation, but he is their poster boy. What happens if Tesla’s stock keeps falling? Job losses, that’s what. How many of the 125,000 workers will lose their jobs, because of Tesla’s financial issues? 10%? 25%? 75%?
Would the total collapse of one of the world’s largest electric car manufacturers be a positive thing? The oil and gas industry would say yes, but climate activists and other electric car manufacturers would say no.
To the best of my understanding, Musk owns 12.8% of Tesla stock, which is worth about US$97.8 billion. His net worth is estimated to be around US$327.3 billion, so his Tesla stock works out to about 30% of his wealth.
If Tesla collapsed and Musk lost all of the money in Tesla stock, he would still have at least US$220 billion.
If Tesla collapsed, what would the 125,000 workers have? Could the electric car industry recover from that disaster? I don’t want to find out.
So, as a global village, we have a dilemma. Do we continue the destruction of Tesla vehicles and the company, until it is completely destroyed, because of its connection to Musk? Should we then destroy and cancel Twitter (X), SpaceX, the Boring Company, Neuralink, as well as OpenAI?
Or do we ignore Tesla, and allow Musk to continue his harmful rhetoric and policies, without any more pushback or punishment?
Or maybe, there’s a compromise. What if society could stop cancelling Tesla, but Musk could still be held accountable?
Hear me out. Because of the huge number of stocks he holds, Musk is the CEO of Tesla. But imagine if Tesla drew a line in the sand and wanted to put distance from itself and Musk, by forcing Musk out of the company; either by buying him out, or firing him as CEO.
This way, Musk faces consequences, but Tesla could survive and continue its mission to combat climate change, alongside other electric car manufacturers. I know it sounds like a foolish idea, but just imagine if that were possible.
I genuinely appreciate the protests, but destroying Tesla won’t eliminate Musk; it would instead devastate hundreds of thousands of lives through job losses. And who benefits from that? The oil and gas industry, that’s who.
If there is an end game with the protests, it has to be to put pressure on Tesla to act, and force Musk out, or fire him. That is the best scenario I can think of, and that result would make me happy. But hey, what do I know? Also, on a shameful note, I really do like the term, swasticar. It’s really clever.
Anyway, how do you propose we solve the Musk-Tesla problem? Does it need to be solved? As always, please let me know.
That’s another blog for another week. Thanks once again for reading, following, and subscribing to Some Geek Told Me. If I didn’t have this weird writing project, I don’t know where I would be, so again, thank you.
Please don’t forget to walk your dog, read a banned book, continue to pressure Israel and Russia for ceasefires, and I’ll see you next week.
I’ve mentioned this before, but sometimes I struggle to find humour in discussing certain topics. Not that I’m an expert in comedy—far from it—but today’s blog post is one of those times when I can find very little humour.
To make sure we all understand what I’m talking about, let’s very quickly establish the facts. On 15th March 2019, a lone gunman, armed with a collection of firearms, including semi-automatic rifles, shot and killed 51 people and injured 89, at the Al Noor Mosque, and Linwood Islamic Centre, in Christchurch, New Zealand. This event became known as the Christchurch mosque shootings or the Christchurch mosque attacks.
I’m not going to rehash the events of 15th March 2019, minute by minute. Professional journalists and reporters have done that already, so I can’t add anything new to the conversation.
The purpose of this blog post is to express my feelings and emotions about the sixth anniversary of the deadliest shootings in modern New Zealand history.
I have a strong connection to Christchurch, even though I no longer live there. I attended university in the city, played football, and met my wife there. It’s where we got married, and additionally, my first child, UMC1, was born in Christchurch. I was even present during the ML6.3 earthquake that struck on 22nd February 2011, which tragically resulted in the loss of 185 lives.
We moved away from Christchurch in early 2016, but it’s still important to us.
Christchurch features a large public open space in the city centre known as Hagley Park, which was one of my favourite places to run. I would always run in an anti-clockwise direction around the park, with Al Noor Mosque on my right-hand side, directly across from the park. The mosque is a famous and significant site for both the city and the Muslim community.
As for the Linwood Islamic Centre, it was only opened in 2018, but I lived only three blocks from the future site, so I know the area quite well. I wasn’t in Christchurch when the shootings happened, but six years later, I am still a mixed bag of emotions surrounding it.
Before I continue, I want to clarify that I did not know anyone who was shot or injured, so families of the victims and survivors will have a much more personal experience than I do. I don’t want to disrespect anyone’s experience, I simply want to express my emotions and feelings because I believe our country and the world are forgetting the lessons that day taught us.
Credit: Combating Terrorism Center
Let’s start with easy emotions, like shame and sadness. Six years later, I’m still ashamed and saddened those murders happened in Christchurch, let alone in New Zealand. The city and country are forever linked to that day and will have to carry an albatross around their necks, until the end of time. Granted, the albatross will gradually decrease in mass and weight, but it will always be there.
There’s also the sadness and shame in educating and explaining to our tamariki (children) about that day, because it relates to them, directly and indirectly.
This brings us to the shame and sadness towards the Muslim community of Christchurch, New Zealand, and the world. Some of the people attending the two mosques were born in New Zealand, while others were born overseas, with some being refugees.
I still feel sad and ashamed for the families having to travel; especially from other countries to mourn their loved ones, because they should have been safe here in New Zealand. They should’ve been, and it was disgusting and unforgivable.
Besides the location, a place of worship like a mosque, church, synagogue, or temple, should be a place of safety and protection for people. It still upsets me that this evil act of hatred was committed, not just against Muslims, or Christchurch or New Zealand, but it happened at all.
My experiences of feeling shame and sadness towards the attacks are also deeply connected to my anger and rage.
I’m still angry someone was able to amass a collection of firearms of that magnitude with ease.
I’m angry that he was able to livestream the first shootings on Facebook.
I’m angry that a white migrant shot and killed other migrants because they were from a different ethnic background to him.
I’m angry that the gunman believed in the conspiracy theory of the Great White Replacement. Long-time followers and readers of this account will understand my views towards conspiracy theorists and the garbage they peddle.
I’m angry that it happened in New Zealand, and of course, Christchurch.
I’m angry not only for the Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, and around the world, but also for the Muslims where I live.
I’m angry that this evil act empowered supporters of conspiracy theories, the alt-right, and anti-Islam groups in New Zealand to speak up.
I’m angry for the victims and their families because this should not have happened.
And I’m angry as a white, straight non-Muslim New Zealand male. This country has been slowly working towards diversity and inclusion for over 170 years, so the whole thing is a nightmare.
Having said that, you can’t have light without the dark, and just like the Christchurch earthquakes, you can’t have dark without the light. The 15th of March 2019 was one of the worst days in living memory for my country, but it allowed hope and pride to take centre stage.
The way the city, country and government, rallied around the victims and their families, was and still is excellent.
The flowers, hakas, and tributes were wonderful.
The denouncing of hatred towards people of our community and country was powerful.
The work towards pressuring social media companies to regulate more of their content, especially around hate speech and livestreaming, was impressive.
Closing the gun law loopholes and making semi-automatic firearms illegal was swift and direct.
There were stories of bravery, love, compassion, and humanity that were uplifting.
The backlash over the upcoming film, detailing the shootings was glorious by the New Zealand public.
Ultimately, what gave me hope and made me proud as a New Zealander, was the amazing response to the shootings. The world looked at New Zealand at one of our lowest and darkest days, so we did what New Zealanders only know how to: we embraced the victims and families because they were us; and told hate groups to fuck off, because this event would not stop us from doing the right thing, as in being a nation of diversity and inclusion.
There are many other emotions I could talk about, but the main one that remains is frustration, which concerns what’s currently happening in New Zealand and around the world.
In New Zealand, our new government have said they are open to rolling back the assault weapons ban, “…because it punishes the good and responsible gun owners.”
Taking his cues from the President of the United States of America, our Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, wants to start an anti-woke crusade, to weed out DEI hires, because, according to him, diversity and inclusion are tools of the left.
Attacks and prejudice towards the LGBTQIA+ community are increasing the world over.
Because of Hamas’ actions, anti-Muslim attacks are rising, along with antisemitism, because of the actions of the Israeli government.
For all the optics, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, seems to be at the very least, a Nazi-sympathiser.
The Great White Replacement conspiracy theory is still being pushed by popular anchors, hosts, and influencers.
People are still making racist jokes online and in person; along with spewing hate speech on social media platforms, with little or no recourse.
Fascism is being dragged into the 21st century for a reboot.
I feel frustrated, because to me, a lot of the lessons of tolerance, compassion, diversity and inclusion, surrounding the shootings, are getting lost in the noise of prejudice, hatred, nationalism and extreme behaviour; even here in New Zealand.
We have been slowly falling back into the mindset of, “…if another group of people are different from me, or if I don’t understand them, that makes them wrong.”
It’s frustrating to witness the tremendous efforts that have been made to rebuild and move forward from the shootings, been slowly eroded due to everyday life. The rise of disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and hate groups, along with various governments claiming that diversity and inclusion weaken us, is both disheartening and morally wrong.
We already have enough violence in Ukraine, Palestine, Congo, South Sudan, and Myanmar; we don’t need to add to it. We need to get back to educating our family, friends, and the public, that diversity, inclusion, tolerance, and compassion are strengths, and they are the glue that binds us together, not separating us. And we do this through actions, not just words.
I think that’s enough for today. I need my precious beauty sleep because my wrinkles are becoming deeper and wider. Thanks once again for reading, following, and subscribing to Some Geek Told Me.
Just like last week, please don’t forget to walk your dog, read a banned book, continue to tell Nazis to fuck off, and I’ll see you next week.
In a world filled with people being scared of maps, rainbows, school lunches, questions, and all of the LGBTIQA+ community, it’s nice to know that through the madness, there is something that is still constant and reliable, which is the poor quality of these blog posts.
If you thought the worst tour in the Solar System was over, think again! It’s making a comeback, just like the rise of fascism in the 21st century. Yes, Some Geek Told Me’s Tour of the Solar System is back for its 20th entry.
For the previous entries, please do yourself a favour and check them out. Or not. It’s not like the formula for winning the lottery or the unified field theory is hidden inside them. Or are they?
We’ve spent a few months talking about Uranus and its moons; four to be precise, so now it’s time to turn our collective attention to its wayward sibling, Neptune.
As always, the disclaimer for the tour is that there are no refunds, and discounted tickets are not available. Sweet, let’s push on and meet Neptune, just don’t tell Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Brian Cox, or Jocelyn Bell Burnell, because they would point and laugh at me.
Side-by-side photos of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 in 1989, Hubble in 2021 and Webb in 2022. Photograph: AP
We have finally arrived at the final planet in the Solar System, that we know of. Sorry, Pluto. Neptune is the eighth planet from our local star, the Sun, and it is also the fourth largest planet in the Solar System. It’s the fourth Outer Planet or Gas Giant, and formed around the same as Uranus, about 4.5 billion years ago.
As we traverse this entry, you will see that Neptune and Uranus share a lot of similarities, with some people calling them twins; like Venus and Earth. Not identical twins of course, but still fraternal.
Like the other planets we have met, with Earth and Uranus being the exceptions, the name Neptune comes from Roman mythology. The planet is named after Neptune, the god of oceans, and brother to Jupiter and Pluto. If it helps, Neptune is the Greek equivalent of Poseidon.
Like its twin, Neptune was discovered through mathematical prediction, but also observations of Uranus. Its discovery was built on many different astronomers’ work, because even in 1612 and 1613, Galileo observed and recorded Neptune as a fixed star, while he surveyed space with his small telescope.
However, over the night of 23rd-24th September 1846, Neptune was officially discovered by three astronomers, Johann Galle, Urbain Le Verrier, and John Couch Adams. It only took about three months for the name of Neptune to stick with the press, and the rest, just like the Concorde, is history.
Since Neptune is a gas giant, you would expect it to be larger than the home planet of Salt and Vinegar chips, and you would be correct. Neptune has a diameter of about 49,528 km, which means you could fit 57 Earths inside it. Hopefully, there would still be some Earths left in the multiverse after that rearrangement.
Speaking of Earth, we share something in common with our older, bigger sibling. Not only do we like the colour blue, but we both have an elliptical orbit. Actually, to be fair, all eight planets have one. At its perihelion, which is its closest point to the Sun, the distance is 4.46 billion km, with its aphelion is 4.54 billion km, which works out to be an average orbital distance of 4.5 billion km, along with an average orbital speed of 5.43 km/s. That’s an impressive speed, though it’s still slower than The Flash.
Because of Neptune’s massive distance from the Sun, it roughly takes 4 hours and 12 minutes for sunlight to reach the planet. That is the same length of time as Blade Runner and Uncut Gems combined, as a reference.
Neptune’s rotation is on a whole new level of awesome. The length of time that it takes Neptune to complete one rotation on its axis, which equals one day, is about 16 hours, measured by Earth’s standards. However, one year on Neptune, which is the time it takes to complete one single orbit of the Sun; just one orbit, takes about 165 Earth years.
For context, and roughly speaking, the last time Neptune was in its present location in time and space, when this charming blog post was published, the year was 1860. The First Taranaki War in New Zealand, between the British Crown and Māori had started; the chemist, Stanislao Cannizzaro presented his table of atomic weights at the Karlsruhe Congress; and the slave population in the United States was close to 4 million, with the Civil War starting the following year.
Here is a fun fact for people looking for an icebreaker at a singles event. Every 248 Earth years, Pluto has such a batshit crazy orbit, that it brings it inside Neptune’s orbit. This lasts for about 20 years, and the last time it happened was between 1979-1999. That meant from 1979 to 1999, Neptune, not Pluto, was the furthest planet in our Solar System.
Earth’s axial tilt is 23.4°, which is how and why we have the changing of seasons. Neptune has a similar tilt at 28.32°. This means Neptune has seasonal changes like Earth, but instead of seasons lasting three months like us, Neptune’s seasons last over 40 years, because of its 165-year orbit. And you thought your commute to work was long.
As you can imagine, because of its long distance from the Sun, it’s not really the place Wham! could party to Club Tropicana. Neptune’s temperature and atmosphere are like an episode of the Twilight Zone. The average temperature on Neptune is a balmy -200 °C, which is -110.8°C colder than the lowest temperature recorded on Earth, at −89.2 °C; which is still slightly colder than my feet, at any given time during winter.
Neptune’s atmosphere isn’t that much better. It has a mixture of hydrogen, helium, methane, hydrogen deuteride, ethane, ammonia, water ice, and ammonium hydrosulfide; you know, all the stuff that life as we know it hates. Remember that Neptune is a gas giant, and not for its obsession with baked beans.
Neptune’s blue colour comes from the methane in its atmosphere, and scientists have observed a huge, dark spot in its southern atmosphere, quite similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
The Great Dark Spot is a massive, oval-shaped storm or vortex roughly the size of Earth. However, advancements in technology have allowed scientists to observe that the Great Dark Spot has significantly decreased in size over the years.
If Sauron, the Dark Lord of Middle-Earth, was allowed an expansion pack, he would include Neptune in it. As I have said previously, there are only four planets in the Solar System with rings, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and of course, Neptune. It can’t compete with its siblings over its quantity of rings, but it has five more rings than Earth does.
Some things in this life are worth repeating, but I love scientists and their work. However, their ability to give things cool names, sometimes works out. Starting near Neptune and moving outward, the planet has five rings and four arcs, which include stellar names like Galle, Leverrier, Lassell, Arago, and Adams (rings), with Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, and Courage (arcs).
If you have been keeping up, you would have noticed that Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité, are the motto of the French Revolution and Republic, which means, liberty, equality, and fraternity. You have to love the French though, just not their rugby.
Neptune has moons as well, 16 to be completely accurate, although there could be more to be discovered. Triton is by far the largest moon, with all of them being named after characters in Greek mythology, in some way connected to Poseidon (Neptune).
I’ve shared quite a bit about Neptune already, but there’s one more topic I’d like to discuss: its winds. Neptune is the windiest planet in the Solar System, with winds that are three times stronger than those on Jupiter and nine times stronger than those on Earth.
They can reach speeds of over 2,000 km/h, which is supersonic, meaning the winds are travelling faster than the speed of sound, which is 1,235 km/h. Imagine clouds of frozen methane being whipped around the planet faster than the speed of sound. The fastest wind speed ever recorded on Earth was 408 km/h. These are mind-crushing numbers.
There’s more to talk about Neptune, but like I said, I’ve shared enough today. What is your favourite fact about Neptune? As always, please let me know.
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To introduce some levity to this crazy old world of ours, occasionally, my wife will remember that my blog exists, and when that happens, she’ll ask what my next blog post will be about. Usually, I can tell her about my latest stupid idea, but this time, I asked her if she had good ideas. She laughed at this and replied that she was a good idea.
Anyway, after she threw out a few suggestions, she talked about me making a list of comic book characters with the best porn actor or actress names. I gave her a two-pronged answer; yes, that was a good idea, and no, I don’t want to know how you came up with that idea.
It seems pretty straightforward: To create a list of comic book characters—both heroes and villains—whose names could easily be mistaken for those in a porn movie. If you weren’t familiar with these comic book characters and heard one of these names in a porn movie, you probably wouldn’t think twice about it.
There is a catch, though. To finalise the list, I had to consult my wife. If she reacted neutrally or negatively to a name, it didn’t make the cut. Conversely, if she had a positive reaction—such as smiling or laughing—the name was added to the list. This meant I had to throw a lot of names at her, often during the most inconvenient times of the day.
1.) I have not included group names, like The Enforcers, and The Hand, or alien races, because that would be another list for another day. 2.) Every single name on this list is real, I have not made up any of them. 3.) I hope the characters will forgive me for creating this list, though in my defence, I didn’t create the names.
That was a rare, short introduction from me today. Weird. I’ve grouped them by alphabetical order, with male and female names mixed, regardless of their origin. And with that, away we go!
Abra Kadabra
Beast Boy
Beast Girl
Big Barda
Black Mask
Blob
Boom-Boom
Bullseye
Candyman
Colossal Boy
Colossus
Condiment King
Conquest
Doc Seismic
Doctor Hurt
Doctor Octopus
Dream Girl
Duke of Deception
Elasti-Girl
Elongated Man
Enchantress
Eruptor
Fiddler
Finisher
Giganta
Grand Director
Growing Man
Heat Wave
Hush
Impulse
Invincible
Juggernaut
Lock-Up
Man of Miracles
Martian Manhunter
Masked Marauder
Mister Alpha
Mister Terrific
Night Nurse
Nightcrawler
Nightmask
Overdrive
Peek-a-Boo
Piledriver
Plastic Man
Polka Dot Man
Power Girl
Prankster
Prowler
Punisher
Puppet Master
Rainbow Raider
Rampage
Rhino
Ringmaster
Scream
Screwball
Shaggy Man
Shredder
Shrinking Violet
Smasher
Spawn
Speed Demon
Spore
Sugar Man
Supergirl
Superman
Sweet Boy
Taskmaster
Ten-Eyed Man
Toyman
Vandal Savage
Violator
White Rabbit
Wonder Man
Wonder Woman
What other names should be on this shameful and terrible list? As always, please let me know. And with that, this blog post is brought to a close.
Thanks once again for reading, following, and subscribing to Some Geek Told Me. I usually end my blog posts with my moronic little phrase of remembering to walk your dog and to read a banned book, but today, my ending is different, because some people in authority have forgotten something, and it’s simple to remember.
If Russia stops fighting, there will be no more war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine.
From the bottom of my geek-infused soul, Slava Ukraini.
Take care and I’ll see you next week, for the return of the Solar System’s worst tour.
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