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Seems appropriate to post this video: Personal story: Among the reasons my own family is heavily pro-vaccine was the fact that growing up I had a daily reminder of what it was like to live in a world before then. My father walked with a permanent hobbled step as one leg was left shorter than the other as a result of polio. And having got Chicken Pox in 1994 I was probably among the last kids in North America to have gotten the disease since the vaccine only came out a few months later. It put things in perspective when I realised that future generations would be bewildered by this story arc from Calvin and Hobbes:

Plus ça change...

To borrow a phrase from Tolkien: Good need not defeat stupidity, it need only to resist stupidity. And stupidity will inevitably destroy itself. Also, an observation: Given that much of Musk's current net worth comes as a result of significant government largesse, be it from DoD contracts for SpaceX and subsidies for Tesla and that he's apparently pushing for a surrender in a war the US isn't even fighting in does that make him a Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey?

Can't help but think about how this is in sharp relief to one of my favourite Presidential addresses to one of the service academies: Postscript. For those who look upon the Kennedy administration as one of isolation and dovishness I find it hard to reconcile with these remarks earlier in the speech:

<<Where Winds Meet>>, of which there was a closed beta last weekend. It's in open beta in China, though signing up for it requires a Chinese phone number and best played with knowledge of Mandarin (I come from a canto family ).

Until worthwhile mods start coming out (I give it at least a year) I'm sticking with the Jianghu over Cyrodil:

After 10th Edition 40K kind of falling flat for me I've been having some of the most fun playing tabletop wargames with <<The Old World>> of late. Though it might help that I finally have the confidence to field a big centerpiece model like the Forest Dragon now that the elf with garbage Toughness riding it can't just be cut off or blasted by a cannonball just like that: And my army on parade:

Since Trump and his ilk claim to have such admiration for those Nordics maybe he should ask Norwegian men about the <<Plakaten på veggen>> and what they think should be done when they have "no cards to play" (relevant section is "8. Grunnsetninger for forsvarskampen"):

I guess it was a sign from up high that I decided to re-watch <<Kite>> last month:

I guess that about seals this election.

At the minimum we can say these Olympics gave us this moment:

As more info on the shooter comes out I'm again reminded of this exchange in the Broadway musical <<Assassins>> when the ghosts of American political assassins past and future convince Oswald to assassinate Kennedy: