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Next stop, US Supreme Court, but still......
 
https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-14th-amendment-2024-colorado-d16dd8f354eeaf450558378c65fd79a2
 
It's a start!

Moms for Liberty founder Rachel Ziegler gets absolutely roasted by a former Florida student now at Harvard... and not for what you might think she'd be roasted for.
 
 

Grindavik eruption has erupted:
 
 
edit: There were so many cameras on this volcano that they managed to catch the actual first moment of the eruption:
 
 

Thanks, OM.
 
 
Yep.  Sad.
 
On the plus side, I am now happily aware that the "other word" doesn't even come to mind. 
 
I am never terribly delighted with me, but today, I am very proud. 
 
 

Dredd: Karl Urban as Judge Dredd. It's a violent movie that is much truer to the source material than the Sylvester Stallone version. It's just a shame that it didn't get a sequel. (4K UHD)
 
The Dark Knight: Second movie in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, and one of the best. (4K UHD)
 
Escape from New York: Air Force One is hijacked and crashes on the island of Manhattan, which is now a federal prison. Snake Plissken is tasked with finding the President, and returning him and a tape before time runs out. This one's released by Shout! Factory, and includes a very clean transfer of the movie to 4K, as well as an Atmos soundtrack. There's also a Blu-ray of extra features included. (4K UHD)
 
I've also watched the Dr Who Special 1: The Star Beast, which reunites the David Tennant Doctor with Donna. I liked it, and will be watching Specials 2 and 3 very soon. (Disney+)
 
 

Dredd: Karl Urban as Judge Dredd. It's a violent movie that is much truer to the source material than the Sylvester Stallone version. It's just a shame that it didn't get a sequel. (4K UHD)
 
The Dark Knight: Second movie in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, and one of the best. (4K UHD)
 
Escape from New York: Air Force One is hijacked and crashes on the island of Manhattan, which is now a federal prison. Snake Plissken is tasked with finding the President, and returning him and a tape before time runs out. This one's released by Shout! Factory, and includes a very clean transfer of the movie to 4K, as well as an Atmos soundtrack. There's also a Blu-ray of extra features included. (4K UHD)
 
I've also watched the Dr Who Special 1: The Star Beast, which reunites the David Tennant Doctor with Donna. I liked it, and will be watching Specials 2 and 3 very soon. (Disney+)
 
 

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: This one's a lot of fun. I particularly enjoy the comic book callouts and footnotes. Looking forward to the next installment. (4K UHD)
 
I'm a few episodes into the current seasons of For All Mankind (Apple TV+) and Julia (Max), and enjoying both. For All Mankind is exploring the colonization of Mars in an alternate timeline where the Soviets were the ones to first set foot on the moon. Julia is a somewhat-fictionalized account of the events surrounding Julia Child's first television show.
 
I'm two episodes in to the first season of Babylon 5, from the Blu-ray release this week. The transfer is very good, and I believe that the source was from the recent HD version on streaming. Unlike my original DVD sets, this hasn't been formatted in widescreen, which keeps the image quality fairly good on any CGI/composited shots. 
 
I bought myself a bit of a birthday present a few days ago, and upgraded my Samsung 4K to a Sony Bravia XR OLED. The picture quality is excellent, and it works well with both games and the videos/movies that I've played so far. The sound also seems better, which is odd, as I'm using a separate surround receiver for output. I'm planning on rewatching a bunch of my favorite movies again, to see how they look.

I have found (in battling my own depression induced by my wife's illness) that occasional participation in the Zoom meetings of a weekly support group explicitly for caregivers of cancer patients (facilitated by someone with the hospital where she's being treated) helps me substantially.  That doesn't seem to be your particular issue, of course, but thinking about why it helps me, I think the keys are (1) that the group is very tightly focused in terms of its purpose and its target population, and (2) the facilitator is really very good.  (It also is free of monetary cost; it's just that the rigid weekly meeting time tends to collide with other things I do.)  It brings forward a mutual aid mentality, because nearly everyone has something of value to contribute, and everyone recognizes the daunting, terrifying situation common to the participants.  It "meets" weekly, people are welcome to connect in as they feel the need or desire, so I get there every three weeks or so.
 
I was dubious when I first was able to participate (which wasn't until July; it conflicted with my teaching schedule before I retired), and they were perfectly willing to let me listen and nod and not talk very much initially.
 
If you can identify the problems that have you down (and that may not be easy) and find a similarly focused and facilitated group, it can help relieve the lowest lows and give you a gentle, period nudge out of the funk.  I don't know how one would try to find such a group (mine is so specific, and explicitly and directly connected to the clinic, that the information was more or less pushed onto me from day one), but if you've talked with practitioners before they may be able to point you to something.

Back when major news sites still had comment sections, any article about atheism almost always had at least one person asking "If you don't believe in God, what's stopping you from robbing, raping, and killing all the time?"
Just because you're apparently a potential serial killer only kept in check by your fear of divine punishment, that doesn't mean everyone else also lacks the ability to form an internal moral code, even though believing that might make you feel better about yourself.

Are you using genuine Lego antimatter in it?

I mean... technically that would be a kind of ceramic, right?  And we're already lining the spaceship with ceramic tiles...

Really random (and unusual) astronomical (i.e., irrelevant for just about everyone) event coming up in a few days:
 
Asteroid Leona will occult Betelgeuse the night of 11/12 December for a very brief time (up to 12 seconds) on a very narrow track from extreme south Florida, across the Atlantic, southern Spain, Sardinia, Italy, Greece, northern Turkey, and then into central Asia.  You don't have to be a pro to see it, but I suspect it is very likely to be subtle enough and brief enough that naked-eye observers, especially inexperienced ones, could see it and not notice anything.  You might hear about it after it happens, though, and there's some stray mentions in the popular media of the coming event.
 
For a very brief interval, Betelgeuse will appear to get dimmer as the asteroid passes in front of it.  It will NOT "go out", because the angular size of the asteroid is smaller than that of the star!  This is an event best recorded with a high speed movie camera + telescope; you prefer the telescope not because it's faint but because the event is brief, and the telescope makes for a small field of view so you have less confusing stuff in your view.  Also, if you aren't spang on the center of the real track (which, truth be told, we don't know precisely where that will be, not least because Betelgeuse as seen from Earth is NOT a simple circular disk!), the degree of dimming may be too small to perceive with the unaided eye.
 
That first link above is the most recent information about where the track is likely to be, but it's really terse and doesn't give much background information.  A more complete set of info is at https://iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2023_4.pdf ... the most likely track for the occultation has been adjusted since that was published, but it is MUCH more informative about the phenomenon and what's to be expected for those who aren't a pro or semipro astronomer.

...I feel called out...

Congressman George Santos Charged With Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, False Statements, Falsification of Records, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Credit Card Fraud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X2ALG9iGPg

Well.  I'll just say this - I hadn't actually realized he was still alive, for whatever that says about anything.
 
I believe I remember some Monty Python lines involving his name.  Actually... song... oh yes.  I own a copy of The Final Ripoff, fond memories of listening to that CD.
 
Lyrics   Henry Kissinger
How I'm missing yer
You're the Doctor of my dreams
With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare And your machiavellian schemes
I know they say that you are very vain
And short and fat and pushy but at least you're not insane
Henry Kissinger How I'm missing yer
And wishing you were here Henry Kissinger
How I'm missing yer
You're so chubby and so neat
With your funny clothes and your squishy nose You're like a German parakeet
All right so people say that you don't care