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This is the most important advice for investing right now. Volatility is something you should be considering before investing, not afterwards. Let present holdings ride, and use this as a time to recheck your personal comfort level with investment risk going forward.

And just today alone he gained new future golfing buddies Russel Brand and Jean Claude Van Damme!

As far as I know, Belka and Strelka got to live nice lives afterwards as celebrated space pups. I’d think they’d have gotten far more radiation up in space than Pushinka would have gotten from a couple exams, so I’d think she was fine. The wiki page says at least up to 2015, her descendants were still around being good puppos.

We had a great time there.

I scrolled through my pics quick looking what other whacky stuff there was and the best I got is:

Satellite Drop / Ariel Recovery Film Container

Fake Nutsack Radio 😆

Since the story of The Great Seal has already been shared in the article and the comments here, I just recently read a book on the Soviet space dogs.

Strelka’s puppy, Pushinka, was given to Caroline Kennedy, but only after a thoughrough exam!

Pushinka (Russian: Пушинка, lit. ‘Fluffy’) was a dog given by the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2.

Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka’s puppies, and one was subsequently sent by Khrushchev to the White House. Pushinka was examined by the Central Intelligence Agency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center over fears that she might be concealing an implanted listening device. Pushinka was x-rayed, screened with a magnetometer, and inspected by sonogram. She was found to be free of subversive devices.

The White House electrician and kennel manager, Traphes Bryant, trained Pushinka with peanuts to climb up a ladder to Caroline Kennedy’s playhouse and slide down the other side.

Came to share this too, as it was one of my favorite things from the museum. Their website says it’s a replica though.

Much better than the scowling Apprentice promo looking portrait that is his official one.

Came here looking for this!

Wow, what a video!

You initially had me scared of starting a 3+ hour video, but from the first few seconds I was invested. This lady is funny!

I can’t do the full thing at once, as entertaining as she’s making it, everyone in it is a combo of Musk’s “I don’t reproduce for love of my partner or child, it’s just the world needs my DNA if it’s going to survive,” the charming dating strategy of Ron Densantis and his “Thigh-land” bit, and wanna be biologists explaining how genes work as accurately as Hideo Kojima writing another Metal Gear script. 🤯

I hope we get to a future where these people are either forgotten to time completely, or remembered alongside phrenologists and other nonsense peddlers.

My issue is the framing of those who disagree with the opposing in-group as sub-human or a disease. It sounds a lot like Agent Smith in the first Matrix wanting to get rid of the last of humanity so the tech can run rampant.

I have yet to hear an “anti-woke” argument that amounts to anything other than “I think I’m superior and I need society to reflect that.”

The argument of caring for others can lead you to getting screwed over happens. I’ve gone out of my way for people who have not returned the favor, lent people money they never repaid, or had people try to get one over on me for no reason. I’m sure we all have. But if the way to avoid that is to have every relationship be transactional, I’m not interested. To say society is literally in danger by people caring to much is such a sociopathic idea.

Up until recent events, I felt it was rare to see anyone of a progressive nature calling for things like extrajudicial violence, or any kind of differential treatment of those that disagreed with them. Most of us just want to see right wingers act like decent human beings. But the alt-right types have never once stopped calling for segregation, discrimination, and immediate violence or removal of people they disagree with. We’re an unrepairable threat to them.

Musk and Saad can dress up what they’re saying in better language than Trump and your common red hatter, but it’s the same message. It’s anti-intellectualism and hate dressed up in fancy clothes. Treating people equally and with respect is not something to look down on, even if you don’t come out ahead every time. “Winning” isn’t the goal, equality is. People that treat humanity as a zero sum game are the ones with the problem, not the rest of us.

Just linked this in the comment I left as well. Perfect timing on this comic!

The part you linked was very interesting. It started to make more sense in his context, but then I went to go look at what he was actually referring to.

I feel that made it just as bad as the original out of context bit though.

He was referring to a phrase coined by one of his buddies, suicidal empathy, which sounds like it equates helping people to when someone tries to rescue a drowning person and is then drown themselves. It doesn’t seem to narrow the focus very much, and is more of the same BS that being “woke” is ruining the world. Here’s his friend in his own words:

The following essay by Dr. Gad Saad, an outspoken public intellectual and trailblazer in applying evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior, appeared on the cover of the January 2025 edition of When Free to Choose.

This is my 31st year as a professor. Being an academic is inscribed in my DNA. To be able to create and disseminate new knowledge is the most noble of all pursuits. To properly do so, though, requires that truth and freedom be defended as inviolable deontological ideals. Otherwise, if one is constrained in what they can study or communicate, then academia ceases to be about truth.

In my 2020 book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, I argued that in the same way that organisms (including humans) could be parasitized by physical brain worms that detrimentally alter the hosts’ behaviors to serve the neuro-parasites’ interests, human beings could be infected by another class of devastating ideological neuro-parasites. I called these idea pathogens, and they include but are not limited to postmodernism, social constructivism, radical feminism, and cultural relativism, all of which stem from the academic ecosystem. It takes haughty professors, fully decoupled from reality within the walls of their ivory tower, to come up with some of the most imbecilic ideas imaginable. I then explain how these ideas came to be, and I offer a global mind vaccine to inoculate us against such departures from reason and common sense. In the 21st century, it should not be a debatable issue whether men can bear children or have menstrual cycles, but once a mind is infected with a mélange of these idea pathogens, all epistemological bets are off!

The Parasitic Mind addressed what happens to our cognitive system when it is hijacked by ideological rapture. My forthcoming book Suicidal Empathy further examines the descent to madness by highlighting the inability to implement optimal decisions when our emotional system is tricked into an orgiastic hyperactive form of empathy, deployed on the wrong targets. This is how the rights of a minuscule minority of trans women (i.e., biological males) trample the rights of actual women in athletic competitions. It is how illegal migrants end up receiving greater U.S. aid than American veterans or American victims of natural disasters. Evolution has endowed our emotional and cognitive systems with the capacity to deploy our resources strategically. This is why parents are willing to jump in front of a bus to save their biological children but are less likely to sacrifice their lives to save a random child across the globe. It does not make them callous but Darwinian beings capable of cost-benefit tradeoffs rooted in universal features of our human nature.

The victory of Donald Trump on November 5, 2024, is an unequivocal repudiation of the ideological parasites that have wreaked havoc on our societies. However, it is crucial that we refrain from becoming complacent. This is no time to rest on our laurels. It took many decades of assiduous indoctrination for these parasitic ideas to flourish in every nook and cranny of our institutions. For us to fully flourish within an ethos of freedom will require that each of us contribute to the battle of ideas. Everyone has a voice. Everyone has the potential to affect change. Trump’s victory showed us that the silent majority abhors all of the progressive woke nonsense. People wish to live dignified lives rooted in the principles that made America great, namely personal agency, individual dignity, and meritocracy. With that in mind, I cannot express the extent to which I feel fortunate to be serving as a Visiting Professor and Global Ambassador at Northwood University. If all universities exemplified the spirit of The Northwood Idea, academia would be in much better shape. Truth and freedom shall always prevail.

I feel this is a dangerous way of spreading hateful ideology. It frames it as a common sense argument, but it is based on falsehood. Where are the “victims of wokeness” and are the examples really victims, or people that just didn’t get away with what they wanted to get away with? It is the same anti-migrant, anti-trans BS in better wrapping.

Relevant comic shared today

OMG, something that made me laugh in c/politics right now? Bravo! 😂

Until now, all EPA grants have gone to environmental saving causes. Where the heck is the equal opportunity to environmental killing causes? Nature would kill us if it got the chance. It sends murder hornets, killer bees, and other modern super-animals like the flying squirrel and electric eels. Do you want to be caught unprepared???

Rosie came up yesterday with the Irish PM. MTG’s boyfriend, the guy that heckled Zelensky about not wearing a suit, asked why they let Rosie move there and Trump laughed and said good question. The PM had no clue what they were talking about and it got awkward.

A US reporter questioned the Taoiseach about Ms O’Donnell’s departure from America.

“Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland? I think she’s going to lower your happiness levels”, the reporter enquired.

Micheál Martin laughed nervously as President Trump told the reporter “Thank you, I like that question”.

2022 Republicans: We are domestic terrorists.

2025 Republicans: You are domestic terrorists.

I concur 😞

States were given the ability to restrict or ban abortion access.

I agree with the last part. Putin must have something he really wants though, as I haven’t really heard anyone say he looks tough or even on equal footing to Putin in any of their dealings. That’s what I don’t get about the whole thing. I feel the Russian state has been exposed as a paper tiger and why he doesn’t look like the guy to beat the big bad after 80 years or whatever it’s been is beyond me. He could be an actual champion, but it doesn’t seem to be what he’s after.

Lol I look forward to the burly and bearded Cossack women squat dancing with 2 left feet and shirtless Trump riding horses with Putin.