Introduction On Wednesday, July 29, 2025, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. This earthquake generated a significant tsunami. Where was the

"...we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together": UK Prime Minister Starmer, May, 2025, in his White Paper describing planned curbs on immigration. In June

In scary stuff, you should not show the monster if you are not capable of making it scary enough*. It shouldn't be about the monster, it should be about what it does to the psych and to the humans

Graph from U. S. Census shows decline in births from 2001-2021. Public domain The Trump Administration is floating the idea of giving a $5,000 baby bonus to "every American mother after giving

There is a lot to talk about on this topic, but today I'm kinda continuing the postI made yesterday and talking about how sexual purity is no more important for women. Two things were the major reasons

The death of Popes boosts tourism in the Vatican, and tourism is never complete without capitalism trying to pull off one stunt or the other. They're selling Pope Francis mugs: Key chains: Calendars: And

I have said many things in my life that I regretted. Never, though, did I make these statements in a speech. A prepared remark holds more weight than spontaneous speech. The people quoted below knew they

Everytime someone talks against religious extremists the religious moderates always come out to remind us that it is not every member of their religion that are extremists, that a lot of them are moderates

Last week, Temu sent a message to our Instagram. They wanted to know whether we'd be interested in colloborating in exchange for items and paid, boosted reels - a boosted reel is a video that Instagram

Get an Italian piston coffee holder machine they said. It will be fun and 'the best coffee' they said. Sure eventually when you have this Italian situation all figures out, honestly this machine can produce

No, I'm not the one who said so, it's the statistics saying so. I love women a lot, I'm a man and I'm straight, so I wish the statistics didn't say so. But there you have it. Online there is usually a

The power of a woman's love has been the subject of many poems, songs, and quotes. I'll easily concede that the love of a mother is worthy of all the praise it has received over the years, and in good

Some years back I was dating this girl who had two sisters. Then one of her older sisters went missing for over a year. No one knew where she was and after reporting to the police, carrying out efforts

Watching football matches in public bars with other guys drinking and watching has shown me so much about human nature, especially intuition. For example, last Tuesday Real Madrid had a Champions League

The Brutalist got a lot of hype, didn't it? It got a lot of nominations and awards at the Oscars, and many sounded like it was the movie to watch, like it was one of those top movies that should be archived

Little Diomede (USA) and Big Diomede (Russia): 2.4 Miles Apart Dave Cohoe. Used under CC 3.0 share and share alike license. Not only is our Russian neighbor close, but our neighbor is also interested:

I was watching the show The Penguin and I got to the part where a single mother who was working tirelessly to raise her three sons lost two of them. Two teenage sons. It was sad to see, the feeling was

Do leaders, even absolute rulers, care what their people think? History seems to show that the smart ones do. Powerful governments have been toppled by a discontented populace. There is a story (possibly

****Please note: this is not a rant or complaint. It's a talk. Since it is political, I think this is the most appropriate community for posting.**** In the United States, we have just inaugurated a new

I made this post a month or so ago about the ants in my house, but now I've got quite a mind-blowing story about them. Something that should probably be on National Geographic or something. So, the thing