Tomorrow i turn fifty. Over the past five years I lost both my parents, and while my baseline mood these days is just memento mori, for today and tomorrow trying real hard to be more like “let them come! For there is still one dwarf left in Moria who still draws breath.

Your cloture vote validates the Trump/Musk budget and strategy. I have in the past donated to the Democratic Party, and voted for its candidates, but if its leadership is indistinguishable from Trump’s, it’s time for a change.

They already weaponized budget decisions and what parts of the government “get to operate”. Voting with them just teaches them they in fact have no opposition.

ni- = I
no- = myself
quetza = stand
-z = future

ihuan = and

ahmo = not

ni- = I
nemi = live
-z = future

inic = while

ni- = I
no- = myself
tlancuaquetza = kneel
-z future

(Literally, "I choose to die while standing and not to live while kneeling.")

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On a marginally related note, I highly recommend the Kiff (Disney animated series) episode that’s a tribute to LOTR. Quite funny.