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Jokes aside, that sounds like tons of fun.

I thought it was a typo, but no. They really are releasing the 2023 annual report in the last few days of 2024.

Well played.

From defense.gov:

NORAD also tracks Santa using U.S. Air Force F-15, F-16, F-22 and Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter jets. On Christmas Eve, fighter pilots rendezvous with Santa off the coast of Newfoundland to welcome him to North America. They escort him safely through North American airspace until he returns to the North Pole.

Why is no one hollering about this obvious waste of taxpayer dollars? It’s not like they can keep up with him, anyway; Santa is superluminal!

It’s getting harder and harder to enjoy activities on a casual basis.

Your young kids want to play sports? Unfortunately, municipal rec leagues are dying off. Get ready to join a private league, with substantial fees and a travel schedule that will consume your weekends.

You want to watch just one sporting event this season? Too bad, it isn’t being broadcast. It’s now on a streaming service that you don’t subscribe to.

You want to take your family skiing once to try it out? That’ll be a few hundred dollars. The big resort owners want to drive sales of season passes, so they are making day passes stupid expensive. (The hill where I learned to ski now has demand pricing. I have seen day passes up to $200/person. 😭)

The Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle has one. I was just there petting viewing their Blackbird a few months ago.

Would you prefer Bruce Springclean?
Clean Dion?
Fleetwood Vac?

A mopping bot could be L.L. Cool Spray.

Damn, beat me to it.

I think it’s for real. The “contest” was run by an Instagram account called officialstickreviews.

Somebody needs to find a good pic of that and post it to [email protected].

Thank you for the additional context! That’s really interesting, though depressing.

I wish I could say, but I just reposted this video that I found on another site. Though I assume it still works in person if you are in the right position with the right lighting.

I love the Hephaestus pilot’s little camel stuffy. I wonder what the story is behind it.

I had a similar first thought.

We are swinging for their benefit, not at them.

And the vote failed. Shutdown, here we come!

Looks like we’ll get a voluntary government shutdown to end the year. 2025 just can’t catch a break.

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It is. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is clearly visible in OP’s picture as a ribbon of lighter blue.