> When money is gone, the military is gone.

I feel like the lesson from other countries is that the military will be the last thing to go. Public funding of everything else will be sacrificed to keep the military powerful, and leaders will be from the military. That will be a complete breakdown of democracy of course.

I fully appreciate the horizontal "stack" of modems underneath the desk in the second photo :)

"Analysis of the data suggests that a blue whale’s heart is already working at its limit, which may explain why blue whales have never evolved to be bigger."

Incredible to think of the volume of all the blood it's pumping around.