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Ok. That is the smart play for both.

I'm all for self-determination in the Wilsonian 14 points mode. Its just you can't let the grievance of the Bekah Valley (for example) drag you in as a superpower to every little struggle.

It would boil down to: The war on terror was wearing our military class down and we couldn't afford to pay attention to Putin's misbehavin'

I frankly find the politics of Armenia/Azerbaijan and the Nagorno Karabach corridor to be tiresome except it was a precursor to the UAV warfare we are seeing play out in Ukraine.

They gave theirs up because Russia made promises to them to guarantee their borders. So, they screwed up by trusting Russia.

My guess is that the US is trying to buy its way in and the Armenians are letting them. Who doesn't need more money?

This actually surprises me Armenia was all in on their Russian bosses I thought. This apparently has the Kremlin in a boil of rage.

Different ones. Non-oil rich ones.

EV performance i.e., acceleration is amazing. The problem is that its the gun without a bang. (That's a reset to classic science fiction). Now for politics. I'm all for taking power away from the energy oligarchs that have DOMINATED our political system since Rockefeller. They have tilted the field toward energy producing places. Will those oligarchs allow a realignment to occur? I dunno. Eventually marijuana got legalized. Things can change.

MSU bringing back Dantonio is the weirdest thing. I guess he was fine when he left?

Maybe the witch doctors will cast a spell that will heal him

I'm not convinced that China won't attack Taiwan on its own schedule no matter what happens in Ukraine. That said, there is merit to this point of view. The 1960s perspective would be that not everything is Munich. The 1930s perspective would be that yes, but Munich was terrible for Czechoslovakia and Poland and everywhere else. The US genuinely is racing to match a massive arms buildup in the Western Pacific and bringing as many allies as can be gathered to the collective security structure there. Chinese weapons being sent to Russia to help them kill Ukraine seem to be happening and that sucks. An interesting potential future development would be when China decides to try out their newest weapons in Ukraine to give them real world tests. I'm sure Russia would love that. I'm sure it would have devastating effects.

I really enjoyed the twitter hits on Rogers. You can't be a lunatic anti-science person and expect people to treat your medical diagnosis not a cause for that.

I kinda wonder if the transfer departures were due to grapevine of this getting around.

Serious female Sparty energy Whenever my kids burp I always say..."that's your sparty side coming out." #housedivided.

My buddy stopped me and asked me if hating the Packers was still a thing with Aaron Rogers gone. I told him I was merely interested that they look bad as a division rival.

The irony of quantum computing is that the one nation -- the PRC -- that has a Apollo Moon/Manhattan Project to build it and expand our technical knowledge thereby leaping them forward technologically -- is the one that will -- to borrow the line from Orwell's O'Brien character in 1984 -- use it to smash the human face with a boot forever. Perhaps there will still be needles and haystacks but it will be a lot harder to be one in that society.

My limited knowledge of the science is that they want to find a better material for these batteries and that Li-Ion batteries are sort of an interim step of sloppy, semi-hard to get stuff until we figure out how to make them out of .. I dunno pig entrails. I used to be fascinated with knife steel and thought 440C was the cat's pajamas and I now find out they have like 30 better knife steels than that since I last paid attention to this in the early 1990s. Quantum computing requires building sized computers and intense cold to work. But, by the time I have hugged my grand kids (i'm in my late 50s with a kid in college) I expect that will be a a room sized machine at room temperature and it will do things we never thought possible.

Your saying that environmentalists are wishing to stop people from mining something in Nevada? I'm searching for the right analogy for that. My question: is this actually a good investment? I dropped a small amount of money into an Australian/Malaysian mining company that the US DoD had invested in to develop an Australian lithium field and that investment has not been the big gainer I thought it would. Maybe more to do with the uncertainty in the market.

I saw this article as well. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article I'm all over getting more of this out of the hands of kleptocrats.

I asked my son if the campus was buzzing about this (@1pm on a Sunday where they serve breakfast in the cafeterias until 3:30pm) and he was like, "what?" But, the people who worry about such things are likely in the know and ready to light fire to the AD's office.

Where is Freeppitchbot twitter feed?

This is our concern, Dude.

Your priors are well established. I know where you stand on all this. The narrative of him losing Iowa or coming in some middling place in the polls is important to starting the mudslide against him. So, I'm gonna use that picture against him. That and this:

What we had working for us was they had that 5th columnist WR who played for us but dressed for the Chiefs.