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he's a defense contractor. He's gonna need to abide by the rules.

He's been told by his boss Matt Gaetz and MTG aka cross-fit Karen that this has to happen or he will be voted out in favor of a statue of Donald Trump.

But apparently he did it just as the attack's started.

Sevastopol had a rough night. Apparently air launched cruise missiles struck two surface ships and a submarine. Space Karen's Starlink was not necessary for these strikes-apparently.

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.