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I so want to send this to the Musk fan I know. I know the response will be heavily nuanced. I really don't want this wanna-be God Emperor to be in charge of a Mars colony.

Dang We really are in a different world than we were in before COVID. China is breaking down a lot of good will with the outside world and wondering why people are reacting the way they are reacting to them becoming a more insular, crazified country that thinks using AI and quantum computing tools against its citizens is somehow going to lead to better Communism. Russia for its part is just so broken and wistful for its glory days that its going to take a generation for it to "recover" to some form that isn't a complete pariah. --- Unless Trump wins in 2024. If he wins and appoints Ambassador Mike Flynn or Matt Gaetz then, the spigot of US tech to Russia will be unleashed.

Well, she is a Sparty female.

He was troubled

The bit in the Insane Christmas episode of The Bear where Fak and his brother are trying to convince John Mullaney about their "scheme" to sell baseball cards is so amazing. They ask John Mullaney if he has 'access to $500' for their get rich scheme. John Mullaney with a straight face says "do i have access to $500? of course, i'm a 43-year old adult"

Love it. Is that Dre Bly?

The SOLs would have lost that game in the 4th Q. The SOLs wouldn't have gotten the roll-up illegal motion on the Chief's OL when they needed it. Mahomes was just barely surviving the pass rush and forcing balls.

Made the first story on Morning Joe

Totally.

well, that came home to bite them in the butt

Eminem has positioned himself as the guy who doesn't play well with national media

Japan and Germany lost WWII in 1943. The war didn't end until 1945.

I'm over it. Biden and his team have been solid wrt China and Russia. Terrorism is yesterday's papers.

Please, please, please, please, please, please run on this platform Republicans. Can you imagine?

Russia's big winter offensive was all about the Wagner Group. Who the hell is going to lead that now?

F all the way off. Death it is!

Yes, Trump is to blame for that deal with the Taliban. I was always in favor of getting out given the impending struggles w/Russia and China though.

I'd guess this too. Into October.

To quote Cy Curnin: One Thing Leads to Another - Wikipedia

Plenty of people are rightfully mad about how the withdrawal went. I'd still have done that with improvements in method and process. They had to reorient resources to China and Russia.

So, this is supremely unsatisfactory.

They lack the ability to do dynamic targeting. That's due to deficiencies in training, systems and leadership. They never had low level leadership and the one organization that had any was Wagner and they just ripped the heart out of that outfit.

Sadly, this is jive. The objective was to get to the Black Sea coast and liberate Crimea. The problem was that Ukraine lacked Air Superiority and Russia was able to build defenses in depth enough to prevent this before the end of Summer. This offensive is a harbinger of Russia hitting a breaking point due to superior precision weapons destroying all their weapons systems but Ukraine needs to win decisively before changes in governments in the West eliminate their funding. I don't think the publics in the West are thinking along those lines but that is Ukraine's center of gravity as much as its population. Ukraine appears to be on the right track but a lot of people will die before they get their victory.