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I’m 500 miles away and texting with my son…my heart

This is just west of my son’s dorm

I've been having these conversations at work that go "What is Detroit style?" and I'm like "well, i had never had that until i was an adult and its really good but its not actually what I grew up with." Basically, foodies are gonna foodie. The idea that there is a thing that is Detroit style and people outside the area like it is almost enough for me to be proud of. I grew up on NY style slices from places like Primos and Lorenzos (no longer around) that would burn your mouth from the spicy sauce and toppings. These pizzas would be thrown by my parents to my siblings and I like a gazelle carcass thrown to a pack of lion cubs or a cow stumbling into the Amazon and being shredded by piranhas and it would disappear in seconds. According to my NJ-born colleague at work who had experience making pies, an acceptable NY pizza slice must be able to fold at the sides at the crust and the tip (i.e., the part from center of the pie) must not bend down. That standard is not met by a lot of places who don't actually give a bleep.

Honestly who could tell the difference when they are happy to include people like Santos and Luna in their midst.

No kidding! The people who are trying to create boogymen out of anything love a cultural touchstone moment like the SB.

That is amazing.

I don't know if this in particular is a reliable indicator but the USG knows that Russia has some extra-crazy coming

Estes is correct. I have a fishing tackle box in my garage with several ready to launch from a decade ago phase with my son. I used to launch them from a field that was right next to Dulles Airport in violation of many regulations.

Now media reports are correctly saying shot down the "object" If this is over Lake Huron I really dread the effort to recover whatever falls into the water in these temps.

Apparently this thing over Lake Huron has been "decommissioned" which is an impressive use of that word. I think that indicates that there was a ceremony and it is no longer in the service of whatever Air Force it was serving.

They also seem very interested in a laptop that has been through the forensic equivalent of every whorehouse from Cairo to Cancun and not in the President fighting to keep classified documents while not in office.

Just south of Timmins, Ontario. Holy crap are the Chinese trying to take out Shania Twain?!

Clearly they mean Northern Iowa by Northern Montana

and

https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_3_4885.html

Holy crap is the fuckery going on wrt the twitterverse and the NOTAMs and the three shoot downs.

She appears to have the endorsement of the Church of the AR-15.

I think she is very stunning but it remains to be seen if she's prepared to be a legislator by appearing in Maxim magazine.

This is a very interesting discussion on the possibility of war with China and China's demographic challenges. BLUF: the Chinese are a peaking power that senses it is about to decline (true). This is the most dangerous time for international relations. Also, China is funding international efforts across the board that make suppression of democracy and human rights easier (e.g., "Smart Cities" initiatives). https://warontherocks.com/2023/02/what-happens-if-the-balloon-goes-up-with-china/

More on this monster

He will not have been told any of that. He just knows that the countryside of China is filled with aging grandparents making food for the cities while their children and grandchild (singular) chase technocratic dreams in the cities. Those people in the cities are dealing with further and further restrictions on their behavior due to the crap way China handled this outbreak and their crap vaccine.

The other way of looking at this. China is doing all this because their other sensors are crap and they lack the precision to do what they want. The key point is that they want to do certain things because they are led by one man on a power trip and who senses he has only a certain amount of time before societal collapse due to under population.