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I would offer that the premise of the game has to be a given to explore the worst case scenario. I would also offer that the result being a bloody stalemate in which the invasion fails is a piece of information designed to influence China to seek alternate means. ("If the Americans are thinking this will be a win albeit a bloody win, maybe we should try to figure out why they think that") If China hasn't also been doing these games they are foolish. Now, i note that the most popular advanced simulation for the general public is this thing called DCS which has all sorts of videos on youtube which always portray Russian systems as being 10 feet tall. Why? Because its a company run by Russians (out of Switzerland). When you watch these games they always include things the Russians clearly don't have ready (SU-57s). I think any sober individual who has watched the past year will revise their estimates at Russian Air Force effectiveness. Likewise, until China actually has to engage in air-to-air combat they might be advised to temper their expectations on what they can accomplish.

I can't help you. My Dad who was 91 at the time also struggled with it.

We've been enjoying the sweet humor of Abbott Elementary which is on Hulu.

Yes, the only explanation for their apparent ignorance is that it is willful ignorance. They should see plenty of examples of the barbarity of the Putin regime.

Its like the Excalibur/Arthurian legends. If the broadcast crew ain't right, the team can't be right.

Andor. Best Disney+ thing they have done with the exception of the Hamilton movie.

I actually do miss them.

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This makes me real nervous because half my retirement plan is to run a bot farm out of a rural property within the Ann Arbor jurisdiction.

I think Mario coming back would make for a better broadcast. Find Mario a good partner...someone with U-Mich background to offset Mario's Sparty-ness.

The best part about support for Taiwan is that it can appeal to the racism of the GOP by othering the Chinese regime. We should make sure that we don't send Congressional delegations to Taiwan that might highlight that the Taiwanese are also yellow-people. Which is not to say that the Horseshoe GOP's support for Putin is based strictly on racism. Ukrainians are also white/ and in many cases descendants of the vikings, aka Hitler's chosen people. Their (Horseshoe GOP's) support for Putin is based on all that sweet Ca$h and all that sweet SVR bootie that he brings to the hookers and blow parties.

The helicopter crash that occurred this morning in Ukraine involved the Minister of the Interior and his deputy. Ugh.

While I love the support. The Taiwan campaign -- when it happens -- will require HIMARS/ATACMS and Patriots and our latest and greatest systems. It will also require the support of ALLIES (e.g., Japan, South Korea, Australia) and you can only lock those down if you support your other allies. We need to provide that support. The most interesting thing I read yesterday was the CSIS wargame.

She makes the point well

The Putin thugs in the GOP and on the horseshoe left need to step back and understand that isolationism sells to the rubes but in a crunch we need alliances and those alliances need to be based on principles. Just because the billionaire fueled McCarthy Republicans don't have any principles doesn't mean that the majority of the country doesn't root for Ukraine and understand that there but for the grace of God and the St. Javelin go us.

Well done.

Schefter was on the weirdest broadcast since 9/11 when Damar Hamlin had to be resuscitated. I think he and Suze Kolber were both dumbstruck and it took a person named Booger Macfarlan to actually talk them back to lucidity. I marvel at that because a grown man is going by Booger and he's actually pretty cogent.

Wasn't that Ian Rappaport?

Yeah, Teslas are common as dirt in NoVa. No way I'd spend that much money on that guy's product.

I ain't gonna sweep the ocean at the shore. Legalize it and then let public approbation create the market correction for the unseemly things it brings. Unless people become violent flesh eating zombies from it. I'm against that.

Just watched first episode of The Last of Us. This is from Craig Mazin of Chernobyl fame which says a lot to his credit. The storyline feels a little videogame paint-by-the-numbers but I'm gonna keep watching for Pedro Pascal and the girl from Game of Thrones.

Michigan's billboard signage as you enter at the Toledo border is surreal to anyone who called the Oceana County sheriff's department on a sibling because he was growing plants at your parent's property prior to legalization because you were worried that the sibling would cause mom and pop to lose the farm. Its like we went from the chaste Victorian era to 1920s Berlin or 1970s Greenwich Village. There weren't any medical or sociological reactions to those swings in the culture were there?

It really is.

My other take on this event: Maybe JH got some backing on the NCAA headaches. "I can coach here but it would be a shame if my hands were tied because of unfortunate events" The arrival of Santa Ono has been like Mr Illitch/Dave Dombrowski era of the Michigan Football program. Hopefully it doesn't lead to the Chris Illitch/Al Avila era on the back end.