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I believe it's an off-the-shelf consumer walkie-talkie

Of course the problem is that if you separated a nation out of Afghanistan based on Pashtun ethnicity, they would want their piece of Pakistan to go with it - and so it would go. There's hardly any end to the story once you start subdividing enclaves. The curious thing is that in Europe, centuries of warfare eventually did force ethnic separation, so by the 20th century things had calmed down in terms of ethnic wars (other than Yugoslavia) - which gave them the luxury of having ideological ones. (). In areas where the Ottomans or Mongols ruled, they had a different system where you had parallel ruling jurisdictions operating for different religious groups in the same geography. But once those old poly jurisdictional regimes collapsed, it left all kinds of people who didn't want to be ruled by each other in highly mixed geographies and the fallout still drives a lot of the conflict in places like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and to a degree Afghanistan.

And Putin is out there with his "If you don't start being nice to us we will just extend great Russian victory even further."🤷‍♀️

You'd think that after a few hundred years of this nonsense, they would by now have decided on a line between Tajikaganistan and Pashtunaganistan and called it a day.

Well, that didn't take long...... (For the Taliban to have a counter insurgency on their hands that is,......)

SoFi is actually small for a top B1G stadium, but I suppose it's better to have your team play to 70K full seats than 110K half empty ones. You'd think the 'rent' to use SoFi has to be a lot higher than at the Rose Bowl though.....

LOL - given last year's record, the Lions beating any team, any week will mean a lot.

The people in Pasedena hate the Rose Bowl as a stadium. I don't know if they still do it but in the past the city blockaded every single residential street around the stadium to completely prohibit anyone parking anywhere but a sanctioned lot on game day. If we did that in Ann Arbor you probably couldn't fill the stadium either!

the difference between Hillary winning and losing.

Three HRs by this yr's call-ups.

Is anyone else struck by the absurdity/unreality of Trevor's interview with Lester's father? Sure it's a 'feel good' story that the guy is getting his cup of coffee as reward for being a good MiLB solder, but does anyone seriously believe Lester has an MLB future, and that being the case isn't an interview like Trevor just did borderline emotion predation on the family?

Obviously you can't trust the picture you get from tweets and wire services in near real time, but even given that, there seems to be scant evidence of any Russian C&C capability to respond.

LOL - There's religion, there's tribalism, and there's money. 1 and 2 can always find a way to the back seat when it's time to take care of #3 and WTI under $85 this AM

The problem for Russia is gas. China and Asia can absorb Russia's oil and the market just shifts so that sanctioning countries get their oil from suppliers displaced from Asian sales - because an oil tanker from anywhere can go anywhere. But Russia's gas infrastructure points into Europe and that can't change very fast. They will be faced with the prospect of reducing oil production in fields that co-produce gas, or flaring off billions of $ in gas they can't sell.

our exuberance has proved irrational.

I could only see it if I had still had the heart to be watching. 😢

Well, that's a relief.

there was a typo in the post - it's 2/10 with 2BB which isn't terrible but my concern still stands. Actually he was at >900 OPS his last 50 AB at Toledo, it just hadn't pulled up his overall numbers much.

He's 2/10 2BB on the return. I think I'd worry about his progress less if they'd left him in Toledo to rake until the current coaching staff in Detroit had been replaced....

Gazprom (GAZP.MM) on Friday said the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, Europe's major supply route, would remain shut as a turbine at a compressor station had an engine oil leak, sending wholesale gas prices soaring. read more When asked when Nord Stream 1 would start pumping gas again, Markelov told Reuters on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok: "You should ask Siemens. They have to repair equipment first."...... Siemens Energy said it was not currently commissioned by Gazprom to do maintenance work on the turbine with the suspected engine oil leak, but was on standby. The company, headquartered in Munich, Germany, said on Tuesday that it did not comprehend Gazprom's presentation of the situation. It said an engine oil leak at the last remaining turbine in operation at the Portovaya compressor station did not constitute a reason to keep the pipeline closed. An engine oil leak Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said has been found at the last remaining turbine in operation at the Portovaya compressor station does not constitute a technical reason for stopping operation, Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE) said on Friday. "Such leaks do not normally affect the operation of a turbine and can be sealed on site. It is a routine procedure within the scope of maintenance work," the company said... ..."Irrespective of this, we have already pointed out several times that there are sufficient other turbines available at the Portovaya compressor station for Nord Stream 1 to operate," Siemens Energy said..... https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-gazprom-says-nord-stream-1-resumption-depends-siemens-energy-2022-09-06/

Reports from US intelligence that the Russians are buying artillery shells from N. Korea. The good part is that the clear implication is that China has declined to offer similar support. Russia turns to N. Korea

Definitely some good fun there. Always good when the perspective gets pulled back to the fact that they are, after all, playing-a-game.

It's been decades since I was a child with grandparents from the Middle East, but my memories of what I heard there would say that the 'more than 1st' cousin - meaning *further* away than 1st cousin, was accepted traditional middle eastern practice at least at the turn of the 20th century. I.E. marriage to a 2nd cousin in that culture would not have raised anyone's eyebrows. We are talking 100 yrs ago in what my grandparents thought was normal, but I could see Oz's frame of reference originating from the same place. Are people reading "more than" to mean "closer than"? Is there reason to think that's what he meant? OTOH, the smell thing is just weirdly TMI.

The SCOTUS did away with most 'incompetent counsel' appeal grounds so a MAGA judge has little choice if she wants to avoid a ruling against the Orange Menace that he can't appeal.