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Doesn't look like there will be general recommendation for 2nd booster - at least until most people are further out from their first. Seems the consensus is to leave it a case by case decision for the time being.

US Gov seemed to be playing this one very circumspectly all day. Which is fine, you don't need to shout when the facts are already doing it for you.

Yeah - I don't know if it was so much a matter of those supporting the pick claiming he was a generational talent, as the skeptics arguing that he had better *be* a generational talent to justify taking a TE 8th. But I think I've heard people argue against taking virtual every position but QB and LT in the 1st round. 32 players get taken in the 1st round and there will never be to 32 top LTs and QBs available! Guys at various of positions are going to get picked in the 1st round.

A Ukrainian pilot talks the limitations of MIG29s - that they need something better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/ukrainian-fighter-pilots-mig-29-russians/

If the Russians have prisoners they will be videoed post haste, so the claim isn't likely to be in question long one way or the other.

On the flip side, Russians claiming they have forced a surrender in Mariupol.

it would be nice if his long range shooting started to look more like Luka's.

So even if you take the Russians at their word, they've just been forced to use a claim of one kind of incompetence to try to head off reporting of the fact of another. Also, as per the Russians (not the Ukrainians), the crew has abandoned ship. Not, "the crew is on board putting out the fire", or "the crew is restoring the situation to normal". Naval crews generally abandon ships that are going to sink. https://news.usni.org/2022/04/13/russian-navy-confirms-severe-damage-to-black-sea-cruiser-moskva-crew-abandoned-ship

Ironically enough, the ship was built in Ukraine before the fall, and originally named 'Slava' (Glory).

yes - as per above - Russian navy has confirmed fire on board, claims it was an ammunition accident. Riiiiiiight. https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/ukraine-claims-to-have-struck-the-flagship-of-russia-s-black-sea-fleet

hopefully the difference is that the year after they drafted Hill, they had the 58th pick. This draft is an odd one, but the odds are still decent the Pistons get a much better player to go with Cade than Don Reid.

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IDK, 8th doesn't seem like that big a deal. Does the average 1st round net 10 pro bowlers?

really. Even going to a perfectly reasonable number like 500 would make a big difference. There is a concept out there that I don't remember the name for - 'Wyoming Rule' or something like that where you make size of the House District no larger than the population of the smallest state. IIRC, if that were implemented the size of the House would still be reasonable.

right. one needs to understand the context. If all he wants to do is spend his time getting better and playing the game and he sees the dog and pony media aspects as wasting his time, that wouldn't bother me. But sure, if it's just a general resistance to 'getting with the program' that can certainly be a problem - particularly with the typical NFL football coach! Be hard to know which unless you get to know to guy and what makes him tick. The Media types can only shoot from the hip on this kind of stuff.

TBF, it depends on how you slice things. To be one of the 32 starting TE, you are already above the average pro TE since most teams carry at least two. WRT Hockenson, I'm not so much depressed that the #8 pick become a solid starter, that's OK. What is depressing is that that stands out as one of the best outcomes in Lion's recent history up to Sewell.

I have been thinking this very this thought myself.. Also: This line: "Having sought to upend the notion of truth in the West, they now fall victim to their own pervasive untruths." Almost verbatim said also by Volodymyr Yermolenko in his Ezra Klein interview. As the Grey Pilgrim observed: "A treacherous weapon is ever a danger to the hand..."

go figure.... https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-02-26/card/german-power-operators-reject-calls-to-keep-nuclear-plants-running-despite-ukraine-war-4u3kJkDIz9CSmqYUUviA

The weakness in any of these analyses that include or center around China if of course, that Under Xi, China's international position now has little or nothing to do with actual Chinese historical or cultural beliefs/tendencies. It's become a one man show, just as Putin's Russia is. The issue in Russia and China vs the West is not North vs South, but the persistence in those places of an internal acclimation to imperial rul.e.

Ezra Klein's last podcast was with Volodymyr Yermolenko, he made the point that while everyone underestimated Ukrainian military capability going in, we can't overestimate it now and let up on the level of support. Putin needs to lose this war.

Valenti was running through one on one win/loss stats today that put Thibs within a spit of Hutchinson and everyone else (D-line wise) in second class.

they will remain hopeless until they have the personnel to play aggressively enough to get pucks back in their own end. You can't recover possession when you are constantly two steps behind and sagging back off puck carriers, and you can't win without possession.

Hronek with a 2 stride lead still gets beaten to the puck in the corner by the Senator. /...sigh..../

Nice talk, but I'd rather hear that Biden is getting the necessary materiál into Ukraine.