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Spelling has never been a forte, typing even less so! I can't buy or short twitter stock so it's not a question. Again, I have no personal interest in the man, but I find the situation bizarre and interesting. I think the service is useful so I'd as soon not see it fail completely. It will be a classic case study it Twitter goes under, a spectacular one if he somehow saves it given the current trajectory. Apparently folks that do hold Tesla stock are in court trying to claw back the compensation he's taking from Tesla while spending all his time at Twitter. The other reason it has to be of general interest as an investment topic is that a complete meltdown of twitter could draw a government response that might affect us all. Twitter is one piece of tech that Congress-criters do know oh so well.

This is always a close if not quite 'what-a-bout' arg that I don't really like. Granted, you can't do everything everywhere, but how could you ask for a better opportunity than 40 million people on the East gate of the 1st world just begging for nothing more than the help to do the job themselves? It's every foreign policy objective of the US for the last 70 yrs served up a silver (well, blue and yellow) platter and carries the support of every major ally. It's exactly everything Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan were not. Do you just go bomb Moscow? No. But there is a way to put the Ukrainians in a winning position without starting WWIII. I think we have been close the correct track: keep upping the military capabilities of Ukraine so that options slowly close off to Russia one by one. This is 100% the frog in boiling water paradigm. You have to normalize each level of losing for the Russians before you go the next one. You want the situation for Russia to become hopeless, not dire. It's true that a Ukrainian might see this as a cynical way to fight the battle that asks greater sacrifices of them than if a NATO force just stormed right up to the Russian border, but you have to deal with peace after the war as well, and while I think we all want some kind of political upheaval in Russia, I don't think anyone wants to risk the possible consequences of its total collapse.

They don't have a dominant line that can consistently force offense at even strenght right now. Maybe once Bert gets back into the swing, or if they are willing to put Kubalek back with Larkin. Heck, Rassmussen, Soderblom, Sundvquist were generating better even strength pressure than any of the lines last night.

Interesting point in Musk's note to his employees this morning. He told them Twitter was a SW and server company, thus his coders will be king. Serious question, does anyone think that is true? That strikes me like FoMoCo saying they are a machine tool company and their CNC and robotics workers are the core of the company. Sure they are important, but they are certainly not the core objective. I would say similarly that the SW and servers are simply the tools that Twitter uses and the business they are in is real time information content aggregation and moderation. Nobody buys advertising from Twitter or pays a membership from them to get SW in return, any more than anyone pays Ford to put a robotics welder in their garage. Not for the 1st time it makes me question whether he actually understands what he bought. Didn't Demming say something along the lines that not understanding what your business actually is one of the big mistakes any management can make?

IIRC correctly, the accepted popular wisdom is that Hazelwood was MIA as he was sleeping one off - though he had certainly disputed that with some level of support.

The American Way.

are you saying there may be a little vodka consumption going on in Poland? Who knew?

Odd or maybe worrisome that the Poles didn't know where came from immediately if they had their air defense radars running, which you would think they would given a war next door.

I thought Walman added a little on the D, but too many Wings forwards were just lazy in their own end tonight. You don't deserve to score when you don't work to get the puck back.

a lot of sloppy stick work, half-hearted poke checking, feeble defensive stick waving by a lot of guys tonight.

well, that last grouping was a mistake. None of them could get out of their own way.

they've really gotten away from being aggressive to the puck carrier tonight. Look too much like last year. Hronek is an enigma to me. He is playing better in some aspect and on the PP, but he is still a terrible passer. It's really the team's single remaining gross weakness. So many possessions given up because a Wing makes a rushed or blind pass instead of having the wit/speed/finesse to find the workable outlet.

#1 line can be really weak in their own end sometimes.

Walman looks OK. Team looked like it slept through most of the 2nd period.

yeah - LA is full of people from all over and MI is well represented. My sister has been in SoCal for a long time. The neighbors are all close, they all transplants.

I hope Edwards gets healthy because I'd like to see them just start him in the I, put him in motion wide and then send him straight down the field as a WR as a regular part of the offense.

I get an email from my washer when it's time for that.... (no kidding. Had the old washer 25 yrs. Nothing prepared me for a laundry appliance that spams me!)

Perez. Lipcius. Very low K guys. P Meadows, moderately low K guy. Trend here.

LOL - well, OK, they did reduce the capacity from 100K to 91K on a recent renovation, but I'm still going to laugh at closing 20% of the seating, selling the other 80% and calling it a sell-out.

here we go

isn't there some kind of deadline in 35 min?

has M run a single screen play this season? Has to be in the play book for use against some team with more vigorous pursuit.....? The one thing they have underutilized IMO is JJ's ability to throw on the run. He is pretty fabulous delivering the ball at a flat out run. Given that it's also hard to believe all those QB R/P options into the end zone corner, which I haven't seen them run either, are not waiting in the playbook. Of course that can also be a TE play and they are down there..... On the one hand, I get the idea of sitting on stuff you don't want to show the opposition. OTOH, I don't like the idea that the first time you try to run a play is under the pressure level of on the road in your biggest rivalry game with downs at an absolute premium.

I'd agree the game plans have only tried to stretch the field just enough to keep the coverage honest, but I also think that they'd going deep more if their guys were getting open. JJ has gotten the message this season not force things and I tend to belief some of those throws are on the long side because the play is covered. It's easy for guys in the booth to say 'he should throw it short and let his receiver come back to it' because the potential INT isn't going on their stat sheet.

New hitting braintrust: Michael Brdar - from Padres James Rowson - from Marlins Keith Beauregard - from Dodgers https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2022/11/15/detroit-tigers-hire-michael-brdar-james-rowson-keith-beauregard/69626486007/

Russians just have no clue. If Poland were to do no more than send its troops into Ukraine just to man the non-combatant borders to free more Ukrainian troops for the front, Russia's already weak battlefield position would likely become completely untenable. At the other end NATO could simple close Ukrainian air space, include that over Crimea, to Russian aircraft. Game over for Russians in Sevastopol.