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I understand the choice isn’t binary, but along the continuum to full upgrade would be feckless, venal Lukashenko type swooping in to plunder what’s left and keep the Russian people in an agitated state of impoverishment, even after giving the world what we want and stopping the war, at least in the short term while they plot another attack in the future. This could be a post-Putin outcome as well.

Low hangingest of fruit.

And even this doesn't necessarily mean Putin would be replaced by a pro-Westerner.

I don’t think the ground troops would directly reject the order by Putin to wage chemical warfare, but to what I believe is romad’s point, if they’re so inept at the ground war, what makes us think these same people could successfully wage a chemical campaign?

Top 5s also change with time. Emaline by Ben Folds is in my current top 5. I hadn't even heard the song two years ago. Two years from now it'll be gone, replaced by something else.

Well, not for nothing, he is the most dangerous free man walking around America today. So, yeah, there’s that.

Q: What’s the surest way to get people to not care about your post? A: Tell them in the first sentence, “I know you all don’t care about this, but …”

I flipped a coin between “Sweet Child o’ Mine” and “We Built This City” … 😅

Did he say her name is a mouthful and ask if there’s a regular nickname he can use instead? Did he ask whether she has a lot of brothers and sisters? Did he say her hair is soooo pretty? Did he ask how she could afford to go to college? Did he brag that he went to a soul food restaurant once and it was surprisingly OK? And did he end up saying, “I was only trying to be nice, I didn’t mean anything by it”?

Ooh ooh ooh—let me guess the other four! Don’t Stop Believin’ Bohemian Rhapsody Heart of Rock and Roll We Built this City How close am I? 😉

Have you seen the new Frontline about Nancy Pelosi? The first few minutes, about January 6—talk about chilling. That part of Trumpsim isn’t going to die for a long time.

Fuck Kid Rock. Fuck him up the ass with a big rubber dick. Then break it off and beat him to death with the rest of it. I hate that fucking guy.

You misspelled "Please".

I don't wear a helmet when I bicycle. Bunker must think I'm a real man.

But he is very loud and angry at brown people, so that's manly enough for the red hats.

Yup. Fascism the term might be only a century old, but fascism the idea is ingrained into the condition of power thirst.

These people don't give a shit about the United States, the one that embraces the principles laid out in the Consitution. What they care about is "America", the one with the slavery and Indian genocide and the Jim Crow and the McCarthyism and the going on offense into foreign wars and the ubiquitous prisons. That's the America they're trying to preserve with all the might they can muster.

A lot of good bands discarded the art for the money. When that happens, that's fine, there's other music I like better elsewhere.

I want to live on your planet.

It's disappointing that they decided to do zombie runners for the 10th inning, instead of starting them in the 11th, but there's nothing in it for Players or teams to make the game any longer than they feel they have to, so I can see how they arrived at the decision. So far, they're saying it's only for the 2022 season.

Looking ahead to a 32-team league in 2028, or whenever, I can envision: Other league: four against "natural rival", three against everyone else, 49 subtotal. Same league/other divisions: six against each, 72 subtotal. Same division: 13 against each team, 39 subtotal. That would make for a total of 160 games, which would provide a couple of extra off days for Players and one less April home games for teams, so I think both sides could agree on that. They could go whole hog retro, cut down in-division games to 11 per opponent, and make the 154-game schedule the ultra-traditionalists continually pine for, but I don't think either side wants that many fewer games, necessarily ... unless they can make it up in expanded playoff revenue that accrues to both all teams and to Players, which feels unlikely to me.

As far as the new schedule layout is concerned, I'm fine with it. Baseball went all in on interleague play a couple of decades ago, so they were never going to de-emphasize or get rid of it, and that goes double for expanding to 32 teams, which would be the perfect opportunity to leave interleague in the rear mirror. IOW, they ain't gonna. So I guess it's way past time for me to stop whinging about it already. So, as long as interleague is going to rule the day in any event, then I actually like that every team is going to play every other team outside their division the same amount. It removes any advantage a team might have had loading up on the weak division in the other league in any given year. And now every team has the same six-game home-and-home schedule against non-division teams in their own league, so that evens things out some. If that costs me the chance to see an extra five games against the Guardians or Royals or Twins, I can accept that. The only thing I dislike about it is that the Tigers come only twice to my city and not three times, but that's my personal problem, so oh well.

Looks familiar ... 😁

The thing that pisses me off about the zombie runner thing is that they talked about delaying it to the 11th or 12th inning, and yet they still applied it to the 10th! Arrrrghhh! I’ll bet the players pushed for the 10th.

Who is their employer?