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WP has a good article on the logistics push for Ukraine, probably paywalled, but this was an interesting bit for current state Inside the monumental, stop-start effort to arm Ukraine - The Washington Post

enough of TC, back to Ukraine. Interesting story of a small circle of folks reporting to AFU from occupied Kherson. This Gym Owner’s Double Life Helped Wreck Putin’s War Plans (yahoo.com)

If you say that three times......

Pretty much, more an issue of timing.

Puppet governor Shtepa blown up in occupied Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast (yahoo.com) Another traitor preceding Putin on the road to hell.

damn smokers! The true enemy of the Kremlin Military unit and Rosgvardia dormitory caught fire in Moscow, and military enlistment office burned in Saratov Oblast, Russia (yahoo.com)

you had a potato?! We had a rock. When we dug it up, we took turns eating whatever we found underneath, and we'd all laugh.

interesting article on the development of drone industry in US. The drone wranglers: How the most authentic Old West town in the US is delivering the future of flight | ZDNET

Seems Zelensky was able to get under someone's skin ‘Get Rid of the Video!’: Putin Crony Freaks Out in Live TV Flop Over Zelensky Clip (yahoo.com)

Putin says Russia wants end to war in Ukraine (yahoo.com) What war? Isn't this a special military operation?

Yeah but what if one of those guys is Kevin Bacon?

contractual obligations etc They had an exemption that many companies were given, but all those run out next week. Things are about to get harder in Russia. Though maybe if their mobiles start failing Russians won't give away so much free intel....maybe we should grant these two a further exemption....

I expect that would be considered an act of war.

Russian mobile calls, internet seen deteriorating after Nokia, Ericsson leave (yahoo.com)

Nice message right as Zelensky visits too.

From Wash Post

yeah the full article is worth a read. I included a bit about the 82nd as it seems they were the testing ground for Palantir and it is no coincidence that they and the Corp HQ went to Europe when they did. When evaluating the Western alliance contributions this has to be weighted in there heavily. Ukraine can use Palantir with commercially available sources and their own ISR capabilities but getting classified NATO info would have to come through XVIII corp.

it is a two-part opinion piece, Here is short bit to describe the practical impact on the battlefield.

which leads to a classic commentary

The notice for electric was the rising cost in natural gas used at PGE plants

Did you see your PGE notice of rising energy costs and your bill? I got one. Not sure that it is at all related to this though as the timing is off.

I knew a guy named Beaver, but that was in SF. My closest courier buddy was a guy named Jim Salt. He rode a MC till some idiot hit him. He then switched to van delivery. Don't remember Fish wings. It rings a bell of sorts but not sure. Had a couple friends work in a bar/restaurant over on 19th by Florida that did a comedy and a poetry night. Went once God-awful worst poetry I ever heard. My Courier days then got interrupted by.. to quote Anthony Bouvier from Designing Women "my unfortunate incarceration". I think we have derailed the thread enough. PM me if you want to chat about DC in the 80s. I started my telecom career there including a stint at GWU.

dupont and farragut, where the couriers hung out and got stoned. I worked with the guy who was hands down the fastest courier in DC, Justin Gilbert. We got complaints on the bills for delivery time as they felt there was no way this guy could ride that fast. He signed up for the foreign legion and had to get his folks to slip into France with a passport so he could get out. Seems he didn't realize army life is the same everywhere and wasn't up for latrine duty. Metro messengers. Our office was up on Champlain Street. One block over on 18th was a Jamaican bakery that got me hooked on meat pies. Fun days. until it got down in the 30s and was raining.....

heh I was a bike courier when Yurchenko redefected to the USSR back in 85 and they were still on 16th street. Had a buddy who was a security guard for the ANA building who had a bird's eye view of the goings on.

I think we are seeing more than a single generation of downturn for Russia. Frankly Russia is cashing in its foreseeable future here. We are talking multiple generations paying the cost of this war both economically and in social demographics. But hey if those newly mobilized can buy their daughter a smart phone... someone should hack those and load up a "cost of this war" calculator.