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  1. Asado drumsticks and wings and stuffed jalepenos.
  2. If I were the FAA and wanted to know how counterfeit shit got in airplanes, I’d start my investigation with the “little known Chinese company” part.
  3. Agriculture, domestication of animals, permanent settlements, and the population that can support are requirements for high-intensity warfare and create things that are worth fighting over. I wouldn’t look at encounters with diversity as the reason we invented war.
  4. Agree with this, and with generous flex for when things come up and there’s projects and tasks that can be dug into and attacked from home.
  5. Honestly, clerical and admin staff are the hardest to effectively manage and use via WFH. Creatives, people with defined long-term projects measured by milestones, IT, number crunchers….sure, they can crank out stuff at home. But the fact is you need the clerical and admin staff to be available to take stuff that just comes up, shift quickly when needed, and just in general be “admin.” Of course, clerical and admin is a big range and I don’t know the team specifics. It’s easy to say “just ask managers to plan better” but the fact is that piling up more emails, Zoom calls, check-ins, etc means that you’re shifting work from lower per hour to higher per hour and that is rarely a good value proposition.
  6. The Su-75 is Russian vaporware. They can’t serial produce the Su-57 and their industry can’t make deliveries of their existing aircraft because of Ukraine.
  7. How about this fucking gem from the article: I have yet to see compelling evidence that any NDAs are ever creating more benefit from harm but this is especially egregious. There should be some sort of blanket “no NDA can ever apply if you raise concerns over non-parties’ health and safety.”
  8. The flip side to this is that accepting a deal now could very likely lead to the end of Hamas on the Palestinian side. They are not subject to pressures from the electorate like a democracy but they do feel it in their own way and right now their results include the near total destruction of Gaza, tens of thousands of deaths, and no record of competent government. They are getting the rally round the flag boost but that will collapse when there are no bombs falling but Gaza has to rebuild. This is why they keep holding out for more prisoner releases but that isn’t a good deal every time another civilian dies. The other hard reality is that either way they are completely dependent on foreign a support, even more so than Israel and they can’t agree to a ceasefire until Iran and Hezbolllah give the nod.
  9. The most important part of this piece is that, as suspected, the vast majority of Gazan casualties took place during exfiltration. The theory that the air raids took place in advance of the incursion to get hostages never made much sense. I am sure we will hear all about how the people providing overwatch should have stood down and let Hamas kill the hostages and the rescue teams. Literally all that needed to happen was to let the Israelis leave with hostages and the only deaths are the hostage takers.
  10. Per our UN Ambassador Israel has accepted the deal. I highly doubt she’d walk out there like this without strong justification to believe it’s true.
  11. The loss of Montgomery is huge, I don’t know where we replace his production. Hard to see us winning a championship with the best player out. But the meme expired in 2022, A&M, OU, Ole Miss, and Arkie were the final four standing in the CWS.
  12. Super quick Sunday night rack of lamb. So easy, just fire the grill and as soon as it’s hot plop the herb crusted lamb on the indirect side, close, and hot roast for about 25 minutes. I could have pulled it maybe 3 minutes earlier as this crept close to medium. Served with a garlic sauce, homemade baba ganoush, and gazpacho (not pictured) for the veggies.
  13. My point here is that these people, at least, were not being held by “Hamas” in some secret hole or tunnel. They were handed over to “civilians,” a journalist and a doctor, and at least one family proceeded to treat a kidnapped young woman as a household servant. At the very least this should cause some reflection on what Hamas is and how embedded it is within Gazan society.
  14. I’m very sorry for whatever you went through but it’s truly a terrible take to trivialize being kidnapped and held captive against your will for nine months.
  15. Taking hostages and murdering and raping isn’t asymmetrical warfare and it is in fact the proximate cause of Gaza needing to “defend” itself in the first place.
  16. Absolutely cannot get over that the four hostages were held by a “journalist” and at a doctor’s house where they kept one of the women as a slave. The journalist was filing amazing stories while he held these people at his home. “My house will always be open.”
  17. I drink strictly water and iced tea without sugar but about once a month or so I get a jones for a full sugar coke of some sort, with pellet ice.
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