For those out of the loop, am guessing MSC = en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_...

Freezing rain has started in Waldorf MD. Unfortunately if someone hasn't done any clearing by now, it's probably too late for it to do much good, with the sleet/frez. rain transition moving through the area. Cleared the driveway once at 730 and again at 230, laid down light melt after each.

Also a variant is a meme from one of the newer Godzilla movies: digitalcultures.net/memes/let-th...

"Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan."

* - the exception being some fascinating attempts by the Axis to at least manage modest attempts at technology and personnel exchanges via long-range submarine missions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagi_...

The Allies also had an "interior lines" advantage where they could help each other: Lend-Lease to the USSR and England, etc...while Germany and Japan were mostly* isolated from one another, and Italy was a military liability re: Greece and North Africa.

I don't think a libertarian (she's a senior editor at Reason) can validly claim the left-wing as "our side." Exactly where libertarians land in the current political stratum doesn't easily fit a simple left/right dichotomy...but its not there.

Love how the article starts out with "We need to recognize that there's a natural tendency to overlook violations of norms and legal procedures by our own side while hyperfixating on our rivals' transgressions"...then proceeds to provide an excellent example of that tendency in action. smh...

Hi MC - by "feed" do you mean intentionally sharing any/all of those with the AI machine?

I'm in my mid-50s, grew up using the Internet...and reading articles like this makes me fear there will be no place for me in the world that is coming, it is so alien to what I've known.

We also had an cautionary example in the failed hostage rescue attempt in Iran (1980) of what can happen when you try to helo forces into a hostile country without ground support already in place: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

Also, the "punitive raid"/decapitation approach was tried with a massive cruise missile attack in '98. Its failure demonstrated, among other things, that solid on-the-ground intel was necessary for any such raid to meet its objectives. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

Well, if he takes NYC, he can just have this one moved & gilded: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing...

Agreed...and for me, also the possibility that its a work of at least semi-fiction on the part of the writer, in terms of making certain statements or facts more juicy than the reality actually was.