Russian-Neutralization Strategy:

- Inform the Russian soldiers of the truth (not a drill, Putin's initiative alone) via pamphlets, media, etc.
- Offer unconditional surrender terms
- Send their names to Moscow as KIA to protect their families
- Deputize the willing into Ukrainian soldiers
- Quick transport for the Unwilling to western Ukraine so they can flee if Ukraine falls

If, in the late 1930's, you knew that WW2 was going to happen, and that there were overt supporters of Hitler throughout your country, what would you do?

Diplomacy?

Probably just an ultimatum delivery.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1497837761252007937

As you westerners watch the huddled, terrified masses of people in Ukraine, think about your emotional reaction.

Then, think about your emotional reaction to hearing/seeing huddled masses of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Congo, or Ethiopia.

Are they the same emotions?

If there is any difference, that is your primal tribe speaking to you.

Primal.

Humanity will not scale any further if we do not subjugate the tribal emotions. We must, first, be human.

Everyone probably ought to go out and top off their gas tank.

Oil and gas are not getting any cheaper anytime soon.

I believe we should just expect our internet to be disrupted once Russia invades Ukraine.

Then gas prices will spike.

Then Biden will release the strategic oil reserves.

Then we will see all sorts of cyber attacks throughout NATO countries.

We will also probably get to DEFCON 4 at some point, but will not know it for 10 years.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fauci-on-the-uncertain-future-of-covid-19-amid-changing-public-health-guidelinesstate-of-the-pandemic

These people need scrutiny:

The San Francisco school board recall was about GOVERNANCE.
Not POLICY.

If you want to be in government, you need to govern.

If you are only focused on policy, governing is compromised.

If you are only focused on equality issues at the expense of getting children back into the classroom, you are not governing.

That's why we threw them out 3-to-1.

Well, isn't this a messy one!

"...thousands of baptisms he had performed were invalid because he had changed a single word. He said, "We baptize you ... ," instead of "I baptize you ... ."

"Subsequent sacraments, including marriage, may need to be repeated by those who had invalid baptisms performed by Arango, according to the Diocese of Phoenix. "

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/baptisms-performed-phoenix-priest-invalid-changed-one-word-rcna16268

I just spent 3 months designing a mechanism with a huge torsion spring. Over-engineered, but it should have worked well for its purpose.

I just determined that I designed it backwards.

I made this realization after fabricating the parts, tuning it, installing it, and loading it up with 100 lbs of skull-splattering torque.

Sometimes you need to keep asking yourself the most simple questions before asking the harder ones.

New Rule:
If you are not attempting to solve a problem you cannot complain about it.
"Attempting" includes trying to understand the problem.

We should be clarifying the term "stupid" for use in the cultural arguments clouding our society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

An ethical position cannot be rationalized by a religious belief.

It is, fundamentally, a BELIEF.

A belief might make a person think something is wrong, and therefore unethical or immoral. But, it is still grounded in a belief.

If someone cannot successfully argue, without referring to spirit or soul or God's Creation, that a fully defined human being is created at conception, then we cannot get to the argument about the ethics of abortion.

A belief is insufficient for a morality.

A Robot is serving drinks for journalists at the Beijing Olympics.

"Racism" is now too loaded a term.
"Groupism" is closer to the core of the faulty human judgment.
It captures the same stupidity that assigns inappropriate attributes to a race, gender, political party or job.