. @Render
With this trajectory, do you think that Blinken and Austin's visit is to plan an offensive? Maybe they know how to mitigate the nuclear threat if they can go deeper into Russia?

The Belarusian railway workers who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv

"Starting in the earliest days of the invasion in February, a clandestine network of railway workers, hackers and dissident security forces went into action to disable or disrupt the railway links connecting Russia to Ukraine through Belarus, wreaking havoc on Russian supply lines."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/23/ukraine-belarus-railway-saboteurs-russia/

Just spent an hour with my mother-in-law at her palliative care residence.

While terribly sad to see her decline, it teaches me so much about who we are and how we consider the world before us.

She's terrified, stressed and confused. The information coming in from her eyes and ears takes a long time to make sense. And she's very unhappy.

Data --> Information --> Comprehension --> Emotional reaction. When any of those steps get compromised, we are unhappy.

We still have so much to learn.

Orrin Hatch has died.

I shall have a glass of wine now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/orrin-g-hatch-longest-serving-republican-in-senate-history-dies-at-88/2022/04/23/df938ada-0483-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html

Got the rig updated with a new filter. Time to design and print some brackets.

"Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant burned down today on the outskirts of Moscow. This is the largest Russian manufacturer of chemical solvents. Located 250 miles EAST of Moscow. We are beginning to see a pattern develop."
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1517172233629626368
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1517172233629626368

This evening...
over a bottle of wine*...
I tried to explain to my wife....
how the fight in Ukraine..
could be our Great Filter....
and our test...
that billions of alien civilizations...
did not pass...
so that is why we are alone.

(*it was actually 2 bottles)

Leon Panetta just said, on CNN, that the specific ICBM launched by Russia could be taken out by our military and that we have nothing to worry about.
Based on my scant research on the topic, this seems over-confident relative to the available data on the US's counter-measures.
@Render, thoughts?

We had a little dinner party on Sunday with 6 friends.

This morning I find out that the friend sitting next to me tested positive for COVID.

Immediate reaction: Meh...

2X boosted, healthy, no symptoms.

I tested negative this morning, but will test again tomorrow.

As someone who tracks COVID data and was an avid proponent of slowing the spread, my current attitude is insightful for me. I'm over it.

I'll quarantine for a few days, but afterwards will plan to go on with life.

Hey @th3j35t3r , do you think this has any merit? The Ukr's will be very interested in retribution regardless of the outcome of the war. This data would provide them targets.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684925/Hackers-Anonymous-release-personal-data-120-000-Russian-soldiers-fighting-Ukraine.html

Looks like the Russians are going deep into Kyiv and executing sabotage to kill civilians and spread terror:

https://twitter.com/thevillageua/status/1516334703359447043

Florida!
Is there nothing normal in that state?
"Sheriff's deputies captured video of a large alligator crawling through a front yard in Florida before making its way into a community lake."
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1516101538334322697

Pretty cool milestone in California!
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/15/california-ran-on-nearly-100-clean-energy-this-month/

Phoebus, Mar's moon, attempts to do a solar eclipse:
https://twitter.com/landru79/status/1513247106991013899

Hey @th3j35t3r,
@TVietor08 on the bird-site is interested in a bird-site-alternative. He has a really huge podcast audience.

https://twitter.com/jurban1997/status/1514660583181721633

Last night I watched a WSJ documentary on the supply chain. A big bottleneck is the lack of truck drivers and it is only going to get worse.

Solution: Allow any immigrant into the country if they can drive a truck.
- 5 year path to citizenship as long as they drive a truck for that period.
- Train & certify them in border towns if they can't yet drive a truck.

It's a win-win-win.

That looks like something new: