Who is coming back?! Where are they coming back to?

It’s not Leatherface, is it? Watch out Big Mike!

I feel that in my area the driving culture has become so toxic that there’s a better than average chance that indicating a lane change (which I always do) will lead to the vehicle in the lane you’re attempting to change into accelerating to prevent you from ‘getting in front of them.’
It’s so frustrating (and dangerous!). It seems that a lot of folks feel entitled to the road, or the patch of road in front of their car fro as long as the eye can see, and are willing to behave irrationally regarding it.

I feel that telegraphing that your vehicle is slowing down (for any purpose) will lead to overconfidence or even willful misunderstanding by other drivers. A careful slow-down will turn to panic as they try to take advantage of the situation. I also think that drivers will focus on the vehicles too much, and will not focus on things like pedestrians or perhaps why your car is slowing down, and wind up contributing to the problem.

You are a light in the darkness.

Right! I can’t wait to hear about all the new historical events!

I wonder if anyone witnessed the burning of the Library of Alexandria and felt a similar sense of despair for the future of knowledge.

While filling late night silence with noise, I recently saw a YouTube video of the format where a voice (possibly AI?) stretched a Reddit comment from a D&D (variant of some kind) DM into a 20 minute long narrative.
The story was that the DM gave a “that guy” murderhobo an outlet for their shoot ‘em up artificer murderhobo ways by bringing an NPC ghost into the party for dinner, whereupon the ghost could not ‘eat’ with them until the murderhobo, at the ghost’s prompting, shot the ghost’s plate of food, causing it to splatter and shatter, spraying the party-mates with food, revealing the ghost plate in its stead, which the ghost happily chowed down on - joining the party for dinner, and giving the player some way to feel like a very special boy.

Anyway. Wonder if the artist saw that comment or perhaps the video.

I think Ukraine can only pull off a big attack like this a few times. Not because they’re incapable, or Russia, now aware of the method, can defend against it, but because each attack generates data. The more data you have, the greater the ability to analyze and spot patterns, which puts Ukrainian operators at risk.

Although it would be excellent if another attack happened very soon against another relatively irreplaceable Russian asset. But a campaign of smaller scale harassment throughout the country would suffice to harm morale and keep supply constraints, well, constrained.

Disclaimer, I’m just a rando with a search habit. Not like, a professional analyst.

It’s maybe not the dumbest to use them in this way - their carrying capacity meant fewer sorties per pound of munition delivered.

But also, it seems like Russia is picking and choosing how it deploys resources, presumably so its more advanced jets do not have to be put at risk (there are various reasons for why that may be so - the linked article discusses them).

The other side of it is that keeping the strategic fleet demonstrably in use signals to other countries that Russia may be able to back up their nuclear saber-rattling.

My immediate thought was “That’s not all they’re going to be hitting…”

Well, shit.

Biden did that.

I’ll have at recalibrate my thoughts a bit.