Hmmm.

«“As people here say, if it comes down to exchanging gunfire, you’ve already made a mistake.” He volunteered during the 2014-15 war against Russian proxies in the Donbas area.

“When I was in my first campaign, I thought, what on earth are those drones, I have to be the real man, carry a gun on my shoulder, go seek out the enemy,” said the 33-year-old. “I’m older and wiser now.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-drone-spotters-on-front-lines-wage-new-kind-of-war-11659870805

Based on a link from an article on Sen. Josh Hauley (blah blah blah, who cares?), I’m drinking a drink called a Missouri Jackass (except I don’t have limeade, so i just went with a lime), and I gotta say: holy moly y’all. This is a boilermaker without the in-your-face bourbon-ness to warn you. The rum just HIDES. Extreme caution is advised.

(Maybe it’s the fact that I don’t have any Michelob Ultra in the house, just high-falutin’ white liberal beer.)

12 oz beer

6 oz light rum

6 oz frozen limeade

https://www.crystalmixer.com/missouri-jackass-recipe/

Random factoid:

«Today, 24 million more households consist of adult roommates than in 1995.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/10/work-its-whats-for-dinner/599770/

«The historian Michael Tadman has estimated that the domestic [slave] trade split up about one third of first marriages in the upper South and separated nearly half of all children in the region from at least one parent.»

https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/RR_sample.html

Oof.

Alex Jones was just found liable for $4 million in damages and then ten times as much for punitive damages, which is a legitimate legal thing (I thought triple was sort of the standard, though). My recent reparations back-of-the-envelope calculations didn’t even take punitive damages into consideration.

Really, not a place I want to be:

So… this is kind of cool (especially the image recording and the privacy info (I wonder if I signed something that says they can change their privacy policy without notice)):

Ok, this is good:

🙂 When the news is just too bizarre: