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May 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm somewhat obsessed with Michael Bourn in the #Phillies broadcast booth. I did not expect this. I would like them to keep bringing him in.
Hey @Phillies can we keep Michael Bourn? He's doing great!
I've enjoyed Bourn and Durbin the most. I think they would both make worthy successors to LA, who seems intent on abandoning me.
Don't see any reason why they couldn't bring both of them in.

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May 5
When the rifle was introduced on the battlefield, one of the ideas was that a highly accurate weapon could be used to target officers and sergeants, which would disorganize advancing troops. It's still a hella valid battlefield objective.
Generals are like normal soldiers only older and with different responsibilities. They're deaths are more impactful to battlefield organization, but this notion that a dozen give or take generals being killed is somehow worse than thousands of Russian troops is kinda weird.
Generals are just like other soldiers only they have a staff that does everything for them while they think General thoughts and nod in ppt briefings
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May 5
This headline is very "saved-you-a-click" Image
"Well... I now know that, and need no further information."
On a related note, however, this season of The Flight Attendant is really good. I wasn't expecting it to be very good, mind. It veered into the ridiculous in Season 1. But the writers have pulled it off.
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May 5
People who keep harping on about how Ukraine is a vital national interest to Russia but not to us can't seem to comprehend that the rules based order is a core national interest for us.
It's what all our international institutions are organized around. It's pretty important.
It's because at their core they don't believe in liberal internationalism. So their arguments often come off as practiced lordly distain for such idealistic hogwash. "Let me tell you how the world really works, sonny."

But the rules based order is how it works.
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May 4
What's cooler than being cool? Image
Been doing some heavy research into the earliest days of this program and when Webb was just a notional "next-generation space telescope" the idea was to get the cold side down to about 100 kelvin. It's significantly colder than that in the final analysis.
There would have been no practical way to actively (mechanically) cool a 6.5-meter telescope, which is why the sun shield was essentially invented from scratch. A much smaller multi-layer concept was employed on the Cosmic Background Explorer sat, but Webb was a whole 'nother. Image
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May 4
Every war in history:

washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/…
Some people genuinely sympathize with the occupier.

Some people have scores to settle.

Some people just outright decide they'd rather not die for this and make a bet that they can weasel their way out of it and never get caught.

Humans are complicated.
Some French enthusiastically dimed out their neighbors to the Nazis, and not just the Vichy types and Holocaust collaborators.

I'm talking super petty s***. There are amusing anecdotes about German officers getting frustrated running down "tips" from people just being trifling.
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May 4
Yeah I don't think he's welcome here... marieclaire.co.uk/royal-news/pri…
Additionally, putting himself within reach of federal agents at any given moment: if I were his attorney I'd advise against it.
If he's truly innocent (🙄) he MIGHT have nothing to worry about. I have my opinions on his innocence, But even if he was, what if a certain convicted socialite decided getting 10 years knocked off her sentence would be worth a lil chat w/ the feds?
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