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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • F16’s won’t give Ukraine much of an advantage until sufficient numbers of pilots are a trained. There are two weapons that could immediately change the battlefield landscape. GLSDB’s and ATACM’s are long range precision bombs that would allow Ukraine to target Russian supply lines and ammunition stores far behind the front lines, including into Crimea. They both have backup inertial guidance systems in order to mitigate GPS jamming… which is a big problem for their current guided munitions.













  • I’ve been a fan of “Trova” and it’s many offshoots ever since I first heard a song by Silvio Rodriguez when I was starting to learn Spanish. I’ve been hooked every since and to this day it remains my favorite genre. I’ve been lucky enough to see some artists live (recently saw Inti-Illimani and Quilapayún in Medellin). I think it’s high time for the same movement in English music. Unfortunately (maybe this is just me getting old) but it seems much of modern music is either bland and boring or else just plain anti-social, glorifying violence and misogyny.





  • High inflation is worse for workers than high interest rates since wage hikes always lag price rises. This round of inflation was brought to us by poor economic decisions … pumping billions of dollars into the economy without raising taxes, as well as the Ukraine war. It wasn’t caused by corporate greed, as some claim. The BoC is doing absolutely the right thing. If they don’t raise rates now they only kick the can down the road when the pain would be far worse.


  • It seems like the US is scrambling and scratching to find whatever can break the deadlock. A better option would be to simply allow Ukraine to join NATO and bring them under NATO’s security umbrella. This strategy comes with the risk of escalation but as long as NATO troops have clear rules of engagement, and are explicitly forbidden from launching any attack at Russia itself, I don’t see how Russia can claim their intervention as an “existential threat” ((although they will anyway since that was the initial justification for the invasion).