@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 00:51:35
The near deadlock on land has led to an alternative Ukrainian effort to win by economic means.
While Russia has stepped up bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
and residents of the country’s cities endure electricity outages,
Kyiv is still able to get power to the front,
its defences not obviously impaired.
And despite the regularity of Russian drone and missile attacks,
civilian morale appears not to have been significantly affected.
In retu…
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-11-23 09:48:49
During my fever on Friday night I was convinced I was in an alternate reality, travelling the US via casino-trains.
(If I can remember it, in the dream, there was some pre-1920s judgment that said that gambling on a card game played on an interstate train was not subject to any state's regulation. Fast forward a century and the US had a highly developed rail network, but most passenger trains were also casinos.)