StringJunky

This Intercept contributor thinks they both lost their nerve and will be killed in some creative ways. I wonder who is waiting in the wings?

You are probably right, but they could still try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear from this ex post facto.

Or it was mutually pre-conceived for strategic purposes. OR, Putin is in a really weak position and had no choice. Novichok/Lethal things does come to mind as a potential 'solution' for Prigozhin.

Gamblers only remember their winnings too.

Absence of modification may mean it was already adapted... first time lucky, so to speak.

Political prostitution at it's most lethal, methinks.

Musk will be exponentially more impactful, I think, when one his plans goes wrong.. Would I be right in thinking Musk is more like Edison (of lightbulb fame), who thought of an idea, then got people together and was the money man?

I don't think it's anywhere near that situation. It may look like impending Armaggedon to you, but this is just 'busy' for people like Putin... and even other leaders.

They have issued redlines on several occasions...

I don't think he'll shit in his own backyard.

Well, she isn't a Dem now, so she's got to get the 2024 campaign cash from somewhere... hasn't she?

I'm kind of expecting Belarussian-based Wagner units in the future. Lukashenko is too worried about his own conscripts taking flight in battle and swapping sides. Even if not planned, it seems a reasonable potential progression plan from here, based on what's just happened.

Was that just a ruse to re-mobilize 25 000 Wagner fighters to be able to attack from the North? A Reuters headline: These guys committed treason, however you look at it. Or is it just strategic BS? Throwing chaff around for the next maneuver.

One chap, who was his friend, said he was a lovely chap, but drank too much of his own Kool-Aid. Elon Musk is also prone to this sort of thinking.... and he wants to send people to Mars.

Could the turtles bellies be adapted for when swimming near the surface, to reduce attention from predators lower down in the water?

True.

The US has just released a declassified document on where they are with it. https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf

It was symbolic of his approach: "It'll do."

In a space like that? What spares do you take? It might not be that problem you have a spare for.

Yours?

The constant is the sun position, so that feature is reflected all over the globe.

But built to a price, probably not adequate for a mission as critical as that. The price you pay in high-end mission critical equipment is the testing of the individual products. ie The test sampling rate on the production would be much higher than a shop bought controller.