At first, yes - the scene where she wails on him in the Winfield House garden while her security detail watch impassively is hilarious - but I think it doesn't know what it is anymore.

The thing I struggled with for a while was assessing how far the car extended to my right and left - also never found myself on the wrong side of the road but have I put my passenger right up against a hedgerow because my brain insisted they can't be sitting to my left? Well ... not *recently* ...

Thanks Ian!

The report linked above is the first of four we're going to be publishing over the next month, along with some other ancillary materials. These were written for the ministry, but we think they're valuable for anyone trying to understand the role that technology and innovation are playing in the war.

About a year ago, the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation asked us to produce some research on a series of questions about technology and warfare. We put together a series of research teams to try and answer those questions, using interviews, fieldwork in Ukraine, and other methods.

Would you also accept a Star Wars Greyhound with the captain of a New Republic Nebulon-B frigate fighting exhaustion and self doubt as they try to shepherd a convoy of transports across an asteroid belt while being picked apart by Imperial remnant ambushes?

At least the political, character, and military-technical elements by the end are all equally ludicrous, which kept me from throwing my phone at the TV screen while yelling THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS during the expository dialogue.

This is genuine praise, by the way. I am - at best - an extremely casual baseball fan and am not really following the series but the posts are excellent.

... Do they sell Subarus that don't?

Allow me to balance this revelation out with an extremely unsurprising fact about Bernie, which is that - at least according to a video I saw of him turning up at his VT polling place - he drives a previous generation Subaru Forester in light green.

"Where's the safety?"

"... Who needs that though?"

(we did not learn how to disassemble an AK in shop class in central Maine in the 1990s, to be clear... Although I do remember that one of the projects we could make in shop was a gun rack)

Yeah. I actually don't know if it was in Ukraine (I mean before 2022, it obviously is now), but also an interesting question about memory because most of their mobilized infantry are in their 30s and 40s, and I'm not sure I have any comparable leftover skills from eg. my shop class in 1997...

"he picked up this" [holding up an AK] "turned it over and just said, oh yeah, I know how this works."

I visited one of the Interflex sites where the Brits and a bunch of allied states are training Ukrainian civilians into infantry a few years ago and asked one of the trainers who his most talented recruit had been. Zero hesitation: "guy had been a professional e-sports player, a Counterstrike guy."

Single best moment in that game (which has plenty) is halfway through the bridge level, when Fergus rescues you and then picks you up in the chopper and as he flies you around gives a quick speech about how you're the strong silent Nazi killing type, then goes "Welp, back to it!" and drops you off.

I'm from Maine and have watched A Bridge Too Far half a dozen times at least! Put me in, coach!

"The Death Star has to be understood as a metaphor for what a band of aristocratic, elitist 'rebels' like Bail Organa and Mon Mothma viewed as overweening imperial interference into their affairs. Rather than an authentic grassroots movement, they represent a self protective petit bourgeoisie..."

Yeah, but you drive your car onto a train which then goes through a tunnel under the ocean. It's so cool it can shrug off the goofy name.

(Unless of course you happen to accidentally trigger your car's emergency alarm while in said train car traveling under the sea. That is... less cool. I'm told.)