Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Did Musk tank a spending bill because it would have harmed his business in China?
From @theprospect.bsky.social
prospect.org/politics/202...

"As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Putin's bragging about the supposedly new Oreshnik missile was an organized propaganda show, writes Moscow Times.
Outsiders weren't sufficiently scared by nuclear threats so the Russians had to invent something new
www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/12/03/s...

Verifying the freshly CNC milled soft jaws for the RC L-1011 Nose Gear Uppers Drag Brace are correct. These are for Op 2 of 4. You can see a 3D printed brace used as a stand in.

On to make the next set.

#cnc #rc

Twelve books of Christmas

"Mr. Kushner, 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 16 counts of tax evasion, a single count of retaliating against a federal witness and one of lying to the Federal Election Commission"
and so now he will be US ambassador to France
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...

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museum of modern art Bilbao. Cosplay Dragon. photo Tatjana Kobuszewska