Front row at Bonnaroo to see Sigur Ros. Hung out at the front of the stage for five hours with some nice strangers and saw an incredible performance. I haven't been to Bonnaroo in awhile but the atmosphere of the other festival goers makes the event. The openness to strangers and general kindness at what should be a miserable packed event will always stick with me. Go if you can. It's one thing I'll perpetually entertain going to as long as they have it each year.
After that, found out Kanye still hadn't taken his stage. Totally had planned on missing him for Sigur Ros. Fell asleep waiting for him to take stage and walked back to camp at 4am. Crazy it's almost 20 years ago.
Lacking any real plan for ending the mess they started they're just going to throw their weight into delaying consequences as long as they can. Unfortunately their creativity is limited to the most transparent lies.
I live in an area where there's tons of flooded mines. They're toxic. They'll kill larger waterways and everything in them if they breach containment. The creeks here run different colors depending on what mine is leaking into them and most of the coal industry stopped mining a hundred years ago.
A lot of that is the insane lethality and size of the front in this war. If someone is on the front, it's 50km before you can begin to start feeling safe from drones. Are you going to amplify attrition on rescue missions that have a high chance of failure?
Some of the problem is that there's been heavy incentives on destroying enemy equipment. An attacking drone unit has their eyes on what keeps their unit running and likely isn't coordinating too heavily with a defense unit that's been in a hole for months.
If they can gamify the recording of strikes for supplies, they could also put an increasing bounty on supplying units via drop the longer they've been without. The reinforcement/evac of troops in these positions is a tough nut to crack.
Not sure why people are still watching the draft on network television. At the very least you can watch McAfee's show without commercials on youtube and it was live live.
If you grew up in a place called the Rust Belt this may not come as a surprise.