Odds and Ends — 3 April 2022

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I had just purchased a Spirit Hoarder and wanted to try it out. But the Explosive Weaponary rule set was too much for it, didn’t even live through the first round. On the other hand, Baakjira did a fine job of soaking up damage.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Just 2 million Bitcoin left to mine: Bitcoin hits the 19 million milestone

DeFi Lender Inverse Finance Exploited for $15.6M

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Made by Moderna? China Spreads Yet Another Debunked COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory

German man got COVID jab 87 times

Politics:

Garland Faces Pressure as Jan. 6 Investigation Widens

The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments.
And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.

A President not leaning on his AG to go after a political opponent? How quaint.

Ukraine regains full control of Kyiv region for first time since Russian invasion

I wouldn’t get too excited by this “retreat”. As I understand it, Russian troops are conscripted nation-wide on April 1 and, after completing X years in the military (I think it varies depending on the branch of service), are released from the military on March 31. So this may be little more than pulling back temporarily to ship out some soldiers and get new ones.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that Russia has no equivalent to the Basic Training that the U.S. military has; new recruits are sent directly to their units.

An Austrian military analyst: Deliver arms before the second wave comes down on Ukraine

Negotiations on the one hand and nuclear threats on the other are a diversion to keep Europeans hopeful and nervous at the same time. Moscow wants the West to de-prioritise arms deliveries, either for the hope of a negotiated settlement or the fear of nuclear war. Neither will happen.
In fact, the West needs to double down on arms deliveries: only if Ukraine can blunt the sword of Russia’s second strike, Putin may accept that he can’t gain his aims in Ukraine militarily. To do that, Ukraine needs to resupply and re-equip its armed forces. These three weeks have been exhaustive for both.

One Federal Judge’s Primal Scream About The Dramatic Erosion Of Voting Rights

Inside Ginni Thomas’ ‘Insane’ Hiring Memos for Trump

U.S. Will Help Transfer Soviet-Made Tanks to Ukraine

The Biden administration will work with allies to transfer Soviet-made tanks to bolster Ukrainian defenses in the country’s eastern Donbas region.
The decision to act as an intermediary to help transfer the Soviet-made tanks, which Ukrainian troops know how to use, comes in response to a request from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, the official said. It marks the first time in the war that the United States has helped transfer tanks.

Zelenskyy: Retreating Russians leave many mines behind

A Week on Trump’s Social Network

I downloaded the Truth Social app on launch day and created an account – only to be told I’d been put on a waitlist in spot number 157,120. Three weeks later, on March 14, I was finally allowed to use the app.
And I found…not very much. It was like a conservative ghost town that had been overrun by bots.

Cancer surgeon ‘visited Putin 35 times in four years’

President Putin was visited by a cancer surgeon 35 times in four years at his Black Sea residence, an investigation has claimed.
As Putin approaches his 70th birthday, he is attended to by a brigade of doctors including Yevgeny Selivanov, an oncology surgeon who specialises in thyroid cancer, according to Proyekt, a Russian investigative journalism group.
Selivanov allegedly visited the Russian leader for a total of 166 days over four years while Putin was in Sochi. Putin, a black belt judoka who enjoys adventure holidays in Siberia’s boreal forest, is also said to have turned to alternative medicine, indulging in a practice of bathing in blood extracted from severed deer antlers.

Serendipity:

The Human Genome Project pieced together only 92% of the DNA – now scientists have finally filled in the remaining 8%

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