If that were true, then Ukrainian airpower would be obliterating the Russian army with good old dumb bombs, while Russias fighters were kept at bay by Ukrainian SAMs and the drone threat to their airfields.

Not sure why you're so desperate for this to be true, there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that more work needs to be done. Declaring success prematurely is unnecessary.

Don't underestimate their air defense, it's not dead yet. I'm sure they're conserving interceptors so they don't actually fully run out, and can still deny airspace to more expensive platforms Ukraine would like to use along the frontline.

Their problem has always been too much area to protect, and drones being hard to deal with in general for modern air defense. Not that their air defense is actually useless or anything like that. There's still a lot of degrading that needs to be done to it.

I'll just leave this little bluesey tune here:

https://youtu.be/c0OA3khCZiU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation

That should answer all your navigation questions.

Regarding crew morale, I haven't studied Columbus since maybe HS, but I do recall the voyage was a fairly close thing. His calculations severely underestimated the size of the Earth, so he was sailing for much longer than he expected to be. I'm not sure if he had to put down any attempted mutinies, but it wouldn't surprise me.

This is more of a system issue than bad behavior of an individual charity.

Charities can underpay a little bit, because working for a charity has its own appeal. But if you want a talented, experienced person to run your org, you have to consider what they could make if they worked for someone else. San Diego is not a cheap city, and has its fair share of CEO positions.

If you really want to stretch your dollar though, local food banks are probably a better bet.

No, they've been getting progressively crazier since 2016.

2000 was fairly divisive, it went to the Supreme Court after all. But it wasn't even a fraction this dramatic, people mostly shrugged and figured GWB would be like his father, which was unfortunate, but sane at any rate. Nobody was really predicting 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.

2004 was pretty dull. John Kerry challenged GWB but felt sort of like an empty suit.

2008 was nice, Obama was a strong and exciting candidate vs the very known quantity of McCain, who was a moderate repub known for bipartisanship. Sarah Palin provided for hours of entertaining impersonations by people like Tina Fey, but since she was the VP candidate nobody really cared.

2012 was dull. Romney was a strong candidate, another moderate repub. But Obama was fine, he hadn't broken the country or anything. Brought us out of a recession, even if people were upset about bank bailouts and stuff. Lot of people got health insurance.

Then it starts getting spicy.

I mean, tbf that was admittedly last millennium.

"If I have to create stories so that ~~the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people~~ we win, then that's what I'm going to do."

Yea, we already knew that JD, thanks.

Eh, there's one additional way we can stop them. A landslide victory that puts her massively over the electoral college threshold would make a handful of compromised counties completely irrelevant.

lol This is almost as good as getting him to say out loud that he's never had sexual relations with any living room furniture.

Ah, LinkedIn, exactly where I want to get nuanced answers to weird questions from.

Have to admit, Extinction Rebellion is a pretty good name for an activist group.