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On the honours board at Lords for batting and bowling. Hat trick. All in 10 Tests. Atkinson: "Test Cricket? Completed it mate."

England net 300-1. You'd think this match is functionally over as a contest.

That's special.

Proper war of attrition this.

Artemis timeline slips by another six months, due to additional crew capsule concerns. Guess it could have been worse.

Aussies looking for immediate vengeance.

The US is mostly an outlier in things like this, it's true. But we shouldn't forget that a fair part of the UK population implicitly voted for a system like the US one - and consequences like it - when they chose Reform at the last election. Who knows how many will do similarly at the next one? Don't think such a shift in the UK, and elsewhere, couldn’t happen. NB. I think any such system should be measured by how well it serves everyone. It doesn't matter the US healthcare system deals bleeding-edge outcomes to the few that can afford it (and it does), it fails because it doesn't assure even the most basic prevention of death and suffering for the many.

And Brook continues to sparkle.

Think what's happened in the NZ innings has vindicated Englands approach tbh - this pitch is a seamers paradise (especially with the quality of bowling on both sides) and if you go too defensive then you're getting got anyway. Better to make the runs as fast as you can before that happens.

According to the Beeb statto, it's only happened once before. Naturally it was Chris Gayle, and he hit two of them.

Not often you see a six in the first over of a Test.

I hope a sidebar to this is also condemning the practices of the company that father headed and the system that enabled it that directly contributed to the further sickness and death of a great many fathers.

I tend to think of it as causality in action, rather than something to be celebrated or condemned to be honest.

That's about the size of it. And when people feel they have nothing to lose and they see people they perceive as responsible... I think you may be right.

The bullet casings from the shooting of the health exec had "Defend, Deny, Depose" inscribed on them. From what I have read, that's from a book illustrating healthcare corps tactics to deny affordable treatment to their clients. ("Defend the company, deny payouts, depose clients", for instance.) Reasonable assumption that it was someone with an axe to grind against the US healthcare "system", then.

... I'm sure the insurance company will use all the tools at their disposal to avoid paying out, as usual.

... are we sure he didn't just have a preexisting condition?

NB. If this had happened 18 months ago:

From what I know, the system over there is similar to the US in that the head of the executive is also the commander in chief of the armed forces, so in essence the military would only listen to orders from the president while he is in office, even if his parliament then countermanded him. Perhaps this might give some folks in the US some food for thought about how bad that system can go when you have a person in charge willing to abuse their power and go that far to retain it.

Elon Musk, for playing a big part in doxxing government climate scientists, knowing full well what the consequences would be for them, their families and friends, and their highly critical work.

I can only guess, but the most plausible theory is that he snapped through frustration (at having his agenda stymied so much by an unfriendly parliament) and desperation (he knew the axe was coming down wrt the corruption allegations sooner or later), and so something drastic, even with only a small chance of success, was better than the certainty and inevitability of failure if he didn't draw more power to himself. Of course, it didn't work for him, and now I would expect both a resignation/impeachment and a criminal trial to be in his future.

And Yoon backs down. Odd evening in Seoul.

It's either that or things descend into proper nastiness. We'll know pretty soon I think, and thankfully it's much more likely to be the former.

... and pretty much his entire legislative body has essentially told Yoon to fvck off. I wonder where things go from here.