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Hello, Andrew.

Hey, Bob.

Happy Earthling Day to you, Andrew.

How you doing?

I'm good.

I guess we should explain. You know, Earthling Day is not, unfortunately, although this doing? I'm good. I guess we should explain.

You know, Earthling Day is not, unfortunately, although this would be cool.

It's not an international holiday.

Rather, the Earthling is the weekend edition of the Non-Zero newsletter on Substack.

And Earthling Unplugged is when you and I talk about items from the Friday edition of the newsletter, The Earthling. Maybe before we

jump into items from this week's Earthling, is there anything that caught your eye about

domestic politics or world politics or culture or anything this week? No, I mean, just the continued

deterioration of the world and our ongoing drift toward apocalypse.

Let's see.

So, like, this, I think this thing in Ukraine is a little concerning the way we're planning to authorize long-range missile strikes into Russian territory.

And Putin has now said very publicly, this will, we will take this to mean we are now war with NATO, basically. I mean,

hasn't that what he said more or less? He did. Yeah, he said that. I don't know what the status of

this is. I mean, first, there were rumors that the U.S. and Britain were considering authorizing,

or as they put it, like loosening these constraints on Ukraine to use Western-made missiles

deeper into Russian territory. And then it's like those rumors were these constraints on Ukraine to use Western-made missiles deeper

into Russian territory. And then it's like those rumors were confirmed, but then I don't know

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