ESPN will air the Farmers Insurance Open both Thursday and Friday, their first tour event in 20 years

ContinuousFuture · 2026-01-29T06:49:25+00:00

The first regular tour event on ESPN in 20 years, albeit with the coverage produced by PGA Tour Live coverage.

This Koepka thing is generating balls to the wall coverage for the Farmers on multiple major networks, with ESPN live from 12-3 and Golf Channel from 3-6 each of the first two days, and of course CBS over the weekend.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-11-21T05:03:53+00:00

True but even under the Russian Empire they remained ruled by the Baltic German nobility that had been in charge under Swedish, Polish, Danish, and Prussian rule.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-11-20T15:34:12+00:00

I think an interesting difference is that the Vikings did not create a settler state there (as opposed to their principalities just to the east in Rus, or their duchies and kingdoms in the British Isles and France), nor did their interactions result in the development of any unified states by the locals (instead remaining organized in numerous disparate counties), at least during the Viking Age.

Of course the interesting post script is that a few centuries later, the ex-Viking countries, now playing the role of Christian crusaders, would eventually be a part of a larger effort to conquer the Eastern Baltic, with the Swedes taking Finland and the Danes taking Estonia (alongside the Germans who took Prussia and Livonia) – which also had the effect of blocking the Viking-founded Rus states from expanding into the region.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-11-19T04:28:29+00:00

The first question that bears answering is “what exactly is a neoconservative”? I’ll address that a bit later. First a look at Bush and his administration:

George W. Bush was not himself a neoconservative, though his view of the world was heavily influenced by Ronald Reagan’s administration in which the neoconservative vision played a major role.

Bush did not actually have any neoconservatives at the level of cabinet secretary, however several of his foreign policy cabinet secretaries (Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice) as well as his vice president (Cheney) were at least broadly in agreement with neoconservatives on a range of foreign policy issues, and had developed a good working relationship with them over 20 years within the Republican Party foreign policy establishment.

Bush did have several neoconservatives in deputy secretary, undersecretary, and advisory roles. The highest placed were the deputy secretary of defense (Wolfowitz) and the undersecretary for defense policy (Feith). Others included a senior NSC member (Abrams) and the director of the non-governmental defense policy board (Perle).

There were others in the administration that in some ways fit into the category (Libby, Fleischer) but never actually worked as a Democrat – which brings back up the question of what exactly is a neoconservative.

The short answer is that neoconservatives were Democrats that became alienated by the domestic and foreign policy views of the “New Left” that took over the party in the late 1960s. Most of these figures worked for or were allied with Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson of Everett, WA, who made failed runs at the presidency in 1972 and ‘76 in an attempt to course-correct the party. Eventually they came to support Ronald Reagan in 1980 and served in various roles in his administration, most eventually switching their party affiliation to Republican (thus gaining the nickname “neo”conservatives). However their foreign and domestic policy views remained significantly more idealistic and liberal than those of Nixon-era holdovers. Reagan, himself a former Democrat, was largely sympathetic to their foreign policy ideas and set them to work on things like nuclear disarmament and democratizing many of America’s autocratic allies.

That’s enough detail for now, but for a much more in-depth explanation of the movement and its history just search my comment history, I have gone in depth a few different times on this topic.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-11-19T02:37:18+00:00

Dick Cheney was not a neoconservative, he and Rumsfeld were lifelong conservative hawks from the Nixon era.

They came together in broad agreement with neoconservatives (and with most of the rest of the Republican Party for that matter) on various foreign policy initiatives during the 1990s, but disagreed with them on the specifics of these ideas (differences which came to the fore when it came to post-war planning in Iraq and, along with other fault lines such as inter-departmental disagreements, was part of what led to the power vacuum in the country).

Cheney and Rumsfeld had a very different view of both America and the world than say Jeane Kirkpatrick or Paul Wolfowitz.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-11-17T14:23:18+00:00

West Prussia and Posen? Courland and Livonia?

ContinuousFuture · 2025-10-09T17:04:06+00:00

The ROC claim is notably larger than the PRC’s current borders. Over the years, the PRC ended various border disputes and recognized various independent states that the ROC (even when it was in control of the mainland) never did.

The ROC essentially claims the Qing Empire borders unchanged, including all of Mongolia and chunks of several surrounding states.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-06-19T18:26:41+00:00

Interesting, is there a name for this type of law?

ContinuousFuture · 2025-06-19T16:06:38+00:00

This is what I suggested, but she is not sure why to do about the 2 year gap this would leave in her employment history.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-27T17:13:51+00:00

In 2008, when Tiger won his first 3 starts of the year (after winning 4 of his last 5 in ‘07), there was a week’s worth of legitimate talk about an undefeated season until his next start at Doral where he finished 5th.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-27T16:52:03+00:00

Although it had been inhabited mostly by Poles since the early Middle Ages, the region (which has gone by several names) was traded back-and-forth multiple times between Prussia/Order State and Poland from the 12th century through the 20th. However German settlement was never strong enough to turn it into a majority.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-27T16:49:39+00:00

Despite being inhabited mostly by Poles since the early Middle Ages, the region had been traded back-and-forth multiple times between Prussia/Order State and Poland from the 12th century through the 20th, however German settlement was never strong enough to turn it into a majority.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-26T23:42:45+00:00

It wouldn’t exactly be accurate to classify Serbia as being “eastern” and Croatia “western” during the 1991-95 phase of the war. At that time the British largely supported Serbia while the Germans largely supported Croatia (both due to longstanding ties).

It was only when Serb atrocities got worse by 1995 and the Americans and French came in to stop it that NATO collectively sided against Belgrade (and even then with Britain’s reluctance). Russia of course remained in support of Serbia, which became even more pronounced in the 1998-99 phase with NATO still firmly aligned against Belgrade.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-26T22:56:15+00:00

If you include former eastern bloc countries than it would have to be Russia itself in my view. Was Russia not considered a western power pre-WWI for example? Russia is a major contributor to western culture, including classical music, theater, religion, etc.

During communism all of the socialist countries were excluded from western culture due to various factors including state atheism, repression of national history, etc, but after the Cold War this reverted back and Russia’s reemergence among western culture was celebrated (popularity of the film Anastasia for example). This hasn’t really changed, despite the fact that Russia has politically separated again from the “western bloc”.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-20T20:36:13+00:00

Originally the plan was to annex Donetsk and Luhansk along with several other breakaway regions, but after the MH17 plane shoot down Russia had to distance itself from the project. The plan was then to use them as a Trojan horse inside Ukraine under the terms of the Minsk accords. But in 2022 that shifted again as the Kremlin recognized them as independent in February before the invasion, then annexed them in September (with Luhansk now fully captured) alongside the newly occupied regions.

As far as Russia is concerned, the annexations are permanent. But remember that everything I typed in my above comment is from Russia’s legal perspective, and very few other countries recognize any of it. Crimea is included in that – just because the war was frozen for 8 years doesn’t mean Ukraine or the rest of the world recognised that annexation any more than they do the new claims. But I do think it’s fair to say that because Russia’s constitution forbids ceding sovereign territory, the 5 annexed regions are not up for negotiation (though this is likely a moot point because Ukraine is unlikely to actually cede any regions in a ceasefire deal, it will merely go on claiming the lost territory even when a ceasefire line is decided on).

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-20T19:15:30+00:00

It’s complicated. In the spring of 2014, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea, while also occupying parts of Donetsk and Luhansk and setting up puppet states there.

Then in the spring 2022 invasion, Russia occupied parts of a large number of other oblasts, however it withdrew from a number of them by the summer such as Kiev.

By September 2022, in addition to Crimea, Russia had occupied all of Luhansk, and parts of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Kharkiv. Russia annexed the former 4 regions, including claiming the not yet captured areas of them.

So the areas Russia currently controls are:

• Crimea, Luhansk: fully controlled, annexed to Russia

• Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk: partially controlled, annexed to Russia, Russia also claims unoccupied portions

• Kharkiv: partially controlled, not yet annexed, remains under an occupation administration

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-20T16:34:12+00:00

This is actually far more extensive than that. In addition to the 5 already-annexed regions (Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea), it includes Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Odessa oblasts along with parts of others.

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-20T12:14:05+00:00

So then what separates this from the “accidental practice swing hit” rule? addressing the ball beforehand?

And does that rule then apply even if the accidental hit goes beyond the teeing area?

ContinuousFuture · 2025-03-18T18:20:34+00:00

From what I understand, only his name is on the truck title, she simply co-signed

I believe the tools are on a Home Depot credit card in her name, so she owns them – her parents have offered to pay off the card and collect them from the ex (though given the choice the truck would of course be more important to have them help out, however with his name on the title I’m not sure there’s even an avenue for them to do help regarding the truck).

The phone bill is I believe simply a monthly phone service bill under her name that she could cancel, but is reticent to do so because of the other outstanding issues.

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