For most of my life, I haven’t been much of a cook. But since I retired a few years ago, I’ve taken over much of the meal prep in our household, slowly adding dishes to my repertoire. When I first started making baked ziti, I nervously and quite slavishly followed a recipe, carefully measuring out exactly as prescribed. But now after multiple iterations it’s much more free-form with eyeballed amounts of this and that. And the results have been improving.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

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Take Your Fries and Leave

Why fast food is racing to ditch the dining room.

Europe Holds Emergency Talks on Energy Market

Diplomats said many countries—including the European Union’s biggest economies, Germany and France—appeared to agree ahead of Friday’s meeting on the idea of imposing a cap on the revenue earned by nuclear, renewable and other nongas producers of electricity, and redistributing the money to businesses and consumers.
Other measures under discussion include a plan to cut electricity use during peak demand this winter and a temporary cap on the price of natural gas imported from Russia. Some governments want the price cap extended to other sources of gas.

Because price controls have worked so well in the past?

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Politics:

Judge Throws Out Trump Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton
From the ruling:

At its core, the problem with Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint is that Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm; instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum.
Fundamentally, Plaintiff cannot state a RICO claim without two predicate acts, and, after two attempts, he has failed to plausibly allege even one.

More on the lawsuit: Judge Ridicules Trump Lawsuit As Yet Another Grievance Manifesto

Media Priorities

Justice Dept. and Trump Legal Team Clash Over Special Master Candidates

A publisher abruptly recalled the '2,000 Mules' election denial book. NPR got a copy.

At least she'll never have to sit through this again. pic.twitter.com/dveCxcbYOB

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) September 8, 2022

Joe Biden’s historic speech was too damn nice

Kristi Noem Tried to Seal Ethics Records

’Substantial victory’ for Kyiv acknowledged on Russian TV after Ukrainian breakthrough

Ukraine troops reach railway hub as breakthrough threatens to turn into rout

With Ukrainians now having reached the city of Kupiansk, where rail lines linking Russia to eastern Ukraine converge, the advance had penetrated all the way to Moscow's main logistics route, potentially trapping thousands of Russian troops.

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Ukrainians appear to have captured a Russian General:

Seems the orc that was shown in the video on his knees is Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi (Андрей Сычевой) commander of the "West" group. He changed into lieutenant uniform and attempted to escape unrecognized (that's why he looks away from the camera)#kherson #lviv #Крим pic.twitter.com/z7Ksxesbqi

— TheLvivJournal (@LvivJournal) September 8, 2022

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Ukraine Is Waging a New Kind of War

Ukrainian officials, defending their country against Russian aggressors, began doing something in July that seemed odd, even counterintuitive: They started speaking loudly and regularly about their plans to liberate Kherson—a key southern city that Russia seized only a week after invading Ukraine on February 24. Indeed, the Ukrainians telegraphed their intentions in a way that the Russians could not mistake. This was like waving a red cape at an angry, incompetent bull. Almost immediately, rumors proliferated that the Russians were racing reinforcements to Kherson to prepare for the Ukrainian attack.
Goading the Russians into doing so seems to have been the Ukrainians’ exact goal. Fighting in Kherson plays to Ukrainian strength far more than to the Russians’. Russian occupiers in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, where the war had been concentrated from April until July, can operate very close to the Russian border, seem to have solidly functional rail lines, and are currently trying to pressure the Ukrainians from two sides at the tip of the fighting around the town of Siversk. Fighting in Kherson, by contrast, nullifies almost all of Russia’s advantages in the Donbas. The Russians are at the edge of their supply lines, while the Ukrainians can maneuver around them.

Putin Grossly Distorts Who’s Getting That Ukrainian Grain

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